The year 2020 was wrought with chaos and catastrophe. The populace thrust from one tragedy to the next; a global pandemic, a rapidly deteriorating economy, injustice and organized oppression at the hands of corrupt governments, to name a few. It was also the year humanity went extinct...

Earth prospered under it's new human-free existence. Cities and structures were reclaimed by nature, pollution finally began to fade, and a new global eco-system prevailed in the coming millennia. Removing sentient beings from the planet allowed it to thrive once more, but wouldn't it be a shame if something... brought them back? ...


This roleplay would tell the story of a group of passengers aboard a flight in August 2020, who had just been released from quarantine after the tropical island they were on was put under lockdown. This was after many people thought the danger of viral infection had passed and thousands had swarmed the island. So, our characters are on a plane, heading back home to America after their vacation didn't turn out like they expected. At first it's smooth flying, but then they find themselves in rough wind as a massive electrical storm rolls in seemingly out of nowhere and begins thrashing the plane around. The vessel begins getting struck repeatedly by a strange red lightning, blasting open windows and hatches, and electrocuting most of the passengers. Just as they are losing consciousness, they witness the plane starting to crack as it dives toward the ground, a bright light envelops them all, they hear a distant sound of a loud explosion, and then darkness.

Out of the approximately three-hundred passengers onboard, less than a dozen suddenly find themselves on the shores of a jungle island that is likely near the one they left. But what's strange is that they are all naked, any belongings they had are gone, and the plane itself is nowhere in sight. The stars seem off a bit as well, and everything feels strange -- and that is before the mutant bugs come out of the jungle to attack them.

Somehow, they find a way to survive in the coming weeks, and then are shocked when suddenly there are bright flashes in the sky above them, followed by the plane reappearing and crashing down on the beach. They discover more passengers on the plane, but still not all of them. However, there seems to be a time discrepancy because for the second group, it's only been moments since the first group vanished. Then they begin to remember the passengers seemed to get hit by the red lightning in waves. For our main characters, they were technically part of the second wave, having seen those at the very front of the plane get hit first. They conclude that they must have been flung into the far future, with timeskips between each wave. But if our main characters were part of the second wave, and the third wave threw people farther ahead, shouldn't the people from the first wave have arrived first? Where are they? Did they show up somewhere else?