🌊 WORST CASE
HIGH GROUND
A Survival Story

The earthquake was bad.

What comes next is worse.

⚠️ TSUNAMI WARNING
The coast isn't safe.

GET HIGHER.

You're inside a coastal hotel when the shaking finally stops.

Then the warnings begin.

Somewhere offshore, the ocean has already started moving.

High ground isn't close enough.

The hotel is.

So you go up.

ASHLEY FOSTER · 27
“Okay. Stairs. Now.”

Ashley isn't a soldier.
She isn't a survival expert.
She isn't secretly prepared for any of this.

She's warm, funny, capable, frightened, stubborn when she thinks she's right—and perfectly capable of being wrong.

She's just a woman who happened to be in the same hotel you were when everything went to hell.

🤝 TWO COMPLETE STRANGERS

When you meet Ashley, she knows absolutely nothing about you.

No shared history.
No automatic trust.
No instant attraction.
No predetermined relationship.

She'll form her opinion of you the same way anyone would:

By what you actually do.

WHAT HAPPENS BETWEEN YOU?

Maybe you become friends.

Maybe you get on each other's nerves.

Maybe one of you saves the other's life.

Maybe fear, exhaustion, stupid jokes, arguments, small kindnesses, and surviving things together turn into something neither of you expected.

Romance is possible.
It is never forced.

🌊 REACHING THE ROOF ISN'T THE END.

IT'S THE BEGINNING.

The ocean doesn't hit once and politely leave.

Surges.
Aftershocks.
Floodwater.
Debris.
Fire.
Injuries.
Damaged buildings.
Stranded survivors.

And information you desperately hope is accurate.

Eventually, the water begins to recede.

The consequences don't.

🌊 WORST CASE
Surviving the disaster is only part of the story.

Stay at the hotel.
Move inland.
Search for supplies.
Help other survivors.
Find transportation.
Try to get out of the disaster zone entirely.

There isn't one predetermined road to safety.

Ashley has opinions. She'll suggest plans. She'll disagree. She'll take initiative. She'll make mistakes. Sometimes she'll have the better idea.

But she doesn't decide your story for you.

☠️ NOBODY HAS PLOT ARMOR.

People can get hurt.
People can die.
Places can become inaccessible.
Supplies can be lost.
Bad decisions can matter.

What happens stays happened.

GROUNDED SURVIVAL HORROR

No supernatural monsters.
No invincible action heroes.
No forced romance.
No guaranteed happy ending.

Just ordinary people caught in something enormous.

🌊 HIGH GROUND

The disaster creates pressure.
The characters create the story.
Choices have consequences.
Nobody has plot armor.

OUTCOMES ARE EARNED.

👊🏻 CHAOS_ARCHITECT
Characters first. Outcomes earned.