snowblindooc | Event: Shimmer

SHIMMER
It's not at all unusual for Norfinbury to be cold, but this most recent dip is a sharp, biting thing, and it comes on suddenly with the morning. It's more dangerous than usual to travel, and for more than just the increased risk of hypothermia: all around in the distance the air shimmers with a sort of haze, blurring the horizon. It makes it difficult to see where you're going and easy to get turned around or to fall off course from an intended destination. A shimmering, distant, ever-moving circle around each character. It's a weather phenomenon, of course, but each perspective is unique to the pair of eyes looking out, into the blurriness, into the way the air and the sky and the barriers between them warp. But such a weakened barrier between solid, knowable things is simply asking for the unknowable to slither in. Eyes, watching. Hands, reaching. Occasional glimpses of houses that aren't there, but perhaps they were before. Images of grass where there's certainly snow. The distance lies, the distance shows dangerous, peculiar things, and it doesn't help travel one bit. Film the strangeness, share it over the network, and it spreads--each unique vision crawls into the perspective of whoever happens to view it, and so on, until someone who watches enough of these will witness an endless circle of confusion no matter where they travel outside. If you're afflicted that badly, maybe you should just stay in until it blows over. As characters travel, they will be exposed to various mirages that go beyond what one would expect of such a phenomenon. These range from seeing rubble as houses in the distance and seeing different seasons off on the horizon to seeing eyes and hands and limbs watching and clawing in their direction. If shared on the network, everyone who views the hallucinations will find they can also see them on top of anything they were already seeing, so hallucinations could stack up quite a lot if someone allows them to. These hallucinations will last for the duration of the event.

Event: Shimmer

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