The Deluge on Vulture's Crag
By @john1208
Bronik died choking on mud when the rural basin of Ostran was swallowed by a catastrophic megaflood, betrayed by the woman he loved. Waking up three months before the disaster, he wastes no time. In a smoke-filled tavern, he signs away his fertile farmlands to his ex-fiancée and her arrogant new lover in exchange for a ruined watchtower on the highest, most worthless crag in the valley. Mocked as a spiteful madman, Bronik barricades himself away with a paranoid local brewer and a fiercely independent apothecary, stockpiling timber and rations. When the skies finally tear open and the valley transforms into a churning inland sea, the arrogant villagers come begging at his reinforced gates. Bronik is perfectly happy to let them drown. But his grim satisfaction evaporates when he realizes a terrifying truth he never lived long enough to see in his first life. The floodwaters are still accelerating. With a hidden second surge coming in exactly ten days that will submerge even the mountain's peak, Bronik must decide - will he use his former tormentors as desperate labor to build a floating ark, or let his vengeance drag him back to a watery grave?
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