Malirys rushes out from under the canopy into an open space. She casts gift of alacrity on herself to increase her reaction time, just in case she needs to act quickly.
She begins to look around to see if anyone is acting NOt like someone freaking out, but someone excepting this. Suspicion is her first instinct.
secondly she casts “matrix armor” mage armor on herself, worrying about physical issues, worries like it might be a tidal wave or a rock slide, and moves off the beach into the city, making sure to avoid being too close to building ls or overhangs, and avoiding the crush of large crowds.
The captain takes a second to take in everything that is happening. He waves Korgen to follow and gathers everyone together. "Excuse me everyone! It appears we might be going through a bit of an earthquake. We should be okay in the water so long..." And before he can finish the waves start to get larger and become rougher. "Everyone hold onto something!" The captain shouts out and he rushes over to the helm of the boat and grabs a hold of the wheel. ((Korgen and Auraani, please give me an athletics or acrobatics check.))
Ant rushes out into the middle of the street to see what is going on. He looks around to see people running and yelling but isn't sure himself if it is natural or something amiss. He hasn't experienced an earthquake since living in this town.
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Auraani's eyes grow wide as she takes in the ferocity of the earthquake and the resulting waves. Hearing the captain yell, she lurched towards one of the masts of the ship and grabs one of the ropes tied to it tightly.
As you both make your way around, avoiding people and falling debris from buildings, you feel the earth start to rumble even more now, causing parts of buildings to collapse. As you both look around, you don't seem to see anyone that appears to be acting suspiciously, however, over everyone, you hear. "RUN! THE WATER IS RISING!" and as you look in the direction the noise came from, you see that in fact, the water does appear to be taking over the land. "TO THE BRIDGE!" a man can be heard shouting, and with that, you, along with everyone who can begins to make their way to the bridge, crossing over as quickly as they can. You are both surrounded by various different people, however, you both are standing next to each other now. ((AKA: Ant and Malirys are standing next to each other is what I meant by that.))
As you look off at Palma, you can see people still stuck out in the waters off the beach, as if they are being sucked away by the tides. As you look closer however, you see what looks like fish-like humanoid looking people coming out of the water, grabbing those who were having trouble escaping, and dragging them back under. Some of those who were grabbed disappear, while others reappear, only to be dragged back under. Boats and ships can be seen sailing away in desperation while trying to fight off some of these creatures. Some people fall or get knocked off the bridge as they cross and are quickly overtaken by sharks. Some people feel the urge to help, but don't feel they are armed well enough to, so they stay back, looking to others around them to see if they are going to do anything.
Before you can act, you see off the shore of where you are, a fairly large boat, sounding off a loud horn as it get's as close as it can get without a dock. It appears to have people on it and you both recognize this as one of the ships that usually transports people to and from Palma Flora.
((Here is what Palma Flora looked like before the quake.))
Malirys rushes ahead, but worries for the tourists in the back of her mind. Her duty is not to these but more grand matters in the world at large, but if she can help a few without being noticed…
malirys casts [chronal web] (reflavored web) on a large collection of the sea creatures on the beach near the bridge as she runs, allowing a few extra tourists be out of their reach. But she continues onward without going to help, knowing some will not survive this moment of time. Sometimes the moment is bigger than any individual…
(In the chaos, only someone close to malirys would have seen her casting the spell, and only if they knew about magic anyway. She is good at hiding her motions from a lifetime of being a drow, as well as stealthy training, adding her line of work and experience on top of that) “another day in paradise” she mumbled under her breath as she continues onward to safety.
Ant decides staying on the bridge helping protect those that have made it this far is the better option than throwing himself against these fish creatures alone.
The captain takes a second to take in everything that is happening. He waves Korgen to follow and gathers everyone together. "Excuse me everyone! It appears we might be going through a bit of an earthquake. We should be okay in the water so long..." And before he can finish the waves start to get larger and become rougher. "Everyone hold onto something!" The captain shouts out and he rushes over to the helm of the boat and grabs a hold of the wheel. ((Korgen and Auraani, please give me an athletics or acrobatics check.))
As you both go to reach out to grab something solid as the boat tosses in the waves, Auraani get's thrown a little off balance. One of the passengers get's tosses overboard, and seeing Auraani start to lose their balance, Korgen reaches out to give Auraani a hand, bringing them to the side of the boat where they are and helping them remain on deck. After about 20 or 30 minutes of this, the boat begins to slow and one of the crew mates sounds a loud horn. The captain then points to the shore and shouts. "Palma Flora is sinking! There appears to be survivors on the shore over there. We need some volunteers to go out on our rafts to bring them to the boat. Any takers?"
For anyone that looks towards where Palma Flora should be, you'll see what looks like a group of people on one side of a bridge, and on the other side, where Palma Flora should be, is instead a slowly sinking island, which can be seen slowly getting more and more taken over with water. You can also see, from this distance, what looks like people running around on the island.
Auraani finally gets her feet steady under her and turns to the dwarf that gave her the helping hand, "Thank you so much, I thought I was ok but I lost my footing." She turns to the captain and volunteers to go out on the rafts. "Count me in, we need to help these poor people!"
You both, along with some of the crew mates, make your way onto some of the smaller lifeboats and begin to make your way over to the group of people gathered on the other side of the bridge. As you are sailing, a larger wave makes it's way to you and crashes down right next to you, causing your boats to rock. As you get within a hundred feet or so from the shore, you see sharks swimming in the water below you, as well as fish-like humanoid creatures running around on the island.
Ant & Malirys;
As you look over to the ship, you start to see what looks like smaller boats being lowered down into the water, but as this is happening, the ground begins to rumble again, causing the island to sink a little more and this time, breaking the bridge that was connecting you to Palma Flora.
Everyone;
After about 20 minutes, the lifeboats finally make their way to the shore behind the group. The a handful of people, clearly dressed as crew begin to make their way off, as well as 2, not clearly dressed as crew, a Dwarf and a Human (Korgen and Auraani). The crew makes their way to the group of survivors and begins to herd them to the lifeboats, sending off boats when they get full. "Over here! To the boats! Hurry!" can be heard from various different crew mates.
((Korgen, Auraani, Ant and Malirys. Feel free to describe what your characters would do while people are being ushered away, as well as introduce yourselves to each other if you meet up.))
EDIT: The entire island is under water by the time the lifeboats make it to the shore.
Malirys watches each new face for signs they knew that this would happen. Not seeing any, she goes towards the lifeboats cautiously and helps passengers unload into the shore, encouraging them to go to safety. She does this without calling too much attention on herself, more going with the flow of what others are doing. Noticing two non crew members, malirys mentions in passing to the friendlier looking of the two, “how was it out at sea? the island was invaded, but did you guys encounter any creatures yourself?” She continues to help as needed, but alert to the possible need to run at any moment.
“Horrible, just dreadful. A dwarf is meant for solid land, but needs must when the devil drives, and the devils are all over this place! Come on, there’s bound to be people what need help! Korgen Brickhide is comin’, ye salty sacks o’-“
his last words are unclear, but he goes tearing up and down the shore looking for the fish people with a rare palm pistol in hand
As you go to "tear up the shore" you realize that the bridge that would connect your side to the now sunken island, is broken, and that there is in fact, no shore to the island anymore. From your side of the bridge, you can see what looks like fins circling where the island once was, some are clear shark fins while others are more un-clear. As you glance around the shore on your side of the bridge, you don't seem to see any fish people.
Ant walks over to the lifeboats and sees a dwarf yammering to themselves looking to fight the fish people that were dragging people off to sea. Unsure whether to say anything and help or get in the boat, decides to do neither but instead stays on the shore of the mainland watching the dwarf
Auraani shakes her head at Malirys, "We saw them from far off, but nothing up close... were they what caused the earthquake somehow or is it just a coincidence they showed up at the same time?
Auraani shakes her head at Malirys, "We saw them from far off, but nothing up close... were they what caused the earthquake somehow or is it just a coincidence they showed up at the same time?
” I would say based on my observations. A coincidence is highly unlikely… but it is possible that perhaps this is outside our realm of control or ability.”
melirys looks over Auraani (what stands out?) “We May yet need someone like you who can keep a calm head amidst chaos in the days to come. This can’t possibly be life back to normal after this. I have an inkling to seek the local council to offer my services if resolution is not found.”
Malirys rushes out from under the canopy into an open space. She casts gift of alacrity on herself to increase her reaction time, just in case she needs to act quickly.
She begins to look around to see if anyone is acting NOt like someone freaking out, but someone excepting this. Suspicion is her first instinct.
secondly she casts “matrix armor” mage armor on herself, worrying about physical issues, worries like it might be a tidal wave or a rock slide, and moves off the beach into the city, making sure to avoid being too close to building ls or overhangs, and avoiding the crush of large crowds.
Korgen gets up and finds the boat Captain.
”Pardon my interruptin’, but is that normal?” He points out the falling rocks
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Korgen and Auraani;
The captain takes a second to take in everything that is happening. He waves Korgen to follow and gathers everyone together. "Excuse me everyone! It appears we might be going through a bit of an earthquake. We should be okay in the water so long..." And before he can finish the waves start to get larger and become rougher. "Everyone hold onto something!" The captain shouts out and he rushes over to the helm of the boat and grabs a hold of the wheel.
((Korgen and Auraani, please give me an athletics or acrobatics check.))
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Ant rushes out into the middle of the street to see what is going on. He looks around to see people running and yelling but isn't sure himself if it is natural or something amiss. He hasn't experienced an earthquake since living in this town.
Auraani's eyes grow wide as she takes in the ferocity of the earthquake and the resulting waves. Hearing the captain yell, she lurched towards one of the masts of the ship and grabs one of the ropes tied to it tightly.
Athletics check: 9
Ant and Malirys;
As you both make your way around, avoiding people and falling debris from buildings, you feel the earth start to rumble even more now, causing parts of buildings to collapse. As you both look around, you don't seem to see anyone that appears to be acting suspiciously, however, over everyone, you hear. "RUN! THE WATER IS RISING!" and as you look in the direction the noise came from, you see that in fact, the water does appear to be taking over the land. "TO THE BRIDGE!" a man can be heard shouting, and with that, you, along with everyone who can begins to make their way to the bridge, crossing over as quickly as they can. You are both surrounded by various different people, however, you both are standing next to each other now. ((AKA: Ant and Malirys are standing next to each other is what I meant by that.))
As you look off at Palma, you can see people still stuck out in the waters off the beach, as if they are being sucked away by the tides. As you look closer however, you see what looks like fish-like humanoid looking people coming out of the water, grabbing those who were having trouble escaping, and dragging them back under. Some of those who were grabbed disappear, while others reappear, only to be dragged back under. Boats and ships can be seen sailing away in desperation while trying to fight off some of these creatures. Some people fall or get knocked off the bridge as they cross and are quickly overtaken by sharks. Some people feel the urge to help, but don't feel they are armed well enough to, so they stay back, looking to others around them to see if they are going to do anything.
Before you can act, you see off the shore of where you are, a fairly large boat, sounding off a loud horn as it get's as close as it can get without a dock. It appears to have people on it and you both recognize this as one of the ships that usually transports people to and from Palma Flora.
((Here is what Palma Flora looked like before the quake.))
((With this, we go to Korgan and Auraani))
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Malirys rushes ahead, but worries for the tourists in the back of her mind. Her duty is not to these but more grand matters in the world at large, but if she can help a few without being noticed…
malirys casts [chronal web] (reflavored web) on a large collection of the sea creatures on the beach near the bridge as she runs, allowing a few extra tourists be out of their reach. But she continues onward without going to help, knowing some will not survive this moment of time. Sometimes the moment is bigger than any individual…
(In the chaos, only someone close to malirys would have seen her casting the spell, and only if they knew about magic anyway. She is good at hiding her motions from a lifetime of being a drow, as well as stealthy training, adding her line of work and experience on top of that) “another day in paradise” she mumbled under her breath as she continues onward to safety.
Ant decides staying on the bridge helping protect those that have made it this far is the better option than throwing himself against these fish creatures alone.
Korgen acrobatics check 13
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Korgen and Auraani;
As you both go to reach out to grab something solid as the boat tosses in the waves, Auraani get's thrown a little off balance. One of the passengers get's tosses overboard, and seeing Auraani start to lose their balance, Korgen reaches out to give Auraani a hand, bringing them to the side of the boat where they are and helping them remain on deck. After about 20 or 30 minutes of this, the boat begins to slow and one of the crew mates sounds a loud horn. The captain then points to the shore and shouts. "Palma Flora is sinking! There appears to be survivors on the shore over there. We need some volunteers to go out on our rafts to bring them to the boat. Any takers?"
For anyone that looks towards where Palma Flora should be, you'll see what looks like a group of people on one side of a bridge, and on the other side, where Palma Flora should be, is instead a slowly sinking island, which can be seen slowly getting more and more taken over with water. You can also see, from this distance, what looks like people running around on the island.
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Korgen shouts. “Aye! This dwarf’ll get ye some uncommon cargo!”
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Auraani finally gets her feet steady under her and turns to the dwarf that gave her the helping hand, "Thank you so much, I thought I was ok but I lost my footing." She turns to the captain and volunteers to go out on the rafts. "Count me in, we need to help these poor people!"
Korgen & Auraani;
You both, along with some of the crew mates, make your way onto some of the smaller lifeboats and begin to make your way over to the group of people gathered on the other side of the bridge. As you are sailing, a larger wave makes it's way to you and crashes down right next to you, causing your boats to rock. As you get within a hundred feet or so from the shore, you see sharks swimming in the water below you, as well as fish-like humanoid creatures running around on the island.
Ant & Malirys;
As you look over to the ship, you start to see what looks like smaller boats being lowered down into the water, but as this is happening, the ground begins to rumble again, causing the island to sink a little more and this time, breaking the bridge that was connecting you to Palma Flora.
Everyone;
After about 20 minutes, the lifeboats finally make their way to the shore behind the group. The a handful of people, clearly dressed as crew begin to make their way off, as well as 2, not clearly dressed as crew, a Dwarf and a Human (Korgen and Auraani). The crew makes their way to the group of survivors and begins to herd them to the lifeboats, sending off boats when they get full. "Over here! To the boats! Hurry!" can be heard from various different crew mates.
((Korgen, Auraani, Ant and Malirys. Feel free to describe what your characters would do while people are being ushered away, as well as introduce yourselves to each other if you meet up.))
EDIT: The entire island is under water by the time the lifeboats make it to the shore.
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Malirys watches each new face for signs they knew that this would happen. Not seeing any, she goes towards the lifeboats cautiously and helps passengers unload into the shore, encouraging them to go to safety. She does this without calling too much attention on herself, more going with the flow of what others are doing. Noticing two non crew members, malirys mentions in passing to the friendlier looking of the two, “how was it out at sea? the island was invaded, but did you guys encounter any creatures yourself?” She continues to help as needed, but alert to the possible need to run at any moment.
“Horrible, just dreadful. A dwarf is meant for solid land, but needs must when the devil drives, and the devils are all over this place! Come on, there’s bound to be people what need help! Korgen Brickhide is comin’, ye salty sacks o’-“
his last words are unclear, but he goes tearing up and down the shore looking for the fish people with a rare palm pistol in hand
Paladin - warforged - orange
Korgen;
As you go to "tear up the shore" you realize that the bridge that would connect your side to the now sunken island, is broken, and that there is in fact, no shore to the island anymore. From your side of the bridge, you can see what looks like fins circling where the island once was, some are clear shark fins while others are more un-clear. As you glance around the shore on your side of the bridge, you don't seem to see any fish people.
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Oh. Well then I guess we’re just boating back
Paladin - warforged - orange
Ant walks over to the lifeboats and sees a dwarf yammering to themselves looking to fight the fish people that were dragging people off to sea. Unsure whether to say anything and help or get in the boat, decides to do neither but instead stays on the shore of the mainland watching the dwarf
Auraani shakes her head at Malirys, "We saw them from far off, but nothing up close... were they what caused the earthquake somehow or is it just a coincidence they showed up at the same time?
” I would say based on my observations. A coincidence is highly unlikely… but it is possible that perhaps this is outside our realm of control or ability.”
melirys looks over Auraani (what stands out?) “We May yet need someone like you who can keep a calm head amidst chaos in the days to come. This can’t possibly be life back to normal after this. I have an inkling to seek the local council to offer my services if resolution is not found.”