Day 1 - Morning

Morning: 06:00am - 12:00noon

[ IRL Timeframe: February 18th - February 25th, 2019 ]

The day begins quietly, with no indications that anything strange could occur today. The Princess and the Knights have all arrived on the island. Maybe you arrived a few days ago or maybe you just got off your red-eye flight before the sun came up. Everyone's on Harsen Island and so is the Wizard.

Things start simpler for Luka Eutychia, Olivia Walkyr, and Rory Honeycomb. The instant they set foot on the island, Olivia and Rory will both get an image of Luka in their heads and realize that they are the good-allured knights and he's the Princess. Luka, meanwhile, will see both Olivia and Rory in his thoughts and realize they're the good allured knights.

The Weather

Sunny.

72°F / 22°C

Slightly breezy, makes the trees wave.

Prompts:

6:00am: It's the early morning celebration van! In all three towns, someone's driving around a vehicle playing blaring music and shouting "Let's go Knights! Let's go Princess! Beat that Wizard!". Seems like someone wants the heroes to succeed, hopefully your characters weren't sleeping. If you confront them, maybe they'll have something to say?

8:00am: Far Haven: All Knights and the Princess are invited to a big breakfast banquet. Come one, come all! Maybe meet some of the locals? Maybe chat with your fellow heroes? All knights are given lanyards, but the princess gets a lanyard and a crown if he's here, and they're all seated at the big hero table.

9:30am: Bamborough: All Knights and the Princess are invited to an oceanside brunch! Wether they live in Bamborough or they live elsewhere and visited here, they're welcome to eat the brunch and participate in waterfront games. Thank the resort owner for this welcome! Or chat it up with your fellow heroes by the water. By now everyone should be full.

11:00am: Craydon: Craydon's welcome is much more modest, the locals have invited the Princess and his knights to the local Multipurpose Center. They've set out a spread of light appetizers, chips and dips, vegetables and spreads, fresh breads and cheeses, modest drinks. It's the least extravagant of the welcomes but the locals are still here to meet and greet everyone. With a smile and a handshake they wish everyone the best of luck. How are you and your fellow heroes holding up with all this attention? Did you skip all these events? Attend all of them?

11:30am: The Wizard (Year 40 She/Her/Hers) strides in to the Craydon Multipurpose Center with her hands in her pockets and casually looks around the room with a gentle smile on her face and huge bags under her eyes. Her eyes are black with cyan sparkles in them, looking very much like outer space itself as she scans the room and everyone in it. Good luck for anyone here, they get first dibs on seeing the Wizard. She'll be shuffling around the multipurpose center in her light blue pajamas and bunny slippers, occasionally adjusting her tiny glasses as she looks around. At least she's got her wizard hat on so no one could miss what she looks like this year. It's a shocking difference from the big muscled dude (Year 39 He/Him/His) she was last year or the slick suit-wearing smooth talker (Year 38 They/Them/Theirs) they were the year before but it's still absolutely the same wizard.

Procedure::

Reply to the appropriate toplevel comments for events below. Indicate if a post is a private conversation with "Private" in the subject otherwise all threads should be open to interaction with others. Plan OOCly how you'd like to toss everyone around. Several simultaneous wizard conversations can exist in the replies, she's going to stick around to talk to everyone. Feel free to OOCly decide what order they spoke in or leave it a mystery.

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Zafika hears rustling, and then a robotic voice responding to their question. Text to speed program? Huh, was he mute then? Not that it really made any difference to them, but they made sure to remember that.

"Hmm... yeah, too many people for my taste too... you're one of the knights right? Which one are you?" They're being rather forward with their questions, they don't see a point in asking things indirectly, the more they know about the other knights, the better.

Okay, this...this was fine he supposed. They were asking questions, and they were a Knight too so, this, this should be okay, he could answer questions.

"A-ah, yeah, I'm...I'm the Rat Knight, Seth Samara. A-and you are?"

Rat Knight huh? Zafika hums quietly in response to Seth introducing himself, and while he does that, they take a moment to take a sip from their water, since food isn't really agreeing with them.

"Zafika, the Snake Knight."

Seth nodded absentmindedly. Snake Knight. Well their appearance certainly matched their animal companion he supposed.

"It's...n-nice to meet you? I mean...we'll be working together and all that, trying to save the world and what not-"

No stupid don't go there you'll make yourself think about it. Seth ended up curling into himself again, biting his nails.
The anxiety was practically coming off from him in waves.

"Yeah, it's nice to meet you."

Zafika can feel the anxiety radiating from Seth, and supress a sigh before they can make it. Oh dear. So they ended up with the really anxious knight. They weren't good with comforting people, and he was still a stranger to boot too.

"So, how long have you been on the island?" Distractions worked, right? Besides, they'd end up feeling awkward if they'd just have to sit there in silence while Seth was working himself to a panic attack or just worsened anxiety. So something like this was probably good enough.

Seth was more than happy to take the distraction, honestly very grateful for it. Later, he'd let himself panic later.

His typing was a bit more shaky but still easy enough to understand.
"Oh, um I actually just got here, a bit over 6 hours ago. I uh, left coming here pretty last minute."

"Six hours...? You, really left it for last minute..." Zafika frowns a little underneath their blindfold, since they had arrived to the island in the early evening on the previous day. And they had only found out about being a knight the day before that.

If Seth had had a voice he would have let out an awkward laugh.

"W-well I, really didn't want to come here you know? But I'd end up here anyway in the end and at least this way I could bring all my f-friends."

Zafika nods a little, they can sort of understand Seth's reasoning for his late arrival.

"I guess that's fair enough... I got here early yesterday evening, I wanted to get to go outside since I'm allowed to do that now... knights really have huge privileges huh...?"

Seth was a little confused by that statement. Allowed to go outside...?

"Yeah I...guess so. Um...what, what do you mean by 'allowed to go outside'? Y-you don't have to answer of course if you don't want to!"

"Ah... I guess you haven't followed the news that much..? Not that I blame you, I only today glanced at the interviews today so I could try to recognise the other knights."

Seth did say they don't have to answer, but Zafika has nothing to hide, and it would come up either way at some point. "But, well, I'm that knight who was rumoured to be in prison before this. And it's not even a rumour so..." They kind of just leave the sentence hanging with a shrug of their shoulders, and manage to eat a little bit of food while they let Seth take in the news that he was talking with a criminal. And an assassin to boot, but if their name hadn't said anything to him, he probably wouldn't realise from this additional information.

Seth absolutely hadn't followed the news, rather he'd tried to avoid them really.
So understandably the news that he was currently talking to a criminal, was a big shock, and honestly scared Seth, making him freeze in place, his heart leaping to his throat.
Oh god...he shouldn't have asked. Because now he was scared and unsure what to say and now things were awkward.
Since they were a Knight he didn't really think Zafika would straight up attack or harm him, but...
Rationalizing didn't do anything to ease his anxiety that had just leaped up. Shakily he dug Abigail out of his bag to clutch her to his chest, signing to himself with his free hand while shakily typing with the other. Calm down you dummy.

"O-oh...um...y-yeah I've been kind of avoiding the news..."

Zafika had fully expected a reaction like this, and this was still a very mild reaction to have, but it didn't remove the fact that it was always a hassle trying to convince people that they weren't going to hurt them. Even without knowing that they were an assassin, if people heard that they're an ex-convict, their immediate thoughts tended to be that they were dangerous and violent.

"Hmm, figured, explains why you came this close to me without being nervous. No need to worry though, the only ones in danger are the monsters and the wizard. I'm not about to let the world end when I can do something about it. But you and everyone else are safe. Having said that, it's okay if you'd rather keep your distance. Can't blame you for that."

Seth jerked his head around to look at Zafika when he heard the last couple sentences. And then he just felt so horrible it basically pushed the anxiety and fear momentarily completely out of his mind, sort of at least.
Here he was, making assumptions and assuming the worst in Zafika, even though they had give him absolutely no reason to, even when they were being this understanding even though of course him reaction by becoming scared the moment he learned they were an ex-convict probably had to at least sting.

He was being as judgemental as all the people who laughed and though him weird just because of his hobby. It almost made him feel sick.
And it made him symphatize with Zafika a little.

Seth took a shaky but deep breath, setting Abigail on his lap...
And then slapped himself on the cheeks as hard as he could.
Before then starting to quickly sign to himself, going through the conversations he'd had with his puppet friends about how he hated how people always just assumed and wouldn't give him a chance and how he never wanted to do that.

With the silence following their words, Zafika had assumed Seth was trying to come with a way to politely leave the situation, they understood if he wanted to do that.

So, when they suddenly hear the loud, sudden harsh slap they end up twitching, head snapping to the side to look in Seth's general direction, despite not actually seeing what he had done, they didn't want to risk paralysing him.

But, it had sounded like he slapped himself? Why? There was no reason for him to do that. "I-I'm... I'm sorry, are you... did you just slap yourself...? Why..?"

Seth's lips quirked up just slightly in the tiniest smile at the question as he took in another deep breath and just letting it out, willing his anxiety to stay where it was and not overwhelm him completely. Yeah, he was still anxious, he was still scared. But that didn't mean he had to act rude and in the exact way he hated people acting towards him.

When he started typing again to answer Zafika, it was back to the original fast pace, and no longer unsteady or shaky.
"Yeah, I guess I did. And...I'm sorry. Instinctive or not I shouldn't have reacted like that. You haven't given me any reason to be afraid of you, and yet here I am, making assumptions and being judgemental...even though it's the one thing I hate the most when anyone does it. But I refuse to be a hypocrite."

While his phone was playing the first bit he dug out some violet colored hyacinths, offering them to Zafika.
"Even if you can't really see them, here, they're hyacinths...violet ones. They mean apology, to ask for forgiveness."

Zafika frowns beneath their blindfold as they listen to the voice read out what Seth had written, they, hadn't actually expected him to apologise for being scared, especially when it was completely natural and understandable for him to react like that.

Once the phone stops with playing out Seth's words, they attempt to tell him that he doesn't have to apologise, but then the robotic voice returns and, was, was he seriously giving them flowers?

They hesitate for a bit before they lift their blindfold to reveal their eyes, so they can see what's going on and, yes, Seth was giving them flowers. "I... thank you... this... um, no one, has really given me flowers before so, thank you. And, I forgive you... it's, natural to be scared, when you find out that someone is a criminal.." they say as they take the flowers very carefully, as if they're worried they'll somehow destroy them on accident.

Still, they can't help but to smile softly as they look at the flowers. "They're very pretty... thank you."

Seth blushes a little at the soft smile, glancing away, a little embarrassed, bringing Abigail to their chest once more as he types again, now determined to get to know Zafika a little bit better. He was admittedly very surprised that it seemed Zafika could see after all.

"I'm glad and...you're welcome. I carry a lot of flowers around in a magitech device in my bag...I like flower language so...I like to give them to people. And while I guess it's true it's sort of a natural reaction...it still kind of stings right? I mean I..."

He sighed before letting the robotic voice continue.

"I've...been on the receiving end of people's judgementality pretty often...and it hurts. And I don't want to hurt people. I...I'm admittedly still kind of scared but...I should and want to still give you a chance. It'd be really rude and hypocritical of me to judge you based on what other people say about you...or on the fact you were in prison before coming here."

Zafika is pretty sure that for a moment they saw Seth's face look bit red, but once they place the flowers on their lap they're quick to pull their blindfold over their eyes again. No taking too big of a risk here.

"Flower language huh... it's definitely interesting, I haven't had a chance to study it myself... but, really, it's alright, anyone would react like that. I'm used to it by now, you're not the first to be scared of me. It's okay."

Upon Seth explaining that he's been judged by others a lot too, and it's why he doesn't want to do it himself, they understand his insistency on apologising for it. "I see... I, understand why you don't want to judge others... and I'm glad you're willing to give me a chance. I appreciate it."

Seth's lips quirk into a small smile for just a moment again, before he turned to look at where the party was going.

"I'm pretty used to people thinking I'm weird by it still hurts."

He's quiet for a moment, fiddling with his shirt, before typing again.

"Is it okay for me to stay here for a while and...well...talk with you? I don't really feel like going back to the center of the party right now...and I think it'd be good to learn more about my fellow knight."

Zafika tilts their head at Seth mentioning people often think he's weird. "Oh? Huh, that's... odd. I don't think you're weird."

"But, you can stay here, I need to go try to talk to the other knights at some point, I promised Muraj that I would try to meet them all, so I can't chat with you for too long. But, for now I can stay with you." They hope their offer is good enough, as they do have to try and keep their promise to the snake zodiac.

Seth smiles, just a little, definitely happy that Zafika was okay with them staying there and just talking with them for a while.

"Yeah I understand. For now is enough. Though you might change your mind about me being weird...once you hear about my hobby and about my friends."

He's a bit reluctant to reveal that but, well, Zafika had revealed they were an ex-convict so...

"Ho so...?" Zafika is, honestly just confused as to why Seth's hobby is apparently something that should make them think he's weird.

"I doubt your hobby or friends would be the type that would make me think you're weird. I've been around the world a lot, I've seen many weird things already."

Honestly it was a little bit nice to hear Zafika be so confident they wouldn't find his hobby or friends. But he was admittedly not expecting it to last.

"How about meeting a guy who loves making puppets and dolls, converses with them just like with real people, helps them find entertainment around the house, let's one of them claim the bed 80% of the time, listens to their opinions and considers them his friends?"

There was admittedly quite a bit of snark, even with how monotone the robotic voice was, mainly due to the fact that he'd grown rather bitter over all the things people found him weird or creepy for.

Zafika raises their brows underneath their blindfold, their head still tilted to the side. "Hmmm... not weird at all. Bit surprising, and, something I admittedly don't understand myseld, but I still don't think that's weird, honestly."

They were able to hear the slight snark in the words, even with the robotic voice being monotone, and they could understand Seth being bitter over this.

"It's a hobby of yours that isn't hurting anyone else, I don't think others should have the right to judge that."

The Weather

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