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:

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

[scandeled]

Matilda had been headed to greet Luka- she's been admiring the celebrity from afar, but hadn't yet gathered the courage to actually speak to him. But fueled with the magical power of a single margarita, plus the leftover adrenaline from the monster fight make her feel invincible and cooler than she actually is.

She's trying to think of what to say as she approaches, only to stop suddenly nearby him as she catches just a bit of what his app's reading off to him. "Awhmahgawd, they said my name!"

[eutychia]

"Hm?" Luka turns. He recognizes her voice from the interviews, though they hadn't spoken personally yet. "Matilda, right? You're a celebrity now, almost as big as me."

[scandeled]

Well, that certainly earns a good laugh and even a snort, as if he's made a particularly funny joke. "Oh! Imperceptibly! You were so cool to begin with!" She giggles again, and invites herself to sit near him, but not too near. He's still a celebrity!

[eutychia]

Luka welcomes her sitting with him and her snort elicits a bit of a smile.

"Are you drinking tonight?" He asks, holding his half-empty margarita glass up.

[scandeled]

Matilda beams and raises her own glass back at him— then feels stupid, and holds it like a normal person. “Y-yeah! We kind of have to, when they went through all the trouble of making themed drinks and everything... Though there is something a little disconcerting about it.” She pouts at her own beverage for just a moment. “At least it doesn’t remind me of breakfast!”

[eutychia]

"Disconcerting?" He pauses for a moment. "Oh, right, I heard they were bright green. Like the... blood, I guess it was? My impression was that most drinks like this were some bright color, aren't they?"

[scandeled]

“Maybe. I’m not sure, I don’t normally drink things like this- but they are fun! I’m glad they aren’t sweet— I was worried that the brim had sugar on it— but it’s salt!” She’s still grinning widely as she talks like a fanatic about the margarita- but that’s the same overwhelming energy she take about everything. “They’re almost the same color as the blood. It’s such an oddity, to see and smell— well! That’s not a very ladylike thing of me to talk about.”

[eutychia]

"It did smell pretty... different. I wonder if these would sell more or less if they captured the aroma, too?" Luka laughs, swirling his drink in his glass.

"And, I've known some elegant, sophisticated ladies who talked about blood and guts in my day, don't worry."

[scandeled]

Matilda practically chokes on her drink when he asks that- losing any hope of cool she had attempted to keep. "Less! Less! Definitely less!" She's perhaps a little too insistent and loud, but she can't imagine drinking something that smells so...

"Truly?" Matilda asks, quickly distracted. Forget about monster margaritas. "That sounds so exciting. Truthfully, all of this is so new to me! I didn't think I'd ever fight monsters!" She's way too enthused.

[eutychia]

"I can't say I imagined myself ever fighting monsters either. Though... to be honest, I haven't really done much of that either. I mostly have just been telling other people where the monsters are, which isn't even that useful because they can, you know, see them. With their eyes."

Luka's immediately embarrassed at having let himself vent to Matilda, even just a little bit. They'd only just really met, after all, and it wasn't a very good impression. He downs the rest of his drink.

[scandeled]

If Matilda minds, she doesn't show it- not in her facial expression, or in her voice. "Me either, until today. Though I don't know if poking an extraordinary amount of pinpricks in the monster counts as fighting."

She pauses just a brief moment, before speaking up again, just as perky as before. "Besides! It's not the Princesses job to fight! You've got a way more important job."

[eutychia]

"That definitely counts!" He says, raising one arm to casually signal a waiter over. One promptly arrives, and Luka leans in briefly to whisper an order to him before turning back to Matilda.

"You're right. It's just, when I found out I'd been chosen for this, I imagined everything going so much differently. Is this how you pictured it being?"

[scandeled]

Matilda can only hum wistfully when he asks that, raising her hands to fuss about her goggles as she decides if she wants to confess this embarrassing thing to Luka or not. Might as well, in case someone else rats her out later.

“To be honest, I didn’t think this thing was real until yesterday! I expected a lot more cameras and editing, and acting. But that’s not what it’s like at all. We’re... really here to save the world.”

[eutychia]

"Hah!" Luka can't help but laugh. "I kind of wish it was all fake. It's kind of the... reality of it all that's got me struggling with it anyway. If it were all just a show it would be so much more fun."

The waiter returns with two drinks on a tray.

"One for you, if you'd like?"