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

[catholicisms]

( matt... is blind. he can't see. but if he would, he'd question this teen wandering around in a silk negligee. where did she even get that. as it is, he isn't questioning. his super senses are a bit on the fritz with the concussion he's sporting, too, and that's fine, because i don't need a grown ass man out here sensing a teen in a negligee.

as far as pacifiers go, he sighs. )

I can't say I've seen one around.

( there's absolutely no humor to this blind joke at his own expense. he's tired of the crying too, Cheryl, but there's sadly not that much he can do about it, other than weather the metaphorical storm. )

[sweetwater]

[ Cheryl sighs, and it's mostly because Matt clearly has no idea how to take care of a baby. why did no one teach him anything? ]

At home I take care of my niece and nephew, Juniper and Dagwood. [ she manages to not mention it's because Jason, her brother, who used to to be alive is now dead and can't take care of the babies because he is dead.

did you know her brother Jason is dead? ]

They're good babies. [ it's said rather pointedly, like someone here who is crying non-stop is not being a good baby. ] But - Juniper used to cry like that when she had colic. Maybe it's sick.

[catholicisms]

( despite the fact matt's name is Matthew Michael Murdock, he still thinks Juniper and Dagwood are some pretty ridiculous names. what on earth did those babies do to deserve that...

anyway, the idea the tree spirit is sick isn't completely a strange conclusion, though, at the same time he's pretty confident it isn't. ) It's never been sick before. It doesn't do well when it's scared, and I can't say I blame it for being scared. ( all of them are scared, in their own way. it's just that most of them have some sort of way to manage that anxiety. treeby... not so much.

that said, if he's around a baby expert, then perhaps Cheryl can help him find something to distract the poor thing. ) Besides a pacifier, what else is a good baby distraction? ( because Cheryl does have a point that holding it as it cries is not exactly a great solution. )