Agents of the Multiverse

The Barbary Enclave is a seemingly old, run down hunting cabin some ways from the outskirts of town.

Despite looking quite dilapidated on the outside, the inside of the cabin is exactly as it was when the place was first built, with some more recent additions from the AotM. It can be a little jarring, in fact, seeing the differences between the outside and inside of the place, particularly since any visitors entering through the main door without a key would only find dust and animal droppings there.

The actual enclave is very ‘cozy’, which means to say, while well kept, is somewhat cramped, depending on the company. Downstairs is a small living space with a few couches and a stone fireplace, a modest kitchen, typically stocked with the usual local provisions, and a bathroom with a shower. Upstairs is two bedrooms, each with two sets of bunk beds, and a workspace for documenting and equipment repair.

As one of the AotM’s smaller enclaves, it has no outdoor space within the space-time bubble that protects it, so agents must be careful while venturing beyond its walls.

As Barbary Grove’s world is fairly mundane outside of what happens in the shadows, agents are expected to preserve that balance when visiting, and to wear their image inducers at all times if they possess inhuman appearances. Information breaches are to be reported immediately to HQ.

Twice a week a representative from the Moxie Company drops off several crates of donated provisions outside the cabin. Inside you should find:

x 8 Moxie Brand Sodas; Whizz Bang Pop or Rocket Fizz - Six Packs
x 2 cases of Moxie Bars
x 7 boxes of MREs (Various)
x 2 boxes of toiletries (Various)

The representative has been instructed not to talk to agents, and this should be upheld to prevent information leakage. Further provisions can be purchased within town.

The Enclave located through a hidden door in the obelisk is located underground. The steps are steep, but are wide enough to fit most individuals. They lead down to a concrete bunker with one central chamber that's currently being used as mission command and the gate room, and four branching chambers. The first and second are living quarters, which are fairly simple and meant for temporary use, most shared with doubled up beds or several sets of bunk beds and several shared bathrooms. Each residential wing has a single small common room to share between everyone, each with some couches, books, and board games.

The third chamber is being utilized for food prep and the dining area, which is again, fairly spartan. It's a simple mess hall that often doubles as storage. The third chamber is more storage, with an area set aside and kept clean for more serious medical emergencies. The whole bunker has beds enough for about 55 individuals if the medical beds are also used, which sounds impressive until one remembers that there's the population of an entire city to rescue and beyond. Bed space also doesn't mean that the rest of the bunker and space beyond wouldn't find itself cramped and overtaxed for resources.

The Hazardville house is an old, two story house at the edge of the suburbs in Hazardville. Its floorboards creak and the roof leaks in the spare room, but it's otherwise sound. Its seven ghostly residents can be kept quiet through regular appeasement and are mostly harmless.

The Hazardville house is one of the AotM's larger enclaves-- at least of those not stuffed into an entire bunker. It's got five full sized bedrooms and two full bathrooms, split between the two floors. It's got a sizable kitchen, though its appliances are somewhat outdated, a living room with a fireplace, and a small library.

There is a small garden out back, which is safe enough to relax in as it remains protected by the enclave's dimensional bubble-- though no one can seem to grow anything there currently, and an old tire swing hanging from a large oak tree. The house's yard looks out onto Fever Swamp. One can occasionally spot the local feral werewolf population native to the swamp going about their daily lives from the yard, unseen as long as one is safe within the enclave's confines.

The Hazardville house also has a garage equipped with two bikes and a minivan for use getting around town. The garage is activated by your key gauntlet and is protected in the same way as the house, but do not leave it open and always check for hitch-hikers.

The house has seven spirits. Four are human. Two are animal. No one is entirely sure what the third one is, but it doesn't leave the basement, which is currently being used for storage. The four human spirits must be appeased daily with an offering of bread or wine, and the animal spirits (two dogs, or canine-like entities) remain quiet as long as the upstairs television is left on for them. If either of these rituals are disturbed, expect poltergeist activity. The entity in the basement cannot be appeased and likes turning off the lights and chasing people up the stairs, but it does not seem to be able to physically interact with people besides manifesting a faint chill and gusts of air.

It may be dangerous to consume food or drink from Hazardville, so the enclave is stocked for short term visits with dry and canned goods. Fresh food must be brought with agents through the Gate or otherwise must be tested extensively before being brought into the house or consumed.

❔Are Enclaves made with Walker's bones/Beacons?
❗ Sometimes! Most pre-AotM Enclaves were not. Before the fall of the Walkers, several could work together using the power of their blood to punch a hole in time and space and set it aside to form a protective Enclave, both invisible to the world it resided in and protected from the Corruption. There aren't really enough Walkers around to do this anymore-- at least not easily, so many of the Enclaves the AotM has now are rediscovered and reclaimed from the old days.

But! Where a traditional Enclave is not available, beacons, which are made from Walker's bones, can be used to keep back the Corruption and form a sort of quasi-enclave. Beacons act as a sort of physical shield against Corrupted creatures, and they cannot cross the boundaries they create, but beacons do not render these types of enclaves invisible, or offset them from reality, which means that anything not Corrupted, including things like bullets and wild animals, can still cross in. These enclave types need much more protection as a result.

Often the two types are combined. Reclaimed Enclaves are often small-- usually the size of a single house, sometimes no bigger than a room, though rarer, larger ones are also occasionally found. The traditional Enclave is used as a home base and a fall back point in areas where reclamation efforts are being made, and beacons are set around it, allowing for the building of further, if somewhat less protected structures.

❔How common are beacons/Walker's bones?
❗ Not very. Most Walkers simply up and vanished without any bodies. The bones of Walkers used for beacons were often buried before the vanishing, and their grave sites are not exactly easy to find. There has been some success through cross referencing grave registries in worlds with names found in the Walker's book, but it's a big multiverse out there.