Flashia In A New World

River Calamity (april fools 2026)

There he is, the Lore Ducc himself out cold on his chair...

Ahem... hang on a second...

OI LIMA!

"...W-What?"

What day is it?

"...Friday?"

"Friday what?"

"Friday 27th of March?"

"..."

"Oh shi-"

...

A certain folks in discord would probably know this (or not), but there is in fact what is known as the Varikan Canal which separates Western Gestrae (the likes of Esterria, Naeslagtland, La Ferdina) and Eastern Gestrae (Gošbania, Varika). That being said, Varika does have land in Western Gestrae. It's not that big compared to the rest of Varika but it's still as big as an average country...

Or was anyways, as most of that land is what is now known as Reslania, all except for one part of the land still under the Varikan Empire's control. And what stopped the Confederation from just roll up and take it up until this point was a damn river.

But that is going to change, said Kramovskiy.

3,120km from Jefermai.
A wolf-eared lieutenant from the Reslanian Army stares at his map depicting the river that stands between his troops and Varika. Then he puts it down to see the wide river as he stands on one side of the bank.

"...Öh..."

He rolls the the map in.

"Well then... how do we get over there?" he asked his fellow officers.

One of which, who is a literal bear would take a sip from a cup of Mine (pronounced MI-nay) soda.

The other, a fox man, rubbed his chin as he looked around.

"...Can't we just get boats to get across?" he suggested "I mean... we're the 3rd Marine Battalion for crying out loud"

"Good point, however..." the lieutenant pulls out his wallet, opened it wide, and shook it down only for dirt to come out "We have no money, so no bote"

"That totally makes no sense but fine then..."

Once again, they intently looked upon the river and the other side of the bank... all while the bear's still sipping that Mine soda.

"So... how cross river?"

The lieutenant grunted as he squint, deep in thought for what to do about their predicament...

"Ah, to hell with it" he finally turns around "Let's just try everything we got"

...

The lieutenant jumps into the river and began to swim his way through. Being a decent build with a great stamina himself, he'd find himself not much trouble as he swims towards the Varikan side. However, there is one major caveat... the river is wider than the wingspan of an entire squadron of A400M transport aircraft combined.