Dateline: January 16, 1926 – SCENE 01 – The world around Amy Jinkinson forms slowly. The first thing she is aware of is that it’s cold, very cold. She is resting, however. Sounds slowly drift towards her, and an acrid smell. She rests a little longer before opening her eyes.

Directly in front of her is a plant. It looks like a snowdrop, but different. Delicate, and white, the plant is bowed, heavy with seed. It sways in the breeze. Behind the plant are the remains of the train bound for Dover, now crashed, smoke billowing out of its various sections. The area is silent.

Jinkinson tries to move, but her body protests. She vaguely remembers the sound of metal scraping on metal, the train tumbling, and then blackness. She has a few cracked ribs and appears to have been thrown from the train.

Standing up woozily, Jinkinson unsteadily walks to the train and looks for survivors.

SCENE 02 – George Miller was between train cars when it went off the tracks, and landed at the top of the embankment. He passed out after watching the train roll away under him. Now awakening, under reddening sky, he sees Jinkinson looking for help to rescue Rowdy Bowman, who is pinned under his seat.

SCENE 03 – After rescuing Bowman, the trio make their way towards the radioman car. There they discover one more survivor, Argyle Ward. Everywhere there is just silence and death with crushed, twisted, or burning bodies everywhere they turn.

An overturned tanker car with Russian writing on its side has broken open, and seeds no one can identify have spilled out, being carried everywhere by the wind. The ground around the tanker car is lush with more white plants. Looking around, the surrounding countryside is covered with them.

SCENE 04 – At the radioman’s car they find an electric torch and decide to make all haste to Dover before dark. Their going is slowed, however, by their multiple injuries.

Following the road towards Dover they come across their first signs of other life — a car is pulled over by the side of the road. Within is a married couple, holding hands. They both have been shot in the head, an apparent murder-suicide. A white froth lines their mouths, the same white froth they saw on the mouths of many of the train crash victims.

The party opts to not take the car, but Rowdy smashes the window and pries the revolver from the man’s hand.

SCENE 05 – As they approach the city, they see many more cars, all of them either pulled over to the side of the road, or apparently trying to flee Dover: A family huddles together on the road side, white foam at their mouths; two women on a blanket, a picnic blanket and basket under them. They appear to have drunk bleach from teacups.

SCENE 06 – Entering into one of the abandoned cars, the party tries to drive to Dover but the car stalls. Opening the hood, Ward discovers that the engine is covered in plantlife which has twisted itself throughout the engine. He rips the plants off of the engine block, his hands staining green. They are then able to drive the rest of the way to Dover.

SCENE 07 – Arriving at Dover, they find the city dark; no lights are lit and the streets are filled with scenes of horror similar to the ones they saw on the road — everyone apparently killed by their own hand, white foam frothing at their mouth. Dogs roam freely in the dark. Above, what appears to be whispy smoke is discovered to be clouds of seeds from the strange plant growing everywhere.

SCENE 08 – Miller leaves the party and goes to the police station to look for help while the others head to the Crown Hotel. The door to the police station is open and the desk officer is dead, slumped across his log book. Miller looks at the log book and sees complaints from that morning about people getting sick and acting strange. The police told everyone to go to the hospital. Miller also recovers a shotgun from the police station.

SCENE 09 – The Crown Hotel is not much better; entering into the lobby, it is eerily quiet. The party looks for the lights and Jinkinson rushes to the event room where the wedding reception she was supposed to be attending was to be held. Inside, her family and friends, all dead. She sees a cousin of hers who doesn’t drink, apparently having drunk an entire bottle of whisky. The rest all seem to have been drinking before they died, all of them have white foam coming out from their mouths.

Jinkinson looks round for her father, but he does not seem to be in the ballroom.

SCENE 10 – Regathering, the party discovers that the hotel at least has a good supply of high quality food and drink. They decide to have a meal and discuss their next move.

Just as they are sitting down to their meal, they hear the first sounds of something other than a seagull or dog since they awoke from the train crash — the sound of the hotel door opening, the bell ringing, and the step of heavy feet on the wooden floor…