Event Log: The Beach Episode

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone!
What: The event log for the transition to our new planet!
Where: The city, which has now been fragmented onto four separate islands.
When: May 27th-June 10th
Warnings: Surf's up! If by 'surf', you mean separation from your friends, weird sea creatures, and cold rainfall.

The sun and the sand and a drink in your hand- well, it all sounded pretty nice when you voted for the island planet, but ultimately what you're getting is a bit less glamorous.

The transition takes place instantaneously, with very little noteworthy shakeup, though those of you who are particularly in-tune with the supernatural may feel a bit dizzied or nauseated by the sudden movement. And that's exactly what it is: for those of you who are outside, the change is fairly noticeable, as in the span of a single blink, what used to be miles of desert is now rocky ocean. The city is simply in one place one moment, and then somewhere entirely new a second later.

And that somewhere new is exciting! The islands have plenty of landscape to explore and weather conditions to adjust to, fish to catch, and- wait, how do you get to the other islands? What if your friends or your home or the bar is on these other islands? Enjoy having to figure out who is where and how you're going to get by with only a small fraction of the city to work off of- hopefully those boats will come sooner rather than later...

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Comments

[abyssalarcana]

['Bible' she recognizes as a word for book, but the rest is new to her. Local mythology. She wonders what happened to that god, then - did it stop because it changed how it interacted, or was it killed? Who knows.]

They're just people. Some other race than human, and capable of some powerful magic, but there are people here too who are likely just as strong. We just don't have control of the Door, and they do.

[myrealname]

[she wouldn't know. she knows the basic Bible stories, Adam and Eve, Noah's Arc, David and Goliath, and of course Jesus. but she wasn't raised with religion and it seemed strange to pick it up later in life]

What about what they just did? Taking my foot and things like that.

[abyssalarcana]

It's still not beyond the capabilities of several here. I can enter - and alter - a person's dreams. There's an elf lich here who - well, to become a lich in the first place, she likely knows magic that makes her nearly godlike herself. And there are plenty of others here - wizards, but also others with unusual innate powers.

[Caedra shrugs.]

It isn't that these things are common, but that they exist. Magical ability does not make someone divine. I certainly don't claim myself to be a god.

[myrealname]

[she takes a moment to process this]

...those lying sacks of shit. Where do they get off, taking stuff from people to what? Fuck with their heads?

[Jane lies like breathing, but she hates being lied to]

[abyssalarcana]

The common argument here is that those creatures feed off emotion. So they manipulate us to force us to react, and that gives them energy to then do other things. Those names they have us call them by aren't just cute nicknames, but their source of food.

[Yes, it's very annoying, Caedra agrees, but she doesn't and has never reacted in quite so strong a way. Feeding off of fear, or sorrow, or anger are quite common among some of her own people.]