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

[fop_lop]

How sneaky! Terrence is growing to like Haizea already.

"Ahem," he fakes clearing his throat into a fist loudly before giving his own team a solo finger gun. "Likewise for you all. I believe you can guess which knight I am." She took the initiative, but Terrence's followup seems to rally the rightos as well.

Terrence places his bills on a nearby side table, replacing them with a drink that had been sitting there. One of those fancy numbers with a fruit slice and a little umbrella.

"Of course! Otherwise it's essentially just luck, and there's no sport."

[tropicalstorm]

She's pleased that he's matched her efforts, and idly wonders what he's planning to give as a prize if the rightos defeat the lefties.

"I always prefer a bet on somethin' skill based, even if it ain't my skill on display. Bets on luck alone are really only good for the house, not the person bettin'," she says, and settles in to watch the game. She gives a sidelong glance at his fancy drink and kinda wants one too.

[fop_lop]

"Certainly. Not to mention it's more personal that way, which makes it a real bet," he pauses to sip at his drink again and seemingly ponder his own words before continuing, "You've got to risk a bit of your self alongside the material risk or it's just lifeless, you know..?" Flowery nonsense, but he's obviously just being silly. What exactly is in that glass?

The competition looks surprisingly fierce even from the get-go! Mystery knight prizes are quite the motivator, evidently. Haizea gets an eyebrow waggle from behind the rims of Terrence's sunglasses as his team scores their first point.

[tropicalstorm]

She grins at that. “Oh yeah, agreed. If you don’t got skin in the game then what’s the point in playin’?”

When Terrence waggles his eyebrows at her after his team scores first, she looks unconcerned and just leans back. “First blood just makes a fighter cocky,” she says lightly, and soon after one of players on her team manages to execute a very nice spike, bringing the score even.

[fop_lop]

"Of course I've got skin in the game - your team are the shirts!" Terrence laughs at his own dad joke until the lefties extend their lead. Ah well, it's just a game after all! He sips his drink again to avoid further comment, simply enjoying watching for now.

[tropicalstorm]

Haizea laughs too but then also turns her attention back to the game. She doesn’t keep silent though, she stays on her feet throughout, cheering enthusiastically whenever her side scores.

“Yeah, go lefties!!” she calls out to them. “Dragon knight believes in you!” Haizea is a big believer in positive reinforcement when feasible.

[fop_lop]

As Haizea keeps up the cheering, Terrence feels compelled to join back in even as it becomes clear that the other knight picked the winning team. It's just a friendly bet, after all, and he's much more interested in getting to know everyone else than winning silly games. At least she seems fun!

"Good show, chaps, good show! Maybe next time, eh..?" he encourages as the game wraps up, snatching the bills off of the table to hand over to the dragon knight. "To be honest, I'm more interested in what your 'special prize' is..."

[tropicalstorm]

Haizea hoots and hollers when her side wins and happily takes the accumulated bills from Terrence, snapping them neatly into her money clip and slipping the whole bundle into her back pocket.

“Great job everyone!” She calls to her side, before tilting her head to one side and then the other, removing one of her eight (8) pairs of piercings as she goes. She holds her hand out to Terrence so he can see. “This is the ‘special prize’; they’re just simple silver earings, but everyone here will see that they came from me so that’s what’ll make them special!”

[fop_lop]

So simple... Terrence is silent for a moment before laughing loudly and clapping his hands together twice in approval, "Haha, excellent! I suppose we can't take our own celebrity for granted, can we? I suspect most of those around here are in attendance more for the spectacle and sentiment than anything else, after all!"

Yes, she'll be one of the knights to keep things fun here.

[tropicalstorm]

Most of the time she doesn't like being known, and especially off the island she'd love to keep her profile low, but it's hard to deny it on the island. She hands over the earrings to the lefties, who each take one of them, and waves them off.

"That's what I figured; it's just a volleyball game after all, no sense in awarding anythin' aside from a little souvenir. What were you plannin' to give 'em if your side won?"

[fop_lop]

"Lifetime memberships to my website and a dinner date," he muses, almost sounding disappointed that his prize wasn't given away. "Even if they've no use for the site, everyone enjoys a good meal and some company. Of course, my company alone is worth plenty, hah!" The lightness of his tone makes it plain that the rabbit isn't actually that conceited, but it does say a lot that both of his rewards were essentially just good PR moves.

"A pleasure, truly," he offers along with one hand. "I look forward to working together!"

[tropicalstorm]

"Damn, I feel a bit cheap now!" she laughs sheepishly at that. "Maybe we should both go ahead and buy them all dinner..." she trails off, thinking.

"Likewise," she says, and shakes his hand. Her grip is unexpectedly strong and she gives him a friendly smile along with it. "Maybe we can take sides on a bet again sometime before this is all over!"