Hell Rises

MURDER IN THE DESERT

For the last two decades the Society for Human Enlightenment has been using particle colliders like those at CERN and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to wear away at the boundary between Earth and Hell. Every time one set of particles moving near the speed of light crash into another set of particles moving near the speed of light, the collision creates a mini-black hole that sucks up a portion of the quark-gluon plasma barrier encapsulating our dimension.

Thinning and then ripping that barrier will allow demonic beings in Hell direct access to our world. That's how the Society plans to usher in the Anti-Christ.

The barrier is at a tipping point, so the Society launches "Breakthrough," their long planned take over of every major collider in the world. After seizing control, the Society runs each collider along with its own collider called "Wormwood" at maximum capacity. As the barrier further thins, odd, destructive energy spikes erupt around the world. A faction of the Fellowship of the Essentials launches a cyber attack on the Society's collider takeover, while a desperate Fellowship team attacks Wormwood in the midst of a pitched battle between the Nevada National Guard and the rouge Utah National Guard that's protecting the facility.

Unless both Fellowship teams somehow manage to succeed . . . Hell Rises.