It's a regular Saturday in a small city where two young hobbyists live. One of them is a young man, the other is a young woman. Neither hobbyist has ever met the other, and each hobbyist enjoys a different hobby. The young man spends his Saturdays at the park playing "Boffer", a live action role-playing game in which he dresses in full battle garb and takes part in battles waged with foam weapons and imaginary magics. The young woman spends her Saturdays at the local hobby shop, participating in tournaments of the collectible card game "Gathering Spells".
Each of them make out pretty well one Saturday, enjoying victories in a well spent day in their hobbies. Before going home for the night, the two come within close proximity to each other in front of the hobby shop, when one of their opponents steps out to invoke a power unlike anyone in our world has ever seen. They each find themselves alone in a place they don't recognize, and can't find their way home...