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Save Our Earth NPCs ([personal profile] saveournpcs) wrote in [community profile] saveourearth2020-04-25 07:35 am

Thanks, Ben [Mingle]

Date: 4th of January 20, 3 hours after everyone came out of the cavesCharacters: OPEN


Three hours after everyone came out of the caves, an earthquake of the magnitude 5.7 shakes the echo boundary.

Up on the ruins, a single block from one of the lower walls gets dislocated and falls.

Down in the city and villages, things go a bit worse. A couple of sheds collapse, things fall over and off things, and some houses are left with cracks in their walls and might end up condemned. A number of telegraph poles fall over and a few on cars. There's three injured and no fatalities over all, and a few related car accidents because people got distracted that again go without fatalities.

...And, of course, the Media are back. The next day, the Sun titles "IS THERE A NEW CRACK IN THE EARTH'S CRUST??? Another earthquake strikes Mossgate 4 houses condemned, 10 admitted to hospital, powerlines down", but newspapers with more journalistic integrity send reporters as well.

Someone else is back, too - Numbered will see Mr Neutral, Mr Evil and Mr Helpful wander the streets.
spaghettimonster: (HUMAN: YORICK)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2020-05-09 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Russell nods, with a pensive glance toward the river. "We're sure it caused the earthquake, but the rest of it... The mice and the echoes, they're linked somehow. The giant mouse itself, it might just be another creature caught up in everything, changed to be... massive. It's hard to say." He bites his lip for a second, then grabs his mobile and unlocks the screen.

"There was cave art down there, I took a few photos... Here." The screen's on a mundane photo of the three mostly humanoid figures around the giant mouse, the handprints of varying shape.
spaghettimonster: (RUSSELL 3)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2020-05-17 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"'Proof?'" Russell echoes, squinting at him. "I don't... that's not what I was looking for. But I suppose, when Benjiro, uh, touched it, he got an echo from it. And not an echo about a giant mouse."

There's the mix of avoiding admitting the context in which Benjiro was climbing on it for hours, the confusion of his imperfect recall of details of whether it was the ordinary sort of echo or something different, and so on.