(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

[shittalk]

[ She makes a face, and looks ready to launch back into some spiky tirade, but — 

hold on —  ]

What kinda high? What're you on? [ suddenly interested! what kind of drugs does a tentacle guy do?? ]

[kinkprofessor]

Substance D, I think it was called? [ Honestly, all the space drugs kind of tend to blend together after a while. ]

Highly addictive, from my understanding, but I only did the one dose before waking up here. It's not especially exciting, just might alter your perception of things for a while.

[ His trip wasn't bad, at least. Not until he woke up here but this is all... very real, apparently. ]

[shittalk]

[ She makes a face, waving that off. She barely had a taste, which was more than enough, so she doubts she got to steal any of whatever that is. ]

Get back to me when you're tripping balls on Jupiter or whatever, then I'll come back to eat you. It's not fucking worth it until then.

[ It's kind of weird that they're just calmly discussing this, right? Like maybe he'd just tried to kill her, and she'd definitely just tried to kill him ... but, huh. As long as he's fine with it, Parker kinda figures she is too. ]

[kinkprofessor]

[ Unfortunate. He'll keep her in mind for whenever he inevitably finds something to give him a decent high again. ]

That's fair enough. Hopefully, this place has something that can get me there but from what I've seen so far- I don't have a lot of hope.

[ It's only weird if you make it weird! He's fine with just stepping past the fact they almost murdered each other. It happens. ]

[shittalk]

You've you seen so far? [ That's with a skeptically cocked brow. ] I just seen a buncha rock, no one got high on boulders.

[ wait. ] I mean ... [ a vague gesture. how do you indicate you're not talking about rock climbing?? ] You know. Fuck.

[kinkprofessor]

Exactly my point, really. I woke up in and have since to get out of these caves.

[ He can't help but let out a chuckle at her attempts at miming rock climbing. ] I do know.

I'm sure there's some form of ground rock out there somewhere that you could actually get high off of. I've yet to find it though and doubt it's here. [ Something to do when he gets back to work, at any rate. ]

Maybe two heads are better than one though and we'll find a way out of here.

i completely butchered that but i THINK it was meant to be "you've seen shit so far"

[shittalk]

[ She lets out a heavy sigh that's at least half intentional mouth-fart sound. ]

Yeah, shit, let's get spelunking. And lemme know if you see anyone without shitty blood, okay? I wanna meet 'em.

fkarla yes woops

[kinkprofessor]

Oh, me too! [ Could you be any more creepy if you tried?

... Actually, probably. No one take him up on that. ]

I just want to meet more people in general. We can't be all there is. Not that I'm really complaining, of course.

[ You just tried to murder her, you fucko, stop. ]