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

[menarebrave]

So, a city that lives on the back of a lower working class, while the higher ups in the corporate live in style. [ Bruce shakes his head. ] I take it there's no one inside the company trying to change things?

[alphabeticalplans]

Shinra basically runs the government. I'm pretty sure we have a mayor, but no one's heard from him in ages. They have an army, they maintain security, the news. Nothing happens in Midgar without Shinra knowing about it.

[And then he smirks slightly.]

There are rebel factions doing what they can, but they haven't made much progress. At least not yet.

[menarebrave]

Shinra sounds more like they are the government as opposed to running it. Corporate coups to the extreme.

[ It might be best not to mention how he runs his own corporation back home then. He makes a note of that. ]

You think they will?

[alphabeticalplans]

[He nodded, and it was difficult to keep the bitterness from his expression.]

I never said they weren’t a bunch of fascist assholes.

[Something else crosses his face for a moment; sadness, regret, before it settles into an expression of deep concern.]

I hope so. I hope they take what happened recently, look at exactly what Shinra’s willing to do to stifle opposition, and they run with it.