199.4
READ ONE:
If you have completed POWER UP:
All around you, you hear a low humming that vibrates almost beyond your hearing. Lights and other strange simulations flicker on through the tunnels underground, and the very air around you feels charged. Whatever you did with Silaro at the Concordant Ziggurats has energized the entire Valley in a way none of you have experienced before.
If you are on an arcology map, replace the weather with A Preserved Day.
If you are currently on POWER UP:
You start your day atop a Ziggurat. You wake to find Silaro already hard at work. Suddenly he yelps in surprise.
"Ohh! That was a bit more energetic than—”
Before he can complete his thought, the platform bucks beneath you.
Read 1.109a.
If neither of the above is true, and you are at a location on the Valley map:
The air around you feels dry and charged. You feel your clothes crackle with static, and can taste copper at the back of your throat. It’s almost like you’re in the midst of an approaching thunderstorm, but this is far more intense than any thunderstorm you’ve ever seen. Then, suddenly, the ground bucks and shakes beneath you! You hear a roaring deep in the earth for several minutes before the shaking stops. When it does, you leap to your feet. You realize with a sickening lurch that people within the arcology could well have been trapped or injured by that earthquake!
Record FELT A SUDDEN QUAKE on the campaign tracker. Cross off the above-ground weather for today and the next 12 days and record Electric Fog in its place and swap the current weather for Electric Fog. Then read 199.4A.
If neither of the above is true, and you are at a location on the Valley map:
With a crackling whoosh, lights flicker on through the tunnels. Machines begin to hum, some exploding in showers of sparks as the power surge overloads their circuits, others rumbling into motion as they perform inscrutable tasks.
Then, the tunnels jolt and shake all around you! You try to support yourself as the earth groans and heaves for several minutes before falling silent. Then you pick yourself up. You look around. This part of the tunnels survived, but with a sickening lurch, you realize that your friends down here may not have been so lucky!
Record FELT A SUDDEN QUAKE on the campaign tracker. Cross off the above-ground weather for today and the next 12 days and record Electric Fog in its place and swap the current weather for Electric Fog. Then read 199.4A.
199.4A
If you don’t have any locations marked as unexplored on your campaign tracker, record ORLIN'S VAULT EXPLORED.
If you have the SEARCH BELOW (SILARO), SURVEY THE DEPTHS, THE DESCENT, or AN URGENT REQUEST missions, complete them.
Gain the COLLAPSE! (KAL IVER, HARLAN VOS, QUISI VOS) mission and record 199.5 3 days from now on the day tracker.