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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.
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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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[ The footfalls get a bit heavier, as if Garrot really wants to see this through. His tone has shifted closer to... childish whimsy. ] That means I get to figure out who he was before the Wizard showed up, what he was like... [ There's a sigh. ] ...before he died.
[ And then he takes a little leap and sticks the landing at the bottom of another flight of stairs. Looks like someone's getting impatient. ]
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She stays quiet for a moment after he speaks; Olivia has never lost anybody, never really cared enough about anyone for that thought to even cross her mind, so she's not quite sure about what to say.] I'm uh, sorry for your loss...
If we're really in the past I'd say try it, I guess? But like, don't say anything weird thing about the future or say who you are because then you'd mess with the timeline and somehow end up being your own grandpa. [She says, completely deadpan.] Like in movies, you know?
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[ He takes a few more heavy steps down the stairs, and then his voice picks up a bit, almost like he's trying to tell a joke. ] I mean, he's more bugbear than I am, so I don't have to worry... at least genetically.
[ And as he laughs, finally reaching the bottom of the stairs, Garrot realizes he knows absolutely fucking nothing about time travel, that nobody does. That this could be a stupid and harmful idea. So now he's just standing there near the door. Awkwardly. And in deep thought. ]
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Taking advantage of the stairs shortening their height difference, she gives him a few awkward pats on the shoulder.] Uh, it'll be okay, big guy. We'll figure this out, no problem.
[She kind of moves past him afterwards; opening the door to the hotel's lobby and finding it empty. She immediately beelines towards the main counter, trying to find anything useful; the first thing she notices is how outdated the cash register is. So easy to steal from! Then, she starts skimming through whatever documents were left there, biting her lip as she sees the records all read the same year their phones had shown them. She lets out a nervous little laugh, setting the papers on the counter as she keeps investigating.] Guess you better try and make that call.
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[ And then he slips off while Olivia rummages through paperwork. Garrot finds a side room, one with continental breakfast, and he's already dialing a number while eyeing the foodstuffs. ] Come on, come on...!
[ The phone rings, a canned response, before there's an empty dial tone. So he redials the number and shoves a handful of bacon into his mouth while he waits for- nope. Another dial tone. So he switches from his family's home phone number to his father's work phone, and then his mother's, and then the generic MurtaCorp line. In that time he eats most of the bacon and chases it with a few glasses of orange juice.
He's definitely stress eating, because it's there and he skipped breakfast (is that possible with time travel?) and he has no idea if he actually wants anyone to pick up the phone or not, because what would he even say? After about the tenth or eleventh call, Garrot takes a few minutes to just breathe, to keep his cool, before heading out to find Olivia. ]
Phones are a no-go, Oliv- [ He blinks for a moment, noticing that she's entirely gone from the lobby. ] Where'd she go? [ She is, of course, outside and after a few minutes Garrot spies her out a window and follows. ]