Our hero looked out onto the front of their yard here in the small town of Crossroad cove. A small sleepy coastal town, founded by Franciscan monks a 2 centuries and change ago the town was originally one of hundreds of little East coast towns that dotted from Maine to Florida. Small town but with a lot to offer. Crossroad Cove had started out as the name suggested as a crossroad to bigger towns North and South as well as a well worn road west. The town almost died when the interstate made it irrelevant for a while, but the town's modest tourist trade and recent discoveries of natural gas had pulled in a new generation of people in the last 10 years. They'd even gotten a branch office of Sintech the mysterious software developer known for their research into advanced science.

Our hero' s mom had just gotten a job here in town. And the whole family had relocated here for a while. They had a few months til college after all so it was a time to spend with the family, exploring this sleepy but interesting town. Little did they realise their lives would change after "The incident"