Time is considered a one-way street in this world. Our perception of it is that it is always in motion, and the only reality that we can know of is the past. Destiny and Fate are abstract notions for us, as our own paths change constantly with each decision we make. We realize that once something is occurred, it cannot be undone. The past is in the Past, and cannot be touched. The future is in the Future, and is thus impossible to predict. We are stuck in time's river, doomed to be eventually dragged under by its force...
But what would we do if we managed to gain a key, and in it a chance to escape this river's tug?

Would we end up freeing ourselves from the current? Or would we be sucked into its terrifying depths?

What if it has all ready happened?

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On a bright day, May 24, 2004, a teenage boy happened to be outside on a walk. The sea air brushed by his face, making his eyes squint, and put a broad smile on his face. This boy had lived by the ocean his whole life, and had always shared a love of it with the members of his family. He had been born near the Pacific, and now he lived by the Atlantic. Water had always been part of his life, and he was just fine with that.

His path would have taken him home in about five minutes. His school back-pack weighed an extra thirty pounds weighing him down, so he ended up going slower in the future. He never suspected at this moment that he should have played hooky with his friend. He didn't even think he would be late getting home. He thought home would always been there. He was wrong...

A squeek interuppted his walk, and he stumbled forward with his arms flailing to prevent smashing his nose inward. He still fell, but on his shins instead of his own face. He swore silently to himself when he discovered his school uniform had been ripped from the fall, and he looked back at the object. It was a ball. It wasn't a ball. It...

Looking at the object, the boy got two messages put through his brain. On one hand, there seemed to be a bright blue ball sitting on the curbside with cracks running out from where it rested. It seemed very old, and was covered in a fine layer of fuzz which created the blue color on its surface... But on the other hand, there was nothing at all there. In fact, the cracks underneath the ball weren't there as well.

As both sides of his mind argued to whether the ball was real or not, the boy began to reach for it, squinting his eyes to try to get it into focus. The effort required to do so astounded the young man, as he had vision that most envied. As his hand came closer to the object (or empty air if you consulted half of his thought) the object grew no clearer. Then, just a mere centimeter away from the ball, it snapped into focus. The boy gripped the ball into his hands. The boy was gone.

On May 24, 2004, a boy never made it back home, and was never found. Two years later after all hope of finding him had drifted from his family, he was declared legally dead...

On May 24, 2046, the former District A2-F66 was deserted as it had been for the past twenty-two years. The War of the Shin'ku had left the Mega-district barren of all but rats, insects, and the ruins of the humans who once lived there. The human resistance movement was decaying from within and already on the verge of collapse. Less than one million homo-sapien-sapiens were still alive. Total take-over was predicted in 3 months, followed by a rapid terraforming project.

On this day, camera #342-94999 registered movement from within the quadrant. Instead of a rat or one of the larger insects that lived on the planet, it noted a human being. Using long dormant sensors, it was able to determine it to be a human male with a rate of decay that suggested an age of 17 years, 5 months, and 23 days. It immiediatly dispatched a warning to the closest Shin'ku headquarters. It then noted that the human was panicking...

It had begun...
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This rpg is going to be a bit different from the usual rpg on this board. Unlike the usual rpg, those who sign-up will not get to interact with each other... At least not for quite some time. The teenage boy (which I will be doing) has been displaced in time. Instead of existing in 2004, he now is in 2046 in a near post-apocoliptic version of his old world. In this story, the Shin'ku invasion will be the focus point.

I will accept three characters from each of these time periods:

1865

1920

1960

2004

2046

Each character from one of these time periods should match what is in their own time period. That means that if you are in 1865, no cars, no planes, etc. The character will play with what was available in their own period.

While the boy is the only character who can move through time by himself, the others still have plenty of work to do before he visits. In all of these time periods, signs of the Shin'ku invasion force were noticed by a few people. The exploration of the planet, the mapping, the planning, the journey, and finally the invasion occured in chronological order. Each character has an opportunity to dig up things about the invasion force that ends up destroying Earth as we know it in 2046.

Sign-up Form:

Name:

Age: (13-80)

Sex:

Time Period: (1865, 1920, 1960, 2004, 2046)

Description:

Personality:

Talents:

Weapon(s): (If any)

History: (Important!)

Family: (You can be related to a char from another time period)

Other: