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

[ultraviolents]

[ she's somewhat experienced with ciphers, usually in other languages, but she'd picked a standard word in english because it was the first one that came to mind. he's somewhat correct about there being a 'T' in the word (three, actually). after she's made another few marks, the word now reads _TTENTI_N. (and it always did no matter what i wrote before.) ]

[callada]

Attention?

[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.]

[ultraviolents]

Well done.

[ 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?

[callada]

Yeah, all right.

[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.

[ultraviolents]

[ they can graduate to that eventually, they've got nothing but time here. elektra considers for a few moments, then decides on a letter that hadn't been used in the previous word. ]

S?

[callada]

No. Hmm, what - how do I start this off?

[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.]

[ultraviolents]

[ she smiles back, even in spite of getting her guess wrong. ]

Start with the head. Depends on how detailed you feel like getting, but most just draw a circle.

[callada]

A circle, I can do.

[And a circle she shall have, right below the arm of the stick-figure gallows.]

Drawn my share of maps, but I can't make that claim about people.

[ultraviolents]

As part of your work, or were you especially interested in cartography?

[ she adjusts her seated position, pulling her knees up and crossing her arms over them, giving a quick glance over at matthew. ]

A?

[callada]

No A.

[But here, have a neck and shoulders added below the circle.]

And no, I'm no cartographer. But I had to sketch out diagrams of buildings and islands for work sometimes. Nothing complicated. The real cartographers would come in later if they needed to do an actual accurate map of some place I'd scouted out.