EVENT INFO: BOTTOM OF THE RIVER

[nextnightmods]

EVENT INFO: BOTTOM OF THE RIVER

the basics

Rain falls. It falls, and falls, and falls some more, covering Beacon in dark, rushing water. Cut off from your friends, what will you protect - and how will you do it?

the details

As covered in the April monthly roundup, the flooding is intense and catastrophic and will last the entire remainder of the month. The event will be slightly backdated so as to give characters from April 15th-17th to prepare for a rainstorm they were alerted to thanks to the weather station - however, there is no clear indication of how long the rain will last or how intense it will be.

On April 19-30, the rains pour down, dividing Beacon into three sections with the rivers as hard boundaries. Whichever side of the river you're on when the rain starts, that's where you stay for the remainder of the event - even if you can fly or teleport. Strange! All existing bridges will be washed downriver, along with pretty much anything not completely bolted down - and even then, the powerful floodwaters might rip the bolts out, too.

Two signup headers are available below: DEFENSE and INJURY. Under DEFENSE, please suggest a building or location your character is going to try and prepare for the flood, and please feel free to elaborate on what they will be doing! If your character is going to help defend a location already suggested by another player, feel free to add a +1 under their header with whatever additional details you would like to add. Remember the more characters at a location, the more likely is it to survive with minimal damage. Some locations will not survive the torrent. Please submit DEFENSE comments by 11:59 PDT (GMT -7) April 24 if possible as these will inform what happens in May game events.

Under INJURY, sign up to volunteer your character for a good ol' Beacon bone-bashing. Severity of injuries will be RNGed and some characters may escape entirely unscathed. If there are any hard limits or squicks feel free to let us know and we will avoid those sorts of injuries for your character entirely. Death is currently NOT a risk. You'll see why later. Feel free to submit INJURY comments through the end of the event. We will try to get to these as soon as we can so you can use them in threads if you like - completely optional!

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Additionally, players are welcome to use this post for OOC event plotting! In fact, please do, as not everyone in the game has access to each other's plurks! If you'd like, you can use the small form below to kickstart your plotting plans:

<b>player:</b> (feel free to put your contact info here if you like!) <b>character(s):</b> <b>plans:</b> (have any plans already? or do you have plans you'd like to make? let the world know!) <b>notes:</b> (anything else worth mentioning, like permissions/opt-outs/hiatuses/etc.?)

the tl;dr

• April 15: Weatherproofing begins. Patch the roof, and maybe move some torches!


• April 18-30: The flood commences. What will survive the deluge?

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Comments

INJURY

[nextnightmods]

[catholicisms]

he got out too easy last event, so FRESH MEAT HERE

one thing i'd like to avoid is something sensory being removed, or at least completely!! he struggles enough without losing another.

[ultraviolents]

babe no ;-;

[nextnightmods]

Matt senses the rush of water immediately, as the river surges past its banks and sends a cold, rippling wave of debris toward the church just as he's trying to help keep it from collapsing under the onslaught of rain and wind. But as strong and fast as he is, the surge is faster, and its chaos is hard to predict. He braces against the current, leaps over a branch hurtling toward him, but is caught by a mess of logs and rope - the remnants of one of Beacon's bridges, now demolished by the flood. It bowls him over and tangles him in its grasp, and drags him down into its churning darkness.

But he manages to fight for air - and succeeds, only to be slammed forcefully into the foundation of one of Beacon's old ruined buildings, never fully rebuilt by the current residents. The waters diverge and leave him here, wrapped in rope on the stone floor with a concussion that will be hard to shake for a while.

[arsarcanum]

YEEHAW

i keep wondering where i should put the boundary and i think like permanent amputation of a whole ass limb is going to be the limit?? but like, yes, please, he is at your mercy

[bunny_suit]

Oh no.... Stay safe, key friend :<

I say that as I plan to have her unjured somehow too

[nextnightmods]

There are quite a few close calls as Sora throws himself into the protection of the village, which is lacking hands and leaves him with plenty to do. In his attempts to protect the Library and the Librarian, he will find the waters starting to creep into the building and as he helps to shepherd the Librarian to higher ground, using a bookcase to try and make it to higher ground. While he is able to get them to safety, the bookcase will creak and collapse as the water softens the old glue that was holding it together. Sora will fall with a splash and land hard, bruising a couple ribs as he tumbles into the water.

However, the Librarian will reach out to offer him a hand to the (relative) safety of the upstairs, and in their appreciation for his valiant rescue, will offer one of the many dusty, ragged veils they wear to help dry him and keep him warm until he's ready to face the elements again. It is admittedly thin fabric and there might be a few holes in it, but sometimes it is the thought that counts.

[bunny_suit]

She has yet to be injured so bring it on. I only ask that she doesn't get any broken bones or die during it. I'd like to avoid the same injuries she had upon coming to Beacon, but everything else is fair game. She'll be doing her best to help everyone else.

Oh and I'd prefer not to have limbs taken off as well.

[nextnightmods]

In her attempts to protect the Landmark Inn, Hana will be swept away by a current as water levels rise suddenly around its exterior and rush through the area with surprising speed. The blank water will carry her a short distance from the Landmark, resulting in the most terrifying slip-and-slide of her life as she watches the windows whip past her, trying desperately to find purchase on something, anything, and to keep her head above water. As the wicked current sneaks past a long-since dead streetlight, Hana will be able to catch it and cling on for dear life, though the impact will leave her with multiple broken ribs.

[fjorgedinfire]

Fjord is not allowed to escape unscathed it's illegal just avoid the ribs or everyone will be mad including him, NO LIMITS

[nextnightmods]

The devastating dark waters are less trouble for Fjord than most here. He knows his way through a storm, after all - so what's a little rain? If the river surges over its banks, as it looks likely to do soon, and sends a torrent of mud his way, he can simply divert its course. Surely, his confidence has been earned as he pushes through the driving rain toward the church with shovel and homemade sandbags in hand.

Beneath him, the ground starts to subside.

The saturated ground sinks downward rapidly, turning from old sandbar to new quicksand as the section of old underground tunnels linking the church to other areas of Beacon begins to cave in, and Fjord is immediately drawn into a rushing vortex of mud, tree limbs, and gravel. It's only by his honed survival skills that he manages to claw his way onto a more solid piece of ground, but the struggle leaves him breathless. A sudden roar of water comes from all sides as the river finally spills over its banks and an entire tree trunk comes rushing at him. It smacks him right across the jaw and sends him spinning into freely-moving water, which washes him up against Dr. Lutece's lab, leaving him alive but with a serious concussion.

[flangirl]

oh boy

detailed limits are in my permissions but tl;dr no permanent eye damage or blinding, no permanent damage to manual dexterity. (injuries to her hands are fine as long as she retains full range of motion when she heals)

[nextnightmods]

They're running out of time.

A lot of people have dedicated themselves to moving food, supplies, torches, even the entire jukebox up The Invincible's stairs and there's always more to do. But the rain has been pouring down steadily outside, the trenches around the building are nearly full, and people who have ventured out farther say the river is threatening to spill over the center of town any moment.

Nearly finished, Pudding is downstairs packaging up some of the food when the whole building shudders and shakes, then groans as the walls begin to warp. Finally, the front door buckles as the latch breaks, and a wave of water pushes into the building, sending chairs and a table slamming straight into Pudding and knocking her against the bar.

For a terrifying moment, she's submerged in muddy, silt-laden, relentless water that pins her to the bar and bashes furniture and debris against her until someone else in the tavern drags her out and up the stairs. The armful of supplies are soaked and scattered across the floor and the roaring of the water in Pudding's ears takes longer to subside than she expected once she's back on her feet. In fact, due to the massive pressure of the pounding water and the scrape of sand and splinters, Pudding will lose her hearing in one ear for at least two weeks, with it gradually returning afterward. All she will hear in that ear for those two weeks is the churning roar of floodwater and a distant soft song that seems as if it's always just a little too far away to fully hear.

[mindofathief]

Volunteering Duster to get hurt while doing stuff!

[nextnightmods]

While making sure the plants in the greenhouse remain as undisturbed as possible from the elements outside, Duster will notice a crack in one of the lower windows, slowly beginning to splinter as the water level outside begins to rise and letting water seep in. In attempts to both keep the water outside and keep the crack from expanding, he will attempt to create a seal over the damaged glass, but just before the seal is secured the window will shatter, letting the flood inside.

Fortunately he is able to get out of the way in time to avoid getting severely cut up by the glass; unfortunately he will get caught up in the force of the water as it knocks him off his feet. He will fumble backwards before fully losing his footing and landing hard on his side on the ground, resulting in a broken arm.

[moderatelymaladjusted]

HURT ME!

Ahem, seriously though, Quentin volunteers as a tribute. Hurt him, maim him, claw half his face off- it's all good. At least with only half a face, there's going to be less tentacles.

[nextnightmods]

While out trying to fight back the rain and wind to protect the bonfire, Quentin hears something ominous. Off in the distance, distorted through the whipping wind and rain, floats a jaunty tune.

Being that Quentin is well-versed in the ways of Beacon, he immediately does an about-face and sprints back through the shallow floodwaters before the jolly musicians can see him, or before he can become compelled to join them. He flees at top speed, trips and tumbles, and makes it back to safety with a sprained ankle but with his life - and skin - intact.

[rereremembered]

He's a magnet for bodily harm in canon, so yeah.

Hard no: permanent damage to his hands. Gotta be able to play that guitar he still needs to acquire. otherwise go ham

[nextnightmods]

As Fitz works on tirelessly relocating records from Town Hall, he will be eerily aware of the river at his back. Even before the rain starts, the sound of water churning and racing almost seems to follow him along to the safe place he's decided on for the records. As he continues to work, the rains start and fall on him in stinging, biting waves, leaving him drenched to the bone and eyes stinging.

Even after he's saved as many records as he can, he'll start to notice the sound of the river hasn't gone away. At first it seemed normal, he was out in the torrent so long that he didn't realize how it chased him. And now it just won't leave , echoing in one ear constantly like he's walking the treacherous path beside the riverbank. The storm will not fade, no matter how far from the river he gets. Waking and sleeping, it will be an angry reminder until the rains finally start to slow and the flood is over, when his hearing will finally return to normal.

[sweetwater]

One dumb teenager reporting for a dumb injury

[nextnightmods]

At some point during the storm, Cheryl is going to head down the stairs of the Invincible after thinking she’s heard someone pounding at the door trying to get in. As it turns out, there's nobody there and the sound she'd heard was in fact the rain doing a decent imitaton of someone knocking urgently. Annoyed, Cheryl will start to head back to where everyone has gathered upstairs to wait out the storm and will trip over her own two feet on her way up, bracing herself with her hands and skinning her palms on the stairs.

[unwieldy]

pounds fist on table

TEETH TEETH TEETH

[nextnightmods]

Sometime in the second week, when the Landmark seems to have held stable against the wind and rain and the terrible flood of riverwater, Haein comes downstairs to the lobby and, from the foot of the stairs, hears a chorus of wild yelps and hoot-chirps just outside. One of the front doors has been left wide open to the deluge, and the ground floor is covered in about three inches of muddy water which surges and laps back and forth as it seeks corners to fill. The spirits, meanwhile, are fixated on the fountain just outside in the courtyard. They leap up and down on its stone rim as they watch its empty opening. As they catch sight of Haein's lantern, several turn to face him and screech, waving their arms madly in warning.

At that moment, the flood sucks back out of the room, down into the fountain.

Two of the larger spirits come galloping toward Haein and seconds behind them the fountain, never functional on a normal day, belches forth a spray of opaque, muddy floodwater. It surges like a tidal wave after the fleeing spirits, who both grab Haein by the arms and jerk him up the stairs and away from the flood and the debris it brings as it rips the front doors from the hotel and sends them surfing stairward. Inches from being flattened against the railing by a heavy door, Haein instead is pulled to safety with merely a sprained wrist and pulled shoulder muscle while the two spirits hiss at the water as it drops back to its previous few inches in depth.

[sunsbreath]

PLEASE DON'T HURT THE DOG

otherwise have at! 8^) make him ephrim the armless fire mage, it'll be great

[nextnightmods]

The dog will remain unharmed! He'll be a good companion while in the junkyard, though a little anxious and excitable due to the storm. A little over halfway into it he will start barking at what turns out to be a rat spirit, looking for food and maybe to get out of the rain. The dog will start chasing it around in an effort to catch him, and to keep him from choking himself at the end of his chain, Ephrim will attempt to catch him. The dog doubles back when he spots the rat darting in another direction and Ephrim gets caught up in the chain, landing hard on a pile of junk which, unfortunately, contains a stray piece of metal that gives him a nasty gash on his arm.