Day 1: Evening

[wizardseason]

Evening: 5:00pm - Midnight

[ IRL Timeframe: March 11th - March 18th, 2019 ]

The first day has come to a close, the only things left to do are get some food and get some rest. Fortunately the residents of Bamborough are hosting a party to congratulate the heroes on their first victory, unfortunately it's running for several hours this evening. There's only so much time for sleep. What kind of balance will your hero try to strike?

Unfortunately for everyone, the evil-allured knights will be treated to a rude wake-up surprise when they finally go to sleep. No matter when they finally set their head down to rest, they all wake up at the same time, in the same place. Only the evil-allured knights will have access to this post, click to see if you've been chosen.

The good-allured knights, meanwhile, are free of a visit tonight with the Princess and the Protector. The two of them, however, are due to have a chat. Questions have to be answered, after all! He's dressed in his usual attire:

He's the same height as Luka with dark skin and vivid blue eyes that match the color of the sky. He has wicked winged white eyeliner to accent his eyes and curly black hair with white tips piled on top of his head, it's a wonder how it stays up there. Surprisingly, or unsurprisingly, he's wearing a pajama robe that looks either blue or silver depending how it's touched or how it moves. Most importantly is that he's got brass knuckles on both his hands, like he's ready to fight. But he's not here to fight, he's here to give a whisper about what comes next.

First Night Event: Bamborough: Everyone invited.

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The Weather

• Starry Night.
• 64°F / 18°C
• Quite breezy, all the trees are rustling.

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Prompts:

• Bamborough Party: To celebrate the defeat of the first monster, a full banquet is being held near the beach in Bamborough. Unlimited food, unlimited drinks, and most importantly of all was a small stockpile of blankets, sheets, pillows, and toiletries to offer any knight who might've forgotten something on the way out here. Naturally, every item is sponsored.


• You're all over Social Media!: Videos were successfully taken of all twelve knights and the princess during the first battle, and now the world is abuzz about what happened! What are they saying about your hero? How did they even get this footage? Or worst of all, how bad are they dissing your camera skills for those that recorded themselves?


• A late night walk: The first day is over, the first monster is dead. How's your character holding up? Do they seek out support from a fellow hero? Do they spend it alone? What kind of night are they having now that it's all real?


• A late night meal: Anyone leaving the Bamborough party late enough will be able to spot that a local late night ramen shop is open for business. If your hero hasn't quite eaten enough, they can drop by for a bite. But be warned, a certain sleepy villain is getting a bite to eat herself. Care to share a ramen bar meal with the enemy?

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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.

Comments

[daddykong]

Garrot stifles a chuckle, because he feels a bit bad for being so mean towards his... colleagues? Soulless overseers?

"Please, they'd absolutely lose their minds. And you could even persuade them to loosen up a bit!" Ethics be damned, those suits need to unwind so much.

[eutychia]

"Hey now, persuasion is one of my talents, remember?" He winks.

[daddykong]

"Fantastic, it's a plan!" Garrot has taken to grinning mischieviously, because that wink might have enabled him. But then he raises an eyebrow, and his demeanor falters a bit and he strokes his beard.

"Is there anything I could do to help you out?" He sounds a little sad, mostly because he's not sure what he could even do for someone as cool as Luka. Garrot doesn't want to seem like he's taking advantage of him!

[eutychia]

"Help me out...?" Luka says, his voice tinged with confusion. "I'm sure there's a lot you could teach me. I'm just not sure what exactly yet. Maybe we'll call it an IOU for now?"

[daddykong]

"No problem at all!" He doesn't mind Luka having an IOU for his services. That's cool! It means he'll get to hang out with an awesome celebrity more! Plus, y'know, he did offer to help however he can.

"I've taught people how to fight, and I could teach you some first aid, but..." Teaching people medicine makes him really nervous, actually. "I don't even have to teach you anything! Let's just call it a favor. Whenever you need it." Honestly he wants to mention that he's ridiculously strong and could even do manual labor if Luka needed him to, but. That'd be a bit weird of a segue and he's trying to impress the Princess, not creep him out.

[eutychia]

"Actually... all of that sounds pretty useful. I never even thought about learning how to fight. I might have to take you up on that."

Luka would have to clear a spot in his schedule. So many plans, so little time.

[daddykong]

Garrot just chuckles, because he didn't expect the offhand things he's done for years to be appealing to a superstar like Luka! It's honestly really cool, and he's thrilled.

"Ah, don't worry about it!" He shrugs, but it's hardly noticeable. Garrot doesn't sound too worried himself. "You've got time, it's not like there's an expiration date." Sure, he might've just made a bad joke about the world ending and people dying but uh, he doesn't realize it.

[eutychia]

Luka's confident enough in their success that he himself doesn't pick up on the end-of-the-world joke at first, either.

"Do you teach like... hand to hand combat style fighting?"

[daddykong]

"Yeah, totally!" He just shrugs like it's no big deal for him, and his tone as he continues only reinforces this. "I also do staves, knives, swords, spears, axes, scalpels, wrenches, hammers, and..." There's a pause as he squints into the distance to think, and then "...a bunch of exotic weapons you probably haven't heard of." He's so nonchalant that he doesn't even think to clarify that there's overlap in a few of those.

He's a bit concerned about how well Luka will be able to fight since he's blind, but some wheels are already turning...

[eutychia]

"Tell me, where does a doctor learn that much about fighting, exactly?" Luka says with an expression of interest and curiosity. "I'd have thought it would mostly be self-defense."

[daddykong]

"Well," Garrot trails off for a minute, trying to find the best approach. Luka's blind, after all. "I'm a half-bugbear. Fangs and pointy teeth and claws and hair and- and even my eyes are different from most people's." He had to paint Luka a quick little word picture. But Garrot doesn't sound bothered that he looks downright monstrous, in fact he seems a little excited!

"It turns out filthy rich private school kids are the biggest assholes on the planet." But he'll leave it intentionally ambiguous as to whether something happened to him, or if he happened to his bullies. It was the latter. "So they signed me up for martial arts classes and I just... never stopped."

Garrot can't help but sound a bit proud of that last bit, because it's always kind of weird to realize that martial arts and combat have been the one constant in his life.

[eutychia]

"Oh, it sounds like we could have gone to the very same private school, then." he says, his tone somewhat jovial despite the subject.

"I'm no stranger to how horrible rich kids tend to be. Especially to someone with different eyes than most people. If I had learned to fight, or maybe just had you as a friend I might have fared a bit better though."

[daddykong]

He just chuckles at that last bit. "I mean, my parents didn't want me to get into martial arts as much as I did, but you definitely would've." For a moment Garrot thinks about holding back, but nope. Not here. Luka deserves some truth!

"I mean, I was the sorta guy who chased the bullies around after the teachers were all gone. Y'know, show them what it's like to be scared!" If Luka focuses he might hear Garrot puffing out his chest. He's very proud of this! "It was actually pretty easy to follow them once they'd pissed themselves, and then it was just kind of funny." A beat. "Then they never did it again."

Is someone who bullies the bullies a bully themselves? Garrot clearly doesn't think so!

[eutychia]

Luka laughs. He appreciates what he's learned of Garrot's methods so far, and this one was no exception. "I can't think of a better way to have dealt with the problem. Sometimes it takes a bit of their own medicine to get the respect you deserve."

[daddykong]

"Exactly! And that's why I'm a doctor." An obvious joke. Garrot can deeply appreciate that Luka's on the same wavelength as him, though. It's not as common as he'd like! "So I can give everyone medicine and be respected for it. Otherwise I'm just a drug dealer." And then he stifles a laugh for a moment before it just bursts out, because Garrot thinks his jokes are hilarious!

Even though they're terrible.

[eutychia]

Luka laughs along too. He appreciated the joke, but even if he hadn't, he finds Garrot's laughter just so infectious.

"I'm not sure how good most drug dealers are at treating traumatic injury or performing surgeries, so you've got that going too."

[daddykong]

Garrot rolls his eyes so aggressively that the associated sound effect could've made more noise than his groan. "See, that's another thing I got on drug dealers! They might cause a ton of traumatic injuries, but at least I know where to aim." But he doesn't want to get back on that enthusiastic violence undercurrent for too long.

"But sutures, bullet holes, and overdoses aren't the sort of things these monsters are gonna throw at us." Garrot doesn't sound like he's withering in the face of the challenge, not at all! He sounds annoyed by it. "They might use things that I have no idea how to counteract." But he's been trying for years.

[eutychia]

"I expect they will. I have confidence that we'll be able to deal with whatever they throw at us though. We're a decent team, all things considered. At least, so far."

[daddykong]

"Y-yeah." He's still sounding a bit annoyed by monstrous unpredictability, to the point where he's not fully convinced. It also doesn't help that his gaffes with Gyre from the morning are still on his mind.

"But hey, if we want to be more than decent, we have to work together." He nods, making an affirmative grunt as he does so. "Haizea and I are actually putting together a training camp tomorrow morning." But Luka's blindness is staring Garrot right in the face, so he stammers for a moment before-

"But if you'd rather do something on your own, we can work something out!" In case Luka wants to keep a low profile, or if he doesn't know anything and wants privacy, or, well, any number of reasons. But Garrot really wants to help however he can, and he's already in a mindset of helping people for now.

[eutychia]

"A training camp, huh?" Luka says, raising one eyebrow with interest. "I'll have to see if my schedule allows it. Either way, I'm interested in learning sometime. It's always good to have more skills under my belt, you know?"

[daddykong]

"Right, I understand!" Garrot quirks an eyebrow at all that, because he does not entirely understand. They're killing monsters to save the world what else does Luka have on his schedule? But Garrot has hard-scheduled video calls with his family, so. Maybe it's a Princess thing, maybe he doesn't want to broadcast his lack of combat training to everyone.

"I'm actually already getting some good ideas for you, Luka!" It sounds like he's taking a more tailored approach than the situation than the training camp. "I might need a day or so to get stuff together but just... let me know when you're ready?" A beat. "Or I can tell Haizea, and then there's two of us with openings in our schedules!"

What the Princess wants, the Princess gets, so Garrot's being as accommodating as possible. Plus it's not like he wants Luka to feel defenseless against monsters that especially want to kill him.

[eutychia]

"Haizea's welcome to join, if she has the time." Luka smiles. He'd been keeping busy in his down time. Meetings with his manager, planning for the press tour after the world was saved, coordinating outfits with his stylist ---there was a lot to do.

"I'll be sure to send you a text when I've got the availability."

[daddykong]

"Yeah! S-speaking of time," He sounds a bit sheepish for a moment. "I should probably let you get back to your dinner- I can only imagine how busy you are." Garrot follows up with a sheepish little chuckle. He got to dump all his work and his kids onto one of his friends so he can put his full attention towards monster-slaying and Wizard-punching.

"But don't be a stranger, okay? Like I said, I'm here to help!" And then he turns to walk away, waiting for whatever last word Luka would like to give. The Princess is saving the world and can have the last word at all times, as far as he's concerned.

[eutychia]

"Ah, of course." Luka says. "It was a pleasure to speak with you, Garrot. I'll be in touch."