Plot Update
Around midnight on Sunday the 14th, while the city slept toward Monday morning, the coastal part of Chicago was shocked with a rude awakening.
A wall of hurricane-force winds, clocked at 120 miles per hour and heated to up to 100 degrees, slammed the coast and could be felt all the way to the west side of the city. It lasted seven seconds, blew out susceptible windows in buildings at the brunt of the blast, toppled cars on Lake Shore Drive, anything that wasn't nailed down. Fifteen minutes afterward, a tidal surge rolled over the coastal walls and into the city. Six to twelve inches of lake water surged over the streets, flooding the sewers, storm drains, and basements. While not catastrophic, the flood could be individually dangerous in the aftermath of the shockwave that came before it. Power is out in the lowest priority areas of the city, and all emergency services have been mobilized.
Users of Magic will feel the disturbance in varying degrees of severity, depending on how powerful or sensitive they are. While everyone in the city will be able to hear the soundwave as a large and unexplained boom, magic users could suddenly find themselves dizzy or panicked, or suffer a sudden migraine, seizure, or even black out.