Out of the Weather

The Crew Stop has been standing out on the haul road the whole time. It's where the mining crews wait for the shift hauler out to The Jag, and it's in a bad way — the canopy sags at one corner, the bench leans with it, and most mornings the crews stand in the weather instead. Everybody complains about it. Nobody owns it enough to fix it.

Once you've finished Hold It Together, Renn Calder will mention it. Taking the job is entirely your call: it isn't part of the main story, nothing is waiting on it, and ignoring it forever closes nothing off. It also isn't free. Twenty Refined Ferrite and ten welding passes come out of your own pocket and your own afternoon. You can put in some of the ferrite, go and get more, and come back — the shelter isn't going anywhere.

What you get back is the point. The Crew Stop stays repaired, permanently and visibly. And because the crews use it every workday and know exactly who fixed it, they'll squeeze you onto the shift hauler between town and The Jag for five Credits a trip, in either direction — a ride you can take from the repaired Crew Stop itself, or from The Jag for the way back.

Walking hasn't changed at all. It's still free, still goes through The Long Scramble, and still gives you a chance to scavenge on the way. There's nothing to find on the back of a hauler, so the trade is the same every time you make it: spend the time and maybe turn something up, or spend the Credits and get there.

This is the first thing in RuneSpace you can choose to do purely because it makes the place better, and have the world stay that way afterwards. It won't be the last.