Timehop Diner

11/7/24: Dinner in the diner is interrupted when a man crashes through the door, his feet turning to static. A portal in the parking lot opens and disgorges waves of flying bat-creatures. The man goes full static and disappears. Kaiser is a one man wrecking crew keeping the unending waves of Riftwings back while Becky and Lance figure out how to work the strange brass device the man was furiously attempting to activate. They enventually get it working and, to their surprise, they time travel out of LA...

11/14/24: ...in prehistoric earth. Talking through the TV, the man that burst into the diner tells them they need a "key" to activate the device and that they need to hurry before the Umbrath track them down. They climb a tree to find a clearing, navigate the forest, cross a mud swamp, and battle a frog/salamander. In the clearing, they find a t-rex killed by a meteorite with raptors feeding on it. Lance attempts to sneak in and get the meteorite, but snaps a twig prying the key from the rock. They fight off the raptors and head back to the diner. On the way, the dinosaur-ending meteorite is crashing into Earth. They start a frantic run, dodging falling meteorites and a brontosaurus, making it to the diner and activating the device just in time to survive the cataclysm. 

11/28/24: A cyberpunk future where Umbrath tech had given sentience to an AI-powered cyborg at the Helix corporation. PCs break into Helix HQ, deal with various corporate guards and security measures, and have a nail-biter of a fight defeating Aegis the cyborg. 

12/5/24: Victorian London, where an Umbrath agent is helping industrialists take over England backed by an Umbrath power supply. They track down Lord Blackthorn who they saw on the street using Umbrath tech and learn about the gala at Lady Ashcroft's estate. They pilfer uniforms so that they can get into the gala and learn more. Kaiser manages to sneak into the basement and rips an iron door off it's hinges to gain access to the Umbrath power generator. This summons lots of guards, an Umbrath powered robot, as well as Lord Blackthorn who is secretly an Umbrath entity with time-bending abilities. 

12/19/24: German empire during WW2. The PCs rescue some resistance fighters. An Umbarth agent is developing the Nazi rocket attack. The PCs sneak into the fortress, free some more fighters and then confront the Umbrath in the main chamber. Kaiser jumps into the back of a truck as the time-shifting Umbrath tries to escape leaving the other two to deal with the Nazi guards. 

1/2/25: Having collected a number of Umbrath tech items, Becky is able to calibrate the timehopper to return them to LA. On arrival, they find a wasteland and an imposing Umbrath tower. An alternate timeline version of each hero is encounted - A Kaiser Boa who has allied with the Umbrath and has come to the diner to retrieve the timehopper, a hardened Becky Thompson who's a resistance fighter against the Umbrath and mistakes the PCs as their evil twins, and a Lance Swift who has joined the Umbrath to help collect the Earth artifacts they need. The battle with evil Kaiser and enraged Becky takes quite a toll as either good or evil blink out of existence. They sneak past evil Lance to get to the summit of the Umbrath tower. Becky goes to work sabotaging the devices while Kaiser dukes it out with the Umbrath there. The tower is destroyed and the PCs make a run for it. Kaiser makes it out, Lance goes back to help Becky, saving her and but Lance doesn't make it out in time.