In 2013, the Protagonist (Marcus Crowley or whatever you decide to call him), his best friend Donnie, and 499,998 other teenagers from all over the country went to a college town called Meteor Valley. A week after they leave, a global pandemic called the coronavirus breaks out, and it affects the entire world. But for some reason the virus never spread to the Valley, and for that reason the government decides to isolate it from the rest of the country until a vaccine can be developed.