The game is contemporary, and begins on the eve of 2019.  Location start will be within the United States in a specific city that all the PCs will be during the New Year holiday.  An  event  will take place sometime between 12/31/18 and 1/1/19.  The world will change so drastically that  within the first session the PCs will find themselves forced in dire situations where their lives will all be at stake.   Session one will start at the location for the New Years celebration. Reason for being in the area:  It can be a company party, a family vacation, or going downtown to watch the fireworks.  Willing or not, each of the PCs will be witnessing the celebration.  It is very likely that neither of the PCs know one another, yet you each will find yourselves in a mutual location when the story begins.  Be prepared for action! The aftermath of the  "Event"  is truly the center to the beginning of the game.  Your PCs will find a real need to work with others.  It may be for personal survival or some other reasons, yet the PCs will need to band together and help those around them as well as themselves just to get past the initial event.  Afterwards the PCs will find themselves facing a world of uncertainty.  Anarchy and chaos will constantly be in the air,  life as you all know it will change and drastically.   Your initial job is to survive and possibly help others to survive as well. Society as you all know it may be lost within the next few months from the arrival of the "Event."  It is likely you will face riots, food shortages, the loss of technologies, deaths, chaos, and all that humanity can bring to bare when their governments almost instantly appears to cease being able to function properly.  What will you do?  You have no obligation to stay together, yet there is safety in numbers.  Do you know what happens when emergencies happen and no one seems to be coming?  How would you survive earth when all that you have taken for granted seems to vanish? You and the rest of the PCs will be looking for ways to survive, either for just yourselves or others.  You will find yourselves being looked at for help, protection and possibly even leadership.  Will you turn your back?  Will you take hold of the reigns thrust at you?  Do you even have all the necessary abilities to survive?  What about your co-workers, friends, families, and/ or enemies that may be around in the area? As if that was not enough, there is something insidious about the entire sequence of events.  Think you know what would happen in just the world if law and order seems lost?  Think you know what to expect?  Some people may think the end of the world has come, that the Rapture was true and has happened! Is it the work of faith that has brought you all to this point?  Have something else come to cause the tragic end of earth?  What ever it is you will discover that  WE ARE NOT ALONE! May you survive the  JUDGEMENT . Judgement New Year Listing