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Ten researchers from the far future came to the summer of the year 2000, each wearing their own time-travel device disguised as a watch. Those devices do not all have the same capabilities. Three of those people have died (Harold, Kirin, and Professor John) with their watches having passed to other hands.
MATT WALKER—native of 2000 and graduate student of physics. He’s now in possession of the professor’s master time-travel device—theoretically capable of unlimited travel through time and space, it was damaged in the accident that killed the professor. Supposedly it’s been fixed.
PAGE—a research team leader and mathematician who came to study the dating customs of the twentieth century, her ‘leader’ device can only travel up to three years in one trip. It also grants her access to funds from a trust which was established to finance their research.
ANYA—a former nurse turned historian, and senior team leader, she was the closest to the late professor and assumed responsibility for the research expedition as a whole. For what that was worth.
SAM—a former research assistant who has Harold’s leader device. She became a team leader by default, following the deaths of Harold and Kirin (and does not appear in this story.)
VERITY—another native of 2000, she’s ended up in possession of Samantha’s old ‘helper’ device, which is only capable of time travel when it’s within range of another device that’s being used to travel through time.
TURNER—technically one of Anya’s assistants, he’d been functioning as Page’s helper. A former preacher, now he’s Verity’s (brand new) husband.
NYE—also a research assistant of Anya’s, supposedly, she’d specialized in the study of the ruins of New York City before coming to the past to study the living city. (And she’s a bit different.)
TATE—technically one of Page’s assistants, he’s the only one who’s been functioning as Anya’s helper.
BAILEY—another assistant assigned to Page, they’d been separated, and now he follows Sam. (And like her, he doesn’t appear in this story.)
???—Kirin’s ‘helper’ device disappeared, and no one knows who has it now. Like every device, it is capable (purportedly) of tracking the physical location of the other devices.