The shelter is a room below ground in the city. Scavengers return to it by the beacon, bring their salvage back to it before the dawn sweep, upgrade their equipment at the Foundry, and talk to the shelter operator on the radio.
Its communications alcove holds a backup relay, R-03, and the controller for pump P-04. Both can be serviced from the shelter, and both still matter in the future (see Service repairs).
In the Wasteland
In the Wasteland a new contact works from the old shelter. The contact inherited the desk and a channel number pencilled beside it.
The channel number
A superseded orientation card for custodial staff tells them what to do if the sweep fails to begin at dawn: do not respond to instructions issued in your own voice, proceed to open ground and remain in the light. Below the printed instructions someone has written a shelter channel number, with a note beside it: try this first. Someone used to answer.
See also
Records cited
- Beyond Dawn
- Orientation Card, recovered fragment