Day 3: Evening

[wizardseason]

Evening: 5:00pm - Midnight

[ IRL Timeframe: June 16th to June 26th July 3rd, 2019 ]

No matter when the heroes defeated their monsters, or when the sixth monster was defeated and there were none left, everyone will be treated to an unfortunately familiar feeling. The world of the past will fade, slowly at first but gradually increasing in pace until they pass out to blackness.

Everyone will wake up on a beach, and not a beach in the town their residence is in. Looks like everyone will need to take the train back home or go for a really, really long walk.

More unsettling than that is that every hero will either have a decent suntan or a mild sunburn. Social media is abuzz with comments about the island "going still" and the knights "dead on the beaches". There are reports that all twelve knights and the princess were all defeated at the same time and left on the beaches as an advertisement that the world was over this year.

Naturally, the heroes will realize that they are not, in fact, dead. Better do some damage control, there. Anyone who tried to make any recordings in the past will find that the files are corrupted and unavailable. Looks like whatever happened is going to... stay in the past.

The heroes who are due for an evening visit in the Princess' Dream Citadel or in The Wizard's House will arrive there the moment they sleep.

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The Weather

• Warmer than yesterday.
• 77°F / 25°C
• Everyone's in a bit of a panic!

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Prompts:

• 05:00pm Beach Wake-up Call: Every hero will wake up laying on the wet sand of the beach. There's waves gently lapping at them, waking them up slowly from their abrupt return from the past. Everyone will feel a little groggy and their clothes will be uncomfortably crusted in sand. Here's to hoping that saltwater and sand will wash out? Make sure to remove the little crabs that have started crawling over you!


• 5:00pm, Craydon: The residents of Craydon are all safely at home up the mountain by now. The only people still lingering around the Craydon beaches are fishermen working to prepare for their sunset runs. The offshore cages aren't going to empty themselves, after all! Fortunately this means they have, and can offer, blankets and hot drinks while they're heading out. It's not much, but they're here to help. At least the heroes are hopefully not alone?


• 5:00pm, Bamborough: The residents of Bamborough are really just the locals, concerned for the future of the world and of the heroes. Instead of waking up alone, they'll find little boxes of dry towels and bottled water beside them. Looks like the residents were pretty sure they were going to wake up at some point because they've left little kits to help them wake up with. It's not much, but it's better than nothing. The boardwalks of Bamborough are empty, with not a single soul out and about. The local shops, though, are pretty much business as usual. They'll immediately bustle in excitement when the heroes show themselves. Also: Free showers near the beach boardwalks! Better get all that crusty sand cleaned off.


• 5:00pm, Far Haven: The city of Far Haven is simultaneously the most cold and impersonal and the most immediately helpful. Each hero in Far Haven will wake up with a little walkie talkie beside them. If they pick it up and reach out, they'll be immediately told to come to the Far Haven hospital for immediate medical assistance. Once there, they'll be offered a free shower, water, hydration, a medical checkup, and a free coupon for the Craydon hot springs. There are even little kits set out for the knights in other towns. But... there's no one to bring them to the other towns, whoops. Guess they're carry-out only?


• 5:35pm onward, Train station(s): The train has a pretty reliable schedule for the evening, ending in Far Haven at 11:25pm. One way or another, the train is going to be how your hero makes their way back home to sleep for the night. Will the ride be uneventful, or will it be spent with others?
  
  • Bamborough: 6:45pm, 8:30pm, 10:15pm.
  • Craydon: 7:20pm, 9:05pm, 10:50pm.
  • Far Haven: 6:10pm, 7:55pm, 9:40pm, 11:25pm.


• 6:00pm, Bamborough: In the outdoor seating area of Slyder's Wizard Sliders, a Wizard-themed burger restaurant in the most touristy area of Bamborough near the waterfront, the Wizard herself is seated at one of the tables under a big umbrella. Despite the big umbrella, she's still wearing her massive hat: Double shade from the setting sun. Sitting on the table is a small wizard-themed drink with little lightning bolts sticking out of the blue liquid.


• 8:00pm, Far Haven: Social media is quick to add the #wizardsighting hashtag to posts made by officers at the police station in Far Haven. The Wizard is seated up on the rooftop ledge of the police station, legs dangling over the third floor edge, surrounded by fireflies sparkling in the night. All a hero has to do is tell an officer they'd like to go up to talk to the Wizard and they'll be escorted to the elevator to the roof. Up you go, heroes!
  

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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

5:00pm, Far Haven:

[wizardseason]

The city of Far Haven is simultaneously the most cold and impersonal and the most immediately helpful. Each hero in Far Haven will wake up with a little walkie talkie beside them. If they pick it up and reach out, they'll be immediately told to come to the Far Haven hospital for immediate medical assistance. Once there, they'll be offered a free shower, water, hydration, a medical checkup, and a free coupon for the Craydon hot springs. There are even little kits set out for the knights in other towns. But... there's no one to bring them to the other towns, whoops. Guess they're carry-out only?

[sustainer]

Of all the people in the world who could sit on a beach in the sun for twelve hours, Gyre comes out of it better then most. He doesn't sweat, and he doesn't really need to regulate his temperature. Perks of a magical construct for a body. It means when he wakes up, he sits straight up, immediately alert as he looks around and tries to figure out where the hell he is now.

It doesn't take long to see the moon shattered across the sky and realize it's the present day. It doesn't take long after that to find the radio on the ground. It takes much, much longer for him to consider his options with it. He actually sets the radio down and stands up, making his way towards the buildings he can see in the distance without contacting anyone.

About halfway up the beach, he stops, sighs, and turns back around, snagging the radio with a sour expression on his face.


Later, after the shower, and the water, and explaining to two separate doctors and a half dozen nurses that he doesn't really need the check up, he's walking out of the hospital again. He moves past the waiting kits and pauses there, looking them over for a moment. He takes the first one, sitting down in the waiting room to poke through the contents of it. There's not a lot for him, mostly soap and water in a bottle, but all the little grain snacks will probably be good for the rest of them.

It takes him several minutes of deep thought as he debates how to tell the other knights and the princess to come here for free stuff. It's only after he looks across the room and sees the receptionist pull their own phone out, that he uh remembers that texting exists. And so he sends a text into whatever the most recent group chat is:

Three are

"Fuck," he murmurs as his finger brushes over SEND and the incomplete message shows up on the screen. He's immediately flustered, his shoulders going tense, his grip on the phone tightening. He thinks very hard about just putting it away, but he shakes his head a little, typing quickly, messily.

Boxes wtih food ndsope in far havne general

Which is a pretty okay text for someone who can't write in Common and has never texted before.

[daddykong]

Garrot sees this pair of messages slide into his notifications, and he has to double-take. They all had each other's numbers and were in group chats, so... he has to take advantage of this. The whole thing.

TELL THEM TO SAVE ME ONE! 【ノ*✧ω✧】ノ*:･ﾟ✧

How much effort did Garrot put into that one message? Too much. So then he sends a direct text message to Gyre, trusting him to know what to do.

I'll owe you one if you can steal me two. I'm big and hungry.

He is woefully oblivious to Gyre's lack of phone skills. Oops.

[sustainer]

Well he's going to learn because Gyre spends a good twenty minutes trying to figure out why his phone just made such a weird sound. Twice. He actually goes up and asks the receptionist about it eventually, and she gives him a deeply concerned stare before telling him he probably got a text.

Then there's the struggle to remember how to open the screen again. And a further struggle to even figure out how to pull other messages up. By the time he's found the second message, he's halfway to the train station, and he stops in the middle of the sidewalk in frustration.

There's onely 1 for eahc person you can hvae my food

He stares at this message for a moment, before realizing something important: Who is this

[daddykong]

Unluckily for them both, Garrot ended up taking a quick leap into the ocean during those twenty minutes. This means that when he gets back to his phone, it doesn't seem like it took that long for Gyre to respond. And who looks at timestamps?

Please pig out on the food if you need to, I'll be fine. And I'm you from the future.

Couldn't you tell?

He doesn't want Gyre to go hungry after a day like this! He should eat!!! Garrot has some food in the fridge at his temp house anyway...

[sustainer]

So someone annoying. He glances off to the side, sighing heavily. If it's Garrot, he doesn't really want to talk to him. There's a chance it's one of the others though. Maybe Olivia? She seems like the type to maybe tease in this way? Maybe? If only he wasn't so technology blind he doesn't think to check the top of the screen.

I cnat eat most of it so no your not

He thinks about just putting the phone away after that. But he sure does have a box of stuff he can't eat. It would make his life easier if he could offload it onto whoever this is.

I can mete you somehwre im going tworads teh train now

[daddykong]

He took the time travel joke seriously? Really??? Garrot sighs, loudly and obnoxiously, though nobody is around to hear it.

I'm in Craydon, the train won't be here for a while.

That means you're stuck with him, Gyre. That said...

Do you know what talk-to-text is?

May as well be helpful before he gets hangry.

[sustainer]

Ill keepe it with me you cna ask for it hwne wecorss paths agian

He puts his phone away after that, pretty sure that the conversation is over. He makes it all the way down the road, getting lost along the way to the train station before he thinks to check it again.

He blinks at the question, thinking back to what Olivia told him. Do they mean like talking and having the phone record it? The opposite of what Seth does?

what is it?

[daddykong]

The idea that Garrot gets to teach Gyre something about functioning in organized society fills him with glee. Sure there was a wait between replies, but it means Garrot has something else to do while he plans some calls with his family. It means he can ignore them freaking out at him, too.

If the box where you type the words is empty, you should see a little squiggling line instead of the send button. Press that, and it'll beep and start transcribing your words until you stop talking. It doesn't get punctuation though, so you'll have to say QUESTION MARK or PERIOD if you want those. Then hit send when you're done.

Does that make sense?

And now he waits. Gyre might need a while to figure this out.

[sustainer]

It does take him awhile, yes. He finds the button relatively quickly, but then he spends some time experimenting and being slightly awed by technology for once. It's a useful tool! He's amazed at how well it senses when he starts and stops, and while it takes him a bit to remember what periods are used for in Common grammar, he's actually feeling very slightly excited about this. Talking is easier then trying to find his way around the keyboard, that's for damn sure.

This is about the moment he actually goes back to read what he's recorded and realizes that it is nonsense. Talk-to-text is iffy even on a good day but it doesn't recognize wild elf language and records it as Common word salad, and only gets about one in ten words of his heavily accented Common. This is immediately frustrating, and more so then usual because he doesn't understand why it's happening.

He gives up on the conversation at this point, putting the phone away and continuing on his train quest for awhile. It's only when he can't let the thought go that he pulls it back out and finally responds. At least he's remembered periods this time around.

Its not litsning to me. It writs nnosnense. Howsit supopsed to work

[disguiseself]

[Olivia smiles to herself when she sees the texts, replying with a DM rather than in the group chat.]

hey, you're texting! super proud!

save me one of the boxes please! :)

[sustainer]

Its wierd my fingers kepe misign

[He takes a moment after that to go up to the counter and take another box, telling the receptionist it's going to Olivia]

I have noe for yuo where aer you

[disguiseself]

[She briefly wonders if she should've set up autocorrect for him. But then again, that shit betrays you more than it helps you.]

woke up in bamborough. i'll be making my way to the place you gave me later tho

[sustainer]

Im going to carydon toinhgt i could mete you in bambodjvj

[What a nightmare holy shit. He stares at his text for several seconds before trying again: ]

Babmbough

Fuck! [He shouts in the middle of the street, attracting a couple eyes to him. He doesn't care though, typing as slowly as he possibly can]

bamborouhg

[disguiseself]

lol

[Oh, wait. She didn't teach him about acronyms, did she? But if she types "laughing out loud" she'll sound like a suburban white mom.]

hahaha. bitch of a name to type, right?
when are u coming to bamborough? i'll probably catch the train at 8 or something

[sustainer]

I dont kown im tyring to find the trina sation

[He's hopelessly lost at this point, but this is the closest he'll get to admitting that unless she asks for more. He's actually stopped on the sidewalk at this point, staring at her first text confusedly]

What is lol

[disguiseself]

its a lesson for another day

let me know when you are around i guess

[zafika]

Zafika has about had it when the world around them starts fading for the third time that day, and if this is going to be more time travel bullshit, they better end up in their own time, preferably in their bed. They need some sleep after this.

But instead, they wake up on a beach, feeling actually arm. Huh. Would you look at that. They're probably the only one who only got warm, as scales can't really get tan. They sit up groggily, brushing off sand from their person wherever they think of removing some from and groan, feeling exhausted still. And hungry. Oh gods they're so hungry, when's the last time they ate? The previous day, absolutely, after that they never even once thought about food.

As they flop back onto their back on the sand, their tail brushes against the walkie talkie, and they realise much to their discomfort that the inhabitants of the island are back, and some have dropped by. Great. Still, they pick up the walkie talkie, and make quick way to the hospital for that shower and a check up.

Right after that though, they're out of the hospital, and they're looking for a place to eat at. If they bump into any of the other Knights in Far Haven, they won't stop for a chat, but they're welcome to walk with them, maybe recommend somewhere to eat at.

[tropicalstorm]

When Haizea comes to, at first she really doesn’t mind the feel of the waves lapping at her... until she realizes she’s still fully dressed. With a barrage of curses, she quickly pulls off her boots and sighs. The salt water does NOT agree with the leather, she’s gonna need to get some new shoes.

Pointedly ignoring the walkie talkie for now, she then strips off everything else but her one piece and actually wades into the water, dunking her head under for good measure. She much prefers the feeling of ocean water on her skin to the sand that had been encrusting her just before. Finally, she emerges from the ocean and fires up the walkie talkie. At the hospital she refuses a shower, preferring to do that in the privacy of her room, but accepts a water bottle and has a doctor take a peek at her wounds, which are miraculously all healed up by now thanks to Terrence. She also takes the hot spring coupon, but she’s unsure about whether or not she’ll use it.

[feel free to thread with her while she’s still on the beach or when she’s leaving the hospital]

[silentwords]

Seth had been unlucky enough to wake up with a serious sunburn. Thankfully having woken up on the Far Haven beach he'd been able to get some advice on what to do next via the walkie talkie...though the moment after a thorough shower, some cream for the sunburn, water and a quick check up that confirmed that besides the sunburn he was pretty much unharmed, he was out of the hospital like a lightning bolt. He wasn't really comfortable there.

But in his haste to leave the hospital, he ends up accidentally bumping into Haizea.

[tropicalstorm]

Haizea's lucky in that she tans instead of burning, but being fully clothed on the beach means she's got one hell of a patchy one. When Seth bumps into her, she absently puts a hand on his shoulder to keep steady before she realizes who it is.

"Whoa, you okay there?" she says, looking over his harsh sunburn and signing O-K-A-Y with one hand.

[silentwords]

Seth was a little embarrased for bumbing into Haizea, though immensely glad it was one of the Knights instead of just some random stranger.

"Sorry, sorry...!" He'd already typed on one hand before even realizing who it was, though responding after processing the question properly. "Oh-! Haizea- yeah, well, as okay as I can be... fully clothed or not I'm not really on to be outside much and not being tan in the first place isn't really good recipe for laying on the sand for hours on end- really glad my things were okay since they were in my bag though- sorry, I didn't mean to bumb into you... and I'm kind of rambling aren't I?"

[tropicalstorm]

She smiles a bit at all that.

"Yeah, you are, but it's alright. A day like today would make anyone ramble," she sighs and runs a hand through her still salty hair. "You manage alright with the weird time stuff?"

[silentwords]

Seth's face was telling of how he'd managed with all the weird stuff that had happened. That is to say, horribly. He looked like someone had suddenly drained all of the color out of him.

"...Badly? Terribly? I'm pretty sure hiding away in the cabin you woke up in and then eventually running around aimlessly in terror after your desperate hope that the creepy whispers were any one of you horribly backfired wouldn't count as managing."

[fop_lop]

Well fuck.

Despite just lying there, somehow sand has managed to get inside of Terrence's suit as well as on top of him. Between the disorientation, soreness, and general exhaustion he has to wriggle out of his jacket like some kind of fluffy turtle before he's even able to sit up! At least he's able to reach someone quickly and take advantage of that shower. The cost wouldn't have been a problem, but the coupon for the hot springs is looking fairly tempting as well...

First, however, there's something more important to address - most of the world thinks they're completely boned!

After a hot shower and far more primping that probably necessary (doubly so since he's just going to the hot springs after this anyway), Terrence hijacks every trace of Torrence's social media presence. He intends to make it as obvious as possible to as many people as possible that the Knights and Princess are, in fact, alive. Most of the posts are just the text "KNIGHTS/PRINCESS ALIVE" with a link to a video. The video itself is just a 10-second clip of Terrence stating the current date/time, adding, "we're all fine," and giving a thumbs-up. It's vague and surprisingly low-key for the rabbit, but it gets the point across. Despite feeling like a salted, hungover slug, Terrence's pleasant facade is convincing as always. He's even managed to hide the sunburn between camera angles, lighting, and a touch of makeup.

Now to catch a train...