EVENT LOG: BOTTOM OF THE RIVER

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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

[scarsolderthanyou]

I'm glad, too. I'm not interested in dying again today. Too much work to do.

Both. Or I guess it's all the same river, pretty much.

[callada]

Suppose that's true. I wonder what's causing it. You didn't hear any singing, did you?

[scarsolderthanyou]

No. It wasn't even like I missed a wing-beat, I just was suddenly further back than when I started.

[He makes a rumbling noise, sounding tired.]

I remember a magic trap like that once. We spent hours walking the same hallway, and thought it wasn't more than a few minutes. It might be something like that.

[callada]

Huh. All right, so those of us at The Invincible, we're cut off from people in the village. Hope it doesn't last too long, I don't know how well stocked they are over there.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Did anyone empty out all the food from the houses? If not, they should be fine. There's a lot of houses over there.

You at the Invincible are doing all right, yeah?

[callada]

I don't know. I'm guessing most people came to The Invincible and the Landmark, because I've had a hard time getting hold of anyone in the village. But you're right, there's probably enough food if they can get to it.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Well that's not worrying at all. It's not like the tablets don't work still. Who all have we heard from?

[callada]

Quite a few people. I don't have a full list. I'm more concerned about the ones I haven't heard from, regardless of location. I'm not getting a response from Xayah, Daylight, Riku, Maes, Ambrose, or Ignis - or Robin or Rastus.

[scarsolderthanyou]

[That's a lot of names.]

Rrr.

[Yes, that was a vocalized growl. Sorry, Rosi.]

I'll see if I can find any of them over on this side of the river. Next time I'm good to shift again. It's going to be a few hours, but then I can go out again.

[callada]

Thanks for the help, and good luck.