EVENT LOG: BOTTOM OF THE RIVER

[nextnightmods]

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 isn’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. It’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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Comments

[sunsbreath]

Then why give it? Boredom?

[ ... Oh, dangerous territory. Ephrim's just used to making polite conversation, okay, and he's got little to do himself. ]

[unwieldy]

[ This guy is giving off some familiar vibes...!! ]

maybe. not like i have anything better to do during this storm.

[sunsbreath]

[ Can they accidentally avoid mentioning who they are for one whole exchange? A mystery! ]

Reasonable enough. I would do the same, had I not a charge determined to drown themselves.

[unwieldy]

well you don't really have anyone but yourself to blame for that one.

[ And here's some more helpful advice! ]

maybe it'll throw itself into the water and take you with it.
that'd be a good lesson.

[sunsbreath]

[ ]

What, drowning? Death has taught me little so far. I'd imagine another would do little to change me, unless there is a lesson here that I've failed to grasp.

[unwieldy]

[ Please stop summarizing Haein in just one meme. ]

the lesson here is that you should be looking out for yourself.

[sunsbreath]

[ Only as soon! As Haein stops being a meme! ]

Am I not?

[unwieldy]

you're looking after an animal that has no idea what you're doing.

[sunsbreath]

I am aware of this. Did I need its gratitude for something?

[unwieldy]

it wouldn't be worth saving even then.

[sunsbreath]

Must it be of some pragmatic use for it be of worth?

[unwieldy]

yes. how else would it be worth something?

[sunsbreath]

[ A very long pause before the next message. ]

If you do not understand the concept of intrinsic value, we have nothing further to discuss.

[ Plus, Ephrim doesn't quite believe in the concept of intrinsic value himself, so he'd rather not give a sermon on it, thanks. ]

[unwieldy]

fine with me.

[ Weirdo!! ]