WHO: Travelers! WHERE: On the road WHAT: Late Night #2, into Day #3 WHEN: November 4th-5th
On the night of the 4th, after escaping the zombie horde at Johnson City, those in the bus will notice that the wifi connection remains broken, although the radio still works to contact Maizie/Olivia back home. Then, as they continue driving westward out of the city, the exhaust of one car is going to start to back up within the car, and the bus' engine starts to clunk, clatter, and eventually smoke. As things are really breaking down, they see a sign on the side of the road, directing them to Luckenbach, TX...
Back before the fallout, Luckenbach was not even a town so much as a tourist destination for country music and kitsch aficionados. Since the fallout, it has become a thriving shelter/compound with fortified walls to keep out the undead, stocked with people, greenhouses, fields, livestock barns, and (still) plenty of country music lovers.
When the Austin Contingency rolls up to the walls surrounding Luckenbach, guards on duty will come to investigate, and open the gates to allow the vehicles inside (word will be sent back to LBJ that they've found a settlement willing to give them shelter/aid). Everyone will be asked to voluntarily submit to a physical inspection to make sure they don't have any bite marks or open wounds (guards will offer to have the resident trauma nurse come down, or a nice grandma if you prefer; they're not trying to be creepers, just protect their camp). If anyone refuses, their options dwindle to quarantine or leaving, and guards will tell you that it's a really bad idea to leave without working transpo (oocly, quarantine's kind of lackluster for plot purposes, but this is up to each of you!).
Once inside, however... it's practically paradise. Have a good hot dinner that's never seen the inside of a can (bbq beef & mashed potatoes or spicy rabbit stew, with corn, spinach salad, and actual strawberry ice cream), let a resident buy you a beer in the courtyard, hang out around the campfires, head into the dance hall where a live band's playing. Eventually the town's leader, Kit Patterson, will seek out the new arrivals to ask questions about where they came from, and answer whatever questions your character may have on this first night. He'll call for volunteers to house them for the night (they'll probably wind up on a couch or in a spare sleeping bag & air mattress).
Come the morning, after breakfast everyone from Austin will be asked to come back to the dance hall for more in depth questioning and job placement (yep, even guests are expected to earn their keep in these parts). After lunch you'll get to work, and once it's dinner time, the rest of the night is yours to spend however you'd like! So long as you stay inside the compound, that is...
OOC Note: Everyone should feel free to post their own, individual logs from the 6th onwards; we will make additional scene-setting posts like these if there is something significant to the larger plot, otherwise it's up to you to put up logs, placeholders or the like!