Bonds For Time

There once was a small handful of people that were friends online, they all dreamed of a day they could meet in real life, now that day has finally come.
Thrown together by fate on a campus in California, the friends all discover that life is better now that they have each other.
But, there's a great force of evil that wants to split them up, can the bond they share help them conquer this great evil? Or will it all end in flames and smoke?