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[Throughout the village, Sonic is quickly trying to dart around, looking for people in danger or even rubble to clear. He may not be super strong, but his speed and quills make digging through hard chunks of rock a breeze.]

[ everyone knows what sort of shape the clinic is in. shuri was unlucky enough not to escape the falling rubble. that room he was in completely caved in, leaving him trapped under a whole mess of heavy, sharp debris.

but don't worry, folks.

notakor has got this covered.]

[At the first light shake, Kratos didn't worry. When it grew dangerously fiercer and the walls began to groan and rumble, he knew that this was much more than some small quake.

It took him a few more seconds than he would've liked, considering the ground was shaking and Kratos found it difficult to keep his balance, but soon enough, he found Presea's room and carried her outside. The girl was still fatigued from the war against the third party, but she was wide awake by the time Kratos set her down on the ground.

He looked back at the shaking and roaring house, knowing that it was on the verge of collapsing... And yet he knew that he left behind some things that he couldn't allow to be destroyed.

For once, reason and logic lost. Kratos rushed back inside.]

[Immediately after the earthquake, Terra departs her house. She returns to grab her journal after a moment, leaving a quick message begging people she knows to check in and let her know if they're alright or if they need help. Then, she leaves a message for Shadow. As Secret-Keeper, he'll need to be available. Once that's done, she keeps going.

And...Terra will be all around town. Her main priority is heading to Community Building 1, but she will stop to assist any immediate need along the way, either with healing or lifting or the like. Even afterward, she will continue to make her way around town and help or heal anyone who needs it. At some point, Terra's likely to drop from exhaustion, but the young woman has a lot of stamina for someone of her build and size, and will keep trying to help those in need as long as possible.]

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[Rydia is currently staying at that cave in the mountains with Kain -taking time away from everyone else to help him and deal with her own grief- but that doesn't prevent her from warping over to the house soon after the quake. If Kain comes with her, that's fine, but she's not going to push him.

Upon reaching the second floor, she immediately begins calling out for everyone.]

Edward! Ceodore!

[Oh, and...she opens her journal and semi-yells into it.]

Golbez! Are you alright? Respond to me!

[In Community Building 3, it didn't take long after the quake began for Jay to realize that it was time to GTFO. So he grabbed his supplies bag and stuffed canned food into it, plus a can opener, and then his journal. He then grabbed his other "essentials," things he didn't really need, but just couldn't bear to do without. Like his birthday presents. He stuffed the paddle ball from Chibi-Usa, the wind chime from Shirley, and above all else, the Oresoren doll from Stella.]

[At that moment, he felt the floor cracking beneath him, and the ceiling cracking above him. Not wasting any more time, he dashed towards his window, crashing through the glass, falling to the ground below from the second story. He landed on his feet, rolling once to soften the landing. He shot a quick glance at the building before taking off to avoid the incoming debris of the collapsing building.]

[The moment Miyabi got down from the mountains after talking to Sanji (http://oda-hates-me.livejournal.com/18857.html?thread=2895529#t2895529), she took a little trip to her favorite spot in Luceti. She prayed every second that she was on the hawk she was riding that the sakura tree was still standing, and that Ammy would be there.

Ammy was the only one she knew who had the pure strength to help out with those who needed it most. And since she was half certain their powers had been returned to them, well. Ammy would be the best candidate for her to seek out right now.

When the two do meet, and Miyabi explains the situation to her goddess, they two are immediately racing off together - with Miya riding on the wolf's head - and will be stirring up some Divine Intervention left and right with a flick of their brushes.]

[Flight is a very useful ability to have when the earth starts to shake. Arche's out of her house and in the nice, safe air in seconds.

But she doesn't give herself any time to relax. From her vantage point it's all too easy to see what looks like the rest of the village starting to collapse in seconds. Cursing violently under her breath, she turns sharply and launches off at full speed, her destinations being House 34 and the SoS Brigade building, in that order.]

[Yuan hadn't been expecting much from today. The draft had only just ended, and with no New Feathers coming in, what could possibly happen? In short, he'd let his guard down. He came to regret that the moment the earthquake hit. Immediately jumping to his feet, he realized this wasn't just a bit of rumbling; it was a big one. He could feel the house's foundations shaking underneath him and knew there wasn't a moment to spare.

He pocketed his journal and dashed towards Martel's room in a matter of seconds. That was about as long as they had before the house's north east walls started to collapse and sink away into a tunnel.]

Martel!

[...Or more specifically, half of it. Or what's left of half of it. You see, there's a little problem that happens when half of your house happens to rest on top of the tunnels and the tunnels collapse. Namely, the house goes down with it. Or in this instance, the foundation partially gives way and the house bisects itself more or less and Haruki Suzumiya happens to go tumbling down with it. And a bunch of Earth and-

Well the point is that he ends up buried under a ton of things but in a room of sorts. It takes him a while to awake - there's limited light buried under all this stuff so he's not sure if it's minutes or hours, but he's waking up late to limited light from little gaps in the rubble. Oh and a flashlight which - damn his luck is good - happened to fall and click on a little to his right.

Looking around, as best he can figure, he's in the remains of the downstairs bathroom. Of course... well. He's not alone down here either. There is one other fellow who is trapped down here with him. Specifically a little to his left (though Haruki seems to recall him being on top of him earlier...)]

[An early morning breakfast. Some light reading in the living room. Leon's morning was pretty lazy, and much appreciated after the draft. He's working on the floor of his room, tinkering and experimenting on new flows for symbols he had gotten his hands on, when the quaking starts.]

What the...

[He stumbles to his feet, but quickly discovers that's not the best idea when he's thrown against the wall. His eyes widen as he hears the sounds of wood and plaster cracking, and he smacks against the floor as he scrambles towards his desk. The various items he had been taking apart in his room crash and make considerable noise, and he squeezes underneath the desk in time to see the roof collapse on top of his bed.

When the tremors finally stop, he can't see out from underneath the desk anymore; there is dust all over, the debris blocks off the majority of his room, and it's far too quiet.

He starts yelling. For Rena. For anyone.]

[Derek was, of all things, in the shower when the quake hit. He heard the warning rumbles, of course, but he was in the process of trying to rinse shampoo out of his hair when the shaking started. He immediately cranked the water off, bracing himself where he was; he'd lived in Cali long enough to know it was too late. In the bathroom, and in other places, stuff tumbled from shelves and off the walls. Derek winced at the sound of breaking glass, wondering if it was the dishes he'd left drying on the sink, or the windows of the house.

After a moment, the tremors stopped. Derek could already hear people outside calling out, maybe a few screams, collapsing buildings. House 55 seemed all right, but that didn't mean anything. He grabbed a towel, wrapping it around himself as he called out to whatever housemates might still be home.]

Raphael? Don? Casey? You guys all right?

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[The Avatar house took some of the least damage, and is remarkably still intact. So Katara shakes herself off and reaches quickly for her journal.]

Everyone okay? Sokka? Toph?

[And after exchanging a few words, she heads over to where the most damage has been done - towards buildings C1 and C2.

Katara breaks into a run over the uneven ground when she hears it, the sound of powerfully rushing water. Whatever damage had been done had loosed the river from its banks. That's a lot even for a master waterbender to handle. But that doesn't mean she's not going to try. If anyone's in trouble along the river, give her a shout - if not, she'll be busy trying to make dams out of ice.]

[Despite the fact that her house actually was one that collapsed completely, Iris is out trying to rescue anyone else she can. She got herself out of the rubble of house #2 quickly enough via her teleportation skills and is headed out to building #3 after talking to Adell.

If anyone is in building 3 and needs a rescue, feel free to comment, also anyone else out rescuing people can use this thread for the folks helping out there.]

[Well, the Who house certainly took enough damage ~~again~~. Especially considering it's now a huge heap. It never does seem to get a break, though this time, it seems like it had been occupied.

Lucky for Jenny however, a beam managed to keep most of the buildings weight off of her, though it had hardly stopped a part of the house from falling on top of her leg.

She could easily feel the pain soaring through it, and could feel some blood seeping through her clothes, but it was hardly a time to worry about that as she felt around searching for the best way out. After some time, she managed to find a loose plank above her, and pushed up on it, feeling it shift as the sunlight came through. Using a little more of her strength, she managed to shift it just enough to crawl through the small hole she had made, ignoring the pain in her leg as she dragged herself out through it and took in the damage. Everything she could see was a mess, and the house was in worse shambles then she had expected, but again, that wasn't something she could think about quite yet. Especially since she knew there had been someone else in the house.]

Dad! Can you hear me?! Are you okay?! [She was yelling as loud as she could manage, and she could only hope that he was okay.]

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[When the rumbling had begun, Bella had been sitting upon her bed, just pulling on her shoes, ready for a day out, and though she had quickly managed to stand, she found her own klutziness working against her, as she stumbled to the floor. Again, she managed to stand up and this time make it to the door of her bedroom, only to be thrown to the floor again by the vibrations of the earthquake.

Beside her, she heard glass shatter as a vase fell and she watched as part of the building began to fall apart, a beam landing in front of the front door, her exit. She was trapped. The building falling apart piece by piece, and there was no way out. Wonderful, she really did seem to have the worst luck. How was she getting out of this one?]

[Yuzu was unfortunate enough to be in her room when Community Building 3 began to shake. She immediately drops to the ground under her desk, as the building crashes down around her. Luckily enough she is not on the side of the building that tips into the tunnel.

When the shaking stops her door is unusable, but fortunately the cracked window beside her is still intact. She climbs out of it, pushing her way through a layer of rubble to burst out into the sunlight covered in cement dust. Also, extremely freaked out. She manages to get a few feet from the sinking building before collapsing to the ground herself.]

[Jennifer should have known something was wrong when Brown lifted his head from his usual spot at her feet and let loose a low, ominous growl that eventually trailed off into a pitiful whimper. She frowned before leaning down to stroke his head in an attempt to comfort the animal, but he was already up, fur standing on end and tail tucked in between his legs. It wasn't until a moment later when a rumble rolls across the ground that she discovered what had caused her beloved pet such agitation.

Her breath catches in her throat and her stomach knots up in fear as the shaking becomes more and more vicious, the various knickknacks she had acquired during her stay falling and shattering unforgivingly onto the floor. Jennifer remains frozen to the spot, unaware she was now gripping the front of her dress so hard that the knuckles has turned white, unaware that her breathing was becoming faster and more panicked with each passing second. Everything in her line of sight had changed somehow; the modestly decorated apartment room was now morphing into an austere sort of elegance she had only seen once before; in the low-lit compartments of the first-class wing of an airship.

But it was not very lovely to look at now, as the room gave a dangerous lurch and suddenly, Jennifer was acutely aware that they were hurtling to the ground in a mass of machinery and flames, and mother, oh mother-

Jennifer, soft and nervous though she was, tended to have very subdued reactions for her emotions. Most situations only managed to elicit a fearful expression or a troubled frown. Maybe some light crying if the situation was particularly traumatizing.

Therefore, it's a bit strange that upon being part of this unfortunate event, Jennifer chooses to react by letting out a shrill scream of pure terror. Her legs gave way and she crumpled limply to the ground, vaguely noting the echoing thud of her head hitting the floor and the dull pain that followed, before her consciousness grayed and faded away.]

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[When the ground began to lightly shake, Gold didn't think much of it at first. As a Pokemon trainer, you're used to that sort of thing all the time, right?

When the shaking began to increase in intensity without signs of stopping, he began to get worried, so he started gathering up the Pokemon that were still in the house and not with their trainers.

When the house started rumbling, with things falling off the wall, well... That was a sign to get the hell out.

So now Gold's standing outside over on the bridge, surrounded by various Pokemon belonging to him and his housemates, as the house begins to crumble apart from the earthquake.]

Dammit...

[As soon as he'd felt the first rumbles in the earth, Lexaeus had moved to higher ground. Building were hardly were one wanted to be in an earthquake, and he could no more have stopped it than Demyx the tides.

As soon as the shaking stops, however, he's out looking for anyone who might need help, or those who are still trapped.]

[Did we pick one heck of a time to go swimming? Nami's already attempting to pull herself out of the river as the first shock hits, when the ground bucks under her feet and sends her toppling back into the water with a yelp.

The riverbed is a wreck, splitting in places as the weight of rock and mud and the water itself tries to bear down on the tunnel that crosses beneath, and the drag of the water as it tries to rush down through gaping cracks that didn't exist a minute ago is too powerful for someone who doesn't have the strength of most of her crew. And so now? There's some highly panicked shrieking and flailing as one (1) navigator tries her best not to get sucked down with the river.]

((...and

threeswordsoul's got this one. Er. Sort of.))

[9:30 AM finds Arumat in his usual spot at the barracks, shredding practice dummies with his scythe. He's just landed a particularly hard blow when the entire building and the ground itself begin to shake with a surprising force; while he's never experienced an earthquake before, it doesn't take a genius to realize that something not-so-good is going on, and as soon as the shaking subsides enough for him to run without losing his balance, he's racing for House 25 as fast as his legs can carry him.

Not that he's worried about Myuria and Draco or anything, of course.]

WAAAAAAAAUGH! [Ash tried to get out, but, the room collapsed on him and his Pokemon. Thankfully, there are ground type moves available to him. So, with much scraping and digging noises, a hole appears at the top of the rubble! FREEDOM! A filthy Ash and his equally filthy Pokemon emerge!]

Wh-what the heck just happened?!

Monferno! Grotle! Buizel!

[STUPID EARTHQUAKE, STUPID LUCETI, STUPID EVERYTHING

Asch doesn't have much time to waste with cursing, but that isn't going to stop him from doing it under his breath. As if everything else that had happened wasn't enough, now their house was falling down?

Good thing they already had the morning coffee.]

Guy!?

[There's nothing quite like an emergency to kick things into high gear, and since there's still people he needs to find, that's what he's doing. He's also floating a bit as he goes looking, but that'll wear of eventually.

First things first: where's Rinoa?]

location: various

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location: house 19

location: all over

location: House 59

Location: C3 and getting away from it!

Location: Everywhere.

Location: The Sky

Location: House #8

Location: House 10