[EVENT | FOURTH WALL] THE DREAMING'S FLATULENCE | APRIL 15-30

[ironwood]

Characters: ALL and plus ones. (Yes, fourth-wall characters, that means you.)
Date: April 15-30 2016 (2017 in-game)
Location: Mod-posted comment starters are for the immediate aftermath of the odd explosion which starts the event, but this log can also be used for anywhere in the setting anytime between April 15-30.
Situation: The College went BOOM. Weird people began appearing randomly in the city. After that, other buildings went BOOM even though nothing actually exploded besides the College. After that, scattered buildings developed spontaneous structural damage overnight. Could these events be related? You be the judge.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings in subject headers as needed.

The morning of April 15th dawns cold, but clear. There isn't a cloud in the sky, the sun's barely risen, and in general the kedan are going about their daily lives - opening shops, heading to work, leading kirin through the city streets. In particular, there's a small but steady stream of people moving in and out of the College.

Then, without warning, a section of the College implodes.

During the following few days, an influx of strange Foreigners appear, seemingly dropped randomly by the Dreaming throughout Keeliai. Someone might end up in a canal, or on a rooftop. Someone else might find themselves flying through the air to land heavily in a disused alley. Someone might wake up in the corner of a kirin stable. A few might even land in Hatal on the mainland, and feel a curious draw leading them back towards the turtle. They arrive in the same unexpected manner as normal Foreigners; the only differences are the sheer amount of people arriving at once, and that none of the newcomers seem to possess any soul gems.

Also during the next few days, kedan and Foreigner alike might be startled by an exact replica of that thunderous boom from the College explosion echoing around Keeliai. This only occurs for about a week, but it occurs regularly, and the source of these strange echoes is impossible to trace.

Once the explosion echoes stop, investigators might notice that specific and exact sections of structural damage from the College appear on other buildings in Keeliai without any obvious cause. These cases of spontaneous long-term damage continue all the way through until April 30th.

Apart from those disruptions, life on the turtle is generally normal for the next two weeks - or as normal as it's possible for life to be when one lives on the back of a turtle where the most powerful gang makes the rules. No one can say for sure exactly when the strange Foreigners vanish again. Some will swear they all vanished at once; others will be equally sure they disappeared one by one over several days. One thing's for sure, however -- by the time April 30th draws to a close, not one of the strange Foreigners is left in Keeliai.

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LINKS
The College | The Echoes | The Structural Damage | OOC Information post | Fourth-Wall Character Check-In

OOC
The top-level comments are for the explosion and its aftermath, but fourth-wall characters should feel free to use the rest of the post for anything within the setting! Just remember to label the top-level comment for location and date. You can also add more fourth-wall characters throughout the event at the character check-in, linked above. Please direct any questions to the OOC post.

Fourth-wall characters are also free to tag into player-posted logs and console/radio posts dated between April 15th and 30th! A quick reminder that fourth-wall characters will not have soul jewelry, and will not be able to create their own network posts or logs.

Comments

have a pot calling the kettle black

[no_light]

Kylo Ren has been told many, many times by various people, and by none more pointedly than by General Hux, that he is melodramatic. Which he strongly denies, of course, in a manner which isn't melodramatic at all.

Now, as he watches the strangely dressed boy fall to his knees and shout his anguish to the world, he feels nothing short of gloriously validated. If only Hux were here to witness this moment.

"It's not that dark, I have visited darker worlds." Glorious validation aside, that's the best he can manage. Usually people are too poetic screaming to get poetic at him.

black like his soul

[soulofapoet]

The Dark One looks up in surprise at the man who is standing nearby and talking to him?

"A fog of dread surrounds my soul at the mere thought!"

Worlds darker than this one? That didn't sound very good at all. He definitely didn't want to go to any of them if they were worse than this. But now he's looking more closely at Kylo Ren and the way he's dressed.

"The ebon that shrouds you is like that which covers my very being. Does it reflect your inner self as it does mine?"

no greater darkness has there ever been

[no_light]

Kylo peers down at himself clad in his layers of black that don't reveal a single inch of skin, and looks back at the teenager again.

"Do you like it?" he asks. It sounded like approval, but honestly, it is hard to tell. Force forbid, he might start to sympathize with Dameron's complaints.

"It's a uniform." And why is he even bothering with the fool? He lets the irritation well up, and forces it back down. Because he has no better leads, really. "What are you doing here?"