The Underwater City had not missed the impact in the Arclight, though it had thankfully come far from the home of the Mer. Sea quakes and underwater waves had made the disaster's onset known, but the City's location was protected enough by the surrounding reefs that aside from a few cracks in the foundations the city remained sound.
As soon as he had assured himself that the Mer were safe enough, Hadama had taken the Bubblestream to the Port to check on the landwalkers.
He needed his Mastered Water Manipulation just to reach the surface. The sky was clear overhead, but all around them was devastation on a scale he had not seen since the War. The waves had come and gone, but their aftermath had left the port full of wreckage. And the night had been long as Hadama had called what Mer could be spared from the city to help find and rescue humans that had been pulled into the debris-filled waves. Some were alive.
Many were not.
And dawn was a long time in coming before the sun's bright rays washed wan and violet-streaked over the coast so that the survivors and rescuers could see as they worked.
Ray's clinic was gone, swept from its place near the coast where it had once served to treat both human and Mer patients. Only bare stone remained in an island above, connected to land by a narrow avenue of raised rock, but the rooms that had been dug out of the canals for the Mer were still intact, if empty of all furnishings now. It was a place to begin, at least.
The Tidebreaker continued to work, grim-faced and resolute, as he had some human helpers raise a healer's flag over the area, calling all who were hurt and all who could help to gather there.
"Clear the water for boats to bring the injured," he called, already hard at work with brute strength and magic. "And clear a path on the land side." Through the wreckage that was all that remained of so many homes and businesses in the Port.
This is a PQ taking place the morning after Starfall, to help as many of Torchline's affected citizens as possible. There will be aspects of both cleaning up and healing in this PQ, so it can be used to fulfill either SE. Please post your character arriving and beginning to clean up either the land or water around the tied island where the clinic used to be!
1. Hadama
2. Edmund
3.Sohalia
4. Melita
As soon as he had assured himself that the Mer were safe enough, Hadama had taken the Bubblestream to the Port to check on the landwalkers.
He needed his Mastered Water Manipulation just to reach the surface. The sky was clear overhead, but all around them was devastation on a scale he had not seen since the War. The waves had come and gone, but their aftermath had left the port full of wreckage. And the night had been long as Hadama had called what Mer could be spared from the city to help find and rescue humans that had been pulled into the debris-filled waves. Some were alive.
Many were not.
And dawn was a long time in coming before the sun's bright rays washed wan and violet-streaked over the coast so that the survivors and rescuers could see as they worked.
Ray's clinic was gone, swept from its place near the coast where it had once served to treat both human and Mer patients. Only bare stone remained in an island above, connected to land by a narrow avenue of raised rock, but the rooms that had been dug out of the canals for the Mer were still intact, if empty of all furnishings now. It was a place to begin, at least.
The Tidebreaker continued to work, grim-faced and resolute, as he had some human helpers raise a healer's flag over the area, calling all who were hurt and all who could help to gather there.
"Clear the water for boats to bring the injured," he called, already hard at work with brute strength and magic. "And clear a path on the land side." Through the wreckage that was all that remained of so many homes and businesses in the Port.
This is a PQ taking place the morning after Starfall, to help as many of Torchline's affected citizens as possible. There will be aspects of both cleaning up and healing in this PQ, so it can be used to fulfill either SE. Please post your character arriving and beginning to clean up either the land or water around the tied island where the clinic used to be!
1. Hadama
2. Edmund
3.
4. Melita
