Day 4: Morning

Morning: 6:00am - 12:00noon

[ IRL Timeframe: July 3rd - ~~July 10th~~ July 17th, 2019 ]

If any hero was expecting day four to be anything but absolutely bananas, they'd been living in a dream bubble. Fortunately for everyone, they wake up where they fell asleep the previous night. Unfortunately, though, everyone receives a decidely rude awakening at 6:06am.

An earthquake.

No part of the island is safe, everywhere and everything starts shaking and rumbling. Roads split, the train tracks bend, buildings fracture, buildings collapse...

...and bright, glowing blue fissures open up in the ground.

No city is safe from their new feature, but in every single city it's clear that the cracks are coming from a specific source. In Far Haven, the cracks lead west to Craydon. In Bamborough, the cracks lead east to Craydon. In Craydon, though, the cracks lead directly north up the mountain. They gradually narrow the further up the mountain you go, where do they end?

Heroes will, of course, not be able to immediately see this pattern. How are they going to find out about it? Social Media won't be buzzing about it until noon at the earliest!

But that won't be the only thing social media is buzzing about by noon. It looks like Web is nowhere to be found. A concerned local ~~not a stalker~~ reports the missing knight and there's quickly a deep discussion about it. Death? Ran away? Kidnapped? Abducted by aliens? No one knows. There's no body. There's nothing. Where'd Web go?

Fourth Morning Event: All Cities: The Quake.

The Weather
Eerily still.
64°F / 18°C
Despite the quake, there's a nice breeze.

Prompts:

6:06am Earthquake, Everywhere: Every town has fallen victim to an earthquake. The damage is unthinkable. Cars aren't moving anymore, roads and paths are obstacle courses, and everything inside has fallen over. It was a big one! Fortunately the citizens are out almost immediately to begin rescue and repair efforts. No matter where the heroes go, there'll be someone to help, something to do, or help to be offered. Do you need saving, or will you be saving others?

7:45am Train Station, Far Haven: Social media is going absolutely crazy. There's a MONSTER here! There's a monster in the train station!! Numerous pictures are posted of a Child-shaped monster with ten eyes instead of a face. Today, however, he's wearing a pair of black athletic shorts, some flip-flops, and a T-Shirt that says "I'm with Stupid" on the front and an arrow that trails around to the back of the shirt where it says "You're Stupid". At the train tracks, he's going one rail tie at a time repairing them to get the tracks straightened and fixed again. What's the deal???

08:00am International Cabin of Crepes, Bamborough: As if Social Media wasn't buzzing enough about the monster in Far Haven, it explodes again when the Wizard arrives at ICoC for breakfast. Several servers post that she asked for "the family table" and she invited all the knights and the princess to join her. Breakfast. Her treat. Anyone who comes to visit will find her sitting at the head of the biggest table, sipping a mug of coffee.

11:00am Mountain Base, Craydon: [Exploration] Several hikers have returned from up the mountain, reporting that they'd found "strange doors" blocking their path. According to the description they gave, it sounds like the doors can only be opened if one, or more, of the heroes make the climb up the mountain. The cracks go up past the doors, but there's an invisible wall all around the area that stops them from ascending any further. Whatever's going on up the mountain will need some heroic intervention to figure out. Good luck, heroes!

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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Seth follows quickly with a nod. Had he known Gyre's thoughts he would have told you that he didn't think much about the cracks themselves, because his mind was too focused on what came after if you touched them. But alas, he wasn't a mind reader.

Still, he makes a point to briefly, gently place a hand on Gyre's arm as the move towards the rocks blocking the other alley, looking at him with a soft, small smile, and an understanding expression.

He would not push Gyre to talk, but if he wanted to at some point, Seth would be happy to listen. He himself hoped someone would do that for him at a later point in time. He knew he wouldn't be able to hold back the myriad of emotions that had been on his mind since yesterday and had even robbed him of sleep, which showed pretty badly as very dark bags under his eyes, forever...but he would hold on to them long enough to not hurt anyone by suddenly unloading on them. He'd quickly been reminded that that wasn't the correct way about things thanks to Zafika.

"They do across the street." She answers matter-of-factly because, in fact, they do.

"I ordered it there." She adds, referencing the note she'd manifested there that said she was ordering some of it and they could just leave it in the fridge. She'd get it when she was ready for it.

Once Ten has his hands on the phone, he begins immediately examining it. He flips it over in his hands, looking over every single part of it and taking in the details. When Garrot chimes in that he'll have to give it back, well.

It takes all his self control not to eat the phone.

He finally flips the screen-side back to facing him and then he starts gooshing his fingers against the screen.

Nothing happens.

He tries once, twice, again, and again. In the end, there's no result whatsoever. All ten of his eyes squint at the screen before they drift slowly up to Garrot. The betrayal is clear in his eyes. If Garrot knows anything about how capacitive touchscreens work (rather than resistive), he'll have a pretty solid suspicion to run off of.

"Your turn." Is all the answer she gives him as she takes a sip of her coffee. She's waiting, Seth, she showed off just how reality could be bent. Now it's time for him to show off what he's made of.

Well, Ten is mostly wrapped up in his own thoughts while Joanna is wrapped up in her own. He's already shaking away his previous answer as she asks a really, really deep question but he starts scritching away at an answer only a few moments after she's finished asking it.

The answer takes a startlingly short amount of time to write because he holds it up almost immediately after writing it:

"helping"

Sorry Wizard, your magic was super effective, Seth is now confused.
Seth hit himself in confusion!

It was a One Hit-KO!

Congrats he's now half-laying on the table, thankfully not on his food, silently groaning. Now he really had a headache.

Matilda hums wistfully as she sips on her coffee, looking thoughtful briefly. She doesn't know much about baking either, but she gives a little nod, giving her hair a girlish twirl with her finger. "Bread and stuff!" She chirps.

"That's one thing we have in common, then! Though it's the antithetical situation for me, I can't have the eggs. Cookie Dough makes us both sick." She seems weirdly pleased to have found common footing with him though, and beams.

b careful plz!!

[Matilda can't help but gape at Iv behind Olivia, though the opened mouth gape quickly turns into a smile, then an overenthusiastic nod. It doesn't take her long at all to scramble back to the tree, standing on the other side of the Olivia.]

On the count of ---- oneeeeeeee, twooooooooo, [She stretches out the numbers for dramatics.]

u need my help???????? ∑(O_O;)

Matilda sends off the first text without thinking, amazed by the fact that someone would even think to ask her for help. Thankfully, she remembers that she actually needs to reply properly to offer that help. Manners first, of course-- in everything but her texting style.

。。。ミヽ(。＞＜)ノ i remember!!! c u soon!!!!!

She only takes a moment to run back into her house, finding a pair of boots to tug onto her feet, and to pull her trademarked goggles over her eyes. No time for a real outfit, not when someone's relying on her. Now she just has to try and figure out how to get there-- which is harder than she thought it would be, since she's only appeared there by accident before.

It takes a few tries and about five minutes, but she finally makes it into Joanna's apartment, appearing in the hallway very suddenly. Wow, the place really got it rough. Matilda gapes, muttering to herself "And I thought breaking the lamp was bad--" before pausing, and calling out. "Joanna?"

He glances in Seth's direction when he feels his hand on him, eyeing him a moment and then his hand. He knows he ought to smile back. The kid is offering some kind of comfort which he should appreciate, but the expression of understanding is infuriating to him in this moment. Seth doesn't know his mind and the familiarity of that expression makes his skin crawl.

He doesn't say anything to that effect though, turning away from him as they approach the rubble. Behind the rocks, there's the soft sound of someone crying, and that's clearly got his attention now as he shouts, "We're going to get you out!"

He begins to grab one of the smaller stones, tugging it out and bringing it out onto the street. He glances quickly at Seth as he moves. "We need to clear this."

"Seems like a lot of trouble to go through," he murmurs, looking around the table at the other knights.

"It's kind of you though, I suppose." He certainly appreciates it. It's a better breakfast in this town then he's had in awhile, and he tucks into his plate a little more now that he knows she's not going to instantly launch into a monologue.

He gives her a confused smile as he realizes how pleased she is. What a strange thing to be happy about, but he'll take it. He snorts softly after a moment, shrugging very slightly.

"There are worse things to have in common, I suppose."

Seth nods at Gyre as he starts moving the smaller stones. Glancing around he takes a moment to find something sturdy and stable enough to use and when he does find it, he sends his wires to attach to one of the bigger pieces of the building that had collapsed, wrapping them around the study rock for support, and then started retracting them slowly to lift the boulder.

"Did you not like it?" She asks, curious why he'd call it a lot of trouble. She'd offered breakfast, and she'd provided breakfast. She'd thought she'd picked something for everyone, and this was Gyre's pick. Perhaps...

"Would you rather have caught them yourself?"

[Olivia notices Gyre making a fool decision, but before she can call him a fool, she's forced to shield her eyes from the white glow he starts emanating.] Gyre, what the f— Gyre!? [When she looks again, he's gone! He disappeared! Olivia has one or two seconds to panic thinking that the world swallowed him or something, before a thud behind her makes her jump out of her skin. She lets go of Luka's arm and steps in front of him protectively in a fluid motion as she turns to see... Gyre is now there.

Her brain blue screens for a moment as she tries to understand what just happened, and then she goes up to Gyre and gives him a slap. Perhaps a little harder than intended, but it's mostly to see if he's actually there and whether he's responsive! But also because that was scary and you don't go around sticking your fingers in other's wounds, dude.] What was that!? Are you okay? Don't fucking do that again! How do you feel?

Luka was only able to see the bright flash and hear Olivia's startled response. He gathers Gyre had done something dangerous and likely stupid, but that's about it.

"What did he do? What just happened?" Luka asks. "And how, exactly, did he get behind us?"

Luka turns around to face them both, waiting for answers.

Well that was unexpected. He feels his hair start to stand on end, and he's trying to draw back out of the pit before it backfires on him. He's too late though, and there's light and sound.

He gasps when he hits the ground behind them, hands flying instinctively to his head to keep it from falling loose. Luckily, he's not falling from far enough up that he needs to worry about it, but it does mean he's completely unprepared for getting slapped across the face??.

"What the fuck!" he shrieks. Sorry, Luka, he doesn't even hear those questions as he jerks to his feet and points his clawed finger towards Olivia's chest.

"I felt fine until you hit me?? What was that for!"

Luckily for Garrot, he's literally an engineer! His eyes do go a little wide as Ten's fingers start gooshing into his Knight phone, because he has no idea if that'll like... cause damage? Monsters are weird, and by the looks of it lack any sort of natural conductivity. The second monster didn't seem to like the rain, so...

"Huh, that's weird." The good doctor feels plenty bad at the look in Ten's many eyes, and it's clear that Garrot needs to put him out of his misery by... solving the problem. So he reaches a hand back into his magitek medkit and, after a moment of rustling, he's offering a stylus to Ten!

"See if this works instead?" Putting the stylus in the medkit means he won't lose it, which means he'll be fine if he has to prescribe one of his allies something on the fly. Better safe than sorry! But the drawing board is quickly running out of options.

"Surely." Matilda can't help but keep smiling back-- no, now she's beaming because he's smiling back at her. "Cookie dough, and being stuck in this awful predicament. That's something, isn't it?" She pauses briefly to glower at her milkshake as if it's part of this awful situation.

Fortunately for Garrot, he'd packed away a stylus that wasn't one of those 'it conducts because you conduct' cheap versions. The one that ends up in Ten's hand has a battery in it that makes it do exactly what it was supposed to do. The moment it presses to the surface of the screen, it reacts, and uh.

It's unreal how quickly Ten's hand starts to move. It loses its form as a human hand and instead appears more as a mass as he starts working on things and.

He squints at the screen, apparently displeased that it can't keep up. A few flicks later, Ten pulls the messaging screen again and sends a message to Monkey Business.

"I want one of these."

Garrot's eyes go wide like dinner plates as Ten's hand stops being hand-shaped. Then, his eyes turn that special teal when he's trying to super-gut-check something. Do the monsters even have bones?! How do they move?? How did the third one have so many arms if Ten can just reshape?!

"Y-yeah, they're pretty cool!" Garrot nods, still somewhat shocked by what he witnessed. "What, uh... what were you trying to do? Were you looking for something?" Does Ten even know what the internet is? Would it be a good thing if Ten discovered the internet? How can he fix the train tracks if he's on the internet?

Kids and kid-sized eye-monsters these days...

Well, that's a short enough time to answer, and a short enough answer. Short and simple, she'd like to say... but it isn't so simple, is it.

"Helping, hmm? That's... That's very nice of you."

Joanna looks sidelong at the heavy railroad tie, which this monster's so easily been carrying. It's hard to fathom why the wizard would want the railway repaired, when she can simply teleport around, and she's already set - or let - at least one monster on the train tracks in this year alone.

"And repairing the train tracks, is that helping, too? As long as it's helpful to someone, you're not distinguishing between the kinds of help you give..."

Or so she assumes, from that one word answer.

Because you scared me!! [The very flustered Lara Croft lookalike exclaims, pushing his hand away.] I mean you started glowing and then you were gone! What if the world had only spat out your corpse dude, I don't know! That was scary!

[She turns to Luka for backup, but she sees the confusion in his face and sighs, crossing her arms.] Gyre. Touched one of the cracks. And disappeared. And then he fell from Gods know where right behind us.

[A moment passes, and she shoots a glance back at Gyre. She was genuinely worried about him, you know! The poofing out and the noise were scary, but she was also scared for him! Not that she has the time or the energy to explain that. She just tilts her head and sighs.] Sorry.

[The Ox duo wait patiently for Matilda and her dramatic counting, but when the "two" has gone on for long enough, Olivia says a quick "three!" and the three of them start pushing.

With their strength combined (mostly thanks to, uh, the Minotaur), it doesn't take them too much effort to move the tree out of the way, and once that's done, Iv gives both of them a gentle pat on their heads and starts working on moving other heavy objects out of the way. Olivia herself starts picking up branches that their tree left behind, but not before shooting Matilda a quick smile.] Nice work.

Hmm, I wonder if... do you know if earthquakes are a normal thing here? Should we be worried? [She asks, as if she's not gonna worry anyway. She's worrying about it Right Now.]

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Day 4: Morning

Morning: 6:00am - 12:00noon

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