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

[morethanatrickster]

[There's a keen intelligence behind the gaze that turns on Bruce at his response as he takes the other man in. He was confident as well, and driven. The lines around his eyes told Loki the man worried quite a lot.

Ah. A hero type. Delightful.

He smiled warmly, and to his credit, it even touched his eyes.]

Oh, I have several already vying for my attention, but where to start?

[menarebrave]

The one that comes to mind first. That's usually the best starting point.

[ Someone who likes to pick things apart and find a point of entry. Crafty--intelligent. It's a good thing Bruce can keep that persona up no matter what he does. ]

[morethanatrickster]

The first that comes to mind, is it?

[He looks thoughtful for a moment before motioning toward the information booth and its friendly attendant.]

This place hardly seems in need of an information booth, does it?

[menarebrave]

Maybe "welcome center" would have been a better idea. Then again, this reality doesn't seem to be the kind to want to welcome anyone. A hold over from the first reality we landed in. It's been here ever since.

[ Generic information, not something that could give away much more than what you'd learn on the network. ]

[morethanatrickster]

I see. [He taps his chin, looking thoughtful.] So there's some sort of mechanization, magical or otherwise, that connects us to one another, and that collective to whatever means travels from one reality to the next. Who is its attendant, I wonder?

[He seems nonplussed by the affair, more curious than anything, even if his expression does betray a bit of the truth: he's impressed.]

It's all quite clever.

[menarebrave]

Not that we've been able to find so far. But, there was reports of a mechanism that held invisible creatures in the previous reality we were in. Apparently, those creatures were from a different reality entirely.

[ Bruce nods to the small shack where Jerry is in. ]

Jerry is the one that mans the welcome center.

[morethanatrickster]

Somebody enjoys mucking about with dimensions, don't they?

[He looks toward the welcome center when Bruce points it out.]

And who is Jerry's employer, I wonder...

[menarebrave]

That sounds like you'd know a few people who enjoy "mucking about with dimensions."

[ His gaze slides back to Loki with a pointed look in his eyes. ]

I'd presume the Mayor.

[morethanatrickster]

I’ve known a few.

[It’s him, Bruce. He’s ‘a few’.]

And if one were interested in finding this Mayor, how would they go about that?