Welcome to Haven:

[fluxscapemod]

What: It's moving day for everyone.
Where: Haven MagLev Train/Haven Train Station and then Jerry's Info Booth for the Newbies.
When: 04/28 - Morning
Warnings: There will be swearing, probably mentions of violence. Will update as needed.

This FluxOver starts a lot differently than the others. For starters, everyone and we mean everyone is waking up on a train. No one's waking up in their homes. The first sound anyone hears isn't an alarm clock. It's the steady hum and squeal of the MagLev train just barely skimming it's rails as it makes a turn towards the Haven Train Station and then a deep, gravely, lightly accented male voice saying:

"Haven Train Station! Last stop! Everyone off!

And then the grinding of brakes as the train slows down to a bit of a harsh stop. With so many people stuffed into the train like sardines, it's probably hot and crowded, and everyone wants off. It's also very likely you're going to wake up leaning on someone. Do you know them? Are they a stranger? Let's hope you didn't drool while you were sleeping, or snore too loudly.

When the doors open, the heat probably gets a bit worse and the crowd is very eager to get off the train. Jostling and bumping, it seems as though no one cares who they smack into, they just want off. Since it's the last stop, it's probably best you depart, too. Should you choose to stick on the train, you'll find that while it does depart the Haven Train Station eventually, it just goes through a foggy area that seems to lead right back to the Haven Train Station. It'll keep doing so until you depart the train. Once the last person is off, the train will roll away and disappear in the distance.


For all the newcomers, you'll feel an impulse to go right to the very ramshackle-looking information booth, where a gentleman named Jerry has your information packet. For everyone else, your phones will start buzzing and a voice will start giving you directions, leading you back home and we're sorry to say it, but your homes have taken on the external appearance of everything else around them. Pieced together, rusty. Built more for survival and less for visual appeal.

Again; externally. Internally, you'll find that nothings changed and home is just as you remember it. And for anyone that got anything for FluxMas, you'll find your stuff waiting for you in the kitchen of your homes. Unless it's a vehicle. You'll find the keys to that in your pockets, shortly after stepping into your houses.

Settle in. Explore. Find your friends.

Welcome to Haven.

Comments

[alphabeticalplans]

"If you lived in a shipping container under two suns, you'd probably be pretty stressed out, too." Not to mention there was nothing suggesting who actually ran this place. "That train we come in on came from somewhere. This was the last stop."

Which meant the tracks probably help answers, mist or no. "Nobody chooses to live like this. Whoever's in charge is probably worth that bad feeling."

[covert_ops]

She probably would, but that doesn't explain the level of stress - and fear - some of the locals have been showing.

"You think someone runs this place? Any ideas?"

[alphabeticalplans]

No it didn't, but something did. It could have simply been the poverty and the heat, but like he'd said, nobody chose to live like this. They were forced into it, normally by people a lot bigger and stronger than them.

Or a lot of someones.

"Someone has to. The train comes from somewhere, and it returns somewhere. There aren't any power plants or reactors here, but they have power. The only thing that's not connecting for me is...nobody here seems to leave on that train. It came here, it dropped us and a lot of other people off, and then it left. Nobody gets on to head to work somewhere else and come back to Haven. It's...weird."

[covert_ops]

She hasn't quite been here long enough to do any detective work - not that she's a detective. But Biggs has been here longer, it seems, and he's got some good ideas.

"We should try it some time. Get on the train and see where it goes."

[alphabeticalplans]

He hasn't been around long enough to do much detective work himself, but this place reminds him way too much of home not to draw similarities between the two. He might be really off about it, but he's got a feeling in his gut that he's not.

"I was thinking something a little more adventurous." He smiles, even. Because as dangerous as it was, running perpendicular to the status quo, he had to admit...sometimes it was rush. "When you were a kid, did you ever live near railroads?"

[covert_ops]

It takes her a minute to reply. Technically, her childhood is classified information. Truthfully, she doesn't actually remember. But now isn't the time to go into all of that.

"Not that I'm aware of." Sounding casual on the back of a bike is an easy thing. "I'm up for an adventure."

[alphabeticalplans]

Not that she was aware of? Okay...

"So, instead of getting on, I say we put together some supplies, maybe some extra weapons to deal with the monsters out there, and follow the tracks."

[covert_ops]

Extra weapons for certain. Lots of them. It sounds like a great idea.

"Well, we can't get too lost that way, can we. It'll be fun."

[alphabeticalplans]

"I used to follow the train tracks a lot when I was a kid." At least until he hit the station. He lapsed into a quiet after a moment, though. Biggs hadn't meant to start talking about himself, at least not that much.

"It'll be something to do, at least, and that's not a bad thing."

[covert_ops]

"Between this and my job I might actually be busy." Which isn't a bad thing. Helix doesn't do well with downtime. "When do you want to go?"

[alphabeticalplans]

"I don't know yet." He wasn't sure they'd be ready for a trip like that soon. Who knew how long that track was or what they might run into? "Soon, but we're going prepared. Setting off half-cocked is asking for trouble."