[Day 225] [EVENT] A sinking feeling

[bastionmods]

Who: Anyone and everyone
Open: Open
When: Early morning on Day 225
Where: Everywhere in the Bastion
What: Remember how cores used to be a thing? Yeah, they're still important.
Format: any
Warnings: terrible modpuns

[Early in the morning on Day 225, most people are probably asleep. For the couple of stragglers who may still be awake so late, though, they may notice something strange. At 2:31 am, any lights that are on start to hum, and flicker in and out of dimness.

At 2:32 am, every light in the Bastion (excluding the emergency lights) shuts off entirely.

At 2:33 am, a horrible grinding noise can be heard throughout the Bastion, seemingly coming from everywhere at once. This sound continues on for several minutes, throughout everything else that begins to happen.

At 2:34 am, for anyone outside Nathaniel can be seen running from the Apartments towards the Monument as if his life depended on it.

At 2:35 am, ever so slowly, sections of the Bastion begin to sink.

What do you do?]

Comments

[four_quarts]

[As it turns out, Anya isn't the only one who has more important things to do than be bothered with clothes. Like helping out with protective spells, and seeing how long it takes for someone to tell him to put some pants on.]

Anything I can do to assist?

[dontyoujustwish]

[Oh, hello. Anya gives him a once-over before answering.]

Maybe. Have you ever done magic as part of a circle?

[four_quarts]

Ages ago, but I'm rather good at learning on the fly.

[Beauty, brains, and not the slightest hint of modesty.]

[dontyoujustwish]

[It's like looking into a mirror. Figuratively speaking. She doesn't have that weird face thing going on.]

We'll give it a try. If you've done it before, it won't be difficult to remember how. It's just that half the people here use magic that follows different rules, and the other half have never heard of it.

[four_quarts]

[If he has his way, he's going to exploit the way shards can buy pretty much anything to take care of that.

He shrugs lightly.]

The mechanisms of control may differ, but as far as I've seen, the magic itself is largely the same.

[But then, this is also coming from someone who had no idea that magic is not something the other races of Lunar can use instinctively until he was seventeen. Does that effect his accuracy now? That's a good question.]

[dontyoujustwish]

[He's going to buy half a face? Really?]

Maybe you're right, but some of the spells people here can cast without incantations would be the mark of high level witches or warlocks in my universe. So either the rules are different in theirs or we have an alarming number of people capable of destroying what's left of the world.

[four_quarts]

[Of course. Why should he leave his face in its current condition when he can have the entirety of it be his face?]

I suppose it could be a matter of natural affinity. As I have mentioned, only the most powerful of Lunar's magic users were able to to cast without incantations. The only exceptions to this rule are my people, who have no need of incantations no matter our level of skill. ...I cannot deny that in my case at least, I could destroy the remains of the world if I were idiotic enough to desire it.

[He's mentioned this once before, hasn't he?]

[dontyoujustwish]

Considering you tried to kill a goddess and take her place, I pretty much figured you could.

[Not that she looks the least bit concerned about this.]