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Citizens, enjoying these fine days of curseless relaxation? The perfect opportunity to rest a little, naaap, roll around -

…or not.

Whatever feeling of invasion your character previously experienced is about to intensify substantially.

On March 15, at 2 p.m. / 14:00 (EST) one of the City’s main communication towers, resting cosily by Building Three will be slowly but surely turning into wet sand.



”The decorators called.”

It will initially preserve its natural colours and only visibly shift in texture, but it will slowly start looking like proper sand, changing completely within the hour.

Then, like any good sand castle, it will crumble down.

Thankfully, the process is gradual, and citizens have a six-hour window of opportunity to try to keep the tower from falling / take it down faster / investigate it as much as they want. Left to its own devices, the tower will collapse by 9 p.m.

A few warnings for the brave souls who’d like to venture inside the tower:

the entire tower, including the observation, maintenance and administration office levels - it's all made of sand; this makes it quite delicate, so there’s always the risk of a wall, or part of the ceiling coming down!

the unfortunate NPCs that attended on the tower will be found as statues. Likewise, their furniture, papers, food will turn up fossilized.

the air within the tower will be particularly stuffy, with the entire structure reeking of decay.

...the longer characters stay inside the tower, the more they’ll come to feel stiff and lethargic, with the Clock’s intensified beating lulling them to sleep. If they fall asleep within the tower... well, the NPCs might not be the only ones reduced to stone. Note: there is no death exemption for this!

the verses of this fine song will be written in multiple versions on the sand floor of the ground level; if characters step on it, it will not recreate itself, so multiple search parties might have to be careful about that!

If the tower is allowed to fall, expect very heavy dust clouds and large masses of sand in the City for the next couple of days, along with the faint smell of mold and decay around the area.

As far as network devices go, expect glitches in communication throughout the day, varying from white noise to poor transmission and reception. All network broadcasts should return to their usual A+ performance levels by March 16.

Feel free to organize rescue / investigation / RUN MAN RUN parties, or just to offer up your character for participation in the comments!

Comments

NEEDED: ALARM CLOCK

[renegare.livejournal.com]

...so, I'd be interested in sending this fella in to look at things, because hey, decaying stuff, awesome -- but he already has a very bad habit of napping anywhere / everywhere. Would... anyone... be willing to go with him... or to make a dazzling entrance and drop a brick on him jolt him awake?

[deathstrumpcard.livejournal.com]

I don't know how in character it would be for him, I'll figure it out later, but, If you'd like, Cassian could tag along and be his not-so-nice alarm clock.

Assuming Jezebel's not in trouble.

[renegare.livejournal.com]

Haha, maybe he can come in snooping around and just run into the almost-sleeping dude, or create some noise in an adjacent room, if it's not IC for him to follow? Whatever works for you!

[deathstrumpcard.livejournal.com]

The guy's so overprotective, he might check out the place to make sure it wasn't a direct danger to the doctor. But either way, he could come across the random sleeping dude and be like "...um...what?"

[deathofdelilah.livejournal.com]

Cassian do not get killed or I am docking your pay

[deathstrumpcard.livejournal.com]

I'll do my best not to.

[deathofdelilah.livejournal.com]

Good.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I've got to say, Cain will be pretty curious about all this when word reaches him. I doubt he'll go inside anywhere, but he will certainly be there, watching, speculating, and investigating as much as he can.

Anyone else down for investigational funtiems?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...OKAY I WANT IN. Who wants to go poke around the sand tower before it crumbles!! Then go examine the statues and risk getting turned into stone themselves by staying too long poking around!!

...does becoming a statue kill you?

[unborn-of-this.livejournal.com]

A sad, but true fate!

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...and then do you become City!dead? Becoming stone is such a grey area...

[unborn-of-this.livejournal.com]

Characters die, yes - no death exemption.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

:D cool.

[ms-marycontrary.livejournal.com]

Oh man, how can I not break hiatus to have Merry kinda sorta see this in her cards ; ____ ;

/IGNORES STUDYING TO POST

[sword-of-zero.livejournal.com]

I think I will be back into the swing of things by then and hopefully not miss out on this like I did with the March madness, sob.

Anyone want to go with Suzaku? He will be perfect for the RUN MAN RUN stuff because his Geass will kick in XD

[eagleofautozam.livejournal.com]

Building three hmm? How could Eagle not notice it in that case!
Naturally he will have to go and look around.

Eagle has a device that can scan/analyze data, including magic.
So, if a scan is run what might one find? Ordinary sand? Nothing?

[unborn-of-this.livejournal.com]

It's just regular sand >>!

[eagleofautozam.livejournal.com]

It could have been magical singing sand! ^,^

[soulofocean.livejournal.com]

Pssst. Can Umi use Eagle as an excuse to get involved in this? I have plans to post with her today and IDK IDK. Maaaaaaaaaaybe she meant to drop by for a visit to check on him after the kiddie curse and then she notices sandy tower?

8D?

[eagleofautozam.livejournal.com]

Of course! ^^

I can’t imagine Umi not getting into the middle of this some how.

[soulofocean.livejournal.com]

Are you implying she's a trouble magnet, Sir?

8|




Because you'd be completely right. ;;;

[eagleofautozam.livejournal.com]

Something like that, yes.

[gaiustavarus.livejournal.com]

Since Tavi just moved into Building 3, I think he'll want to investigate. And he's the stupidly heroic type, too. Lucky him that he can sort of control sand. And air, so he should be fine.

Anyone want to run into him / form a rescue party with him / be rescued / idk idk idk?

Question!

[bequiet_hescreamed]

Hey, I was just wondering - what would happen if someone tried to use magic to un-stone-ify the NPCs?

Re: Question!

[unborn-of-this.livejournal.com]

What kind of magic are we talking about?

Re: Question!

[bequiet_hescreamed]

Probably some kind of "undo" spell.

This is anime/headcanon, but I think that in Clef's magic system turning someone to stone takes a while to 'set'. There's a bit of time where you're still a person frozen in stasis and encased in stone, and you slowly become... just a person-shaped rock. The length of time it takes to set is based on how powerful the victim and caster are relative to each other.

So, under normal circumstances, what he'd try to do is first try to ascertain whether or not the person is solid stone (aura-sensing, whoo~) and then use a really basic spell and a LOT of brute force and ignorance willpower to revert the person back to normal. It would be like nothing happened, and the person might or might not remember that they were a statue for a while.

Obviously I'm not expecting it to work like that in this case. |D; But you get the idea.

Re: Question!

[unborn-of-this.livejournal.com]

Okay, so not a hostile/power-based spell.

'Undo' magic will not work in any way. Aaaaaand yes, the 'people' are 100% stone by now. There is nothing human in them to sense anymore, neither will, nor consciousness.

If Clef tries his magic, he will spend the immediately following couple of hours feeling very, very old - the legendary 'weight of (a thousand) years,' if you'd like. His body will feel uncooperative and slow, as if made of lead, and he'll find his memories and thoughts also slowed down and lethargic. He'll probably be unable to make it back on his own, so, er, better have someone there to carry him out, or else he'll probably fall asleep and be turned to stone (or the tower might fall on him).

Re: Question!

[bequiet_hescreamed]

Oh mai. *.* Well, hopefully it won't come to him actually trying the spell, let alone being left to die.

Thank you! ♥