Day 1 - Morning

[wizardseason]

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.

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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.

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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.

Comments

[partyhorse]

The mood in the beach brunch was both comforting and source of minor stress fro Gail. He felt at ease in lively environment like that, but made sure to only drink water. Yeah they probably didn't serve alcohol at this hour, but you had to be sure you know. He once again has a plate full of food and was watching the games happen. He'd love to attend but it would most likely considered cheating for having a huge horse on your volleyball team.

[zafika]

After the volleyball incident, Zafika had moved further away from the beach games, so now they're seated at one of the tables further from the centre of the entire thing, holding a pack of ice to their head just in case, at least for now. They weren't planning to keep it there for long, it wouldn't help with them still feeling cold even with this weather.

But, the ice pack meant that they couldn't keep their blindfold on, so while it rested on their lap, they were taking few chances to look around a little more. They could now recognise few of the knights, but now that they're really paying attention, they spot someone they can't believe they had missed earlier. An actual centaur.

They decide to abandon their ice pack, they've had it on for long enough anyway, and after getting their blindfold back on manage to make their way over to the centaur, who honestly has to be a knight, there was no way he wasn't one. Soon enough they stop sort of close to him, and with the help of a peek from beneath their blindfold look up at him, even if it's bit uncomfortable for their neck. "Hello. Are you, perhaps one of the knights?"

[partyhorse]

Gail had been very focused on the game going on, his eyes never leaving the ball, so unfortunately that meant he absolutely had Not heard Zafika approaching. So when they just suddenly spoke to him, the poor horse had a heart attack. Visible one too since he jumped to the side on instinct and was ready to Run, Immediately. And also screamed. Oh my god was he going to die? Right here and now??

[zafika]

Zafika takes a step backwards when the centaur just suddenly screams and, assumable from the loud noise following the scream, jumps away from them too. Oh, right, horses. They get spooked easily.

"Oh, I'm sorry, um, you, didn't notice me huh...? I didn't mean to scare you, I was just... wondering if you're a knight as well. I'm sorry for scaring you."

[partyhorse]

Okay breathe, breathe my good dude. Just. Take a few deep breaths. Gail does that and just tries to calm his nerves. Nothing is going to kill him. Yet. So he just focuses on breathing and looks around (down) to see who spooked him in the first place. And it's, someone who looks very intimidating and kinda scary. Bad!!

"Ah! I'm very sorry for reacting like that! I was just, surprised is all!!! But yes I'm a knight! I assume you're as well?" He says and offers a smile, though it's very nervous one.

[zafika]

Zafika can hear the nervous tone in the knight's voice, never mind it radiating from him in waves. He was such a nervous wreck and they hadn't even seen the wizard yet. Oh dear.

"Zafika, the snake knight." They bow their head lightly as they introduce themselves, and decide that, alright, there's no point in killing their neck when they can't even see him. "And, it's alright. I keep forgetting that people don't always notice me approaching them."

[partyhorse]

"I'm Gail the horse knight! Though I think that was obvious in the first place, haha." Gail said, before noticing the blindfold the other was wearing. Well, shit.

"Or, not I guess? Uh. Well. Nice to meet you anyway!!"

[zafika]

"Oh, no, don't worry, I took a peek at you, but I didn't want to make assumptions. It's just pure luck and coincidence that a basilisk is the snake knight this year." Zafika raises their tail up so its tip is on their eye level, it should be enough to draw attention to it.

"I can see just fine, the blindfold is just to make sure I don't paralyse anyone. Having to keep using my limited supply of antidotes isn't exactly tempting."

[partyhorse]

"Ah, of course. I just uh, thought it would be obvious that I'm the horse knight! But I suppose not everyone looks like the animal they're assigned! That would get difficult as time goes on, probably." He was rambling, and trying quickly to stop said rambling. Jesus christ.

"Oh, right. Basilisk. This is my first time meeting some of your kind so uh, forgive me if I step over some cultural boundaries." Gail said, still smiling even though the other couldn't see it. Instincts were weird like this.

[zafika]

"It's very easy to make that assumption, don't worry. I, admit I was expecting you to be the horse knight, I just didn't want to assume things." Zafika explains with a brief shrug, their tail lowering again to drape on the floor close to them.

When Gail apologises in advance for the possibilty of him stepping over some cultural boundaries, they tilt their head curiosly. "Well, as long as you don't start grabbing my tail or trying to rip off my blindfold, there won't be any problems. Though I doubt you would like anyone grabbing your tail either so, that's most likely something neither of us has to worry about."

[partyhorse]

Gail shifted his weight from feet to other feet. "Of course, that makes sense!" And then he was quiet because he didn't know what else to say. Awkward! He shifted his weight again.

Thank God Zafika spoke instead. "Makes sense, makes sense. It's just, we're going to be uh, fighting, together so I wouldn't want to offend you in anyway! Even on accident and I'd really just like to be friends and uh. Uh." He's rambling and it's getting worse. "Sorry."

[zafika]

Zafika is, surpsied, to say the least when Gail says he'd like to be friends with them, but the genuineness (while they ignore how nervous he sounds) makes them smile just a little bit. "I appreciate that... but, I don't know if you'd want to be friends with a criminal. Especially when the said criminal is, quite an infamous assassin."

They know that they probably shouldn't freak Gail out, but they want him to know what he's getting into, before he makes the mistake of befriending them. "Don't worry, I have nothing against you or the other knights here, I just want to help take down the Wizard. And, well, after that I'll probably be sent back to prison so, you'll be safe still."

[partyhorse]

Gail was regretting the fact he hadn't really kept up with who were the knights this year (to be fair he never did he preferred to ignore this entire world end business) because then he WOULD'VE known there was an assassin in their midst. Probably at least.

"Oh. Oh. That's..." He started, failed and looked away. He shifted his weight a little. "I'm sure you had your reasons."

[zafika]

Zafika hears Gail shift his weight, and how stressed he is, and how he fails to say anything at first. They can't blame him, it wasn't like the normal citizens met an assassin like this all the time.

However, when he says they most likely had their reasons, they just shake their head. "No, I don't have any delusions about being a vigilante, never mind a hero or a good person. I've killed people, even if those people have been criminals that have gone unpunished themselves. I'm still a killer. But, at least I should be of some use against the monsters and the Wizard because of that."

[partyhorse]

"Oh it's not that, I mean. You wouldn't just kill for No reason right? I just mean that you seem very, pleasant? Nice? Uh. Not someone to just go on murder spree for fun and giggles? So I think it's not, well, That bad? I mean you could be worse?" God Gail was babbling again. Really it was just a nervous tick at this point. He hoped it wouldn't drive the other away.

[zafika]

Zafika tilts their head as Gail explains what he means and, oh. That was... a first. "I..." They pause, and bite their lip as they hesitate, they don't want to reveal too much about themselves, especially not something that could be used against them. "I, have, well, had a reason for it, yes..."

"But, you know, if an assassin 'could be worse' you either know some fucked up friends, or your view of worse is very interesting." Their tone is actually bit teasing, and their tail swishes behind them in a relaxed manner. Nope, Gail's babbling wasn't driving them away, not at all.

[partyhorse]

Gail shifted his weight again when Zafika mentioned bad friends. That his bit too close to home, even though he didn't want to admit that about his friends. They weren't that bad! They just, were busy with their own things and liked to party! Exclusively. And treated him bit dismissively but that wasn't THAT bad. Right?

"Hahah, nothing like that! I guess I just really like to think the best of people? And you seem like a nice person so, I would really like to be friends!!" Read, I need you to like me.

[zafika]

Zafika frowns beneath their blindfold, hearing the tone in Gail's voice shift to more nervous and dismissive again, but they don't point any attention to it. Not their place, they didn't know him that yet.

"Friends with an assassin, huh...?" They move their hand up a bit, stop to hesitate, before they say fuck it to it in their mind, and properly reach their hand up to offer it to Gail for a handshake. Screw their bandages showing. They would have to switch to a shirt that would hide them better though. "I can be your friend, at least as long as we're on this island. I might be shipped away after that but, it's something, right?"

[partyhorse]

Zafika did not question his nervous ticks, so he sure as hell wasn't going to question the bandages on their wrists. Besides, having been in prison, he had some thought what might be under neath them and he was NOT going to ask any kind of questions. He did eagerly take their hand tho in a handshake that wasn't firm, but better than holding a dead fish.

"I am so glad to hear that! I'm really happy to hear that!"

[zafika]

Zafika is glad that there's no commentary about their bandages, it's not uncomfortable to explain, but a hassle every time still. They keep the handshake brief, and are quick to lower their hand back down after it.

"I probably shouldn't keep you from the others anymore, I'm sure you want to talk to the rest of the Knights too... take care of yourself, alright Gail?"