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pajamabox2019-04-22 06:55 pm
wizardseason) wrote in pajamabox2019-04-22 06:55 pm
Day 3: Morning
Morning: 6:00am - 12:00noon
[ IRL Timeframe: April 22nd -It's the third day and, in striking comparison to day two, it is not a bright and sunny morning. The day begins for every hero with an unfamiliar room in an unfamiliar place in an unfamiliar time.
When your characters check their phones, clocks, calendars, or any other timekeeping implement they'll find that the year is 00 AW, forty years before the present day. The year before the Wizard's first game was held, the year before it came down to only two knights and the Princess facing off against the Wizard. It was before all of it.
Everywhere your characters go, there are no people. Their devices will not connect to the internet outside of the island, their companions will not appear, the Protector will not answer, but they can text each other without difficulty. If groups in the same city try to find each other, they will find that some kind of mystical plot barrier is keeping them from finding each other. A wrong turn, a locked door, a lost connection. Somehow, they're kept apart. All the support they have is who they woke up with. Oddly, everyone wakes up in their normal day-to-day clothing rather than pajamas.
There have to be answers somewhere, but where?
The Weather
- Eerily still.
- 64°F / 18°C
- The trees are unmoving, there is no wind.
Prompts:
- 6:30am Spa Hotel, Bamborough: Two sets of heroes wake up in the Spa Hotel in Bamborough. Garrot wakes up in the same room as Olivia. On the far side of the Spa hotel, in one of the waterfront cabins, Haizea and Joanna wake up in the same room. The hotel is empty, but every room is unlocked. Food's still in the dining areas, too. Oddly, things look like they were in use around the Hotel. Carts in the middle of hallways, half-eaten meals on tables, bags halfway up staircases. Odd.
- 6:30am Lodge Cots, Craydon: The Craydon lodge isn't much, but it's a spanning complex of cabins that maximize occupancy by filling them with cots for that "outdoor camping" experience. Rory and Gail will wake up in one of the cabins near the base of the mountain. On the furthest edge of the lodge, Gyre and Seth will wake up in their top-level cots higher up the mountain. There are a few campfires going with meat roasting over them, piles of raw meat to the side ready to cook, and various festivities left laying around. It's almost like everyone up and left all at once, but where did they go?
- 6:30am Cozy Inn, Far Haven: Far Haven's 'Cozy Inn' promises the 'small town feeling' in the middle of the big city. The inside is exactly that, a very cozy little hotel with three floors of rooms and a covered walkway with a glass floor over a garden into another section of the hotel. Zafika and Web will wake up in a room on the first floor nearest the train station exit of the cozy inn. No doors are locked here and it looks as if things were left strewn about like the people just teleported out of here. Terrence, Matilda, and Luka wake up in the glass walkway above, in sleeping bags. They'll find that the only way out goes to the cozy inn's far building, they'll have to go through a spanning cafeteria space with tons of empty tables that, strangely, look like they were just in use. Plates with half-full, or even untouched plates sit around on every table and there are even jackets draped over some chairs, purses on the ground. The city outside is much the same, vehicles just stopped in the middle of the street with no drivers, things dropped on the ground. What happened...?
- 9:30am, Exploration, Bamborough, Craydon, Far Haven: The scene is much the same in all three cities. When the heroes make their way outside, they'll notice that the sky above Harsen Island is a massive vortex centered over the mountain in the middle of the island. Heroes in Craydon will get to see it a little closer, the massive clouds occasionally crackling with blue lightning. All three cities have glowing cracks in the ground in various places, the cracks lead all around, some larger, some smaller, maybe there's something to be found? There are large glowing obelisks that are floating over each city and outside of them, they occasionally float down near the ground enough to touch or look closer at. Once the heroes make their way out into the streets, they might start seeing glimpses of a Wizard hat in the distance but each time it passes behind a wall or into shadow and is gone. Maybe they can catch up? Maybe your hero takes a moment to search through local news, the paper, letters, a television station. What's going on in the city right now?
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.
Important: 'Exploration' toplevels will unlock additional information as items in their descriptions are explored. If your character explores a feature, write [Character explores ____] at the end of your tag and send a ping on Discord to get a reply with further details regarding that item.
6:30am Spa Hotel, Bamborough:
Garrot + Olivia
What... the fuck?! [ The words are whispered, because he sees the year, and he sees that someone else is in the other bed. The cute girl from the bar?! But this isn't good- none of this is good. They barely know each other and they're somewhere they shouldn't be so uh
he gets up from the bed carefully and whispers her name. Loudly. He's not trying to be subtle, just less gentle than shouting. ] Psssst, Olivia. Heeeeeey, Olivia! [ And then he gives the blankets on the bed a little tug. He really doesn't want to scare her, since he's a huge, muscular, hairy, clawed beast with jeggings, a black sleeveless hoodie, and contacts instead of glasses. He looks like he was about to spend the morning on a long jog or training or something. At least the hood is down! ]
It's Garrot, are you awake? [ He wants to flop down onto the rest of the bed, but resists the urge. Instead, he gets a little frantic sounding. ] Please wake up...
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What is this? Where are we? [She hisses. She's disoriented and terrified, but she makes an effort to remember last night's events.] We - didn't leave the bar together, I-I remember talking to Gyre and then... took the train, found a place... [She then mumbles something about the Protector and lowers her weapon; pretty sure that it wasn't Garrot who put her in this situation, at least. Were they fucking kidnapped? She breathes heavily during this pause, trying to suppress a full blown panic attack. When she repeats her question, it isn't in an accusatory tone anymore - she's just scared.] Where are we?
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I woke up just a minute ago, saw you, and wanted to see if you were okay. [ His head gestures towards the knife, but at this point he's got a little smile. ] Are you? I- I'm glad you found a place, too. [ Garrot takes a chance to hold up his phone, which displays the year as forty years prior. He looks grim. ]
You know about as much as I do. [ Admittedly, he doesn't really know what the inside of Bamborough hotels look like. So he's kind of winging it a lot. And he might be thinking his phone is bricked. ]
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[She's still trying to calm herself down; taking deep breaths. She rubs at her face as she tries to focus, and the stains on her fingers show her that she's wearing her make-up. That's good, that's a good thing. Okay, okay, okay. Deep breaths.] I can't - think. We're not safe anywhere. I need to move. I need fresh air. I need - Iv.
Iv? [She calls out to her companion, expecting a reassuring hand to fall on her shoulder - but she's met with silence. She calls out again, but when the minotaur still doesn't come, Olivia looks at Garrot with wide eyes.] She's never not answered. Something's fucked, this is all wrong, I - let's go? Outside, stay with me?
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Xaljim. [ The name comes out stern like a parent reprimanding a child. No response. He looks around the room for something, anything to use as a weapon, while trying to focus his mind to summon a double. Still nothing. ] Tch.
Hold on, this might be loud. [ And then he walks into the bathroom, and with a loud and violent grunt and a few dull thuds, Garrot returns with a steel shower rod in hand. It's no quarterstaff, but it'll do for now. ]
You'll be safe with me. Ladies first. [ Garrot gestures to the door, so she can bug out as soon as she's ready. But he does give her a nice little smile as he does it, because he wants her to be Okay. ]
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She waits nervously for him to come back, but looks genuinely impressed when he comes back wielding a shower rod. She nods, genuinely grateful that he wants to keep her safe, and that he's calm, and that he's here. After a few more deep breaths, she's as ready as she'll ever be.
She opens the door and carefully peeks out, half-expecting to see someone coming to investigate the loud noise Garrot had caused. When she's sure they're alone, she quickly but quietly moves out of the room and through the hallway, towards where she thinks the exit will be. As they walk, she's very much aware of the silence in this place. If it weren't for her own breathing and her fellow Knight's footsteps she'd worry that she's losing her hearing.]
I... think we might be alone. [She whispers, just in case she's wrong. The Wizard had poofed civilians away before, so she didn't find the idea strange, but she was worried - the last time that had happened, a monster had come.]
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We'll see about that. [ His free hand takes out his phone, and after a few awkward buttons, he's whispering into it. ] Olivia and I woke up in some hotel. Alone. Is everyone okay? At symbol Luka, does the Protector know anything? [ If the phones adjusted to time travel, they should still work! But then he pockets the phone, and turns his attention to Olivia. His ears are perky and alert for danger. ]
If there's a monster, run. [ He nods. ] I'll hold it off.
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She glances at him over her shoulder, her surprised expression soon turning into a frown as she smacks him in the chest with her tail.] Fuck you, no way I'd leave you.
Let's keep moving. Jeez. [She rolls her eyes and continues the stealthy hotel mission. Men, she huffs.]
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[ He stops mid-sentence, because there's the sound of a phone vibrating in the pocket of his jeggings. They're so tight the vibrating might even be visible, oops. So Garrot pulls the phone out, his eyes scanning the screen for a moment before they go wide with... happiness? ] Luka's with Terrence and Matilda. [ He's glad they're all okay, even if none of them are probably great in a fight. They better not find a Monster. ] They don't know where they are.
[ And then he gestures further down the hall with his head. ] Wanna find the stairs and give 'em a hand? [ The fact that they're not completely alone seems to have done wonders for his mood. ]
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Yeah, let's find them. [She nods, moving a bit faster. Now that she actually has a goal in mind and she's not stuck in an unknown room, her breathing seems to have gone back to normal. She's still on edge for sure, but at least the panic seems to have been suppressed.
When the two of them reach the stairs and elevator, she glances between the two options before looking back at Garrot. She barely notices the fact that the elevator is basically an antique, thinking this might be a themed hotel for all she knows - but she is mindful about her buddy's size.] Stairs, right?
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Absolutely. Back in the day, elevators were so slow that we may as well get the cardio. [ And then he twists the handle just a bit and slams his shoulder into the door, shoving it open more than enough for Olivia to follow as he starts descending the stairs. May as well get the blood pumping now! ]
So I'm thinking, when we get to the lobby... [ He's not trying to be quiet anymore, and it's not like they'd be able to keep a low profile with all the echoing. He has big feet and they have places to be. ] ...I wanna make a phone call. If we are in the past, I mean.
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Hmm, you think the dates on our phones are right, then? That we actually traveled back in time or some shit? [She doesn't like the idea at all - more likely they might've been teleported to some abandoned part of the island or, hell, it could even be illusion work.] It seems a little far fetched to me.
Who would you call? If you don't mind me asking.
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Haizea + Joanna
When she sees Joanna, her eyebrows raise. What on earth happened?
"Hey, uh... Joanna? Joanna, wake up!" she starts of speaking softly, but reaches an tone closer to yelling by the end of that.
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"I'm... I'm awake," she mumbles, raising a hand to shield her eyes and help her focus.
"...Haizea, right? Is something upsetting you?
As she pushes herself up to sitting, Joanna surveys the room. The curtains are mostly closed, but it's light enough to make out this is an unfamiliar place, and she's waking in a bed, fully clothed. That much isn't a terrible surprise, she'd struggled to fall asleep the night before, with her thoughts churning over the aftermath of the monster fight...
If you can really call it the night before.
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"I don't know 'bout you, but never in my life have I been able to fall asleep fully dressed like this. I got a bad feeling..."
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"I haven't visited anyone else's 'home', but this isn't mine," she confirms softly, and slowly stands. "You think we've been brought here by someone. We're not restrained... and you have a weapon on hand... so it may simply be a prank."
She doesn't think so, either. Their voices sound a little too loud, and her every step towards the door seems to echo even though they're on carpeted floors. It's like the world outside has gone silent. Ominous.
"...I'll try opening the door. Keep a lookout, would you?" Joanna asks, pausing a second for an answering nod, before opening the hallway door.
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"This feels weird... let's try and get outta here, we can at least figure out where we are then."
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Joanna keeps her voice soft, and looks around with her ears flicking in different directions, trying to make out any sign of what's going on.
She notices the brass knuckles and pauses a moment to pat herself down. No weapons in her pockets, but she has the zipbag of finger foods - and the corporate cell phone. The date and time appear as she tests it, and she freezes.
"...Haizea. Do you have your phone? Mine is... reading something strange."
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At first, she doesn't react. But when she notices the date, she stops in her tracks.
"Joanna... does your phone say that it's 00 AW too? It's gotta be a glitch right, I mean, I wasn't even b-" she breaks off, realizing that she doesn't actually know if that's true or not. She might have been born by then, for all she knows, and it's weird to think of herself existing in a pre-wizard world.
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But that era's exactly what this quiet reminds her of. The times when the jungles went still, no animal sounds filling the trees, as all of nature held its breath in anticipation of the next movement of the war. Her own breath stutters, as decades old habit tries to reassert itself.
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She leads the way down the hallway, brass knuckles still clenched on her right hand. Eventually, they find a door that leads outside the large cabin they'd woken up in. Haizea takes a deep breath before reaching for the doorknob, almost dreading what they're going to find.
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The ebb and flow of the ocean waves are about the only sound in the world, besides the noises the two knights make. The whole world is quiet, and still - no signs of other people, no rustling of animals in plants, not even a breeze.
Joanna has her hand to her mouth, a fist curled up to breathe through as she takes in the scenery. The city has changed, the buildings don't look the same. Certain touches of architecture, the telltale signs of modern magitek - they're all missing.
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“I haven’t seen one of these since I was a kid,” she says, pointing at a piece of rudimentary tech that has long since been replaced by magitek. She walks out onto the porch and squints a bit. “I think we’re in Bamborough?”
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Joanna shakes her head, and leans out further to examine more of their surroundings, more of the island and sky. The mountain's crowned under a strange storm cloud circling the island's center, and the horizons's clear beyond it...
"That moon," Joanna says, and can't get anything out for a second or two. "Have you ever seen it like that... even pictures?"
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