fluxscapememe | Test Drive 1: Beachville

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Upon Arrival

Just ask anyone, Beachville is the most beautiful city anywhere! That's exactly what the NPCs will tell you with a genuine smile on their faces and a happy nod. It even just might be true. For a beach as crowded as it is, it's surprisingly clean! The sand is just right. Not too hot and soft to the touch. The water is so blue you can see marine life swimming just under the surface. A variety of multicolored fish. Dolphins. The occasional mermaid.

...yes, that was in fact a mermaid! They're playful, don't worry. They won't try to drown you, Maybe just knock you off your surfboard with a laugh and a flash of a shimmery tail as they swim off to who knows where.

There are still sharks in that very blue, very clear water, but they're not interested in you in the slightest. In fact, they seem very keen on avoiding you.

There's so much to do here in Beachville! There's fishing off the docks, well away from where people are swimming. There's a boardwalk with almost every shop imaginable. A tattoo artist, a piercing parlor, a place to buy silly souvenirs like hermit crabs in cages, or ridiculous shirts. There's so much food to be tried; Pizzas, Salt Water Taffy's, lemonades of various flavors and some of the best burgers and fries you've ever had!

If the day-life isn't for you, wait until dark. The amusement park (which opens at sunrise and runs until 2 AM), lights up the night in a fantastic and colorful display, the sounds of the roller coasters and laughing guests heard for miles around, and part of the docks turns into an open air nightclub, complete with dance floor, beverages for all and alcohol for anyone over eighteen. Don't try to trick the bartender. They'll know.

If the hustle and bustle and noise of the beach isn't for you, don't worry. There are many resorts nearby with their own private swimming pools and entertainment. There are coffee shops on almost every street, various boutiques and curios to look at and a movie theater or two.

Don't worry; you'll also find the more necessary stores like grocery stores (where there is something for almost everyone), pharmacies, book stores, clothing stores, hardware stores. There's even a police station, fire house and hospital.

But that's not what Beachville is about! Everyone needs a vacation, right?

Beachville Locations
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	Beachville Boardwalk and Amusements Just what it says on the tin. Every possible Boardwalk location you can think of is here. Tattoo parlors, really cheesy t-shirts and hideous beach attire, awesome food of highly dubious nutritious value. There are also rides, like a huge ferris wheel, bumper cars, spinning rides and a huge roller coaster. At night, part of the boardwalk closes and turns into a place for dancing, drinking (For anyone over eighteen) and watching fireworks every weekend until 2 AM.
	The Surf Board There are three of these places located along the beach, and each one seems to be run by surfers in 'business attire'. Of course, by business attire, we mean these shirts and khaki shorts. They're here for all your surfing needs whether it be board rentals, lessons or even board purchases and care products. Dude.
	Shellfish Shack A small, outdoor restaurant right beside the fishing docks that can happily boast the freshest, most inexpensive seafood. There are crabs, lobsters, shellfish of many edible varieties and other seafood, besides. They also sell fresh catches by the pound that you can cook yourself at home, so go ahead and buy some! And be sure to buy some of their fresh made lemonade by the gallon. It's known all over Beachville as the best.
	Beach Breeze The Perfect place outdoors to grab a smoothie or any kind of fruit juice. They also serve the best shaved ice you've ever had in your life. What a great way to beat the heat!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Wait, this has happened to you before?" Yes, that is the part that Tandy latches onto because it's the most important tidbit of information at the moment.

She turns where she is sitting to face the other girl, tucking one knee up on the bench as she regards Gwen with renewed interest. Not that it had waned before because she recognizes a sort of kinship even though she doesn't know why right now.

"Because I am used to some weird shit but this is a whole new level for me." She shakes her head, glancing around. "One minute I was on a bus and then suddenly I was here. I don't know, I don't know what to make of it."

Hey, Gwen is fine with it. She shifts on the bench, too, bringing one knee up to rest her chin on it, holding out her bucket of chicken fingers and fries. Stories are best when food is involved, or something. Plus, she's actually not 100 percent hungry.

"Yep! This'd be the...third time. The first time, I was sucked through a hole between universes because a complete psycho wanted to find his dead wife and dead kid somewhere in the multiverse and be with them again. Never mind the fact that it was destroying the entire multiverse. Oh! Also, he probably either didn't know or didn't care that being in the wrong universe caused painful rapid cellular degeneration. So, that was fun."

In the way that it was absolutely not fun.

"The second time, I was on my way home from that universe and found myself on a train flying through space. Hated it. This time, I'm...here."

Tandy glances at the food but doesn't hesitate to grab herself some fries because, hey, she is hungry. Actually, she is really kind of hungry despite the fact that she'd had a smoothie already. But this is one of those conversations where it doesn't hurt to sit and munch while they try to figure shit out.

"Wow," She isn't really sure what to say as Gwen tells her about the other two times she had been pulled into another universe. Then she shakes her head a little, glancing down.

"Well, at least this place looks nice." Glancing towards the beach, she tilts her head. "Which means there is probably some serious shit below the surface."

"Probably. On the train we had inspectors show up one day. They went on about training and made it sound like we were all volunteers, when none of us remembered signing up for any of it. They kept going on about 'void sickness causes memory loss' but wouldn't actually answer questions."

But to go from that to a beach town? Gwen seems pretty chill about the whole ordeal.

"So, now I guess it's just a matter of figuring out what the hell we do now. Jerry, the guy at the information booth, said to get a job. Past that, he offered nothing. Except snicker doodle cookies. Which I almost took, I'm not gonna lie. They smelled awesome."

"Sounds like bullshit to me for sure." The idea doesn't sit well with her at all as it makes her think of D'Spayre which is something she doesn't want to think about at the moment. She knows she will have to when it comes time to deal with all that but not right now. "So they just kept telling you that you had memory loss?"

Tandy wants to be as chill but she will have to fake it until she makes it.

"Yeah, they smelled all right but I wasn't going to risk taking them. Not from him." She shakes her head before pausing and glancing at Gwen again. "Did you get a key and a map to a house?"

"They kept telling us to report memory loss, and to report if we thought we weren't there voluntarily, but any time any of us asked where to report that to, they gave some weird bullshit like...non-answer. Some kind of 'you should just know' deal. And then said if we wanted to report it, we'd have to leave the train for a couple days. I didn't want to go with them anywhere, so I stayed put. The guys were wearing gas masks and I'm pretty sure they were controlling peoples emotions. It was so creepy."

Not the worst situation she'd been in, but still terrifying.

"I did. And as luck would have it, my boyfriend from the train is also here and in the house. What about you? You got somewhere to stay too, right?"

"Did you at least punch them in the mouth or something?" It is almost enough to make Tandy wish that she had been there because she would have gotten some answers or at least done everything she could to do so. But also, not really because that doesn't sound like fun either. It sounds mostly like it would hit too close to home for her.

She fights back a little shiver as she grabs a piece of chicken, deciding that eating would be a good distraction from the creepy feeling that she is getting.

"Apparently I have a house?" She doesn't look too thrilled over the idea though. "Not that I know what to do with it. I'm used to a trailer or an abandoned church."

"I wanted to, but I kept thinking that would be a bad idea for everyone else." Gwen's Spider-Sense was practically screaming HOE, DON'T DO IT! and she tends to listen to that particular instinct.

"It was very tempting to." Given the opportunity, she probably would deck them in the face and then web them to the outside of the Void-train.

"Where's your house? Ours is by the lake. The big, three story blue one."

"Right, I guess that would be a thing." Because Tandy probably would have failed at reining herself in as she usually is. She has a bad habit of just racing into things and getting herself in trouble but that is another thing she is working on too. One of many.

"Uh, hold on." She twists a little bit so she can slide the map out of her back pocket, settling again as she unfolds it and looks for the marking that is supposed to be her place.

"It looks like it's close to a lake." She offers the map to Gwen to look at.

"It's kind of a 'you had to be there' thing? But considering how wrong the whole thing was? Kinda glad you weren't. And I mean that in the nicest way possible," Gwen states, stuffing a fry in her mouth. She watches Tandy and looks at the map and then pulls out her own, pointing out her location as she compares the two.

"Hey, you're right. We're practically neighbors!" That's pretty awesome, in her opinion.

"Trust me, I'm not going to take any offense to that because I'm kind of glad I wasn't there either." Then she stops dead and wrinkles her nose. "Unless maybe I was and I don't have any memory of it?"

Which is not something she wants to consider.

So she focuses on the idea of her house as she passes the map over to Gwen and waits for the other girl to look at it. The news that they are practically neighbors has her sitting a bit straighter as she smiles.

"Really? Okay, thank god." She reaches for the map again. "Maybe it won't be so bad then!"

Test Drive 1: Beachville

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