<div align="center">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/2e/Wasteland_2560x16001.jpg)</div><br/>The news of an invasion had just reached Westermist, but it was already the primary choice of topic throughout the city.  The army was being mobilized to meet the invasion, and the wizards were rapidly preparing to meet the threat.  Of course, it was all for naught.  In the distance, standing on a tall mountain, the Temporal Wizard was already in the process of casting his spell.  His target was Tessa Rinn, a foolish young woman who had actually thought he valued her as an apprentice.  The ritual was completed, and the spell hit.<br/><br/>The spell 'splattered' on the city, hitting its targets, but also randomly striking thousands of others in a region more than a hundred miles across.  It would have taken more energy to be precise, and the Temporal Wizard was never one to waste when he didn't need to.  With a flash, people began to vanish.<br/><br/>The experience of being struck by the spell was unpleasant at best.  The world seemed to fall out from beneath the victim, even as their vision filled with flashing colours and their ears with screeching noises.  They fell for what felt like an eternity, then, suddenly,  it ended.  The world came crashing back to reveal a twisted wasteland of mud.<br/><br/>The city of Westermist had once sat near the center of Aldbarrow Valley, along the banks of the Fayhollow River.  Now, little remained.  The mountains that lined the valley to the east and west were shattered, their peaks jagged and broken.  The river was nothing but a tiny rivulet of sickly yellow liquid.  The valley was a wasteland of mud, not even a single blade of grass or tree left to fill a region that had once fed thousands.  Of the city only a crater, half filled with the same sickly yellow liquid as the river, remained.<br/><br/>The victims of the spell, at least those unfortunate to arrive now, each appeared with a flash in the area surrounding the crater.  They fell from the sky, landing in knee or waist deep mud, even as a cold rain began to drizzle from the overcast sky.<br/><br/><em>OOC: You can post you character's last actions before being hit by the spell if you like.   Then post their arrival, I will leave people to decide how close/far they are from each other when they arrive.  They appear on the edge of the crater, not actually within it.  Also, only the PCs are currently appearing, so no other people caught by the spell are about.<br/><br/>I haven't had a chance to go over the character sheets, but if you've posted one in the character thread, feel free to post here.</em><br/>