The year was 2022, the world was finally over a global pandemic and was now roaring back to life. One of the cities worse hit by the pandemic was New Orleans, with heavy focus on tourism coming down to the city on the Mississippi River was now back to life. One thing which most people didn’t know about the city was that it has a huge oil and gas business with multiple pipe lines and oil wells and that out in the swamps teams drill for new oil deposits often.
“Frank give, it more power!” yelled the crew chief as the massive drill went deeper into the earth.
“I am hitting something!” yelled the operator
“Just a big rock, the survey team said they saw a massive rock at this level and only 100 feet lower a large deposit of crude oil.” Explain the crew chief “Give it more power!”
The operator pulled a few controls as the drill pushed deeper into the “rock”; it gave a little as the operator pulled more controls to drop the drill down. Little did they know they had just broken the vault containing a massive magical shard and now the drill head was less than a foot away from the very fragile shard.
Only a dozen miles away from the drill sight a couple of kids where getting off the school bus and with book bags over their shoulders headed toward their homeroom class. They had no idea what was about to happen to them.
Near the school at one of the old Southern Plantations houses the staff was busy preparing the old house for an upcoming wedding which would happen that very day. It was a mad house as the staff prepared as the bride, groom and the wedding party got ready. All of them unaware of what was about to happen.
Near the heart of the city people were arriving to work, men and women in business suits where riding elevators up to their offices or sitting down at their desks before running off to get some coffee before the start of the morning.
A few tourists where stumbling home after a long night out drinking on the famous bourbon street. A few college kids yelled drunkly about Spring Break as they headed toward their hotel. While other tourist a few miles away where boarding cruise ships getting ready to leave from the busy harbor.
A Jazz performer was playing on a street corner unaware just like everyone else what was about to happen. A single mother walking home from her job at a night club threw in a few dollars to help the old man out, she too was unaware of what was about to happen. A man about her age tipped his hat to her as they passed, he was getting off his job as a haunted tour guild serving the massive amounts of tourist who came to the old city.
Back in the swamp, the drill head dropped another foot and hitting the shard. The shard was a fragile as glass and once hit it turned basically to dust. When that happened a massive amount of blue/green energy shot upwards sending the drill head flying upwards.
“Get back!” yelled the crew chief as the drill head went flying, he thought it was a blow back but instead of black oil it was this strange energy which shot outwards washing over the crew.
“What was that?” inquired the operator as the energy dissipated leaving the air still for a moment.
The energy wave shot outwards, washing over the kids in the school causing everyone to pause and look around confused even as some of the energy entered their bodies. The people at the plantation stopped as the wave shot passed them, some of the energy entering their bodies. It washed over the drunken tourists and the ones on the cruise ships, it came into the people in their office buildings and around their coffee machines. It caused the Jazz performer to stop playing as he felt the energy entering his body as the two 3rd shifters paused what they where doing and looked around confused.
All of them where wondering what had just happened and none of them where prepared for what was going to happen to them in a few moments.