Editing Falling Oak Avenue (section)

===Watertower===
The first length features a falling watertower which falls alongside the Finder until the conditions to reach the next length are reached. Every fifty seconds, a newspaper will hit the Finder, open to the weather page, which predicts an imminent change in weather or other environmental conditions. In order of decreasing probability are increased wind, rain or lighting, decreased temperature, or darkness, the last of which may variously be attributed to nightfall, an eclipse, a power outage, or the end of the world, and eliminates ambient light, but not that provided by lights on buildings, debris, or Lost. The watertower may also spray water. The effects can stack, and repetitions will intensify the effects. All the accumulated effects remain for the rest of the Path, not resetting until the Path is completed. This length ends when the Finder goes through a door or window.<ref>'''First Length - the Watertower'''<br><br>Waste no time. The first length always has a freefalling watertower to the left or right of it. The longer one remains here, the worse the wind and weather become. Exact specifics are not yet known, but every fifty seconds that pass, the practitioner will be struck in the face (or a waiting hand, if they are prepared with hand in front of face) with the weather pages, notifying them of the imminent weather effect.<br><br>The effects (and rough odds) are added wind (35% chance), rain (25% chance), lightning (25% chance), a drop in temperature (10% chance), or the Avenue plummets into night (5% chance). These effects are determined anew each fifty seconds, accumulate, and interact with one another. Wind, if multiple instances build up, will increase until the Finder is in the midst of a tornado. Rain will limit visibility, but can become torrential. Lightning is apparently harmless at first instances, but there is a steeply increasing chance of the lightning striking the finder if multiple instances of it build up. This invariably kills the practitioner.<br><br>Cold weather is deceptively dangerous, with the first instance lowering the temperature from 20C to 3C, and each instance lowering the temperature another 17C. Even the first lowering of the temperature may be dangerous if the watertower is shedding water.<br><br>The 'night' effect (sometimes termed the eclipse, power saving measures, or the end of the world by the weather pages) eliminates all light sources but those shed by the falling buildings, streetlamps, etc. This makes traversing the Avenue much harder.<br><br>The checkpoint is cleared when one maneuvers their fall to fly through a door or window. Take care not to touch the floor in the process. The weather effects remain in play until the Finder has left the Avenue. Expect to take two to three minutes to navigate the first length, finding an appropriate aperture, positioning oneself, and passing through. - [https://old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/hp8xmw/_/fy8jyl6 Wildbow comment on Reddit]</ref><ref>Newspaper came flying up.  Avery blocked it with her hand, to keep it from smacking her in the face, and the back pages fluttered out on all sides.  She read the weather page the paper had been open to.<br><br>''Meteor to strike town.  Dark days ahead.''<br><br>“Fuuuuck!” Jude shouted.<br><br>She pushed it away, and saw that while the pages had blocked her view of the sky, things had gone dark.<br><br>Starless, sunless, moonless night.<br><br>The only thing shedding any light at all on the Avenue now were the porch and interior lights of the houses, streetlamps, and a single car with flickering headlights. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/03/06/gone-and-done-it-17-10/ Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.10]]</ref>