(event) WAY DOWN WE GO

[vestigemods]

EVENT LOG: WAY DOWN WE GO

AUGUST 14TH - 24TH

► THE BASICS

Not halfway into the month of August, the lake starts to recede - slowly at first, but then in great leaps and bounds until only a foot and a half of sun-warmed standing water remains. The lake going dry is concerning, for certain, but it's hardly the least of our problems... because on the lake bed is a hatch, askew and emblazoned with an unknown but eerie insignia, and beyond that hatch lies nothing but trouble.

Over the next few days, a brave and reckless team of explorers delve into the cave beyond - what is later revealed as a maintenance tunnel, just before the ceiling of that very tunnel caves in and traps them from both sides. Their supplies are limited, and phone signal is shaky at best. And what's worse, not more than a day or so later, the lake begins to fill back up, water pouring down into the open hatch. Can those who remain stage a rescue in time to save the explorers from drowning?

► MOD NOTES

• This log is a general dump for all log threads pertaining to August's Way Down We Go event - and in lieu of the lack of catch-all for August, you can feel free to do non-event log threads here as well! Go ahead and utilize vestigenet for any event-related network posts you'd like to make.
  
• The main chunk of the event takes place between the IC dates August 17th (reveal of the hatch) and August 22nd (the latest the spelunkers can be freed before they drown). No rush leaping on this event post, since I know most folks are honestly still plotting about it.
  
• All event information can be found on the July Event Infopost!
  
• Please take special care in this event to label your top-levels with identifying information such as the IC date, any prompts specifically pertaining to event roles (spelunker, rescue efforts, etc), and/or 'non-event' for any non-event prompts you may include. Just trying to keep things organized!
  
• I'm going to help solidify the plotting efforts over the next few days to help make sure everyone's on the same page, but none of it will be set in stone just in case latecomers want in too. If you want in, chime in on the spelunkers, rescue efforts, or support roles top-levels as applicable!
  
• Any questions can be directed to this top-level or, for a quicker response, to Trace on discord/plurk.

Comments

[mannerless]

( oh, she's. she's just gonna keep talking. that's... not really evidence that she heard him, but that pause may have been, so - )

Hold on, let's back up, something about your kidney? It's flat now?

[shittalk]

Like a pancake!

[ It's called back too cheerfully to sound true, and maybe it's an exaggeration, but Parker is relatively sure there's a good few things messed up in her body right now. ]

Are you here to save my ass, or what?

[mannerless]

( well, she sounds either spectacularly chipper for someone with a crushed liver or entirely full of shit. alas, wei ying doesn't quite have the time or sense of humor (for once) to figure out which.

'are you here to save my ass, or what?' ) Precisely that, ( he says, stepping back now to scope out the way the rubble has fallen (the weak points, the places at which the rubble supports the ceiling, et cetera). ) Are you - alone, in a pocket? Or in with everyone else? If you can see a boy in white somewhere, tell him to come heal up your liver, or at least the hole it used to be in.

[shittalk]

Eh, just me.

[ Or she'd definitely have tried to eat whoever and gotten herself out of here just fine. She lays there for a second on her rocky bed, staring up at a way-too-close ceiling of rock and frowning a little. There's something in what he said that doesn't make sense.

Oh, yeah: ] Wait, heal up my liver, what, like he's a doctor?

[mannerless]

( shit. he hadn't considered there might be smaller pockets of cave-in. this might be a bigger mess than any of them considered.

eyes return to the ceiling, the way that a chunk of it seems to be leaning against the top of the rubble, and he sounds slightly distracted when he calls back - ) Ah, no, not a doctor. Just a bit of a nerd. ( but it occurs to him a moment later - different worlds, so that was probably unhelpful. ) It's- healing, not medicine. Call it magic, I suppose.

[shittalk]

[ She doesn't hear any shifting of rocks, or whatever a rescue would sound like. Parker sighs heavily, flopping her head back against hard rock, as she decides she'll probably die in here. ]

You know that's bullshit, right? Magic crystals or whatever? You can't put a rock on a necklace and say it's gonna cleanse your body, shit doesn't work like that.

[mannerless]

What? ( no, he's not even going to wait for her to clarify, ) Nevermind, it doesn't matter if he's not even in there with you - we're going to start digging you out, alright?

( there's a bit of quieter speech as he directs a couple of people to hold up particular bits of ceiling, and then she actually will be able to hear the earliest shifting of rocks.

after about ten seconds of it, and with the mild strain of pulling at heavy rocks at the same time, ) Who even are you, anyway? I don't recognize the voice.

[shittalk]

[ Oh, hey. Rocks moving! That's a good sign. Her liver will love reinflating, she's sure of it. ]

Parker. [ Oh yeah, huh. Introductions. Obligingly: ] Who the fuck're you?

[mannerless]

Wei Wuxian, ( he offers with a bit of a grunt, the joys of making conversation and hauling things at once. ) I've not met a Parker, so welcome to this mess, I suppose. It's not - ( hhhhghhhhh okay rock moved, ) - always so awful. I think you're the first to lose a liver right out the gate. ...Or perhaps at all?

[shittalk]

Don't worry, the liver'll be back.

[ Probably. She's been fucked up before, right? And she always bounces back -- especially lately. It'll work out one way or another. ]

Yo -- I can see you! [ Well, she can see something. There's actual movement and a bit of light trickling in through her wall of rock. ] Little more, then just roll this fuckin' boulder off me, we're just about golden.