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Save Our Earth Mods ([personal profile] ourearth) wrote in [community profile] saveourearth2019-01-20 05:30 pm

We shall rebuild [mingle]

Date: 2/1/19
Characters: Open


With the festive season well and truly over, and most wallets smarting from the festivities, Mossgate has, as usual, been extremely quiet through January. The last of the sales are still lingering in the stores, hoping to entice any shoppers who aren't desperately holding out for that first January pay day at the end of the month, and the seafront is empty of all but the hardiest dog walkers, wrapped up against the cold winter winds. At least the evenings are finally starting to ever so slowly get a little bit lighter, but that's small compensation for the otherwise grey and dull month.

It seems as though it will drag on this way all the way through to February, but on the afternoon of the 20th Mossgate is shaken awake. Literally. A 4.5 magnitude earthquake hits the town just after 3:15PM, with the epicentre located at the mouth of the Moss River. The shaking lasts for a couple of seconds, and sends a couple of chimney stacks flying, but there's very little real damage done around town. As earthquakes are extremely rare in the UK, most people are unsure what is happening, and most report it to the media as assuming that a bomb had gone off, or a lorry gone past, or something similar.

Almost immediately the internet lights up with the usual British response to such events, and it's headline news on the local papers and TV for the next few days. Initially they cover the event and the clean up, and then the social media response to it.

However, those who have numbers will not just be subjected to the initial scare and then the following ridicule. As the shaking fades, an unsettled feeling starts to rise; subtly at first, but increasing as the days go by. They are left feeling anxious and uneasy, but also curious and excited. In particular, they will find themselves drawn to the earthquake and the information about it, perhaps checking the news or social media about it more than they usually would, or easier to draw into conversations about it. Whatever they can find just doesn't seem to be enough, and they're drawn to discuss it and the other unusual events (such as the appearance of the poppies in November, or the strange gifts over Christmas) of late more, and to find out more about them. It can be ignored, but as any niggling annoyance it won't disappear if it is.
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Sunday Evening

[personal profile] twirighted 2019-02-01 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Seth is out shopping, too, looking for a care package for his daughter. Because why not. Just random things he thinks she might like. So it's by mistake he almost runs into someone, paying more attention to looking over his haul than anything else.

"Gack! S-Sorry for almost running into you! Uh... ...I'm really out of it lately..."
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Sorry for such a long delay!

[personal profile] warped_replica 2019-02-07 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
One hand raised instinctively as Benjiro notices the man walking on a path to collide, he sidesteps with a fluid motion to avoid as the other takes notice of his presence and stops. Although not fully visible behind his facemask, the teenager smiles at the apology, “It’s okay. I’ve been pretty distracted myself today.” He shrugs, one arm occupied with a small shopping bag of items his great aunt had requested he pick up before heading back to the house.

Benjiro does take a second to glance and make sure neither of them dropped anything in the sudden stop.
Edited (OTL Fixed; thank you so much!) 2019-02-11 17:42 (UTC)
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[personal profile] twirighted 2019-02-11 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Seems everyone's been distracted... Can't blame them, given what's happened."

His poor dolls... But right now, his daughter is more important. Luckily, Seth hasn't dropped anything.
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[personal profile] warped_replica 2019-02-11 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
“Not at all. I don’t think many people here have ever experienced an earthquake before. It’s rather peculiar,” he says in agreement. Benjiro himself has experienced them a number of times, yet he still has a nervous edge clinging even after he took the time to meet with Walter and check on Sadie.

Which may be why he isn’t already moving away. He wants to talk about it, even with a stranger.
Edited 2019-02-11 17:55 (UTC)