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theshimmer2020-07-24 10:07 pm
shimmermods) wrote in theshimmer2020-07-24 10:07 pm
Evacuation.
MISSION START
It's taken a while, but for all intents and purposes, you seem to be back on track; the town you've been sent to investigate isn't far off now. Beyond a crest, just down one of the wooded hills; as you make your way, the strange wildlife watches you. Nothing much. Just one of those deer.
You get the feeling that something always seems to be watching you nowadays. This feeling isn't wrong.
The top of that hillcrest will reveal the town itself, sprawling out below in your line of sight; however, it will soon become obvious that there's something deeply wrong with it. What you're seeing and what you know of the town tell two completely different stories; it's up to you to decide which you believe.
But what your eyes are telling you is that the town is overgrown, the forest reclaiming it for its own – the streets are cracked and broken, grass and shoots of flowers poking up from the roads and the pavement; the ground is thick with fallen leaves, and the buildings seem to have a bright yellow moss growing over them in places. There are residences that seem oddly undisturbed, as though their occupants simply disappeared all at once; given that the town was allegedly evacuated, perhaps that stands to reason.
What doesn't is that this level of growth would take more than a week or two to develop. Maybe you'll find survivors. Maybe you won't. It's worth looking around, either way.
Perhaps it'll be worth your while, in the end.
You get the feeling that something always seems to be watching you nowadays. This feeling isn't wrong.
The top of that hillcrest will reveal the town itself, sprawling out below in your line of sight; however, it will soon become obvious that there's something deeply wrong with it. What you're seeing and what you know of the town tell two completely different stories; it's up to you to decide which you believe.
But what your eyes are telling you is that the town is overgrown, the forest reclaiming it for its own – the streets are cracked and broken, grass and shoots of flowers poking up from the roads and the pavement; the ground is thick with fallen leaves, and the buildings seem to have a bright yellow moss growing over them in places. There are residences that seem oddly undisturbed, as though their occupants simply disappeared all at once; given that the town was allegedly evacuated, perhaps that stands to reason.
What doesn't is that this level of growth would take more than a week or two to develop. Maybe you'll find survivors. Maybe you won't. It's worth looking around, either way.
Perhaps it'll be worth your while, in the end.
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[Yellow for caution moss. Love it.
It doesn't sound like that's the only thing happening, either; his first instinct is to stick together, but that's apparently not happening in a town this size. Splitting up is going to suck, but needs must. For now:]
What do you have so far? Not many of us are botanists. It'll help to know what to look for.
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... And wear gloves, of course.
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[Oh good, things that even a non-botanist can go off of!
Of course what they'll find eventually will have no such subtleties, but y'know. Be careful what you wish for and all that jazz. Emma's going to have her work cut out for her today.]
Nothing here really looks safe to touch with your bare hands. Plants aside. We'll all have to watch ourselves.
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Yes... as such, please be careful while you're exploring. Oh, and don't let anyone ingest anything that looks like it has spores or leaves falling off of it when touched, since some of these could turn out to be poisonous.
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[And even then it's dubious given the bizarre nature of the place, so back to rations it is for now -- for him at least. He seems rather amused by the suggestion that anyone would try and take a bite out of anything growing on the walls, but...
Hey, stranger things have happened to them already. Presumably.]