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

[daddykong]

Garrot just takes in those words for a moment, and his response is just a tiny, smug little chuckle. Talk is cheap, but he's got a good feeling about this. Besides, if it comes down to it he can probably take a malnourished assassin with his eyes closed. Probably. But on the other hand...

"How are you doing, Zafika?" There's a noticeable shift in the tone of his voice towards warmth and compassion. There's no doubt that he picked up on his colleague's... less than ideal state of health, and he's not so absorbed in knighthood that he's forgotten his place in the world. "Are you eating and sleeping okay? How are your mood and focus?" There's a pause, and then he chuckles again, this time softly to himself. "You can trust me, I'm a doctor. The only doctor knight, if you remember the interviews."

And then he extends a hand for a handshake, intentionally placing it within Zafika's field of view beneath the blindfold. "Garrot, nice to meet you." Part of him is nagging, wondering if this trust is a mistake, but... he'll burn that bridge if he comes to it.

[zafika]

Zafika certainly hears the smug chuckle, but you know what, they'll just ignore it on purpose. At least he's not openly hostile, that'd be way too annoying to deal with, what with the wizard and monsters they'd have to deal with later on.

However, the sudden shift in his tone and the fact that he's asking them how they're doing, that manages to catch them off guard, and they're surprised enough to sort of blank for a moment. "Ah... I'm... alright enough... bit, cold and tired but, as long as I can fight the monsters and survive, it doesn't matter." They're more than used to less ideal conditions, and it's not like they can just take a break from this.

Upon noticing Garrot's gesture, they hesitate a little, admittedly. He's big enough to snap them in half, and even in their best condition, all he'd need to do was catch them and it'd be over for them. But, he's clearly putting at least some trust in them, they should do the same. So, they raise their hand so their sleeve slides down past their bandage wrapped wrist, and briefly shake Garrot's hand. And oh, he's so warm, it just makes their low body temperature that much more obvious to them."It's nice to meet you, Garrot."

[daddykong]

Garrot's eyes narrow but once their hands meet and he feels how cold Zafika is, a frown plays at the corners of his lips. When he registers that those are bandages and not just some benign arm wraps, the towering doctor begins to growl.

"What exactly happened to your wrist?" The hand not in the handshake lunges for that arm, hoping to pull it closer to his eyes for a better look. His other hand reaches around behind his body, and there's a moment of sheepishness on his face. "Nonono, hold that thought, and-" The hand comes back, and it's pushing his suit jacket, pockets bulging with... some kind of food bars, into Zafika's lap.

"Take this. I'm a big guy from up north, so it should keep you warm and fed." It's not like he needs a suit jacket or immediate food, it's the middle of a warm island and there's a ton of banquets. Zafika, on the other hand... "Now you can tell me what happened. If that's okay?" ...is not off the hook. Even if Garrot is trying to be real nice about it.

[zafika]

Zafika nearly has a heart attack when they hear Garrot growl, and their first instinct is to yank their hand away and get ready to defend themselves, because growling is always a bad sign. Except then he asks about their wrist, and they remember the bandages, and, oh, right, he was a doctor, but their entire body is still tense, their tail coiling restlessly by their side.

Until they feel something soft and warm placed on their lap, and after a quick investigation realise that it must be Garrot's suit jacket, and the only reason that their expression isn't outwardly surprised is because of their blindfold. "What- no, hold up, I'm fine, really, you don't need to do that-"

The fact that Garrot's behaviour towards them had practically flipped around still has them confused, it's almost difficult to keep up with what he's saying or doing. When he inquires further about what happened to them, however, they merely sigh and remove the bandages from around their other wrist, showing him the abrasion on it. "Can't let someone like me go around unrestrained. So, I was chained up pretty often, and this is the result of that. It's nothing to worry about though."

[daddykong]

"What?!" Garrot's incredulous, his eyes go wide with shock and his tone gets hushed and venomous. "Bullshit it's nothing to worry about! I don't care how many people you've killed, you deserve the same standard of care as anyone else." As much as he wants to go on a rant about how Zafika's caretakers and their lawyers are going to have to sleep with every eye open, it's... not the time. So he'll file it away for later, and finally let go of Zafika's arm.

"I've decided I'm your doctor now, Zafika." He nods, and he's back to smiling as his hands go behind his back again. "So you're gonna have to check in with me every day or so to make sure you're maintaining proper nutrition and mobility." The hands come back cradling a box which- pssssh! -opens like a high-tech space tacklebox. "You're also getting at least one home-cooked meal out of me, and you can tell me whatever's on your mind 'cause of doctor-patient confidentiality."

Then his hands settle on one compartment, pulling out a tube of some kind. "Put some of this cream on your wrists before you go to sleep tonight and tomorrow, and it should accelerate healing a bit- things should clear up in three or four days." Then his hand reaches out offering it to his new charge, free of charge, as his eyes dart back towards his coat and those food bars. He's still nice and warm and smiling, because Garrot's figured out how to handle this entire situation now. "Oh, and eat when you can. Doctor's orders, got it?"

[zafika]

Garrot's venomous tone sets Zafika on the edge again, despite the tone not technically being directed at them, but their tail still curls defensively around their body as they lean away from him a little. His words and his tone are clashing too much, but at least he lets go of their arm, which they withdraw immediately and hold against their torso.

And then he declares that he's now their doctor, they can't fucking believe their ears. "What!? No, hey, hold, hold up a bit, I don't need a doctor, seriously, I-" Except their protests apparently fall to deaf ears, because they hear a 'pssssh' of some high-tech device opening, and then he's speaking again, saying they'll get a home-cooked meal from him, and their mind is just reeling, the entire situation has changed so much. They had expected being threatened, and now instead someone's being so fussy over them and their wellbeing, they don't know how to feel about this.

"Okay, wait, hold up, I already have medicine for them, seriously I'll be fine, you can keep that. And, uh, I appreciate the gesture with this but, I'm fine without this too." They pick up the coat carefully and hand it back over to Garrot, because, honestly, even if they'd accept it, they'd absolutely drown in the thing. "And I'm already eating when I can. I know how to take care of myself."

[daddykong]

"Look, I'll be honest with you." He chuckles and just shakes his head, not taking the assorted goods he'd been handed. He didn't want to get all parental, but. "Zafika, you don't have a choice. You never did." Garrot is smiling, still just as warm as before, swapping force and venom with ironclad authority.

"See, Knights have to work together, and you stubbornly refusing expert, no-strings-attached medical support from the son of a past Princess's Knight is not very cooperative." He steeples his fingers a bit, like a doctor mid-consultation. Garrot knows all about managing appearances when people want to think the worst of you, so he just shrugs. "It's not a great look for someone who says they've got something to protect; people might think you're a trained assassin under the Wizard's thumb or something. You know how they love to talk, right?" Garrot's not above blackmailing people into doctor's appointments, it's for the sake of their health!

But then he gingerly places the coat and medical cream on a rock, stands up, and takes a step back. "Take every advantage you can get, alright kid? Especially if they're free." He does a few stretches, and there's one or two popping sounds from his joints. "And since you never said no to free food, I'll cook you dinner tomorrow night. Any preferences?" Then he starts to turn his back to the trained assassin as he waited for a response, because he doesn't see murder on the menu today.

[zafika]

Zafika frowns heavily at Garrot's comment, what did he mean they didn't have a choice? What the fuck kind of bullshit was that..!? "Excuse me?" Their response ends up being more hissy, serpentine kind, but they have the right for that. Like hell they didn't have a choice with this..! They're already preparing to retaliate at least verbally, until they properly pay attention to what Garrot is saying, and oh. Oh son of a bitch. He as blackmailing them. Actually, literally blackmailing them! Sure, it was to get them to accept his help and take care of themselves.

The realization only doubles their determination at retaliating, but as they listen to his 'reasoning' they, have to admit that he's right. They can't refuse his help, they're already seen as untrustworthy by quite few people. Doesn't mean they have to be all over the moons about the turn of events.

Still, they just sigh and sort of deflate, it's not worth the effort to keep arguing about this. But they are not about to be called a kid. "Alright, fine, I'll do that. On one condition. Don't call me a kid or any other equivalent of that, okay?" They're not exactly eager to let someone parent them, or treat them like a child in the first place. Garrot's insistency to still cook for them does get them to chuckle, and they even pick up the coat that had been placed next to them and put it over their shoulders. They're definitely drowning in it, but... it's also very warm.

"I don't really have any preferences. Besides, anything is better than prison food, so no need to stress over that." They're pretty sure Garrot has stood up, from the sounds they've picked up, so they dare to take a peek at him to see how tall exactly he was. And then they see that... he has turned his back on them. Someone who he knows is a fully trained assassin that could most likely kill him without much effort. And yet he's trusting them.

"Garrot. I... thank you..."

[daddykong]

"Ugh, this generation! No respect for their damn elders, I tell you what." Garrot sounds like he's exaggerating his frustration, and in fact it seems like he may not really be frustrated at all. Zafika likely cannot see the smile, but it's there.

"Least you're easy enough to work with once you get with the program..." The words are grumbled loud and clear, still part of the act. He takes a step away, and then raises a finger to the sky and casting one last glance back.

"If your body isn't up to fighting yet, don't force it. Just... provide some tactical insight." And then his raised hand just gives a simple wave, and off he goes.

Is it really surprising that he's the sort to want the last word?

[zafika]

Zafika chuckles at Garrot's exaggerated frustration, they might not see that he's smiling, but they can hear it in his voice well enough. "Don't go writing yourself off as a fossil just yet." Oh look, they're teasing him. Progress.

"Tactical insight huh... got it. I'll see what I'll do when the first monster appears." They wave Garrot a quick bye bye before they lower their blindfold fully over their eyes again, and secure the suit jacket around themselves better. So, they had a personal doctor now huh? That, sure was a thing. The day really was becoming more and more intriguing.