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

*wasn't the type... stares at my fingers...

[arsarcanum]

Sora rolls his eyes very, very loudly. It's nice to know he can do that.

"I dunno. Sometimes I leave you for a day and you start barfing slime." It's as fond as it can get. Seriously, it was scary in the moment, but Sora's resilient enough to tease about it now. "You really have a way of getting yourself into things, y'know."

those damn betraying fingers

[fjorgedinfire]

"Bile is not slime, it's just. Disgusting." Especially when it tries coming out your nose. But that's not the point. "It's not like it's entirely my fault, anyway, I just happen to..." He lifts a hand and sort of waves it in a vague, wild manner. "Be there when things go wrong. I can't be expected to know if..." Another hand wave. "If every goddamn stained glass window I find turns out to be a secret portal, or something."

yeehaw!!

[arsarcanum]

Sora laughs. "Yeah, well." He stops before starting his next sentence, mouth wide open as he reconsiders, shakes his head. "Yeah," he repeats, commiserating instead of teasing. "Yeah. That's how it works."

The odds go up considerably if you're the type to keep throwing yourself at the problem, and Sora knows this because he knows he's the type who does the same thing. He's... not really sure if he wants to broach that with Fjord, but it feels like it's a conversation that's just at the horizon. Waiting to arrive too close, too quickly.

"I dunno if I've heard this story yet. Is this another rib thing?" Apparently, they're going to save that conversation for later.

[fjorgedinfire]

"Amazingly, no," he says flatly, giving Sora a dry look, with just enough pause to make him wonder where he's genuinely offended, before he continues normally. "Me and my friends were exploring this... we called it the Happy Fun Ball of Tricks, a stowaway on the Balleater had brought it on with her." He lifts a hand, palm up, and a smooth golden sphere covered in rings and buttons, about six inches across. "When we got the correct sequence of buttons and shit lined up, it teleported us into this wizard's castle in a different dimension. We found a library there, with this stained glass window showing all the different planes of existence." He grimaces as he lowers his hand. "So I touched part of it, and got fuckin' teleported into this blue dragon's lair."

[arsarcanum]

Sora is going to make an equally sour face and nudge Fjord with his elbow sometime into that stare - c'mon, he's sensitive!! But he's happy to listen to the story, wonders who the Balleater was as Fjord extends his hand to him, the sphere in hand.

And as he listens to the explanation, he goes quiet, and comes to a halt - an entirely involuntary one, as it turns out. Fjord may quickly find that he's left Sora a few steps behind as he stares into space, face blank and eyes unfocused.

It passes, of course, and Sora shakes his head, catching up to Fjord. Memories. That was a weird one. "Sorry, uh. There was a window, right." Apparently he'd missed some things in the middle, but Sora's pretty used to that at this point. "You know, I'd ask you why you did that, but I'd probably do the same thing."

[fjorgedinfire]

When Sora stops, Fjord indeed does not immediately notice; but he pauses when he does, and when Sora comes back up to his side he stays paused, giving his young friend a concerned look.

"And a dragon, yeah." Glossed over so he can ask immediately after, "You alright? You kind of vanished on me for a second there."

[arsarcanum]

Huh... now that he thinks about it, this is the first time Fjord's actually seen an echo? That probably merits some explanation.

"You know how I have, uh, some memory stuff going on?" Sora nods. It's likely come up on one of their patrols together, but it's equally likely that Sora's glossed over it in favor of talking about something more current or interesting. He points at his temple. "When I see something that's kind of close to what, um, happened to me before, sometimes I get a memory back." He shakes his head. "I freeze up when it happens. Kinda inconvenient."

Inconvenient is putting it lightly, especially since it's made some things worse for him in life or death situations... but he still hasn't died, so he's not going to think too hard about it!

[fjorgedinfire]

"...alright..." He. Supposed that made a kind of sense? "What... made you remember something just then, the windows?" He didn't seem to have heard anything past it, so it made sense...