Ava Anatalya Orlova ([personal profile] krasnaya_vdova) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-08-23 02:11 pm

everything's on fire

who: Everyone!
what: The residential building is on fire
when: ~2am, August 23rd
where: The Residential building
warnings: Fire, destruction of property, injury, general warnings for crisis situations



It's a reasonably quiet night, pleasantly dry with a slight breeze. Almost nice, for those that enjoy the hours after midnight long before dawn starts to creep on the horizon. Right until it isn't, when the air changes, and there's the scent of heat that promises smoke. In most places it starts with a flash of blue light that arcs from floor to floor as energy pulses through the building, and there's a crack of sound that follows. The power dies for a moment, and if you're one of the unlucky ones, the light that follows is a literal spark in the dark, burning to life in bright orange-red, yielding heat and smoke and trouble. The energy surge doesn't just hit the lights, but sparked flames that burst to life, and they catch quickly, spreading.

The worst of it starts on the ninth floor, where the smoke and the beginning of heat starts moments before the surge. The fire spreads faster there, people starting to startle awake and realize what's happening as the flames crackle. Eventually there's an announcement on the Network, both alerting people to what's happening and trying to organize both those that are willing to help and those that need it.

Some areas are untouched, while others are ravaged badly, reduced to ashes and crumbling ceilings, so watch your step. There's chaos, but through it there's people doing what they can to help each other, and the official fire services show up to help control the blaze. After that, it's just a matter of repairing the damage that's been done, rebuilding and putting things back together, seeing what's been lost and what was saved.

Even later, people start putting the pieces together, and there's the official investigation into what might have caused a fire like that in the first place.


[ooc: As promised, the residential building is on fire! OOC plotting post is here if anyone wants to work out some last minute plans before diving in. Plotting post also includes the relevant details. Elsewise, just top level and mingle. Try not to get burned too badly. :) Good luck!]
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Fall-From-Grace | OTA

[personal profile] seductless 2017-08-28 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
i. inside

Grace didn't technically sleep, she had no physical need for it. She did tend to take the more quiet opportunities to meditate, though, a chance to refresh her mind rather than her body.

Perhaps it was that she'd spent too long recently in unfriendly places that her meditative states were not as deep as they had been back in Sigil. But when a commotion started outside her door, many raised voices and the sounds of hurried footsteps, it pulled her mind out of it's quiet place almost immediately. She waited a moment to see if the noise would pass. When it didn't, she rose curiously to her feet to step out of her room.

"What is it?" She called to anyone running by. "What is happening?"

ii. outside

While her natural fire immunity might have made the inferno less of a problem for her, Grace was well aware that her talents did not lend themselves as well to rescue. It would do no one any good for her to walk through the flames and then be unable to help, and there seemed more than a few brave enough to go in themselves that she would hate to get in their way.

Rather, she circled the outside the building, keeping her healing spells at the ready as she searched for any injured or in need of aid. For those who seemed shaken but hale, she'd also picked up those odd, clear bottles of water somewhere and seemed determined to hand one over to anyone who would take them.