Day 2: Evening

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?

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

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?

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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Yes, thank you, Sucecq. To be fair, he probably should've run that by the companion first.

Even as Terrence watches the Wizard fall, he knows its an act. Before she even speaks he can feel a presence behind him. This is going... Pretty much exactly as he'd expected, really. Despite everything, he actually seems completely calm while facing her this time. No shaking, eyes open - though his fingers are splayed to obviously demonstrate that he is completely unarmed now. Not that any other weapon he could possibly be hiding would hurt the Wizard regardless.

"I'm actually amazed, myself. Sports aren't really my thing." The rabbit knight is making a heroic effort at keeping his legs from shaking, but it's impossible to entirely cover the quaver in his voice. He remains completely still, waiting.

Unfortunately for Terrence she's fully aware that his weapon is laying on the train tracks over there. Now that he's turned towards her, the other body is gone and only the knife remains. But he isn't looking that way to see it. Her face has that all-too-familiar smirk on it as she watches him.

"Did you want that to work?" She asks, calmly, no hint of emotion in her voice that could give away what she's thinking.

"You can go get it, if you want."

"I didn't expect it to," he admits while actually heading over towards the tracks, "though I wouldn't be too torn up if it had." It gives his legs something to do if nothing else. Well, that and he'll have to get the weapon back eventually anyway, assuming he lives through this. So far still alive, so there's that!

"Not that I expect an answer, but... How much do you know about each of us? Are you omniscient?" There's still audible quaking in Terrence's words, but if he just keeps talking then he doesn't have to think about anything else.

As he makes his way over to get the knife, she follows after him idly. She'd half-expected him to hop, actually. Her little smirk doesn't waver when he asks her what she knows. Well, since he wants to know.

"I don't even know your name." She answers without any emotion to go with it. If it was anyone else, they'd be sarcastic or offer clarification that they were serious or not, but she gives none of that.

"Should I ask how much you know about me?"

That seems... Ludicrous, really. The Wizard doesn't have any reason to lie, and they certainly don't seem to be... But then they also don't have much of an obvious reason to do nearly anything that they do, and almost never betray any emotion regardless.

It's infuriating, and what's even worse is that he can't even tell if that is intentional either.

Terrence exhales loudly while still heading over to the tracks and bowls over the Wizard's question entirely, simply continuing with his own, "So you really don't know anything about any of our pasts? Our history, any sort of interest in or grudge against you we might have? You'd have reacted the same to that knife if any of us threw it?" What? He's already thrown a goddamn knife at the lady tonight, no point in trying to be polite now.

Terrence has some really, truly wonderful mental thoughts going on. If he made the Wizard aware of any of them, she'd likely give him answers that would leave him even more confused than he already was.

"Correct." She answers, waiting for him to get back with the aforementioned knife.

"I can lie and say I would only react this way to you, if you would prefer to hear that."

When he finally reaches and retrieves his weapon, it somehow feels to Terrence more like he's obediently following the Wizard's orders in doing so. He manages to comfort himself again with the idea that he'd have to get it before leaving regardless. Also, it might harm the train..? That sounds laughable for such a small object, but it is utterly impervious to the mundane, so...

"Surprisingly, I don't wish to be special," he admits, sounding exasperated enough to be totally genuine. Terrence continues looking at the Wizard as he addresses his companion, "Sucecq, how often do knights try what I just did? 'Off-camera,' I mean."

Edited 2019-04-23 08:19 (UTC)

"Your loss." She offers, in her usual deadpan tone. She probably would have allowed him to ask for just about any kind of special treatment and she very well might have provided it. But since he isn't asking for it, she isn't giving it.

She does get the slightest added curve to her smirk when Sucecq appears, though.

"What do y-- oh geez why's the Wizard--" He appears and he immediately bristles in surprise, fuzz standing up as he looks her over. It takes him a few moments to compose himself before he looks back at Terrence.

"Uh. At least once a year. Somebody does it. Why'd it have to be you this year?"

Terrence puts a finger to his chin and nods approvingly, "Sounds about right. And how often do they survive the attempt?" Y'know, Terrence, you probably could've just asked your companion all of this without the murder attempt.

He's keeping it together remarkably well by now, at least. Oh, still terrified on the inside, of course, but years of PR work and boardroom experience have cultivated quite a poker face.

"Every time?" He answers, looking back and forth between the Wizard, who shrugs, and Terrence. He finally stops when he's looking at Terrence, shaking his head after another moment.

"Unless she's got her hammer out-- you don't have your hammer out, right?" He suddenly turns back to her, but she gives no answer to having or not having her hammer. Why was she always unsettling??

"Would ending one of us in private be too boring?" he asks, this time more directly to the Wizard than his companion. "It has to be more about the spectacle than anything, right? If you actually wanted to just win you could just be done with us from the beginning."

The rabbit still isn't expecting any real answers as his tone shifts from genuine curiosity to something more like desperation. "Though I suppose if there's some greater purpose behind why you have to do things this way, it must be something so far beyond our ken that it's pointless to even speculate..."

...Dammit. He was trying to look cool and interrogate her, but now he just sounds like a confused child.

"What if" The Wizard starts, going from where she was standing a little ways away from Terrence to directly beside him when he blinks. There isn't even a sound or indication that she'd moved, she's just there.

"I said I wanted you to live?" She finishes, leaning in closer to him to look him in the eyes as she asks it. It's easy to pick up on the way his voice changes, the way his nervousness and confusion seeps into his actions, but she wanted to see how he reacted to this.

The Wizard's sudden movement (can it even be called movement at that point?) causes Terrence to visibly start, but still he holds his ground.

...Well, mostly. As she leans in closer, he in turn draws his face back while keeping his body mostly on the spot. "I'd... Well, I'd be inclined to believe you. That's sort of what I was trying to test here," he admits before swallowing hard.

Good reaction, Terrence. The Wizard makes no indication that she's going to attack or really give him a hard time of any kind. Instead she just takes a step back after a moment, looking him over as he answers.

"Then you'd be believing the truth." She answers his test with an answer, turning slowly before starting to make her way towards the train. It's time for boarding, she's not going to miss her train.

"Are you coming?" She questions back at him, not turning to see if he's following her to the train.

For a second or two Terrence actually considers boarding. He really had only shown up here to test a theory as stated, but maybe he could learn more..?

"...No," he eventually decides, adjusting his sleeves and collar just to give his body something to do other than collapse (before she's gone, anyway). "Terribly sorry about the unpleasantness. Extreme situations, extreme measures, and all that. I hope you have a pleasant trip."

"That's fine." She calls back as she steps onto the train, finally turning back to face him now that she's there. She has one hand settled onto the support beam where she's standing. A few moments later the train is announcing 'please stand clear of the closing doors'.

"I'll buy you lunch later." She offers it in her usual emotionless tone, with no indication of what her thoughts are in this moment.

Then the train doors close, and she's gone.

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Evening: 5:00pm - Midnight

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