Water rushes hard beneath the floorboards, hidden and too loud. Purple points at the drainage grate, where mud and grit choke the pipe mouth. If it backs up, the greenhouse flood starts from below.
Purple
Green, clear that blockage. Blue, hold the cover when it breaks free.
Blue plants both feet near the iron grate, shoulders set, ready to lift by force if the jam gives. Orange crouches close by with a pry bar, watching the seam. The storm hammers the roof ribs overhead.
Green moves to the drain, kneels, and digs into the silt-packed mouth of the pipe. Wet grit spills over her hands as she clears a channel for the water to run.
Orange
That’s it, Green, keep it open. I’ve got your back.
The blockage loosens. Dirty water surges through the opening instead of pooling under the boards. Blue jerks the iron cover upward just enough to widen the drain, then steadies it while the flow clears.
Purple
Good. If that pressure keeps dropping, the greenhouse stays standing.
✓ Quest Accepted
Keep the greenhouse from flooding
“I scrape the remaining silt from the grate to ensure the water flows freely.”
SUCCESS (Great Survival, rolled +2)
Green scrapes her fingers through the last clinging silt, and the drain mouth opens wider. The water answers at once, pulling hard and clean under the boards.
A loose clump breaks free with a suck of mud, followed by a thin scrap of metal that rattles out of sight. The floor stops shivering beneath the grate.
Blue the Colossus
There. It’s moving right.
Purple
Keep it that way. Let the pressure bleed off.
The dirty surge thins to a steady run. No water creeps back over the boards, and the greenhouse’s underside begins to quiet.
Orange lowers the pry bar a fraction, eyes still on the seam, while Green’s hands come up clean of the worst of the muck.
Quest Complete
Keep the greenhouse from flooding