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Vas Captio Mods (vas_captio_mod) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-06-08 15:47:00

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!complete, amaterasu, day 10, location: barn, open

Day 10: Barn - 1:15pm
Who: OTA
What: Seven point five
When: 1:15pm - 5:00pm
Where: Barn
Rating: TBA
Status: Active

The sun was shining high in the sky and a gentle breeze stroked the leaves of the trees, making them, along with the severed stub of rope on the clock face from the day previous sway lazily. It was quiet. Perhaps it was too quiet, for the lack of birds chirping or insects buzzing.

All in all, the day was one of the most pleasant as of yet for the bulk of the involuntary residents of Vas Captio, save, of course, the heat. Maybe it was a bit too hot to be entirely comfortable.

It started small, as most things do. Most of the junk stored in the barn chittered on the wooden floors or on shelves of furniture stuffed into back corners. Maybe the building was just settling. Old, worn out things do.

Any thoughts of settling died as the ground quaked. The doors to the barn were flung open, banging against the outer walls and ripping off at the hinges. The wooden walls and floors pitched and moaned then crackled as they splintered. Rusty metal chairs flew through the air and lodged in the walls as if they were hurled by knife throwers. The hay loft swayed dizzily and gave up the ghost, crashing down into the floor below. The walls exploded outward with the force of the loft falling down onto the furniture and other things below, leaving the roof with nothing to support it. The tin roof warped and screamed as it swooped down to settle on top of everything else below.

Vas Captio was still, again, and silent once more.

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okamiofthesun
2009-06-09 11:26 am UTC (link)

After what felt like decades, Ammy was able to push a few boards away from her, and managed to push away parts of the rafters. Her back and left leg was screeching like banshees, even as she forced them to be last on her current list of worries. Everyone else's wellbeing would have to come first; she wouldn't be doing her job if she abandoned them to take care of herself. Ammy had had been through much worse.

Admittedly, she was worried that the earthquake was only the beginning of something much more omnious, and in herpesent state, she wasn't quite sure she'd be effective any time soon.

She heaved the roof aside, and limped heavily out of the remanents of the barn, choosing to leave her things behind (except her journal and pen, which she dug through the wood to find them) to survey the damage done to the people and, later, the animals.

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