Act 1

The first act of Awakening Rift is titled End of Planetary Days. This act serves as an introduction to the story and its characters, following the primary perspective of Frilia Nussae and her friends. (Tyrian Irenal, Runaan Illeya, Yuupia Neerav, and Alliya Arjuna have been introduced thus far). All of them trying to survive and play The Game that will change their lives, for better or worse.


 * The story starts off with a mysterious trail of light that exchanges a few words with a mysterious figure. The conversation ends with "Let's get started", initiating the start of the game.
 * Badgernet, a popular chat client that is used by the main cast and many others, makes its first appearance within the comic. Frilia's main contact list of friends is as follows: dauntlessUrsa, , ,  nihilisticVigilante , ,  umbralCalibrator , An unknown user , (later revealed as  on page 153), , ,  intraveinousExtractor
 * The silhouette of "the green one" is seen here as the perspecltive is changing. They are observing a violent event that seems to have passed.
 * The Vessel of Interplanatary Research and Exploration (V.I.P.R.E.) is introduced, Tyrian's
 * Runaan's telecommunicator exploding after coming in contact with AbsolutelyLegitimatelyMe (ALM)
 * Yuupia is brought into The Midnight Lotus, a pocket dimension that serves as home to The Arclight. Though, despite the name, the realm has no lotuses.
 * The Arclight is introduced as a character, he explains the main objectives, his plans, the role of The Game and the roles the main 12 trolls must play.
 * Upon exiting The Midnight Lotus Yuupia is sent a series of visions into deep space by The Arclight.
 * The Archlight then apologizes to the audience for having to take part in Yuupia's visions. Then goes on to explain his role as a creation of Shavah and a guardian to the Isolated Universe, and how the destruction of the universes before had left them weak and hopeless. The Arclight briefly mentions a "Certain Someone" that interferes with most of his plans and the creations of Shavah. Their name is yet to be said.
 * Tyrian creates "Game Grubs", a memo that explains the game, how it works, and how certain things must be done.
 * Tyrian uses empty threats against Frilia to bribe her into playing the game, she blocks him in response and Yuupia calms her down, convincing her to play the game.
 * The Arclight has a "friendly" conversation with Tyrian, trying to coerce him into doing unknown actions. The Arclight has a "friendly" conversation with Tyrian, attempting to coerce him into doing unknown actions. They also talk about something else, but the perspective was changed to Alliya before any of that conversation was revealed.
 * Alliya makes her first appearance, having spilled a "substance of great importance."
 * Meteors have been discovered, and theorized that at least 3 of them will wreak havoc on Kraisa upon contact on the troll's hives.
 * The Arclight introduces the concept of Quadrants, depicted by the following symbols:
 * Matespritships (<3) Flushed Quadrant
 * Moirallegiances (<>) Pale Quadrant
 * Kismesissitudes (<3<) Caliginous Quadrant
 * Auspisticisms (c3<) Ashen Quadrant
 * The concept of Ancestors is also introduced. The idea that "anyone can betray anyone" was brought back from.
 * Here, the Kraisonian hemospectrum is also briefly explained.
 * Frilia has a bit of a unfriendly encounter with an "old friend", to put it lightly.
 * Tyrian's dream self is assassinated by a Dersite carapacian, influenced in one way or the other by The Arclight.
 * Tyrian, in his semi-corporeal form, is brought into dark and secluded realm where a stranger is waiting for him.
 * This stranger makes multiple claims about The Arclight, revealing that the two must have a connection in one way or the other.
 * Tyrian is sent from the mysterious realm to an unknown location. Presumably back to the waking world.