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pajamabox2019-07-03 09:11 pm
wizardseason) wrote in pajamabox2019-07-03 09:11 pm
Day 4: Morning
Morning: 6:00am - 12:00noon
[ IRL Timeframe: July 3rd -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
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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By and large, when she's considered the question at all, she's settled on them being constructs of magic along the lines of lethal training programs, obstacles created by the Wizard to test the Knights. Not... people.
But the answer on the etch-a-sketch doesn't match that at all, and she frowns as she rereads it a few times. Such ordinary activities.
"It sounds... as though you have a whole life, outside of this contest by the Wizard. I can't say I expected that... Could you tell me, please - why do you fight?"
It's easy to understand her own motivations. For the knights it's simple - if they don't, the Wizard will destroy the world, killing everyone in it. If the monsters are people, and they live here... It's not like ordinary wars from before, squabbling over territory. It's a question of destruction or preservation.
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The answer takes a startlingly short amount of time to write because he holds it up almost immediately after writing it:
"helping"
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"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.
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And he starts scritching on the etch-a-sketch before almost immediately holding up the simplest, most straightforward answer along with a full-body shrug.
"Yeah"
Thanks, Ten, for another one-word answer.
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Being dead - practically at her hands - pretty much kills that option, though.
"Then, I suppose... I can leave you to it?"
Joanna fidgets with her phone in her hands, with another glance around. There really don't seem to be any signs of danger here, no forceful pulling or sense of doom. It's hard for her to know how much of any of this monster's sketched claims to take seriously... Whether there's a deeper meaning to this monster's presence that she just isn't asking after the right way... But there's at least one other question she can simply ask.
"We aren't going to need to... fight - today - are we?"
If this monster is today's monster, she's going to have a difficult time fighting, even after so short a conversation as this.
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Ten nods when she says she can leave them to it. He waits for her to consider something before she asks the question and then he shakes his head. He rummages with the etch-a-sketch again, making quick work of another message to reply with.
"not me
four today"