Day 4: Morning

[wizardseason]

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.

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The Weather

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

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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!

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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.

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.

Comments

[scandeled]

[Matilda spins on her heel dramatically to gape at Olivia, completely and utterly ashamed at being caught in her attempt to wrestle this tree out of the way. Oh, no. Of course, it had to be another girl knight that caught her like this.]

O-oh! Good morning! [She laughs out of nervousness, sheepishly tugging her goggles down over her eyes. Yes, she sleeps with them on. What of it?]

I think I broke a lamp inside, but I'm okay! Are... you okay? That was a big one!

[disguiseself]

[She tilts her head curiously at the goggles, but doesn't comment on it. She does weirder things to feel comfortable! She gives her a small smile.] I'm okay. It was surprising, but we've seen scarier these last few days, huh?

I'm Olivia, by the way. [She says, extending a hand for her to shake.] Were you trying to clean up the street? Not many cars pass around here, right? [She's genuinely not sure, since she's only been here two days. It's sad about the tree, but she doesn't see the point of wasting energy moving it if it's only in the way of the Knights that live here.]

[scandeled]

That's for sure. [She's seen all sorts of terrifying things. Monsters, Garrot's face when she tried to hit him with a chair, Gyre when she suggested posting a video with him... She bounces back- literally, her entire body flounces like an energetic small animal, and she holds an ungloved hand out to take Olivia's hand and give a dainty shake.]

Matilda Hamilton. I was-- I know no one's really here right now, but I was worried if someone did need to get through....

[disguiseself]

[After the handshake, Olivia takes a moment to Consider the Tree. It's definitively too big for the two of them to move, but...] Maybe Iv can help out.

[She smiles when, as soon as she's said those words, she feels two big hands resting on her shoulders. Behind her stands a female Minotaur, her animal companion! She looks strong enough that she could probably move the tree all on her own but, for the sake of their pride, when Iv gets set to push the tree, she waits for the two ladies to get ready beside her so the three of them can work together.] On the count of three?

[scandeled]

[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.]

[disguiseself]

[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.]

[scandeled]

[ She might have protested if she had more time-- but Iv's definitely mostly doing the work here, and Matilda has to scramble to make it look like she's putting in the effort too. When they're done, she just beams, giving an energetic little bounce with the pat, and scrambling to follow Olivia around and move what she can too. ]

The earthquakes? I'm not sure. But... That? [She gestures to a great glowing crevice in the near distance. Ladies don't point. It's a dramatic swoosh.]

That is most anomalous.

[disguiseself]

[She makes a puzzled look at the world "anomalous", but it quickly fades as she nods, eyes following the movement of her hand.] I saw cracks like those yesterday, too. They led up the mountain, but Garrot and I didn't get too far up...

I'm not sure what they are, honestly - this is all a bit too over my head. [She admits, with a sheepish little shrug.]