[MINGLE] Great Shakes

[sixthiteration]

WHO: EVERYBODY
WHERE: EVERYWHERE
WHEN: 13 July (afternoon, main quake) - 14 July (morning, last aftershocks)
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Potential injuries, PTSD, and anxiety

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The sun is still high when the earth begins its initial, almost benign sway, but seasoned villagers know well enough that what follows will be far from gentle. Vibrations ramp up swiftly, exponentially, until within the space of a few seconds, the whole world is shaking — Dishes pinging down from shelves, young trees sifting free of the earth, shingles dislodging and tumbling like rain.

After 20 seconds, the worst is done, and after 30 the shaking has ebbed completely. Some will have escaped relatively unscathed, but others will not have been so lucky...

...and the aftershocks are still to come.

Comments

[morphogenia]

Kamala would shrug if it weren't a terrible idea. It is though so instead she nods. Maybe they do. Truthfully she doesn't know enough about these Observers to offer an opinion. "Yep! We're here to help and you know possibly get hurt together? Go team?" She jokes as she watches that rail fall down with Kira. This is freaky.

[3ofswords]

This is, at least, probably a natural disaster--not man or observer made, not a script running to shake them like a kid with a snow globe. But he's with her: anything that makes the indoors less safe than standing in an open field adds a little more nausea to the general feeling of anxiety.

"Hoo," he audibly sighs, "this sucks." Probably, when a teenage girl is huddling in a doorway with you during a natural disaster, and you've got about ten years on her, there's an air of confidence or competence you want to project. Kira doesn't have enough of the latter, and the former was built on the literal ability to know how a situation would shake out. "Let me guess, he went to go check on my dog."

[morphogenia]

"Yeah." Kamala agrees without being able to hide her nerves at all. She has no idea what to do, but follow their lead. So far everyone seems to know what they're doing so good for her really for picking up on that. His follow up gets her to laugh. They've already figured him out, haven't they? The man has a one track mind.

"Yep! I think yours is his favorite." Definitely not the lazy bones that Kamala is totally fond of.

[3ofswords]

"Aurora is the logical favorite," he says, just because it's easier than addressing hey, this thing we're standing in is kid of shaking apart. The village water cooler is a goddamn nightmare sometimes--he can kind of see why Frank sticks to dogs and their related conversational points.

Glancing at the ceiling, which at least seems intact, he waits for the world to settle. "She's the baby and friendly to a fault. Frank gave off super serial killer vibes day one and she still took him her half-eaten peach."

[morphogenia]

Kamala can only follow his lead. She plays it cool and talks about dogs. It helps they all have that in common. She loved spending time with Lockjaw and then Max. She enjoys spending time with whatever crazy dog is following Frank around that day now. It's comforting to think about in a way few things are right now. It's how she can keep calm and not shake around this total stranger.

"Don't let him fool you. He just has bad taste in clothing and a scary face. Aurora was smart to figure it out right away." What could that be?? That he was weak for food and tiny creatures tbh.