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

[daddykong]

"How about whoever ends up on top gets to... call in a favor?" Garrot shrugs off the whimsy and mirth, and instead opts for a deep, gravelly laugh that'd fit a villain in the wrestling ring more than a world savior in a bar. "You could call me up for round two the next day, I could force you to see the northern lights, or we could get creative." Then he lets out a wry little snort, content to let her fill in the blanks however she wants. Is this a blood debt between pit fighters or a pre-emptive second duel-date? Both???

"It's not like we're going anywhere." And then he lifts a single clawed finger towards her, in an effort to gently brush some of the hair from her face, or just to lazily point at her, whichever. "So we gotta make sure there's no shortage of fun, y'know?"

[tropicalstorm]

She makes no attempt to stop him as he reaches out, even tilts her head a bit so he can reach easier, but doesn't reply right away. While she doesn't think this is where his thoughts are, if he won the bet he could ask her to tell him the truth about her past and present. Of course, she could lie, but she doesn't really want to, not to Garrot at least. She shakes off her concerns though, and just resolves that the best way to avoid that situation is to end up on top herself. Business as usual.

"You got yourself a bet," she says with a grin. "For what it's worth though, I woulda gone to see the lights anyway, but now you gotta win the bet to make me go!" she laughs a bit, and hopes that this gets him to settle on asking for the northern trip as his favor, just in case she doesn't win. It could happen.

[daddykong]

"Glad you're a good sport, Zea." He grins back, and then blows air into her face, as if he really just wanted to send her hair flying around. While he harasses her, of course, Garrot leans back into his own seat. If they don't keep a respectable distance, they might forget they're waiting for that wound to heal.

"The lights were just an example, though." His grin is back, and he's clearly having fun. "I'm doctor smart, I can definitely come up with something a little more... interesting." And then he winks again, his only goal at this point being to get in her head. Garrot's still a heel wrestler sometimes, he knows how to be antagonistic.

[tropicalstorm]

Haizea claps a hand to her cheek dramatically. “Oh no, not doctor smart! How can I possibly compete!” Haizea exclaims, extremely sarcastically. “I better just give up now, there’s no way me and my uneducated brain could outsmart a doctor.”

She grins slightly and chomps down on an onion ring, watching Garrot to see how he’ll react. Will he think she’s offended? Or will he keep playing along? She hopes he won’t think she’s earnest, at least.

[daddykong]

The doctor has two teenagers and a very moody young adult, so he picks up on Haizea's sarcasm after the first syllable. Garrot flinches backwards, visibly offended for a single gasp, until he leans back in, puffing his chest out like a bizarrely flamboyant bird.

"You think you're outclassed already?" Garrot's smirking, and he arches an eyebrow at her. He's absolutely playing along, because he grabs another onion ring and just lazily spins it around his finger like a little hula-hoop. "I didn't even get to say that I was engineer smart, too." And then he curls the hooping finger and takes a huge bite out of his onion ring, talking with his mouth not-very-full. "I'm a terror at board game nights."

He's clearly very used to aggressive bragging.