"You're soon to learn how much is at stake. For now the ground begins to quake."

[paraplots]

[With an audible thud, a journal falls open just in time to record the sound of a young boy hitting the lobby ground and tumbling across the floor. At the same time, a wooden box also hits the floor, skidding across the lobby away from him. Surprisingly enough, no harm comes to the box.

He groans in pain for a moment as he collects himself, but it only takes him a brief moment. When he speaks, there's hope in his voice, and he begins to laugh a little deliriously.]


We did it. I'm back to normal. Dad! I'm home! I'm back from--


[As he climbs to his feet, there's a gut-sinking realization that begins to settle in, a panicked look across his face.]


No... This isn't--This isn't my house. This isn't Jumanji. What is this? Where am I now? Just send me home, I want to go home!


[Frantic footsteps skid across the lobby once he spots that wooden box. He races toward it and quickly opens it. If anyone is even trying to approach him or calmn him down, they're being completely ignored. Even voices from the journal go unnoticed.]


Come on, come on. Please work, please just send me home. Please, please...


[Opening the box exposes a game board. Alan quickly scoops the dice into his hands and rolls as if his life depends on it. Anyone watching the scene might notice that the game board seems to react on its own to his plays. Alan's eyes widen.]


"You're soon to learn how much is at stake. For now the ground begins to quake."


[Eyes widening in horror, the ground does begin to quake. It shakes all of Paradisa with a low, slow starting rumble that increases intensity with each passing second. Anyone that remembers the first large earthquake to rock Paradisa will notice that this one is just as intense.

Walls begin to crack around the edges, and decorations fall from their places on shelves. The floor strains and groans, until it begins to crack as well. The ground begins to tear apart seemingly directly down the middle, and dust and smoke begin to rise from the crack in the ground that only grows bigger and bigger.

At the same time, the boy who once stood in the middle of the lobby now appears to be dissolving where he stands, and an unseen force pulls him into the green, glowing orb in the center of the board. But the magic of the game doesn't stop there

Any Residents that find themselves in other parts of Paradisa may feel a magical, unresistable pull as well. A foreign energy is pulling at them, tugging them from where they stand. It's pulling them back to the castle, and leaving them in the very rooms they might have first arrived in.

By the time the earthquake stops, there's a very large and very deadly looking chasm that splits the castle precisely in half. Alan Parrish and the board game are nowhere to be found.]


(OOC: PLEASE READ THE SUMMARY FOR DAY ONE! Feel free to react accordingly in this post, or you may make your own posts as well!)

Comments

Right side

[preformthisneigh]

[The earthquake was admittedly an unexpected blip in his day, but stuff like this is fairly regular in Equestria, what with overpowered lunatics trying to destroy the place on a yearly basis. Still, it was enough to pitch this little pony off his hooves. When he stands again, it's to stare at the wide chasm that separates the castle. He lets out a low whistle.]

That's gonna take a whooole lot of glue to fix.

[rogueofheart]

[Nepeta sees it now as well, though she has to give a light, nervous laugh at that.]

Yeah... but don't really bad things usually follow big earthquakes like this?

Left Side

[schrodingersghost]

[As always Danny's first impulse was to change into his ghost form so he could check out the situation from above.

It didn't work.

And so he was standing angrily at the edge of the chasm as he shouted at the castle in general.]

Oh come on! You're doing this again?

[samson]

[Brock is one floor up, and he pokes his head over the side of the chasm at the shouting.]

Hey, kid! Shut up. You're gonna make this whole thing come down.

[putuporshutup]

[Meg walks up, waits for Danny to be done shouting, and gives him a wry smile.]

Hey, it'll be fine. How many times have we all been through crap like this by now and come out the other side, huh?

[Apathy is very comforting, right?!]

LEFT

[gottaknockhard]

[Spike hadn't felt all that relaxed in his room since the whole "mutant-baby incident", so he should be fully prepared for something like an earthquake when he's in the middle of feeding Ein (to get the dog to finally shut up -- it's only after the fact that he figures out that he wasn't barking his head off for food.)

They really can't catch a break, can they?

He spends the duration in the bathroom doorway with Ein in his arms, purely by coincidence, wondering if he has any bullets left for the next alien attack. If he's even up for one.

After what feels like twenty minutes for it to be over, he retrieves his gun and makes his way out, only to see the giant chasm that appeared in the hallway. Ein barks behind him as he walks to the very edge where some residents are already gathering, craning his head to look down. And down... Jesus, that thing is deep.]

Damn...

[sworn]

[Emerging from her own room, Vereesa begins her careful walk down the now more narrow hallway--or what's left of it. She's glancing at each door as she passes, and nodding to the other residents now filing out of their rooms.]

What could have caused it this time?

[both_neither]

[Gren's just grateful that he's dressed when the castle decides to tug him unceremoniously back to his room. It's happened before, but it's never felt so violent. Which is concerning. Almost as concerning as the chasm he sees when he steps out of his room.]

Well, that's not good.

[Maybe neither is the fact that he's suddenly in close quarters with Spike. But he has to head that direction anyway, since Vicious' room is between them.]

See anything interesting?

RIGHT SIDE — {2nd floor}

[ensorceler]

[ This isn't the first earthquake that Paradisa's experienced, but this one might be the most alarming. While she manages to stay conscious this time, that's only because of the speed in which she hid under her bed. When she finally crawls back out, her massive furniture of most has fallen and left a giant mess. She doesn't scream for help, though the panic in her mind is high as she tries to find her way out of her chambers and out into what she hopes is less chaos.

But no, the hallway offers no kind of solace. All she can see is a giant chasm just outside her door, seeming ready to swallow her if she takes one step too far. Magic may keep her from doing so, but she doesn't test that possibility. The nice weather doesn't much make up for this disaster.

At least this is something to temporarily distract Anne from her from drinking alone and sulking. Now she can again think of others, knowing several on her floor, but calling out to nobody in general. ]

Was anybody injured?!

Re: RIGHT SIDE — {2nd floor}

[fearbringer]

[Pitch is lurking around nearby, only half-visible even to the most fervent of believers.]

It looks like it was a clean break.

Right

[deductiongeek]

[Conan was kneeling far too close to the edge of the chasm and inspecting the edges irritably. Was this reality ever going to make sense?]

Right

[wizard_redfive]

[Yeah, that's way too close to the edge, and Dairine knows how Conan's luck is with high heights.

Which means he is suddenly getting yanked back by the back of his shirt by a rather annoyed and concerned friend.]

Conan! What do you think you are doing?!

Left

[lightbranded]

Goodness, how strange.

[Will stood on the edge and stared out across the gap. He couldn't really say that he'd ever expected this to happen.

And he wasn't entirely sure what to do. It hadn't taken him long to notice that his powers were gone once again. Just as the other times, his mind and his senses felt dulled.

It was a feeling he would never get used to.]

[samson]

[Brock figures the best thing to do in case of structural collapse is to get to the bottom of the building, which is what he's doing. Best case scenario is, of course, getting the hell out of the castle altogether -- but who knows how long they have.

He's making his way down the staircase carefully, looking down the halls as he goes for any injuries or people who just look generally confused. Or kids who like to look down into gaping chasms, which seems to be a new hobby or something.]

Hey! Get back from the edge. Let's go.

Left side - 3rd floor

[freeslider]

[Wade is from California. Earthquakes are nothing really knew, although they're rarely strong enough to cause this much damage, or do anything like split the ground open. Still feeling a little light headed, she wanders out into the hall and her jaw drops]

Oh...my...God!

[Once she recovers from the shock, she notices there are more people across the way. Snap out of it Wade, there trouble coming.

She waves frantically.]

Hey! Is everybody okay?!

Left

[radiantwingedone]

[ Its at his doorway that he realizes he doesn't have his magic. ]

... What changed?

[ Something had to have changed. He lost his magic, he smells more than the usual amount of dust, there's clearly something off. ]

[lightbranded]

Another change in the castle, looks like.

[Will could already feel the changes in his own senses.]

Right Side

[wizard_redfive]

[The first thing Dairine notices after the earthquake is her wizardry's sudden disappearance. Typical. Just typical. As if she didn't have enough to worry about.

Grabbing her archery tools, she peers out the door to assess the situation. Well, that chasm doesn't look good. Carefully locking the door behind her, she starts making her way down to the second floor. Her first priority? Checking up on her sister. She's on the look out for her other friends though to see if they're all right too. Once she's found Nita, she'll start assessing the damage properly and looking for people who need aid.]

[inlifesname]

Dair!

[Nita meets Dairine on the stairs, having been on the way to check up on her. Not that she needed it, it seems.]

Do you know what's going on?

Re: Right Side

[fearbringer]

[Hey Dairine, it's your favorite person. He's peering into the chasm too.]

Can you see anything down there?

[Because he sure can't.]

LEFT SIDE

[toobravehearted]

[Between the earthquake and the rush of being pulled back to his room, it's obvious to the Doctor that something is very not right. Stumbling out of his room from not only that but being stripped of his abilities, there's a muttered "not again!" as he runs for the stairs.]

Is anyone hurt? Shout out, I'm on the stairs and--

[His voice breaks off as he reaches said stairs and is fast pedalling backwards from the edge of the chasm, his hearts fluttering like jack rabbits. Don't look down now, Doctor.]

What the...?!

[im_the_doctor]

[ Being pulled out of the TARDIS, out of the room he shares with his younger self, up the stairs and into another room and tossed onto the bed, is not his idea of a fun ride. Rather, he felt more like a rag doll in the hands of a three year old. It takes him a second to realize exactly where he's at. This is his room. Clearly he hasn't been here for a very long while, it's covered in dust.

Fingers up in front of his face he makes a disgusted face and hops of the bed as quickly as possible. This causes the dust to float around the room. Coughing he waves his hand in front of his face, only making things worse!

Without a moment to spare, he's out of the room and into the hallway taking a deep breath of fresh air. He'd forgotten all about the room. At some point he really should get around to cleaning it... Now is not the time however. Right now he's got to get back the other room.

Arriving at the stairs he sees the chasm. That's... surprising, although it does explain earthquake. In a debate he wonders if he could make it across if he jumped. It's at that point he realizes that his sense are once again dimmed.

Frustrated he stands at the edge of the chasm looking over at the other side. ]

[lightbranded]

Are you alright, Doctor?

[Will had come out of his room, still dizzy from the loss of his own senses.]

Right side, second floor

[inlifesname]

[There's the initial crashing and banging of the earthquake... and then there's a series of smaller crashes coming from Nita's room- namely, everything she owns finding a new spot on her floor. Including a couple of books falling on her head as she crawls out from under her bed.]

Ugh! [And then another crash as she slips on some pencils and falls on her face.] Crud!

[Eventually, she does emerge from her room, stepping cautiously out into the halls and looking around.]

Is everybody okay? [Yeah, and what are you going to do about it if they aren't, Neets? she thinks to herself. Without her wizardry, she feels strangely vulnerable- like she's gone from someone picked by the Powers, a space traveler, someone who has saved the universe more than once to...a teenager in a windbreaker and sneakers.]

Re: Right side, second floor;

[fearbringer]

[Pitch is lurking around, taking in the fear and uncertainty that the earthquake has brought. To his consternation, it doesn't actually do anything for him the way it normally would-- no powers means no fear-sensing. But it's still fear, and it's still familiar to him, and that's better than nothing.]

There's a giant chasm; the castle seems to have been split in two.

[... Of course, he doesn't even know if this girl can see or hear him. If not, he'll have to get creative.]

[OOC: Info on what sorts of characters will be able to see/sense him!]

Right side, starting on the third floor and going down

[inafadingcrown]

[Galadriel's first instinct, once the ground stopped shaking and she realized that her gifts were taken from her, was to arm herself; being depowered never bode well. Her second, naturally enough, was to gather a supply of herbs, salves, and bandages, and set out to look for the injured.]

Re: Right side, starting on the third floor and going down

[fearbringer]

[Pitch is strolling around, but unlike Galadriel, doesn't seem to be making any effort to do anything. He does fall into step next to her, though.]

Are you a healer?