EVENT: Storm Warning Resolution

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EVENT: STORM WARNING RESOLUTION

The earliest hours of Morning 021 promise more of the same from the last three days - black, swirling clouds, torrential downpours, howling gusts of wind that churn the seas and push already swollen rivers and tear down trees by the dozens. But as the sun starts to rise and backlight the perpetual vortex of thunderheads, suddenly, things change.

It doesn't matter where you are on the island. Four beams of light appear from distant points in the ocean, in tiles I, VIII, IX, and XII, although all of them seem faint and gutter out frequently. A brief pulse of something luminescent from the ocean in tile XV follows suit. Then, like a piece of paper burning over a fire, the storm melts away into a foggy morning sky.

SETTING CHANGES

Several things have changed on the island in the wake of the multi-day freak storm.

• Plenty of items, natural and unnatural, have been blown onto the beaches and dropped from the sky, replenishing areas that have otherwise been scoured by character investigations. In addition, unique items and animals have appeared; finding them during the storm is more likely, but ones that are not discovered during those IC dates can still be found afterwards.
• The island seems to be aware that too much water fell during the storm. Areas flooded from the ocean and rivers dry up within the day, and for the foreseeable future, there will be no rain. Hope everyone stockpiled enough rainwater over the last three days, or knows where their nearest clean river is!
• Character-made landmarks associated with temporary camps/campfires/other unfortified structures will no longer be visible on the map; these will be removed from the map systematically as more search requests through the storm event dates are processed, to verify that protected/maintained landmarks remain marked.

Aside from these points, travel times are the same as they were pre-storm and the map has no notable changes.