SNaF Timeline

The following is a chronological timeline of all events that happen in the SNaF fangame series.

The timeline
1913: Henry Edwards is born in the United Kingdom.

1945: After serving as an RAF pilot in World War II, Henry has a son, Robert Edwards, who is born in the UK as well, but he moves to Northeast America, most likely Ohio, with his father at a young age.

 1957: The Adler Corporation is founded by Harold Adler.

 1965: Robert dodges the increased draft numbers of the Vietnam War. His father is disappointed in him for doing so.

 1968: Ohio Fried Chicken is founded.

 1969: The Adler Corporation builds and opens a metalworking and steelmaking factory in Virginia.

 1973: Robert Edwards and Carolyn Anderson (maiden name) get married.

 1976: Phone Guy is born.

 January 21st, 1977: President Jimmy Carter pardons all Vietnam draft dodgers. This presumably also includes Robert.

 1978: Nathan Edwards is born in the state of Ohio.

 1980: Thomas Redford is born.

July 21st, 1981: Eddie Brenner is born.

 Early 1982: Frank’s Jukebox Diner opens up in Ohio.

 1983: Robert creates the company Edwards Technology Restoration, Incorporated in Ohio, which is a company used for repairing, creating, and delivering technology. He becomes the CEO.

 May 26th, 1986: After three years of good business, Robert is starting to become more and more busy with work, and Carolyn, by this point, has been growing angrier with him everyday. Robert considers her useless and kills her while 8-year old Nathan is at school.

 Mid-1986: A police investigation of Carolyn’s death is conducted, but nothing ever comes up against Robert, as there isn’t enough evidence. Carolyn’s body is never found. After these events, the remaining members of the Edwards family move to Virginia, and Robert relocates E.T.R’s headquarters to Richmond.

 1992-1996: Nathan attends Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology through the ages of 14-18. He is enrolled here thanks to his talent with fixing and modifying machinery. This is a prelude to his actions at Frank’s Jukebox Diner. In 1994, when he’s 16, Nathan gets his first car.

 1996: Brian Campbell becomes a police officer in Ohio.

 1997: Robert Edwards steps down as the CEO of E.T.R, and Nathan Edwards takes over just out of high school. This same year, Nathan begins attending college at Virginia Tech, while balancing his job as a CEO. This year as well, E.T.R begins to produce animatronic robot characters for small, independent entertainment companies to purchase. However, Frank’s Jukebox Diner is beating out E.T.R. After stepping down as CEO, Robert moves to Ohio, while Nathan stays in Virginia. Phone Guy starts working for Frank’s Jukebox Diner this year.

 July 5-25th, 1998: Nathan, wanting to make more money and get Frank’s shut down, applies for a job as a night watchman, and during his week there, he tampers with the robots to make them malfunction. This eventually gets Frank’s shut down, after another night guard, Phone Guy, is hired for a week. After Phone Guy, Jim Moore takes over the job. However, during Jim’s week, Frank’s was purchased by the Adler Corporation, who then move the robots into the Adler family’s own house for rentals.

 Fall 1998: Thomas Redford begins attending college at Columbia University.

 March 31st, 1999: Nathan and Robert go to see the film The Matrix in theaters. It’s the last time they interact with each other until 2010.

May  2001: Nathan graduates from college with a degree in computer programming.

September 20th, 2001: Tyler Marcus is born

 2002: Nathan meets Ryan Collins at a bar. The two had been loose friends at Virginia Tech. Thomas Redford graduates from Columbia University with a degree in economics and financial risk analysis.

 2003: Nathan, using the profits he had earned from working at E.T.R, purchases a 1970 Buick Gran Sport, replacing his old car that he had as a teenager. Also this year, the Adler Corporation closes down and abandons its Virginia metalworks/steelmaking factory.

 November 1-7th, 2004: The Adler House officially opens for rentals, and to celebrate, the Adler family goes on vacation for two weeks, and Phone Guy is hired as the first week’s nightguard. After his week is done, Nathan travels to Ohio and takes over, hoping to do the same things here that he did in 1998.

 November 8-13th, 2004: Nathan does his week at the Adler House, modifying the robots more and more each night until they malfunction at the daytime parties too much, and are shipped off to an Adler Repair Center in Pennsylvania. Nathan finds this out via Phone Guy. On the 12th, during the middle of Nathan’s shift, his grandfather, Henry, dies in his sleep back in Ohio at 3:00 AM.

 November 15-20th, 2004: A man named Rick Marshall is hired as the nightguard for the Adler Repair Center to guard the recently-shipped off robots. During this time, Nathan breaks into Phone Guy’s house during a call after Phone Guy reopened his investigation into the 1998 case of the tampered-with robots. Rick finishes his nights and Phone Guy quits his job with the Adler Corporation.

May 2 005: Phone Guy goes through several different careers after quitting Adler. However, he eventually begins working in retail. One of his coworkers is a man named Tom Foster.

 2006: Robert Edwards purchases a shotgun, and keeps it in storage until 2010.

 2008: Ryan Collins and Nathan Edwards stop talking to each other.

 October 9th, 2010: Nathan Edwards searches for details about the Adler Repair Center in Pennsylvania on his work computer.

 October 18-23rd, 2010: Nathan, with no one else to turn to, calls Ryan Collins and asks him to guard a storage center in Greenville, Ohio for a few nights while Nathan heads off to the now-abandoned Adler Repair Center in Pennsylvania with two business partners to retrieve the robots’ technology, now out of the hands of any company. Nathan sends back more and more as the nights go on.

October 24th, 2010: Ryan is replaced by Nathan, as the man has returned, and Nathan takes the nightshift himself. However, just before entering the storage center, he killed his two business partners and stuffed them into the mascot costumes. They are inside the building. About 30 minutes after his shift ends at 6:30 AM, Nathan is seen by police officer Brian Campbell dragging the bodies to his car. Nathan is questioned by the cop and arrested almost immediately after.

October 25th, 2010: Early in the morning, Robert Edwards, now living in Greenville, Ohio, reads the newspaper about his son’s arrest the previous day. Robert then heads to E.T.R’s headquarters building, located in Richmond, Virginia. There, he meets with CFO Thomas Redford and requests to become the CEO again. After some arguing, Robert becomes the new CEO and occupies Nathan’s former office. It’s here that, when he boots up Nathan’s old computer, he finds Nathan’s search history relating to the Frank’s establishments. After this, Robert travels to where Nathan is imprisoned, the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, and asks him about the robots. Nathan spills the beans about his shifts at the restaurant and the Adler House, and Robert heads back home with this information.

October 26th, 2010: Robert, laying in bed and unable to stop thinking about breaking Nathan out of prison to open up a new moneymaking animatronic establishment, calls Thomas Redford on the phone at 2:30 in the morning. After discussing this plan, Thomas tells him that they’ll discuss it in the morning and the CFO hangs up, leaving Robert alone with his thoughts. A few hours later, at around 8:00 AM, Robert heads out to his car to see that Thomas is already at his house with his car. The two get into Thomas’ car and discuss Robert’s plan further. After mentioning breaking Nathan out of prison, Thomas gets out the car and goes on a rant about how crazy the plan is. Robert gets out as well, and Thomas’ car gets stolen by a random street thug. With this in mind, Robert finally persuades Thomas to follow through with the plan.

October 27th, 2010: After heading to multiple department stores and other shops to purchase clothes for the breakout, Thomas and Robert, still at the latter’s house, eat a bucket of Ohio Fried Chicken before driving out to the prison in a rental car, which is a beat-up 1970 Ford Bronco. The duo head into the prison and knock a couple of guards out. Robert fires his shotgun only once, when a security officer with a gun attempts shooting at Thomas and Robert. Robert blasts the guard with his shotgun. After this, the duo make their way to Nathan’s cell, where Thomas shoots the cell’s lock off with his pistol, and the now-trio team escape to the Bronco, where, once they get in, the police begin shooting at the busted-up car. Robert, Nathan, and Thomas barely escape, their identities still undiscovered. During the drive back to Greenville, Ohio, they discuss Robert’s plan to open up a new establishment with new, even better, more advanced animatronics. Nathan, still reeling from the chaos of the breakout, very much agrees to this plan. Thomas, driving the car, also reluctantly joins in. By the time they return to Greenville, Nathan, Robert, and Thomas drive the Bronco back to the storage center where Ryan Collins worked for two reasons: So that they could get in and retrieve the animatronic technology, and also so that they could abandon the Bronco and get Nathan’s car, a 1970 Buick Gran Sport, which is still parked outside of the facility in the same position as it was when Nathan was arrested. They get the animatronic’s inside parts, as well as the Frank the Frog costume. The costume was retrieved by Nathan only, who removed his business partner’s body when he did it. At that moment, he got more voices in his head and more spiritual presence around him. They then all head back to Robert’s house, where Nathan heads to the basement alone to work on the animatronic parts. The ghosts haunt him while he’s down there. Meanwhile, Thomas leaves to head to a hotel and Robert goes to bed, while Nathan simply tinkers with the machinery all through the night. As the sun rises, and Robert heads down to check on his son, he sees that the man has created a fully-functioning, highly advanced endoskeleton that can walk, talk, and interact with people perfectly, being able to hold trays (such as food) with no problems whatsoever. Robert is astonished, and asks Nathan to head out with him to start preliminary scouting for a new restaurant location. Nathan agrees, and leaves the animatronic in the basement. Before leaving, Robert calls Thomas, and then all three of them begin searching for available buildings in the area. Eventually, they drive all the way out to a small town in Virginia, or rather to the very outskirts of it, where they find a large abandoned building- the Adler Metalworks Factory, to be exact, that’s still fixable. From here, they head to the ETR headquarters in Richmond. The two tell Nathan to stay in the car, and Robert and Thomas head in.

March 11th, 2011: Phone Guy leaves his home in Akron, Ohio to head towards Ed’s Family Fun Zone in Virginia, planning to kill the Edwards men, as well as kill Thomas Redford for what the people had supposedly done.

March 13th, 2011: After arriving at the parking lot of Ed’s Family Fun Zone during dusk, Phone Guy sees on his cellular device that he has a message from his work friend, Tom Foster. Phone Guy sends a message back, and then heads into the main entrance of the establishment, which is nearly closed-down for the day and decently dark on the inside, with the only windows on the modified building being at the very front entrance.

March 19th, 2011: At about 6:30 AM, after a horrifying 7 days and nights of being trapped and tortured inside of Ed’s Family Fun Zone, Phone Guy finally reaches the communications room occupied by Nathan and Robert Edwards, as well as Thomas Redford. Thomas and Robert attempt shooting at Phone Guy, who manages to stay behind cover and get the guns out of the two’s hands. Robert is knocked out and Thomas is apprehended with some rope in the corner of the room. Immediately after this, Nathan and Phone Guy get into a physical fight, with each combatant attempting to kill the other, no matter the cost. In the middle of the battle, as both fighters are beginning to get tired and bloodied, Phone Guy notices Thomas’ pistol is still laying in a dark corner of the room. He takes it, and right as he lifts it up to Nathan, Robert Edwards gets back up. Phone Guy, for a few seconds, hesitates to do it, but he pulls the trigger on Nathan, Robert, and Thomas anyway. He kills Robert and Thomas instantly, but Nathan lays on the ground, slowly succumbing to the wound. His last words are, “Frank’s… they did this to me...” After this, Phone Guy realizes that the spirits of all those Nathan, Robert, and Thomas have killed are now at peace, and have been freed. Right as he says this to himself, he begins to hear police sirens outside of the building.

March 20th, 2011: According to a newspaper report published the next day, police busted into the building minutes after and shined their flashlights onto Phone Guy. Phone Guy dropped his gun right as he saw the flashlight’s illumination, and got handcuffed and arrested with no resistance to the cops whatsoever. Witnesses also reported that he came out of the building with a smirk on his face. After an apparent court case, Phone Guy is sentenced to ten years in federal prison, and is due for parole in 2021 once that sentence is up.

2016: Phone Guy receives a permanent commutation on his prison sentence after new evidence of Nathan and Robert Edwards’, as well as Thomas Redford’s, crimes at Ed’s Family Fun Zone is brought up. Phone Guy is freed, and leaves prison for good, finally getting a chance to live a normal life again.

The End.