* In a tip of the hat to Dark Star, the Avengers crossover story Operation: Galactic Storm, which is about a war between alien races, commences here.

He resolves this situation quickly, and the main story commences after the opening credits.

The story commences 272 years after the events in the previous novel.

The story concludes as The Second World War commences and she worries that her son, like his father, will be killed fighting for the country he loves.

This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zenda, and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle Europe, the kingdom of Ruritania.

The first four chapters provide a sort of unofficial prologue, in that they move swiftly back and forth through the chronology of the narrative, but mostly deal with events between 1863 and 1884, when the main thrust of the story commences.

It commences 15 years after the events in Assassin's Quest, a period covered by The Liveship Traders Trilogy ( Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny ); it resumes the story of FitzChivalry Farseer after he has wandered the world and finally settled to a quiet, cottage-dwelling life with his adopted son Hap.

The story commences on the streets of Prague on a grey morning with commuters bustling about.

The narrative commences with the story of Bahram and Dilaram.

Alan was studying for the law, but his companion had started for his first country ramble, and the story commences with a long correspondence between them.

By the same token, even large trees in the real garden disappear completely when the imagination part of the story commences.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

Twice, the murderer surprisingly turns out to be the unreliable narrator of the story.

Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:

*" Dear Esther " is a 2012 video game by thechineseroom that allows the player to traverse an uninhabitated Hebridean island ; as the player does so letters and diary excerpts are recalled audibly by the narrator to reveal the story and encourage progression towards certain areas.

For example, Alvin Sandberg claimed that the short story " The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids " offers " an exploration of impotency, a portrayal of a man retreating to an all-male childhood to avoid confrontation with sexual manhood " from which the narrator engages in " congenial " digressions in heterogeneity.

The narrator makes an extended reference to the story of a corrupt Spartan ’ s consultation of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi from Herodotus ( 6. 86 ).

In “ The Women Men Don ’ t See ,” Sheldon gives a feminist story a unique spin by making the narrator, Don Fenton, a male.

An omniscient narrator, almost always a third-person narrator, can reveal insights into characters and settings that would not be otherwise apparent from the events of the story and which no single character could be aware of.

In two stories (" The Musgrave Ritual " and " The Gloria Scott "), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story.

Since this person usually sets the ground and setting for the story, he or she is often referred to as the " storyteller " ( often contracted to " ST ") or " narrator ".

The players contribute to an on-going story with defined parameters but no narrator or directing force.

* Sam Elliott as The Stranger, the narrator, who sees the story unfold from a third-party perspective.

The story is presented as a first-person narrative using an unreliable narrator.

Near the beginning of the tale, the narrator says he would be " mad indeed " if he should expect a reader to believe the story, implying that he has already been accused of madness.

Although Pluto is a neutral character at the beginning of the story, he becomes antagonistic in the narrator ’ s eyes once the narrator becomes an alcoholic.

The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured.

At the beginning of the story an unnamed narrator is brought to trial before various sinister judges.

The " reality " of the story is enhanced through Poe's focus on sensation: the dungeon is airless and unlit, the narrator is subject to thirst and starvation, he is swarmed by rats, the closing walls are red-hot metal and, of course, the razor-sharp pendulum threatens to slice into the narrator.

Elissa is the narrator of this tale which was either taken from a fabliau by Jean de Condé written between 1313 and 1337, or from a story about Saint Jerome in The Golden Legend, written about 1260.

However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.

In this story, the narrator is waiting under a tree to be picked up by a coach which will take him out of Newcastle, when he suddenly finds himself transported back over a thousand years.

" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".

In Season Eight ( 2007 – 11 ), it establishes Buffy is not living with the Immortal in Rome which is simply a cover story to ensure her safety as she is now the leader of a global organization which recruits and trains Slayers to deal with demonic threats worldwide.

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones establishes Boba Fett's back story as a child clone of Jango Fett, who raises him as a son.

The first story to feature the Beagle Boys in a major role is Only a Poor Old Man from March 1952, which serves as a template for virtually all future Beagle Boys appearances, and establishes them as a serious threat to Scrooge's fortune.

The Blood Bowl universe has its own fictional background story which establishes the tone and spirit of the game.

F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre's 2007 story " The Clockwork Horror " reconstructs Edgar Allan Poe's original encounter with Mälzel's chess-player, and also establishes ( from contemporary advertisements in a Richmond newspaper ) precisely when and where this encounter took place.

Although the story does not have her wearing her iconic cat-suit, it establishes her core personality as a femme fatale who both antagonizes and attracts Batman.

Further, another story within the story arc establishes the Spacers ' mastery of myco-food ( food derived from fungi ), which they then retain all through history up to their inclusion in the Imperium on Trantor in the sector of Mycogen.

Maggin story set in a future New York City, where the Silver Age Luthor establishes it after he is reformed.

The story " Un Autre Monde " World " ( 1895 ) establishes that humans share the Earth with the land-bound Moedigen ( Dutch for ' brave ones ') and the air-borne Vuren (' fires '), two infinitely flat and invisible species who cohabit with us.

Kirby's Kamandi story in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade # 2 guest stars The Sandman and establishes that Kamandi is Jed Walker.

The episode introduces or further establishes several key characters in the story of Elizabeth's reign, including William Cecil ; Francis Walsingham ; Katherine Ashley ; Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk ( Elizabeth's cousin ); and Lettice Knollys.

Players have commented that some sections of the game feel contrived, particularly the opening scene, which establishes all major elements of the story within a few minutes with no player decisions.

This story is Virginia DeMarce's second fictional foray in the series and like " Biting Time ", the tale establishes some important canonical underpinnings that draw references, or are extrapolated upon in the various novel sequels.

This first section of the story also establishes that the most fiercely patriotic passenger is Boule de Suif herself, an insignificant and unpopular character in Rouen, while the aristocrats and bourgeois are portrayed as happier to betray their country in order to end the war and return to their comfortable lives.

A prologue ( Greek πρόλογος prologos, from the word pro ( before ) and lógos, word ) is an opening to a story that establishes the setting and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.

This establishes the classic Mordru story cycle: Mordru is freed, continues his obsession with destroying the legion then loses in battle, only to be trapped again until the next time.

The story of Heroes of Might and Magic IV unfolds primarily through the game's six campaigns, each of which establishes how the major kingdoms of one of Axeoth's continents were forged in the wake of the Reckoning, and the arrival of the Enrothian refugees on Axeoth.

The king asks Redcross to recount the " straunge adventure " and the " perils sad, / Which in his travell him befallen had " ( 1. 12. 15 ), and his reaction to the story he hears establishes its moral evasiveness:

Fisher establishes five criteria that affect a story ’ s narrative fidelity ( Fisher, 1987 ):

Lahiri also establishes a contrast in this story between characters who care and those who don ’ t.