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logsinthenight2020-04-19 10:13 pm
nextnightmods) wrote in logsinthenight2020-04-19 10:13 pm
EVENT LOG: BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
EVENT LOG:
BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
characters: everyone.
location: everywhere.
date/time: april 15-30.
content: preparation begins, and rain falls.
warnings: n/a. please cw tags appropriately.
an early warning: april 15-17
When someone goes to check the readings at the weather station in mid-April, they notice something - an immense low-pressure system incoming in just a few short days. Looks like rain on the horizon, although it isnā€™t immediately clear how long it will last or how much will fall - but it seems like spring has come to Beacon, and April showers bring May flowers, right?
Better get to work.
into the water: april 18-30
Thick clouds obscure the light from the stars. The air grows thick with humidity, and soon, showers begin to fall. Itā€™s gentle at first - a pleasant sound as the drops hit the earth and tap out patterns on the roofs.
This only lasts an hour or two before the heavens seem to open up, letting loose sheets of pounding rain that make it hard to see more than twenty feet ahead of you. The sound is immense and deafening, and you find yourself shouting over the noise as you scramble to make the last of your modifications, find your friends, and take shelter.
Within days, the water falling constantly off of the edges of the rooftops has begun to dig trenches in the soil, and the river swells and overtakes its own banks. Town becomes a moving stream of water that threatens to knock you over and take you with it, and entire sections of Beacon are cut off from each other as you find yourself unable to cross the former banks of the rivers even through flight. Torches get swept away, bridges collapse, and buildings begin to crumble.
Were you prepared?
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[ she goes first to demonstrate, marking the center square with an X. it's honestly kind of a dick move, but she's not about to go easy on someone just because it's their first time playing a game. ]
Your turn.
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So it's maybe a bit silly to be playing a game of Xs and Os but what the hell else are they going to do right now when trying to stay dry, and it's a good excuse to try and be a little social. He places an O in a corner.]
You're both from Earth, right?
[He glances toward Matt briefly just to confirm that yes, that's the other half of the "both" he's referring to. She keeps looking at him, and he's noticed.]
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speaking of which, he brings matthew up right after she's marked the left center square and her attention is pulled briefly back towards him when rosi glances his way. ]
Yes. [ she's aware she hasn't exactly been subtle, especially since he'd gotten hurt, but he's the first to call her out. she looks back up at him. ] What about you?
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[With a limited number of spaces left to play, he can see how this will go. Unless someone is extremely distracted, or has limited capacity to plan ahead, this game should end up in a tie most of the time. In this circumstance he has no choice but to place his O next to her short little line of two Xs. This gives him his own two in a row heading down the right side, but that leaves her only with one option of her own, and so on.
Probably someone could play the psychological angle of this game and try to keep their opponent so engaged in conversation they mistakenly place a mark in the wrong box, but he's just here to hang out and kill time, not to play mind games. He gets enough of that with Cao Pi.]
I hear a lot about Earth here, though. Most people here are from there. Big cities, lots of people, lots of cars, lots of land. Right?
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In some places. Lots of people is correct pretty much everywhere, though.
[ she's lived in a lot of different places, with varying amounts of privilege and status. cities were where she'd spent most of the latter half of her life, though, so if he's got more questions regarding those specifics she's willing to answer them. ]
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He is reading way too much into this simple game which tells him, as he places the last O in the row, that he'd better light another cigarette and chill out. He's thinking too hard about this and he can only guess it's because he feels so helpless to get out and make sure people are safe amidst all the flood.]
Am I supposed to say something when I win?
[He chuckles a little as he snuffs out the stub of the one cigarette and gets another going. He's running low. Soon as the rain stops, he'll have to go let Rastus know he's due for a reorder.]
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You draw a line through it, usually. [ she'll let him do the honors, he did win fair and square. ] Do you want to play again, or did you want to hear about some of the others?
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[He'll just continue his slow absorption of Earth culture. It's interesting enough and he still recognizes, even after so many months here, that it's an unusual situation he may as well take full advantage of. Since when does anyone else get to meet people from entire different worlds? Sure, he can't take any of this back, but he'll enjoy it for himself.]
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[ she flips to another blank page, considering for a moment. there's other games they can do with pens and paper than the ones she'd mentioned, but since he hadn't been familiar with any of them, she decides to go with another of those. this time she draws a stick figure version of a noose with nine dashes underneath. since he's not from earth, it might be presumptuous for her to assume he's familiar with the alphabet, but he does know english. ]
This one's called hangman. You say a letter and I either draw a part of the body or add it to the word to spell it out.
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[Language where he comes from is indeed a somewhat complicated thing, owing to the merging of languages and dialects from so many different islands. As such, most government branches, as well as most oceanwide newspapers, stick to the one official common language when written words are needed, made up of a simple alphabet as well as complex characters for some words and concepts. He's taking a guess here at her intent based on everyone else's usual preferred use of what he perceives as that same common alphabet, aside from a few like Cao Pi and Kuai Liang who use the complex words exclusively.
Thankfully, something about death and revival here means they all mostly understand each other. Most of the time.]
I assume I win if I get the word right. How do I lose?
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[ and he thought it was morbid before. ]
Yes, common letters. I add however many there are to the word as it's spelled out, so if you use C once, you don't use it again.
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[There's a sort of humor to it, though. Here's hoping the linguistics work out between their worlds, or that she'll be lenient and start drawing fingers and toes. Nine letters, huh? Well, start with the basics.]
E, then.
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Good start.
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Okay. I.
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Sure you've never played this before?
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[Or a basic understanding of common-language words and their need for vowels. Meanwhile, he's already trying to think of nine-letter words in the town around them in case she has been kind enough to pick something thematic.]
Never played a lot of word games like this. How about, mm, N.
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[ he really has, she's had no reason to draw so much as a circle for a head yet and she's not even trying to be thematic, just picked the first word that came to mind. an 'N' gets written in at the end. ]
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[Plenty of room to screw up once the obvious choices are eliminated. Looking at what exists now, I_N at the end of a word, not many letters can fit between there and make sense. He still has no clue as to what the overall word is, but the one letter in between might be an O. The one before the I might be a T. RATION, STATION, VACATION - it's a common suffix and if he's lucky there's another O or T elsewhere in the word.
He should make some cyphers for her to solve. Maybe she knows something about cryptography. That could be more of a challenge. It's true he's never played Hangman but he's had to write his share of coded letters.]
T?
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[Can he just say a whole word like that, or does he have to guess it letter by letter? He lifts his eyes from the paper to her face.
It's not a bad game, and she probably played it safe by picking a word that wasn't too obscure, to make sure he understood it. But he can see easily how to make this game much harder by choosing words intentionally with much less commonly-used letters. It's really just a decryption game, ultimately.]
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[ in fairness he'd pretty much spelled the whole word out by now. she hadn't been consciously playing it safe, but she'd tried to be mindful of the fact that he'd mentioned he wasn't from earth and may only be so familiar with the language. evidently she hadn't needed to be that cautious. ]
Do you want to pick a word now?
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[He thinks on it a moment before deciding on a word he knows they must both have in common. No mysterious cyphers or anything else yet, let's give this game another shot. He takes the pen and paper and draws five blank spaces.]
Go for it.
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S?
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[Draw the man's body, she had said, but he's no artist and has no example to go off of. He smiles over at her, just a bit apologetic for having to ask her how he's supposed to hang this poor fellow just because she got a letter wrong.]
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Start with the head. Depends on how detailed you feel like getting, but most just draw a circle.
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