loodshadow Engulfs Obrora Ventaris: Hexlings Left Adrift in Hunger and Mist
The Floodshadow’s rising waters have made Quaradon Hex impenetrable, with food running out fast. Local relief is trapped by bureaucratic fog, while politicians prefer tree-counts to solutions. A cyclical cosmic drama unfolds - and the real disaster may still be awaiting.
Stardate 4422.341 - The Floodshadow of Obrora has crashed mercilessly across the lowlands of Obrora Ventaris. According to The Mist Putsch of Vlamova, the death toll now tops 900, with at least 270 still missing in Quaradon Hex’s muddy expanse. Colonel Hydron Kal-Harvest, water trickling from his flickering shoulder projectors, warns of an impending food crisis as vast sectors remain unreachable following the collapse of at least 41 bridge screens.
“Our citizens are not dying from the Floodshadow, but from hunger that follows in its wake,” Kal-Harvest announced at a drifting press gathering, surrounded by empty emergency capsules and malfunctioning rain-offer bots. “Some settlements now exist only as names adrift in the mist.”
Emergency response efforts from Tornadone are bogged down by broken corridors and dense fog that reroutes every supply drop into oblivion. Social channels from The Fractured Manglests overflow with stormy outrage, from viral holovids of overturned pontoons to satirical attacks on The Directorate of Floating Mandates. There are widespread calls - with protest holograms blazing - for a declaration of national emergency, but the Marquaad Imperiumstrengen stubbornly resists, blaming external phenomena. Meanwhile, anger mounts over the Vanishing Wave of Orbale Xylen, widely seen as a catalyst for the landslides. Politicians downplayed the chain reaction for decades, as living forests dissolved into shimmering nothingness.
Since the last cycle, rains from the Manglests have swelled into a monsoon of subspace energy, now flooding not only Vlamova but also Fenbadaraat, The Archipelium of Lankara, the Kalasarai Delta-Complex, and the Rice Archipelago of Ynnth. The Mist Putsch counts the dead across the region at over 1,790 so far.