[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

[coffeewithmysugar]

That's bound to be an interesting discussion.

[One she intends to be around for, even if she doesn't think she'll have much to contribute. Edea shifts her weight from foot to foot a few times before she asks.]

So how long have you been here?

[croceamors]

It's been a few months now, but that's hardly the longest.

[coffeewithmysugar]

I'd say any amount of time here is too long.

[Boy, Edea sure is still bitter about being the only one of her world here. Between her tone and the way she's crossing her arms you'd have to be oblivious not to notice.]

[croceamors]

I'd rather be here than be dead.

[It's stated bluntly, without much sympathy. Then again... That tends to be a weakpoint of his.]

[coffeewithmysugar]

Call me foolish but I'm having a hard time believing that anybody who isn't here is dead.

[croceamors]

Very well. You're foolish.

Haven't you seen the ash statues?

[coffeewithmysugar]

Only a few. And I still don't see how that's proof.

[This is one of the few things she will be stubbornly optimistic about. Her friends are not dead. End of discussion.]

[croceamors]

They're effectively corpses. Of course, if denial is what gets you through all of this, then you can stay that way if you like. It's just not going to help you in the long run.

[coffeewithmysugar]

It won't change any of my actions or my decisions, so I don't see how it'll hurt either.

[croceamors]

It'll hurt more when you actually accept what's happened.