Day 2: Evening

[wizardseason]

Evening: 5:00pm - Midnight

[ IRL Timeframe: April 14th - April 22nd, 2019 ]

Unfortunately for everyone, the second day's events are far less rewarding than the first day's. Now that things are starting to get real, there are consequences for what's taken place. Both monsters caused a bit of damage and a mess with their departure, but the locals on the island are trying to stay positive. Sometimes things just get messy, they've dealt with this for forty years it's fine.

But the heroes are sure to have a lot on their mind. Injuries mean it's less of a game and more likely to sink in as real. How will your hero cope tonight? The Princess and her two knights are due for a rendezvous with the Protector and, on the other hand, there are some evil-allured knights due for some private time with the Wizard. What will come of that?

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The Weather

• Still.
• 61°F / 16°C
• An eerie calm has fallen over the island.

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Prompts:

• 05:00pm Clean-up Crews: Both Bamborough and Craydon were left with big neon-green splashes of blood that aren't going to just wash off. Numerous locals in both areas are hard at work cleaning up after the second monsters, scrubbing at buildings and assessing the damage to the island. In Bamborough, the locals are hard at work trying to salvage the damage to the boardwalk or put up caution tape around the destroyed areas. Is your hero lending a hand in all this? Is someone else helping? Bond over picking up the pieces, but hey... it could be worse, right?


• 5:30pm, Craydon: Despite being largely untouched by the monster's arrival, the citizens of Craydon have dropped by the train station to check in on the heroes. Anyone in the area will be given a small care package of items and offered a free coupon for any restaurant in the area. Will your hero go alone and run into someone who was craving the same food they were, or will they team up with their fellow heroes to drop by a restaurant together? Everyone needs to unwind, after all!


• 5:30pm, Bamborough: Despite the boardwalk damage, the Bamborough oceanfront diner is offering 'monster margaritas' tonight. They're set up as an open-air bar tonight, doors and windows open to let in the cool sea air. Every hero gets their first monster margarita free if they can stomach the bright green color, and they've got deep fried bar foods for half off. Come in, indulge, have a drink to get your mind off of the events of the day, heroes!


• 5:30pm, Far Haven: The Far Haven clinic has advertised that its doors are open to any hero injured, or just in need of a check-up, for the rest of the evening. They want to check in on all the heroes and make sure they're okay. Did your hero come alone and run into someone here? Or did they come together to get stitched up? Or maybe they just need to be reassured that everything will be okay.


• 8:30pm, 9:05pm, 9:40pm, Train station(s): As always, Social media is incredibly quick to report Wizard appearances. At 8:00pm they report that the Wizard is waiting for the train in Bamborough station. She does, in fact, board the train at 8:30pm and they start theorizing where her destination is. Social media points out that her train will be arriving in Craydon at 9:05pm, then it will get to Far Haven by 9:40pm. If a hero tries to find her when the train arrives back in the Bamborough station at 10:15pm, though, the train will be empty. Where will your hero find her? Bamborough between 8 and 8:30pm? On the train in Craydon at 9:05pm? Or when she disembarks in Far Haven at 9:40pm?

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Procedure:

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05:00pm Clean-up Crews

[wizardseason]

Both Bamborough and Craydon were left with big neon-green splashes of blood that aren't going to just wash off. Numerous locals in both areas are hard at work cleaning up after the second monsters, scrubbing at buildings and assessing the damage to the island. In Bamborough, the locals are hard at work trying to salvage the damage to the boardwalk or put up caution tape around the destroyed areas. Is your hero lending a hand in all this? Is someone else helping? Bond over picking up the pieces, but hey... it could be worse, right?

Bamborough Clean-up Crew

[wizardseason]

[scandeled]

Matilda is trying to help, but she's completely wiped out from all of the teleporting Zafika and herself between the monsters head and rooftops. She barely made it off the last roof!

She spends an equal amount of time trying to help the clean up efforts, and sprawling in the sand like she's died there. She's still in her monster blood romper, her hands smell like lime scrambled eggs, and she just wants to take a nap.

[partyhorse]

Gail feels like he got shitfaced drunk and woke up two days later five cities over. After he threw that javelin things just Happened that he has no memory of and now he's helping the Bamborough people to clean up all the monster goop. Well, trying to, at least. He's feeling disorientated in a very bad way AND he feels hes more in the way that of any substantial help. Not a good start of evening for this horse.

[daddykong]

Garrot had been making his towards the bar with the free monster margaritas. He was closer when they were fighting the monster, but he had to go carry an unconscious body do some lurking, so now he was awkwardly retracing his steps.

"Gail!" At least he was, until he saw his friend. "Glad you're looking alright!" He can see that the centaur does not look too alright, but at least he's not bleeding.

"Things got a little busy earlier and I guess I lost track of you." Garrot chuckles, rubbing a hand at the back of his neck. "Sorry about that."

He can't protect his friends if he doesn't know where they are...

[partyhorse]

Gail barely registered that he had been talked to, but did turn to face the sudden noise, only for most blood leave his face. Garrot was there and he was covered in monster blood. Oh my god??????

"GARROT WHAT HAPPENED?!!?" Gail shrieked with concern and stumbled little closer to Garrot. HE couldn't have spaced off for... That long? What on earth happened for this to be a thing? He was looking very upset over this current situation.

[daddykong]

Garrot's hit with a wave of remorse and concern when he sees Gail go pale, and that shriek? The doctor visibly recoils a bit because ow, his ears, is this what it's like when he's loud???

"Everything's fine, Gail!" His tone is soothing, and he vloses the distance so the centaur doesn't have to stumble. Have a clawed hand resting on your arm, too. "The monster's handled and everyone's okay, and you're still raw BDE." He means Big Destructive Energy.

"I'm just glad you're okay, I didn't know where you went after it blew up, and-" That hand's gonna get a bit of a grip on your arm, Gail. Garrot must have been pretty worried too!

He also has said nothing about the fact that he's covered in blood aside from mentioning the second monster blew up, so... good luck with that.

[partyhorse]

Gail doesn't even notice the recoil as he's too worried about Garrot being covered in monster blood. The soothing tone and touch do help though and Gail tries to just, breathe. Okay Garrot is okay, everyone else is okay and he's still BDE..... Wait. What!?

"Wait I'm wha- Oh. Oh right. That. Uh. Thanks." He manages to say after remembering that he did lie about it to Garrot last night. God was it only last night it felt like weeks.

"But I'm fine. I was at the beach? I think? I didn't see the monster so... Wait it blew up!?" And ow okay that hand kinda hurts now! Unfun!

[daddykong]

"It did!" He sounds a little excited at that one. "It turns out that it didn't like the water, so it got thrown into the ocean and, well, boom."

Both hands make an exaggerated exploding motion. That grip is gone now! But then Garrot's other hand goes up... and lands on Gail's shoulder. It's weird having to reach up to someone.

"I also just wanted to thank you. I mean Gail, you're really one of the Knights to keep an eye on!" He's grinning, happy and with pointy teeth! "You're a natural at all this. A hero!" It has not dawned on Garrot that he's missed part of what he wanted to say, the thing that Gail actually did. Because this doctor is a fool.

[partyhorse]

Gail wasn't sure what to say or think about Garrot excitement about the monster being blown up by, water. Huh. He's really just was glad that Garrot and everyone else were okay and alive. Mainly alive.

And then Garrot's hand was on his shoulder and he was saying things like him being a natural at Knight things and a hero and his face started getting redder and redder.

"I.. Oh, that's... I mean, I wouldn't call myself that, haha. I uh, I'm glad I can be of help! I would hate being on everyone's way... So, thank you but um, that's a little over exaggerating.." Gail rambled he was glad! He was very glad that Garrot thought of him as someone useful but he couldn't help but also feel that Garrot thought him being something much more greater than he actually was.

[daddykong]

"It's not exaggerating at all!" Garrot sounds a bit offended, and now both hands are on shoulders! He's doing a thing, Gail, trust him, even when he's looking right into your eyes. The centaur might look away, but he won't, and he's smiling.

"You're awesome, Gail, you saved my life!" Garrot is one-hundred percent serious, honest, and earnest about those words, and his hands are on those shoulders so the Horse Knight can't run away from this.

Craydon Clean-up Crew

[wizardseason]

[roaryrory]

One of the values Rory learned from her upbringing was if you made a mess, you cleaned it up! With that in mind, it's no surprise that she ended up in the clean-up crew after the fight. Since she figured she was going to get dirty during the process all over again, she hasn't bothered to clean the monster blood off herself yet.

Honestly, the cleaning gives her a much welcome chance to wind down too. All the tiger-riding and monster-stabbing was fun, but a good, mindless slime-mopping was just what Rory needed right now.

[spookyroomba]

"Heyo~"

Web waves as they wander over near where Rory is. Being a local, they also feel some responsibility for cleaning up the mess, so they've gotten involved with the cleanup efforts as well.

They have, however, cleaned themselves off first. They didn't want that stuff stuck in their fur and doing who-knew-what to it.

[roaryrory]

Good! Cleaning company! Rory waves back excitedly. Compared to the evening before, the monster didn't zap quite as much of her energy. It's probably thanks to her better attitude today.

"Hey there! Nice job with the monster!"

[spookyroomba]

"Same to you! Wasn't expecting that stasis thing there either, huh? That was pretty cool."

Web's gonna have sore arms soon, but hey, occupational hazard. As is stepping in something you probably don't want on your hooves, which just makes them tsk. They didn't bother cleaning off their hooves because they knew they were gonna help clean, but still...

[roaryrory]

"Yeah, wow, Joanna was such a hero back there!" She sighs happily about her luck that she got there in time to see that, and contribute herself. "Such a weird monster though, huh? Didn't even move before the statis. I guess we can't even begin to guess what the next one will be like."

[eutychia]

Hearing that Rory was hanging around Craydon cleaning up the mess, Luka makes sure to stop by and chat with her. He approaches her with a wave as she mops up monster slime.

"Hey there, Rory."

[roaryrory]

Rory lifts her eyes from her mop and smiles brightly at Luka.

"Hi Luka! Are you here to clean, too?" she asks. Oh, sweet summer child.

[eutychia]

"Oh, hmm, I hadn't planned on cleaning. I think I'd be more of a hindrance than a help, right?"

He comes closer, to avoid the range of any possible prying ears.

"I wanted to talk to you about the Protector."

[roaryrory]

"Aww, don't say that! Everyone is a help!"

Her ears perk up when the Protector is mentioned. "Oh? What about him? Have you talked to him?"

[eutychia]

"Indeed, I have! Last night, actually, and he specifically asked to see you!"

[roaryrory]

"Lil ol' me?" Rory says, forgetting she's one of the good knights for a second there. It was a special privilege she wasn't used to. "I'll be there, of course! Where do I go, what do I do?"

[eutychia]

"You don't have to do anything at all, actually. Apparently, I can just decide to bring you if I want to. But I wanted to give you a heads up, just so you don't freak out or anything when it happens."

[sustainer]

Gyre is absolutely slimed after the monster kill, and he's definitely planning an escape route to the nearest body of water to clean off in. That is, until he hears that there's a clean up crew coming soon. A community wide project sounds absolutely ideal to him as a way to wind down from today, and he's not going to miss it to save his life.

He's also not going to clean in these nasty clothes. The blood is turning his pants into cardboard, and he can't deal with it at all. This is to say, a little before the cleaning starts, there is a wild elf raiding a clothing store, looking utterly and completely lost as he tries to figure out what sizes are? How are shelves even organized honestly? Who would ever go to a place like this on purpose??


Later, he'll be in a pair of stolen, dark skinny jeans and nothing else, his gem tucked into his pocket. He used one of the hoses for a little bit to wash his cloths and his hair out, throwing his clothes up into the branches of a tree to dry. But now, he's fully engaged with the cleaning efforts, standing up high on a step ladder to he can wash down the front of the train. He's soaking wet and covered in soap, and his tongue is stuck just slightly out as he focuses on scrubbing a particularly stubborn green stain out of the front wind shield.