Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #53 - The Flood

Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !

I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀

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The prompt this week is - The Flood

Floods can be terrifying things. Most cultures have a myth of a great flood, especially those originating around the Black Sea, but there were other great floods at the end of the last Ice Age in North America and the Altai region. Then there are modern floods, most memorably the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. On a smaller scale, local flooding can still leave a mark. I remember as a child seeing the River Thames flooding in Kingston and being amazed that what I'd always thought of as safe dry land was transformed into a great expanse of murky, fast-flowing water.

Tell me of a flood in your setting, whether apocalyptic or small-scale, or even of something not consisting of water. How do people react to seeing it, how do they escape it, and what possessions do they grab first to try to save from it ?

Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.

This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.

Guidelines

I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....

• Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
• Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
• Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
• Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
• Prompt replies can be any length.

Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:

• Freewriters
• Scholar and Scribe
• Tabletop / DND
• The Ink Well

It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.