Day 2: Morning

Morning: 6:00am - 12:00noon

[ IRL Timeframe: March 17th - ~~March 25th~~ March 31st, 2019 (Buffer week added) ]

It's a bright new morning and the first monster has been defeated, the first hurdle has been cleared and everything is going great. The heroes should be feeling good, everything should be going according to plan. Especially because when the heroes wake up this morning, they'll be treated to a set of kigurumi pajamas themed after their animal companion sitting right beside them. Each set has a little note on it that says "From me to you" with a stylized "Wizard" signature beside it.

The morning should prove fairly uneventful. In striking comparison to the first day, the island is much quieter than it was before. Instead, the day's celebration is centralized on the train that circles the island. One eight-car train is circling the entire island, taking a little over an hour and a half to make its circles. It's 30 minutes between each city and the train isn't stopping. Each car on the train is open and any hero can board it free of charge. There are party cars, food cars, and lounge cars to enjoy on the trip around the island. There are also some commemorative prints and products available near the caboose of the train, some sellers having already gotten hard at work to create products to sell. They're seeking to get a seal of approval from the heroes themselves on them!

For the Princess and the Protector as well as the Wizard and her evil-allured knights, their dream threads will go on until the Second Monster arrives.

Most importantly, a certain knight has a message for the rest of his allies at the bright and early hour of 6:30am.

Second Morning Event: All Cities: The Celebration Train.

The Weather
Slightly Windy.
64°F / 18°C
The trees are rustling, flower petals in the air.

Prompts:

6:30am Punch Club, Bamborough: A message reaches the group with... an attached video? Opening the file shows Garrot staring straight at his phone's camera with a big smile. "Rise and shine, team!"

x:xxam Train Ride: The party train is available for any hero who finds it. It'll be rolling through Far Haven at 6am, 7:45am, 9:30am, and 11:15am. It'll be rolling through Bamborough at 6:35am, 8:20am, 10:05am, and 11:50am. It'll be rolling through Craydon at 7:10am, 8:55am, 10:40am, and... well, this post only goes until noon. The next stop in Craydon is out at 12:25pm which is in monster arrival territory. While on the train, your hero can get up to anything. Will they discuss with the others what they think of the first line of hero products? Does this action figure look funny? Do these stickers look okay? Discuss and deal with vendors or just party it up elsewhere on the train!

10:30am, Power Plant, Far Haven: Social Media is abuzz that the Wizard has made an appearance in the power plant in Far Haven. She could wipe power out to the whole island if she wanted to, she could turn the connections to chocolate, or she could just be standing around. She hasn't done anything as far as the cell phone videos show, but is that going to last?

11:30am, Relaxing Time, Craydon: The residents of craydon, with the assistance of some of their kids, sent out invitation videos to ask the Princess and knights if they wanted to drop by Craydon and join in a meditation session. They're going to meditate outside, in the woods, and relax as much as possible before the next monster arrives. The residents of Craydon are emphasizing how important it is to keep mentally healthy above all else. Which of your fellow heroes have joined in on this session?

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.

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A message reaches the group at 6:30AM, with... an attached video? Opening the file shows Garrot staring straight at his phone's camera with a big smile. "Rise and shine, team!" He bellows it loud enough to be a human rights violation. The feed shakes as there's a loud crash! Another voice shouts out, and boy is she pissed. "Ah, fuck! G, you don't gotta YELL into the phone like that! I thought you were gonna give me a warnin' before you started, you made me drop all those helmets!"

"Shit, sorry! I'll help you pick that up in a sec." He looks towards her, winces, and looks very regretful. Maybe even a little scared? "So Zea and I got a gym out in Bamborough and we're gonna use it to teach people some fightin' essentials and, uh, test our powers out!" He brings a hand to his chin, looking deeply contemplative. Haizea is grumbling in the background about how much equipment there is to sort out here, but she does wave to the camera once with a smile! "Ask your companion if you don't know your power yet. Thanks for that, Gyre! Oh, and if anyone who can fight wants to help us out, let us know! We'll be here at least through the morning. See you soon!" And then the feed cuts out. Sent a minute later is the address to the gym, a smiling and nondescript beast-person emoji, a lightning bolt emoji, and two cheerleader emojis.

Upon arriving at Iron Empire, it's easy to see the posterboard signs at the door. One labelled "POWERS" and points to an open-air basketball court, and another with "FITNESS / COMBAT" points to an empty area inside, populated by training dummies, agility ladders, and a makeshift sparring ring. A third, labelled "BREAKFAST!" has a crude drawing of what seems to be Garrot eating a donut. It points to a dance hall off the atrium with tables and chairs, donuts and coffee, and some top-of-the-line energy bars.

Note for Players: In the initial subject line, please include the sign and maybe also the instructor, ie "combat + garrot" or "Powers Haizea" or "Breakfast, Open!" Fitness would be a prompt focused on normal gym stuff like agility, endurance, or strength. Combat can either be using a weapon or defense. Breakfast is the obligatory chill option. Additional instructors (Gyre, Zafika, etc) can also totally happen.

Edited 2019-03-18 03:28 (UTC)

The party train is available for any hero who finds it.

It'll be rolling through Far Haven at 6am, 7:45am, 9:30am, and 11:15am.
It'll be rolling through Bamborough at 6:35am, 8:20am, 10:05am, and 11:50am.
It'll be rolling through Craydon at 7:10am, 8:55am, 10:40am, and...
...well, this post only goes until noon. The next stop in Craydon is out at 12:25pm which is in monster arrival territory.

While on the train, your hero can get up to anything. Will they discuss with the others what they think of the first line of hero products? Does this action figure look funny? Do these stickers look okay? Discuss and deal with vendors or just party it up elsewhere on the train!

Social Media is abuzz that the Wizard has made an appearance in the power plant in Far Haven. She could wipe power out to the whole island if she wanted to, she could turn the connections to chocolate, or she could just be standing around. She hasn't done anything as far as the cell phone videos show, but is that going to last?

The residents of craydon, with the assistance of some of their kids, sent out invitation videos to ask the Princess and knights if they wanted to drop by Craydon and join in a meditation session. They're going to meditate outside, in the woods, and relax as much as possible before the next monster arrives. The residents of Craydon are emphasizing how important it is to keep mentally healthy above all else. Which of your fellow heroes have joined in on this session?

Seth... had actually gotten a decent amount of sleep in after Matilda had left. And thanks to that his emotional reserves had pretty much recovered.
Though that of course meant he was back to being pretty nervous. Well at least he'd gotten to know the majority of Knights yesterday? And honestly his experiences had been mostly positive.

So taking a deep breath, he head for the open-air basketball court, following the sign. If he wanted to be more helpful, figuring out and learning to use his powers would be the first step towards that goal.

Last anyone saw of Terrence, he was still sauced out of his mind and shedding ever more articles of clothing at around 1:30 AM.

...So it's kind of a surprise when he comes jogging into the training area looking bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (literally) as all get out, complete with a generously form-fitting Game of Death jumpsuit. A matching wristband wraps around his ears, absolutely nailing the Lola Bunny look.

"Alright, who's ready to teach this pampered brat how to throw a punch?" he asks, looking around for Haizea. It's not that he'd mind training with Garrot, but the dragon knight is closer to his size and less... Hyperbolic.

Haizea would be delighted to! She looks up from the pile of training gloves she'd been sorting by size and waves Terrence down.

"You came to the right place!" She says brightly, then looks Terrence up and down. "You're really going all out, huh? 'A' for effort!" and she gives him a thumbs up.

Haizea is practicing her own powers out on the court, ever since getting a handle on her wind powers she's been itching to see how much control she has. She's got a bag full of basketballs next to her and is purposefully throwing bad shots at the basket, then immediately trying to use the wind to guide the ball through the net. It's pretty difficult and she's missing about two thirds of the shots she's throwing.

"Yes!" she yells, after making a basket. She wipes the sweat off her brow and looks around, ready for a break. When she sees Seth, she waves and heads over.

"Hey there! You here to work on your powers?" she says, signing H-E-L-L-O as she approaches.

Seth is very happy to see Haizea fingerspelling 'hello', fingerspelling 'morning' to her in turn.
The friendly demeanor, and familiarity of finger spelling helps easy his nerves a little as he digs out his phone to communicate a little faster.

"Yeah...I...managed to somehow get some kind of an idea for what they are from Qus...but I haven't tried them at all yet and...tryign them out on my own is scary so..."

Okay to be fair Seth considered a lot of things scary but still.

"Well, no problem, we can sort them out together. That's why we're all here this morning!" she says, and smiles reassuringly.

"What kinda powers do you have?"

His nervousness bubbled up slightly again as he typed fingerspelled 'wires' before, after taking a shaky breath held his hand out in front of himself, and after a bit of him concentrating, wires just...started to form from his fingertips. Magic was weird.

Magic was weird! Haizea doesn't quite know what to make of this.

"Wires, huh? Hmm..." She thinks for a minute. "Can you control them with your mind, or do they respond to the movements of your hands? And, are they sharp?" She reaches out a hand, aiming to lightly touch one of the wires with a finger.

Matilda has shown up bright and early, as...prepared as she possibly could be. Okay, so maybe she's not as dressed for the occasion as she should be, in her brightly colored romper and her gladiator sandals, but honestly, it's as close as she's going to get until someone forces her into sneakers. Her hair's tied up, her goggles are firmly in place, and she was feeling really confident until she got over here to this ridiculous amount of stuff in here.

Is it too late to run? She turns around to try and leave.

Web's first reaction to the message and video is oh thank fuck. Their second reaction is to note the time and location so they can head there right after a good bath. They'll eat afterward, they can handle it.

Once they're at the gym, they look around for someone who looks like a teacher. Someone who actually knows what they're doing, in other words. ... Or one of the folks from the video. That's easier.

Over to Garrot they go, head tilted. "'Scuze me," they manage. "Do you know how to fight? 'Cause I don't, and I'd like to fix that."

This is so much more awkward than just honking a vuvuzela at people. Ughhhh.

The scuze me is a great indicator that Garrot needs to redirect his attention, so he spins on his heels and stops when he's facing Web. Mostly. He has to adjust a bit so they're actually looking at each other. The Monkey Knight looks far different from his suit and tie of the day before. Gray sweatpants, a white tank-top with a MurtaKorp logo, and a matching headband and scrunchie combo, both bright pink and adorned with a rainbow-haired half-dragon, half-bear creature that's clearly from the popular children's show with all the merchandising.

"You were with us in the woods!" And then Garrot extends a hand out for a handshake, which makes it harder to avoid the dragon tattoos snaking up from his elbows to his chest. "I don't think we've actually had an introduction yet." He chuckles, but doesn't really stop the confidence train. "I'm Garrot, and I can probably teach you whatever you wanna know." And then he looks side to side awkwardly. "Whatever that is?"

"Well, you know, 'fate of the world' and all that..." he chuckles, idly waving it off. A part of him actually is that serious, though.
While the rabbit's power is definitely useful, it doesn't do anything for his own effectiveness, and he was never a fighter in the first place. To Terrence's mind, he's going to have to try twice as hard to contribute half as much as most of the others.

Stepping over to the glove pile, Terrence quirks a brow while mimicking cracking his knuckles, "You seem awfully thrilled to get to hit me! How shall we start..?"

"Well, first off, I'm not gonna hit you! Not yet, at least," she says with a wink.

"Second," she selects a pair of MMA style gloves that look like they'll fit him and holds them out, "let's start with protecting those nice hands, hmm?"

Zafika arrives bit late at the gym, having had to make a detour to their housing in Craydon, but they're now here, and ready to help people train. Their experience gives them the perfect knowledge to help people work on their footwork and dodging, and for attacking, they plan to go for more technique and dexterity than physical strength relying way of combat.

So basically, if anyone wants rogue/assassin training from them, feel free to approach them, they're waiting next to the sparring weapon racks, close to the makeshift sparring ring!

Gyre has. He normally meditates in the evening to wind down for sleep, but he was uh busy last night, and he's a sucker for kids. While he hates that they sent another video to his phone, the second a child asks him to come meditate in Craydon, he already knows where he's going.

This is to say, Gyre is a couple meters from the general crowd, but near enough to be counted as part of it. He's got his legs folded and his hands cupped neatly in his lap. For the most part, he meditates with his eyes closed, but every now and then, he lets his gaze fall on a bird or a squirrel moving through the trees, following them incredibly closely until they disappear from view again.

Once he's gotten comfortable here, he also starts to practice his power. A soap bubble of a shield slowly grows around him, expanding out from the center of his body. It gets bigger and bigger until, about a foot out from his body, it pops and vanishes. He always frowns when this happens, before he sets himself right back to it. He needs to be able to hold this damn thing around himself at the very, very least, and he'll do this for the entire day if he freakin has to.

Seth let's Haizea touch the wires, and the answer is yes, they are indeed sharp. Sharp enough to easily injure someone on accident in fact if they don't have any kind of protection in the way, at the very least clothes.

When Haizea's hand isn't as near anymore, Seth frown a little as he tries out what Haizea suggested.
The results?

Controlling them with his mind: he got them to wiggle around a little like noodles. Before they just flopped towards the ground when he stopped concentrating on that.

Responding to the movement of his hands: Well...they seemed to obey the rules of physics in that regard, when he wasn't trying to move them around with his mind.

"Alright so; Sharp- yes, mind control- yes, hand responsive- no. That sound right?" She tilts her head to the side and thinks. If Seth were a violent person he could cause some real damage, but she's realized how sensitive he is by now, so she tries to word her next statement carefully.

"Seth, this is a very good power, but also something that could be dangerous to yourself or others if you're not careful. I think we should probably work on your levels of control first off before we figure out anything else. Let's see..." she trails off and looks around, before picking up one of the basketballs she was practicing with earlier. She then places it on the ground in front of Seth and backs away.

"Try picking it up with your wires. A basketball can be punctured, but it's not overly delicate, so I think practicing with it is a good place to start."

Seth nods a little. Sharp definitely yes, mind control again yes, but so far seemingly not responsive to hand movements.

Seth was a little surprised with Haizea saying it was actually a really good power, albeit one carrying its risks towards both him and others. And Seth certainly agreed, he didn't want to injure anyone. So he was more than on board the idea of getting more control over his powers before really trying to apply them, so he gave Haizea nod as she explained what she wanted him to try out.

At first, he focused on just getting the wires to extend, then trying to use his mind to wrap them around the basketball. However, while he was technically successful in that, it didn't help him really complete the task. He couldn't get a good grip on it with the wires.

Seth actually tsked, one of the few noises he could make as it didn't require working vocal cords, a little frustrated. This would be much easier if the wires could just, stick to the ball or something.

...And then that was suddenly the case.

Seth stared as the wires had...attatched themselves on the basketball. Curiously jerking one of his fingers upwards...
And the basketball jumped up before falling back down.

...Magic was seriosly weird.

"Oh!" Haizea exclaims when the basketball jumps. "Hold it still for a minute, I'd like to check something," she says as she goes over to inspect the basketball. She sees the wires wrapped around the basketball, then pulls out her brass knuckles but doesn't put them on, instead using them as a lever to see if she's able to move the wires herself. When it's clear they're stuck tight to the basketball, she puts them away and stands up.

"Interesting, I was thinking the wires would just work like an extra arm, but it looks like you can make them sticky too. Kinda like how a gecko can stick to a wall! This time, try lifting the basketball over your head, but if you can't support the weight of it, try just throwing it at the basket."

Seth didn't mind keeping still for a minute as Haizea tried to use brass knuckles as a lever to see if she could pull the wires away from the basketball, although the endeavor was in the end fruitless.
Huh.
This was... getting kind of interesting, actually.
"Okay I'll give it a go." Seth typed out quickly before trying to figure out how to lift the basketball over his head.

At first he just experimented a little with how the basketball moved in response to him moving his fingers. The result? It seemed he was able to make the ball do what he wanted with a mix of seemingly mind powered control traveling via the wires(?), and how he actually pulled on the wires with his fingers.

Though when he tried to use his mind to get the wires to lift the basketball in to the air...the only thing it did was dangle from the wires that seemingly shortened themselves? Or something? He wasn't entirely sure. He could also feel the weight of the ball on his fingers.
He tried a couple times more but to no avail.
So he proceeded to try and trow it at the basket.

What followed was the basketball being pulled into his hand by the wires, again seeming to shorten, sticking to his finger tips, before he threw the ball. at which point it seemed to disconnect from the wires as they dissappeared from around it as glitter after a moment.
Also while extremely inaccurate in terms of course, the strenght in the throw was actually pretty decent. Huh.

Things that could be concluded so far with a little thinking.
1. The wires would stick very stubbornly to something if Seth willed them to, and it seemed he could also undo that.
2. While he could move them around with his mind easily when not connected to something, when connected to something the wires seemed to generally once again obey the laws of physics, and weren't usable for lifting via Seth moving the wires with his mind.
3. While the exact way how it worked was still a question, Seth seemed to be able to control what the wires were connected to, to an extent.
4. He could retract, and presumably extend, the wires at will.
5. ...Seth wasn't actually physically super weak. Go figure.

As she turns around she bumps straight into Zafika, who was in the middle of returning to the combat area after having gone to sneak a cup of tea from the so called breakfast room. They had been deep in thought, which had allowed to collision to happen, but it also means that they give a quiet, very much serpentine hiss as they stumble backwards a bit.

"Who the-" And then they notice the scent of a very sweet annd familiar perfume, and quickly peek at the person they had bumped into from beneath their blindfold. Matilda. Oh no. "Fuck, I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going... are you here to train?"

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Day 2: Morning

Morning: 6:00am - 12:00noon

The Weather

Prompts:

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6:30am Punch Club, Bamborough

x:xxam Train Ride

10:30am, Power Plant, Far Haven

11:30am, Relaxing Time, Craydon

Power training with Haizea

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Combat + Garrot

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Combat training, open

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