Red and the Transistor riding the Current over Fairview.
Fairview Island, usually referred to as Fairview, is a district in Cloudbank. It is the site of several important events in Transistor.
Overview[]
Fairview, a luxurious island accessible only by air and sea, is known as Cloudbank's most secluded and beautiful getaway.
History[]
Royce Bracket favored Fairview for its low population density, access to civic resources, and distance from administrative centers. He first made contact with the Transistor on Fairview, finding it "on a lark," though he speculated that it had actually found him and kept the discovery a secret known only to the Camerata. The Cradle is also located on the island.
A recent petition proposed a footbridge to Fairview from the southeast edge of Goldwalk Bay, assuring voters that extra foot and small motor vehicle traffic would not adversely affect the locality. At the time of the incident at the Empty Set, the petition was dragging at 18% of the voteshare, with 65,536 additional signatures required to succeed.
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Red reaches Fairview after using the Transistor to unilaterally approve the bridge petition, immediately generating an elaborate footbridge between Goldwalk and Fairview. By that time, the island has been mostly Processed. Gateways and channels have come to act as nonlinear transfer points, and areas are largely designated by coordinates; one overlook provides a view of five vanishing points, while another describes the depths as "NAN" (Not A Number). Although several OVC Terminals are still operational, the island, other than the last member of the Camerata, is now inhabited only by various types of Man.
After following Royce Bracket's Proxy across the island, Red arrives at the Bracket Estates to return the Transistor to the Cradle. The sole survivor of this event winds up back on the now-Processed Fairview footbridge, and can use the Transistor to restore it.
Locales[]
Some area names on Fairview still hint at the island's former glory:
- Fairview Field
- Fairview Woods
- Fairview Sanctuary
- Fairview Manors
- Bracket Residence (site of the Cradle)
However, when observed, most locations now reflect the work of the Process:
- Fairview (Status: Under Construction)
- Gateway (Address: ooE9 5CBB; features Instance, which "cannot be read")
- Gateway (Address: D517 5A84; reverses gravity; features Viewpoint with 5 vanishing points)
- Gateway (Address: 3F85 00C8; restores gravity)
- Current ("Go to X = -2362, Y = 1126")
- Current ("Go to X = -2744, Y = 4108")
- Current ("Go to X = -3713, Y = 3496")
- Gateway (Address: A948 FDFC)
- Current ("Go to X = -4920, Y = 192"; features an OVC Terminal)
- Gateway (Address: E8F7 D9D8; features Abyss with depth NAN)
- Gateway (Address: 5CBB 688E)
- Current ("Go to X = -141, Y = 4294")
- Current ("Go to X = 910, Y = 1904")
- Current ("Go to X =-1003, Y = 905"; features an OVC Terminal) or Current ("Go to X =1698, Y = 164", features a Backdoor); values are negatives of themselves if returning the same way
- Current ("Go to X =1325, Y = -352"; features the Cradle); only the Y value is reversed if returning the same way
Backdoors[]
The single Backdoor on Fairview is located in Fairview Woods after a point where the Current goes to X = 1698, Y = 164.
Trivia[]
- Unknown remarked that Fairview was farther from town than he'd thought.
- A chyron headline on a Fashion Week post by Sybil Reisz, dated 06-25-67 at 15:48, read "Petition for Bridge to Fairview Falling Short."