Observing the Inevitable

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Power of the group - Need for individuality - Struggle for control - An inevitable end

A dangerous element—an island-sized thunder cube—sits outside the colony's home, waiting to explode, yet the members cannot agree upon its danger. Will it destroy the Thunder Coast, and the group with it, or remain dormant?

Days have turned into seasons, and the members question whether the danger is finally great enough to abandon the place they have called home for generations. But the miners have yet to reach their prize in the mines—the rare, floating element, icathial—and they refuse to leave without it. Conversations quickly turn into accusations. Should they save themselves or chance death and wait to leave with the icathial? As troubles arise and relationships are stretched, the members lean on their culture of unity to save the group, not realizing it is more dangerous than the cube outside their home.

Observing the Inevitable explores the build-up to the collapse of a group's cultural identity, leaving its members in confusion and crisis. Told from multiple perspectives, it deals with groupthink, control amidst the loss of trust, traditions, the stages of grief, misplaced identity, death, and separation. Each person responds to emotional pain differently. Will they hold onto everything they have known or allow for change to heal their wounds?