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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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Terrence eventually slows, looking around at the various stalls curiously. Surely the Wizard knows they're being followed, yes? So maybe they're leading him somewhere specific. Aside from ground zero on W-Day, anyway - is there something important he's supposed to see here? Well the food certainly seems like it'd be pleasant enough if there were anyone around to actually make it, under different circumstances...
Might as well look around. It's not like he's going to catch up and yelling questions never goes anywhere with her.
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Unfortunately for Terrence, he's searching for leads where there aren't any just yet. He'll be able to find some of the same newspapers that have been laying around the city. There are also a wide variety of half-eaten or for-sale foods laying around in every stall and shop. If he's even slightly hungry he'll be able to find anything to suit his appetite.
But even if he dawdles around, when he turns the next corner he'll find the Wizard's hat turning another corner far ahead. Despite their constant just-ahead-of-him behavior it doesn't seem like they're actually in a rush because he didn't get left behind.
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Well if the hat isn't in too much of a hurry, then neither is he! The rabbit knight takes a moment to quickly reach into a stand and make himself a hotdog, absolutely overloaded with ketchup, mustard, and relish. What? Last night's near-death experience took away his appetite and the only thing he's had so far this morning is a single pocket-chocolate!
Nibbling as he walks, Terrence makes for the mobile wizard hat again at a renewed pace, but still not quite running.
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Except now, instead of following a wizard hat around the next corner, he gets to see the hotdog doing a little twirl in the air before zipping out of sight. His idea that he's being led somewhere proves accurate when he finds the main doors of the city's tallest tower coated in mustard and ketchup leftovers. If he looks beyond, within the giant lobby of the building, he'll see a wizard hat, followed by a floating hotdog, entering the center elevator just as the doors close to send it up.
What now, Bunny knight?
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Idly munching on his snack, Terrence follows at a slightly escalated pace and enters one of the unoccupied elevators. He examines it for any obvious indication of which floor he's being guided towards, like a stained floor button or anything?
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When he passes the elevators, he'll see that the elevator heading up is steadily increasing, going higher and higher. The other elevators are all up at floor R58 and if he checks that button inside the elevator car, he'll find that it's labelled 'roof' and is also covered in mustard.
Gross.
Assuming that's where he goes, he'll have a truly absurd number of floors to ascend to get to where he's headed and he'll be stuck waiting in the elevator car. Conveniently he's not alone.
A voice whispers in his right ear, seemingly inches from him, sounding utterly gleeful and childlike when it speaks. But if he looks for its source, he'll see that he's alone in this elevator car.
"You're a hero, right?" They laugh after asking it, a childlike 'I know something you don't know!' practically dripping off the words.
Floor 12, forty-six to go.
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Oh wow, this... This old-ass elevator can't go any more quickly, can it..?
"I'm a knight, at any rate," he affirms. "Some people consider them heroes, yes."
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"Who are you fighting?"
The elevator shows floor -5 (negative five), fifty-three to go.
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Even with the voice's ability to follow him, Terrence feels more comfortable with his back to a solid surface and remains that way.
"Monsters, of course!" he replies with a tone considerably softened from his previous fear. Is this the voice of a child..? Hm. "Though I'm not sure if they're here yet."
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The elevator shows floor 57, one to go.
When the doors open to the roof, Terrence will be treated with a view of a wide-open roof with no one standing on it. But there's a trail of ketchup and mustard leading straight out to the edge. On the edge of the rooftop is a single hotdog that is absolutely loaded with condiments. There are so many atop it that the dog beneath is invisible.
It's like the hotdog isn't even there.
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Terrence is normally a rather clever fellow, but any symbolism in this gesture is completely lost on the knight if for no other reason than the situation and the worry of impending danger is too out there and great. He'd be a bit more composed if he weren't alone and they were, y'know, not in some weird alternate timeline or something! Logical analysis and rationality could only take one so far in the face of the Wizard, he supposed.
Still, Terrence tries his best to ignore the voice and walk closer to the... Mountain of condiments... He doesn't touch it or speak further, but he's definitely on the lookout for any more communication, even activating his personal power to enhance his hearing.
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There's the soft tap of a footstep and, if he whirls around to look, he'll be greeted by an absolutely massive presence. But if he was thinking it was the Wizard he knew, he's wrong: the body is all wrong. It isn't the usual small, petite form of the current year's Wizard. There's muscle and height and an awful coat that looks both pristine and tattered at the same time.
While the defining feature, the hat, is present... the pajamas are absent. Instead they're wearing black robes decorated with deep purple clouds and blue stars. They turn at Gyre's arrival, revealing that they're wearing what can only be compared to a plague doctor's mask. Not a single inch of skin is showing and their eyes are hidden behind tinted glass. Instead of a long beak on the front of their mask, the mouth section is a maw of sharp teeth that, even parted, shows nothing behind it.
They exhale, unmistakable steam rising from their mouth for just a moment, and then they're gone. There's a flickering crackle as they vanish, wisps of smoke and sparkles filling the air where they'd just been standing.
Whatever they were examining Terrence for, it looks like they're finished.
And they're gone.
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...Well.
He's alive, at least - it's the only thing Terrence can really process for several moments after the past-Wizard(?) is gone. While the current year's Wizard certainly looks much less intimidating, he'd already felt firsthand that she could most certainly give off the exact same menacing aura. Still, it was an entirely different matter to be faced with an even more unfamiliar creature that both felt and looked that frightening.
"That distressed-chic look... I'd like to get in touch with his tailor," the rabbit knight jokes out loud to himself, purely to calm his nerves and keep his legs from giving out. Despite any trace of the presence having vanished, he continues to stay put for several minutes, again focusing his senses to listen for anything.