Timeline
Background Events (Pre-Campaign)
| Date | Event | Details | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ~2019-03-11 | The Meteor Event | Meteor fragment strikes a remote region; authorities restrict the site | National Daily - 2019-03-18 - Mystery Meteor |
| 2019-03-11 to 03-18 | Fragment Effects Emerge | Power disruptions, heat signatures near impact zone; social media reports of enhanced individuals (rapid healing, strength, heightened senses) | National Daily - 2019-03-18 - Mystery Meteor |
| ~2019-03-15 | Voss Dynamics Contract | Voss Dynamics secures major federal contract for meteor investigation; stock surges | National Daily - 2019-03-18 - Mystery Meteor |
| 2019-03-18 | Press Coverage | The National Daily publishes first major coverage: meteor effects, enhanced individuals, Voss contract, NASA detection failure, public safety warning | National Daily - 2019-03-18 - Mystery Meteor |
| 2019-03-18 | NASA Detection Failure | NASA publicly addresses failure to detect the meteor; cites “small size and unusual trajectory” | National Daily - 2019-03-18 - Mystery Meteor |
| 2019-03-18 | Federal Safety Warning | Authorities issue DO NOT APPROACH warning for fragments; national reporting hotline established | National Daily - 2019-03-18 - Mystery Meteor |
| Post-2019-03-18 | Government Response | NATO nations assess the fragment threat; elite operators begin being assigned | Starting notes |
| Post-2019-03-18 | Contractor Program | Defense contractor begins developing counter-fragment technology; PCs assigned | Starting notes |
| Early 2019 | State Farm Sponsors The Dragon | First known corporate sponsorship of a registered meta-human announced | Los Angeles Times - 2019-05-03 - Dragon vs Mayhem |
| 2019-05-03 | The Dragon vs Mayhem — Downtown LA | The Dragon battles and subdues Mayhem in downtown Los Angeles; widespread infrastructure damage, no fatalities; Mayhem taken into custody | Los Angeles Times - 2019-05-03 - Dragon vs Mayhem |
| Pre-2019-05-03 | Allstate Cuts Ties with Dean Winters | Actor Dean Winters (Allstate “Mayhem” spokesman) revealed to possess meta-human probability-manipulation abilities; Allstate severs relationship | Los Angeles Times - 2019-05-03 - Dragon vs Mayhem |
| Post-2019-03-11 | The Regenerator Emerges | Regenerator begins publicly healing people; fragment-empowered after The Meteor Event; becomes globally famous within three months | Chicago Tribune - 2019-05-XX - Jane Garcetti Death |
| 2019-05-04 | Meteor Retrieval | Meteor fragments recovered (details TBD) | |
| 2019-05-01 (Wednesday) | Jane Garcetti Killed | Multi-vehicle crash on I-40 outside Flagstaff, Arizona; severe rain; tractor trailer crossed median; Jane pronounced dead at scene; Regenerator was in LA, could not reach her. (Her death precedes the LA outbreak: Regenerator’s attempted resurrection reanimates her as Patient Zero over the following days, culminating in the May 4 outbreak and capture) | Chicago Tribune - 2019-05-XX - Jane Garcetti Death |
| 2019-05-02 (Thursday) | Regenerator Issues Statement | “Jane was the best part of my life. I was not there when she needed me most.” — released through representatives; The Dragon and others issue condolences | Chicago Tribune - 2019-05-XX - Jane Garcetti Death |
| Early May 2019 | Desert Holes Discovered | Off-road riders discover 17+ perfectly round 3-foot-diameter holes in Nevada desert, 80 miles NW of Las Vegas near dry lakebed; BLM investigates | Las Vegas Review-Journal - 2019-05-XX - Desert Holes |
| ~2019-05-01 (4 days before article) | Giant Insect Reports Spread | Social media flooded with eyewitness reports of large insect-like creatures in Nevada desert; reflective eyes, clicking sounds, dog-to-car-sized; 3 vehicles found damaged/abandoned; area restricted | Las Vegas Review-Journal - 2019-05-XX - Desert Holes |
| ~2019-05-02 (Thursday before article) | Helicopter Spots Movement | Helicopter crew investigating holes spots movement near larger hole before dust storm cuts visibility; officials decline to elaborate | Las Vegas Review-Journal - 2019-05-XX - Desert Holes |
Campaign Events
| Session | In-Game Date | Event | Key Entities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team recruited at Las Vegas Airport; driven to Voss Campus in Arizona | Ronnie Vint, Guy LeFleur, Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann, Sam Elliott (Driver), Major William Cage |
| 01 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Adrian Voss and Major Jenkins brief the team on The Meteor Event and the mission to capture The Exploding Man | Adrian Voss, Major Jenkins, Yi Jiangku, Voss Combat Suit |
| 01 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Yi Jiangku distributes Research Folders (“Hungry God,” “Toasty Titan,” “Jens”) | Yi Jiangku, Research Folders |
| 01 | 2019 (night) | Team parachutes into Afghan mountains; navigates minefield; Sammy Castaneda eliminates two sentries | Insurgent Cave Complex |
| 01 | 2019 (night/early morning) | Team infiltrates cave complex; gas assault incapacitates three insurgents but not the target | The Exploding Man, Guy LeFleur |
| 01 | 2019 (early morning) | Major Jenkins uses Sonic Weapon to incapacitate The Exploding Man; Jens Hartmann kills rear sentry | Major Jenkins, Sonic Weapon, Jens Hartmann |
| 01 | 2019 (pre-dawn) | Aerial pursuit by four Flying Carpets insurgents; Guy LeFleur and Ronnie Vint destroy all four | Flying Carpets |
| 01 | 2019 (dawn) | Team delivers prisoner to American Base Afghanistan; mission success; $150,000 payout per operator | The Exploding Man, Stasis Chamber |
| 01 | 2019 (dawn) | Major Jenkins announces combat suits await the team back at Voss Campus | Voss Combat Suit |
| 02 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team returns to Voss Campus with prisoner aboard C-130; debriefs with Adrian Voss | Adrian Voss, Dr. Jones, Jenkins Music Device |
| 02 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team receives Voss Combat Suit on R&D Level -1; begins training on obstacle course | Voss Combat Suit, Major Jenkins |
| 02 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Sammy Castaneda encounters Brittany on the obstacle course; she later reveals self-duplication power | Brittany, Sammy Castaneda |
| 02 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Suit customisation: Ronnie Vint receives chameleon surface and requests storm chainguns (targeting software attempt fails), Sammy Castaneda receives invisibility surface, Guy LeFleur designs Limpet Mines | Voss Combat Suit |
| 02 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Ronnie Vint acquires The Potato from Xander via Eric | The Potato, Xander, Eric |
| 02 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Adrian Voss reveals The Portal on R&D Level -2 and tasks team with Terra recon; previous team lost one month ago | The Portal, Terra, Adrian Voss |
| 02 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | First Terra Expedition — team discovers Terran Insectoid creatures, Hernandez’s fatigues, and Ruined City (Terra) | Terra, Terran Insectoid, Ruined City (Terra), Hernandez |
| 02 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team returns through portal; debrief with Voss; portal recommended for closure with defensive armaments | The Portal, Adrian Voss |
| 03 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team reviews First Terra Expedition aftermath; suit modifications queued; 48-hour pass granted | Ronnie Vint, Guy LeFleur, Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann, Voss Combat Suit |
| 03 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Jens Hartmann opens portal to Terra roadside using personal meteorite fragment; struggles to close it | Jens Hartmann, Terra |
| 03 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team arrives in Las Vegas; secures suites at The Bellagio; Ronnie loses $90,000+ gambling | Ronnie Vint, The Bellagio |
| 03 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Bellagio Portal Incident — Terran Insectoid crawls through unsealed portal; kills cleaning lady; Jens Hartmann destroys creature | Jens Hartmann, Sammy Castaneda, Terran Insectoid, The Bellagio |
| 03 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Ronnie Vint meets Rick Harrison at Gold and Silver Pawn Shop; arranges meteorite fragment authentication | Ronnie Vint, Rick Harrison, The Potato |
| 03 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Dinner at Gordon Ramsay Steak — Gordon Ramsay confronts party over beef Wellington to-go order | Gordon Ramsay, Ronnie Vint |
| 03 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Ronnie Vint sells The Potato to Igor for $500,000; promised kill switch password for Voss Combat Suit | Ronnie Vint, Igor, Rick Harrison, The Potato |
| 03 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | The Glowing Hand Man heals unconscious mime on Las Vegas Strip — new fragment-empowered sighting | The Glowing Hand Man |
| 03 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team returns to Voss Campus; Adrian Voss briefs on Second Meteor Event — two recovery teams formed | Adrian Voss, Major Jenkins, Lt. Nash Miller, Guy LeFleur |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team briefed on Second Meteor Event; Major Jenkins assigned to Russia, PCs assigned to NATO sweep starting in Greenland | Adrian Voss, Major Jenkins, Ronnie Vint, Guy LeFleur, Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | The Dragon intercepts fragment in Greenland; catches it bare-handed; energy discharge; drops inert fragment and flies away | The Dragon, Ronnie Vint, Guy LeFleur, Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Ronnie Vint touches meteor fragment bare-handed in Iceland; absorbs energy; fragment goes inert | Ronnie Vint, Sammy Castaneda |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Command remotely activates kill switch on Ronnie Vint’s Voss Combat Suit in Norway; first confirmed use of suit lockdown in the field | Ronnie Vint |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Sweden fragment recovered uneventfully; team redirected to Russia to assist Major Jenkins | Guy LeFleur |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team parachutes into Russian wilderness; links up with depleted Jenkins team — Andrews KIA, Thompson suit corroded, Lt. Nash Miller shaken | Major Jenkins, Andrews, Thompson, Lt. Nash Miller |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Sammy Castaneda uses invisibility to ambush Fragment Bear with C4/Claymore explosive; bear drops but rapidly regenerates | Sammy Castaneda, Fragment Bear |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Ronnie Vint rides regenerated Fragment Bear, severs its head; Guy LeFleur incinerates remains with thermite | Ronnie Vint, Guy LeFleur, Fragment Bear |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Team returns to Voss Campus with 5 recovered fragments (2 active, 3 inert); 3 remain in North Atlantic | Adrian Voss, Voss Campus |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Ronnie Vint manifests energy-draining ability — accidentally collapses a cafeteria server, deliberately tests on a security guard | Ronnie Vint, Voss Campus |
| 04 | 2019 (exact date TBD) | Guy LeFleur discovers classified folder in R&D: third incoming object is NOT a meteor — labeled “Hungry God” | Guy LeFleur, Research Folders |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 | Ronnie Vint spots Chinese area code (+86) on Xander’s phone; receives spent fragment for Igor | Ronnie Vint, Xander, Igor |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 | Lt. Nash Miller confronts Guy LeFleur, threatening to “expose” him | Lt. Nash Miller, Guy LeFleur |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 | Adrian Voss briefs teams on Terra — reveals space whale creature, power-channeling theory, and North Atlantic fragment mission | Adrian Voss, Terra, Brittany, Major Jenkins |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 | Brittany demonstrates 8-copy duplication at briefing; confirmed as Jenkins’ team member (shaved head for helmet) | Brittany, Sammy Castaneda |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 | Deep Sea Fragment Retrieval — team destroys Chinese submarine at 100m depth; retrieves second fragment | Ronnie Vint, Guy LeFleur, Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 | Giant Anglerfish encountered at third fragment site; mesmerizes Jens Hartmann; bites through Chinese sub; driven off by turret shot to eye | Giant Anglerfish, Jens Hartmann, Sammy Castaneda |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 | Team retrieves third fragment (spent) from ocean floor; two Chinese subs destroyed/crippled at third site | Guy LeFleur, Ronnie Vint |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 | Team returns to Voss Campus; granted 48-hour pass; Ronnie Vint integrates swarm nanobots | Ronnie Vint, Voss Combat Suit |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 | Ronnie Vint publicly mocks Lt. Nash Miller over Kandahar IED failure that cost Guy LeFleur an eye and finger | Ronnie Vint, Lt. Nash Miller, Guy LeFleur |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 (evening) | Team rides motorcycles to Las Vegas; Jens Hartmann mines and destroys 6 pursuing Terran Insectoid on the highway | Jens Hartmann, Terran Insectoid |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 (evening) | Guy LeFleur wins $700,000+ gambling at The Bellagio; Ronnie Vint bribes casino security | Guy LeFleur, Ronnie Vint, The Bellagio |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 (night) | Ronnie Vint receives $500,000 and master suit password from Igor at Medieval Times in exchange for spent fragment | Ronnie Vint, Igor, Voss Combat Suit |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 (night) | Ronnie Vint offers Terra alien artifacts to Rick Harrison at $1M each — deal interrupted by insect attack | Ronnie Vint, Rick Harrison |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 (night) | News alerts: Dragon vs Mayhem - Downtown LA — mass casualties in Los Angeles | The Dragon |
| 05 | 2019-05-03 (night) | Terran Insectoid swarm attacks Medieval Times parking lot; dozens of 9-foot insects; Brittany duplicates arrive fighting and screaming for Sammy Castaneda; session ends mid-combat | Terran Insectoid, Ronnie Vint, Guy LeFleur, Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann, Brittany |
| 06 | 2019-05-04 | The Battle of Medieval Times — team (no suits) fights ~33 Terran Insectoid aided by Brittany clones and Medieval Times knights (incl. Gordon Ramsay); Major Jenkins’ suit-team crash-lands with the PCs’ suits but opens fresh holes; swarm wiped out | Terran Insectoid, Ronnie Vint, Guy LeFleur, Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann, Brittany, Major Jenkins |
| 06 | 2019-05-04 | Party splits — Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann & Brittany take Major Jenkins’ Los Angeles zombie mission; Guy LeFleur & Ronnie Vint refuse, take a party bus and knights to a strip club | Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann, Guy LeFleur, Ronnie Vint, Gordon Ramsay |
| 06 | 2019-05-04 | Los Angeles Zombie Outbreak — team clears a horde of 40–50 Zombies around a city bus; Jens Hartmann’s mine destroys half the horde; civilians saved | Sammy Castaneda, Jens Hartmann, Brittany, Zombies, Major Jenkins |
| 06 | 2019-05-04 | The Dragon arrives carrying The Regenerator and a feral Patient Zero; Regenerator reveals he reanimated his dead wife (Jane Garcetti = Patient Zero), causing the plague; believes a Meteor Fragments can cure her | The Dragon, The Regenerator, Patient Zero, Jane Garcetti |
| 06 | 2019-05-04 | Full recall to Voss Campus; Adrian Voss secures Patient Zero & the The Regenerator and reveals a world-ending entity (a former hero from another planet) will reach Earth in ~1 week | Adrian Voss, Patient Zero, The Regenerator, The Dragon |
| 06 | 2019-05-04 | Ronnie Vint uses Guy LeFleur’s admin password to find and delete a hidden remote-disable command Lt. Nash Miller planted in Guy’s suit helmet; Guy vows revenge | Ronnie Vint, Guy LeFleur, Lt. Nash Miller |
| 07 | 2019-05-05 | Adrian Voss reveals tech to transfer Power Juice between individuals (inspired by Terra’s one-champion fate); team chooses to spread power; Guy LeFleur coordinates entity defense; Sammy Castaneda appointed Vegas strike-team lead | Adrian Voss, Power Juice, Guy LeFleur, Sammy Castaneda |
| 07 | 2019-05-05 | S.C. Johnson Scientists develop Concoction BA insecticide from captured bugs; one scientist killed in a chemical accident; gas confirmed corrosive to Voss Combat Suit (~2 hr window) | S.C. Johnson Scientists, Concoction BA, Voss Combat Suit |
| 07 | 2019-05-06 | Destruction of the Vegas Hive — strike team seals 30 desert holes, drills 80m into The Queen’s Chamber, and destroys the Hive Queen with gas and Napalm Barrels; Major Jenkins scores a point-blank leap-crit on 3 bugs | Hive Queen, Terran Insectoid, Sammy Castaneda, Ronnie Vint, Brittany, Major Jenkins, Thompson |
| 07 | 2019-05-06 | Drone footage reveals a human captive in the Queen’s chamber; after the assault he is gone without a body; Ronnie Vint IDs him via Silhouette Software as Chinese scientist Tan Jiang | Tan Jiang, Ronnie Vint, The Queen’s Chamber |
| 07 | 2019-05-06 | Sammy’s Power Transfer — Sammy Castaneda receives the first Power Juice dose at the obstacle course (witnessed by Adrian Voss and The Dragon); manifests size-alteration (shrink/grow to 9 ft) | Sammy Castaneda, Power Juice, Adrian Voss, The Dragon |
| 07 | 2019-05-06 | Brittany ends her relationship with Sammy Castaneda; Igor returns as Voss lead scientist and resumes his relationship with Brittany | Brittany, Igor, Sammy Castaneda |
| 07 | 2019-05-06 | Ronnie Vint traces Guy LeFleur’s suit sabotage to fled R&D scientist Jimmy Johns (blackmailed by Lt. Nash Miller); finds burned blackmail photos | Ronnie Vint, Jimmy Johns, Lt. Nash Miller |
| 07 | 2019-05-06 | Ronnie Vint interrogates Xander at Paulie’s Bar — Xander confesses selling portal tech to China for $100M (how Tan Jiang escaped); Ronnie extorts $50M for silence | Ronnie Vint, Xander, Tan Jiang |
| 07 | 2019-05-06 (night) | CLIFFHANGER — Ronnie Vint & Sammy Castaneda corner Lt. Nash Miller in his quarters; Ronnie kicks in the door and Miller injects himself with a Mysterious Syringe | Lt. Nash Miller, Ronnie Vint, Sammy Castaneda |
| 08 | 2019-05-06 (night) | The Capture of Lt. Nash Miller — at Miller’s Apartment Miller self-injects stolen Power Juice but Ronnie Vint KOs him with a knee strike before it takes hold and zip-ties him; hauled to the RD3 Facility brig | Ronnie Vint, Sammy Castaneda, Lt. Nash Miller, Jens Hartmann, Guy LeFleur |
| 08 | 2019-05-07 | Guy LeFleur and Adrian Voss plan Earth’s defense vs The Hungry God — the “Pied Piper” The Portal-lure and Power Juice-as-weapon (drain, don’t kill — killing lets it host-jump) | Guy LeFleur, Adrian Voss, The Hungry God |
| 08 | 2019-05-07 | At RD3 Facility the juice is drawn out of Lt. Nash Miller via the Extraction Chair; under brutal interrogation he confesses he swapped all real syringes for fakes (hidden under his bed), blackmailed Jimmy Johns, and planned to solo The Hungry God | Ronnie Vint, Lt. Nash Miller, Adrian Voss, The Regenerator |
| 08 | 2019-05-07 | A Chinese caller (The Bug Father) threatens retaliation; Ronnie Vint mocks him. Intel: China used stolen portal tech to weaponize the bugs, who turned on them — the Hive Queen (via a mind-controlled scientist) reveals The Hungry God’s harvest cycle on Terra | The Bug Father, Hive Queen, Ronnie Vint, Adrian Voss |
| 08 | 2019-05-07 | The Multiversal Vision — Brittany summons a skeleton bearing the Multiversal Camera; its footage shows the party’s deaths against The Hungry God. Alt-timeline Brittanys (sustained by Jens Hartmann’s energy siphon) yield the blueprint: Electrified Bear Trap stun + Power Juice kill | Brittany, Jens Hartmann, The Hungry God, The Regenerator |
| 08 | 2019-05-07 | The Regenerator reveals a hidden zombie bite from his wife (Patient Zero) — maybe the one thing The Hungry God can’t survive; party sets pre-battle priorities (kill the Giant Anglerfish & clear the Fragment Bear remains, redistribute juice, build the trap). Entity ETA ~one week (≈May 14, 2019) | The Regenerator, Patient Zero, The Hungry God |
| 09 | ~2019-05-14 (overwritten) | The Battle of RD3 — mid-interview, Bad Britney (an The Hungry God vessel) skeletonizes Jens Hartmann, who survives as a spectral consciousness and possesses The Dragon; he kills Bad Britney with a desk and the entity host-jumps into The Dragon | Jens Hartmann, Bad Britney, The Dragon, Ronnie Vint, Sammy Castaneda, Guy LeFleur, Brittany, The Regenerator |
| 09 | ~2019-05-14 (overwritten) | The Timeline Rewind — bodiless Jens Hartmann possesses Adrian Voss, finds a time-reversing “chakra,” and unwinds time, choosing to return to before the Battle of Terra | Jens Hartmann, Adrian Voss |
| 09 | Terra’s deep past (rewrite) | The Sacrifice on Terra — warned by the party, The Terran Warrior flies the The Hungry God into the sun, destroying it with no host to jump to — breaking the harvest cycle at its origin | The Terran Warrior, The Hungry God, Jens Hartmann, Terra |
| 09 | Rewritten present | The team returns to the Las Vegas Airport as executives of the Voss Dynamics (Ronnie CEO, Jens Chairman, Guy CFO, Sammy Head of Marketing); met by Sam Elliott (Driver) | Ronnie Vint, Jens Hartmann, Guy LeFleur, Sammy Castaneda, Sam Elliott (Driver), Voss Dynamics |
Session 09 rewrote the timeline
The Session 09 rows are timeline-contingent (pending reconcile). Via The Timeline Rewind the team unwound history to Terra’s deep past; in the rewritten branch the Hungry God never forms. How much of the Background and Campaign Events above still “happened” in the new timeline is a GM ruling — see Session 09 - The Day the Timeline Unwound.