QUEST LINE 3: THE STORM
cross-platform event tsunyami fortify beta island

The morning after Lucky Guy drops off the last of the starters, everyone sleeps a little easier. The checklist is done. The quest is complete. It's time to head back to the mainland, where Ash can finally offer a full compliment of starters to new trainers. Even the swarms have even died down, finally. Nature is healing.

Or is it just winding up for a knockout punch?

At the godless hour of 4:36AM, Bunya starts a video call with everyone on Beta Island. Every one of her contacts is on the call. Trainers, Ol' Blarney, Bethany, her catnip dealer. Everyone. Well, except Professor Ash.

"Holy shit!" Bunya says, setting the tone for the upcoming briefing.

Bunya looks soaked. Her hair is slicked to her face, and her labcoat pockets slosh with rainwater. The only light is the front light of her phone. She drops the phone and you catch flashes of her feed bowl, and the wood of the jetty. "This is bad everynyan! I was having The Fish Dream but was woke up to this!"

She turns the phone around and you see the ocean, now a tumult of swells and howling wind. Waves crash against the headland, tearing at the rock like watery claws. 

The camera switches back to Bunya as she crawls under her desk. She points at an LCD display mounted on the underside of her wooden stall. The monitor is displaying a fluffy black cat getting belly rubs while smooth jazz plays, but she changes the channel to show a meteorological map of Beta Island.

"You see this shit?" she says, pointing at the massive black and red zone that has settled over the island. "This is a disaster! The shipment back is going to be delayed, we'll have to switch to canned fish, and we're going to have to cancel the luau-"

A titanic roar splits the storm, overwhelming the meager speaker on Bunya's phone and flooding the video call with feedback. As the audio adjusts, you hear it more clearly. Through the peaks of static, you hear the cry of the ocean. 

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{"I AM COMING"}

manish would find the cry familiar.

Bunya picks up the phone, her hands shaking. She looks like a predator who's just seen its prey pull out a handgun. The screen behind her has switched to a sonar style display, with a sweeping green arm. The arm completes a circuit, picking up a few tiny specks, and then a massive blip on the edge of its display.

"I'm nyat going to bonito-coat it," she says, watching as the circle on the sonar screen gets closer and closer, filling up a whole quadrant. "Something's coming. Some big fish that'll make the Splashmother look like a regular Magikarp. We nyeed to reinforce the island. Batten down the hatches, hide our daughters and dry feed. This storm is only going to get worse. We nyeed to get to work. Nyow."

PROTECT AND FORTIFY BETA ISLAND!

As the storm worsens and the creature in the ocean approaches, HP bars appear over the three sections of Beta Island. 

A Branching Canopy: 1 HP
A Brimstone Crater: 1 HP
A Beautiful Coastline: 1 HP

It is up to you to reinforce, evacuate, and otherwise prepare the island before the disaster hits.

During this event, the players can take measures to prepare Beta Island for the coming storm both on the forum and on Discord. Please tag your in-character threads with [STORM] to distinguish them from unrelated threads.

Some examples of tasks that help prepare Beta Island:

• Fortifying the docks and houses in the Base Camp
• Building boats or stormbreaks
• Mapping the whirlpools and currents
• Trying to convince Bunya or the fisherman to leave
• Making shelters for wild Pokemon or evacuating them to the mainland
• Investigating the High Tide Shrine

These are just examples. Any form of preparation (physical or psychological) is valid.

Making a post in one of the three Beta Island boards will increase the health bar of that area by 5 HP.

Making a short post in the event board on Discord will increase it by 2 HP.

The Storm approaches. Time is short. You have two weeks.
This event will end Monday, April 18.