Well...looking back and doing some recap math...we're currently in the year 2018/2019/2020 (I forget which was established), depending if they're 12/13/14, since I figure they're probably 13 but it would take more math and I'm lazy. So I'm doing rough estimates here. According to our timeline of events, WW3 should be on the cusp of breaking out, a lot of unrest and such. We then agreed that they'd join the online world in 2029 ish, which would make them around 22-24, again, depending on what year we assume we're on at present. We still need Sasha to move away, probably after high school for college, some abroad program or something, we could reunite them because the war should be over by 2030 or so...and then we could probably do something with a time jump...I'd say the idea of time jumping seems a bit better than pure dark post apoc stuff at this point. Ex: going to the future or even back to the past somehow via the games and whatever unrest may be inside of that virtual world...Even so, we did want to do something with them online together, not knowing right off the bat that they're with their old friend, etc.