[Mingle] Don't walk across a graveyard at night (you'll trip and fall)

[ourearth]

Date: 18.9.19
Characters: OPEN

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The local radio station is the first to spread it widely, but of course the news have already made the rounds around Moss Manor itself by the time they become official. Village gossip and all that.

And quite some news they are: The graveyard has been closed! Fences and tape have gone up, and if you stand on tiptoes and know where to stand and where to look, you can see the most visible reason for why that is: A sinkhole has opened near the centre of the graveyard, taking down two graves with a third tombstone balancing precariously at the rim of the sunk area. Luckily it hit the more historic part of the graveyard that has no recent burials in it, so it will be less emotionally impactful than what happened at Halloween last year, but it is still a dangerous development and has the vicar in a very unhappy situation.

Partly because there's press in the house yet again.

Press that is also bouncing around the whole Mossgate area trying to interview people in hopes of finding someone who will be hysteric about the situation. Or at least dramatically worried.

Most of Moss Manor's residents are unhelpfully calm, at least towards outsiders... but many are secretly treading very carefully and eyeing the ground closely wherever they walk. What, after all, if more sinkholes show up?

Comments

[scarsolderthanyou]

Sam eyes the reporter a moment, as if trying to decide if it's worth it to bite his head off. "My wife is in this graveyard. Of course I'm upset."

[saveournpcs]

"Oh, that is terrible," the reporter says, while the assistant happily holds his microphone so it catches both their words. "Was your wife's grave hit by the sinkhole?"

[scarsolderthanyou]

"If it was, do you think I'd just be standing here glaring?" Sam snorts. "I'd be making a fuss and yelling at people until somebody got her out of there and somewhere safer." He might be considering relocating the grave, at this point, anyway.... "But it's bad enough that anyone's grave was hit."

[saveournpcs]

The reporter nods. "True, true. Are you worried that your wife's grave will be hit soon then? More sinkholes may open up if there's one already or it could widen, I would reckon..."

[scarsolderthanyou]

"Of course I'm worried. It's a goddamned sinkhole, who knows what it's going to do." He eyes the reporter narrowly. "You people consulted any actual experts on sinkholes yet?"