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

[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.