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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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?

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???

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.

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!

When the earthquake starts, Zafika jolts awake and somehow through the chaos gets down and gets dressed, before they rush out to see what's going on, only to witness the glowing, blue fissures starting to open up in the ground. What the fuck...!? What the fuck what the fuck!

Luckily the house they're staying in survives the earthquake, and once they've gathered their bearings -and things from indoors- they climb up onto the roof to get at least a little bit better look of what's going on. And from what they can see, it's bad. Really bad. There are fissures everywhere, some houses are collapsed, some just fractured, but it's absolute hell. Residents in craydon are quick to start rescue and repair efforts, and they figure they should offer some help.

So, they put on the glasses Garrot gave them, the constant hum confirming that yes, they're working, and they quickly hop down from the roof, ready to head out to help.

Matilda Hamilton very nearly sleeps through the earthquake- she's like a snoring sleeping beauty-- but a fucking lamp fell over and bopped her in the head, and that's got her up and out of bed. And... into the street, right away, because despite how terrifying this is, she's a fucking knight, and knights help people!

...Only, Far Haven's mostly abandoned, and Matilda's still puny, despite her attempts at training with the others. You don't get swole in three days. So she can be found in the street, barefoot and still in her frilly white nightgown, hair frizzy as she struggles to pull a literal tree out of the street. It's something.

[Olivia had woken up to the sound of a wall of the building she was ~~squatting~~ staying at cracking. After jumping out of bed, she had run to hide underneath a sturdy looking table until the shaking stopped. It was her first ever earthquake, but she had thankfully read enough about them to not panic.

After the immediate danger had passed, she went outside to survey the damage. She knows there won't be too many people in Far Haven, but there might be animals trapped... Instead, she sees Matilda. Trying to move a tree.]

Hey... uh. [Once she gets closer and notices what Matilda looks like right now, she raises an eyebrow. The two had never talked before, but the few times Olivia had seen her, the girl looked perfect and sort of... too beautiful to approach? It's kind of refreshing, in a way, meeting her like this.] You okay?

Things Matilda Hamilton does not know: why she is here. She's wealthy enough to buy her own island, there's no reason for her to not buy her own breakfast. But she's exhausted herself from teleporting herself and various road obstructions out of the way-- so she finds herself sitting near the middle of the table, rapidly flipping back and forth the menu, unable to decide what she wants.

There's an untouched gigantic strawberry milkshake with sprinkles in front of her, but she's sipping black coffee and pouting, only stopping in her constant flipping back and forth of the menu to glare at her phone on the table.

[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!

[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.]

[Olivia doesn't pay much attention to social media, really, so when she stumbles upon the monster its because she's trying to catch a train to Craydon. She'd been using the place Gyre gave her as somewhere to stash her things, but she figured she'd actually move in there now that her Far Haven place had broken glass and cracks on the walls. It's good to move around, anyway, right?

Upon seeing the monster, her first instinct is to reach for her Knight weapon, which is currently a dagger. She's learned from yesterday to have it on her at all times, besides her normal ones. She hesitates when she sees his stupid outfit though, briefly wondering if this is a real monster at all.]

Uh. Isn't it a bit early for this?

Seeing the dog knight again so immediately after the previous night was deeply entertaining to the Wizard. However, aside from a "Good morning, Dog Knight" when Matilda joined the table the Wizard has been largely silent in her position at the head of the table. Sometime between when she sat down, when the strawberry milkshake appeared, and now a plate of three chocolate pancakes have appeared in front of the Wizard.

Fortunately for Matilda's menu hunting and phone checking, the Wizard isn't going to interrupt her until she's ready to talk. She has plenty of coffee to drink and she's not in a rush this morning. Take your time, Matilda, the Wizard's got all day.

How considerate of her.

Ten turns his multitude of eyes towards Olivia when she arrives. They blink in a rippling pattern from the bottom right of his face towards the top left. He's in the middle of lifting a rail tie and shoving it to the left to match up with the ones behind it. Unfortunately, this jerks the next one in line at a strange angle. That's going to be tougher to get up and moved, but there's plenty of time.

But he shakes his head slowly when she asks if it's too early and, a moment later, he holds up a hand in the air and--

An Etch-a-Sketch board pops into existence, its red plastic frame glinting in the light for a moment. He brings it near his face, gripping it with both hands as he starts manipulating the two knobs to put some kind of message on the display. A few moments pass as he scritches out the message but, once he's done, he carefully turns it and holds it up towards her.

Unfortunately he's standing a little far away, so she'll have to come closer to be able to read the message that says:

not early
dont sleep

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....

It took Gyre some time to get ready this morning, his hands shaking as he tried to settle his mind. He remembers these cracks in the ground. He has very bad memories associated with these cracks in the ground. He doesn't know what to do with himself once he's found places for the collapsed bits of his camp, and he's moving just to move until he breaks the line of trees. His eyes hit Craydon first, and the sight of smoke in the air makes his chest tighten.

By the time he's gotten into town, he's moving with purpose, but there's an unguarded terror just behind his eyes, his body shaking when he's not using it to help people. Here, he's climbing the side of a building with his bare hands to collect a family stuck a couple floors up. Here, he's asked Fen for a long pole to try to lever a slab off concrete off someone trapped underneath. Here, he's standing at the edge of an alley, taking deep breaths to steady himself, running his fingers through his hair over and over again before he runs back out into the street.

He's going to exhaust himself, but he's going to help as many people as he physically can.

He arrives late. Very late actually, but his curiosity wouldn't let him give this opportunity up once he knew people had begun to get the towns back under control. He enters the restaurant all folded up on himself, trying not to touch anyone or anything, walking past the host station and jumping when said host turns to direct him where to go.

He could not look more out of place, and this continues as he pulls out a seat at the table and sits, looking like he expects something to explode any second now. Instead, a waiter comes up and he shrinks down in his seat, peering up at them from under his brow. He then asks for four eggs, and has to say four times that he doesn't want them cooked at all. He just wants them in the shell, please.

It takes a nod from the wizard, but the waiter nervously writes it down and leaves him in peace after that. He doesn't look uh any more relaxed, but he does at least turn his attention to the wizard, wondering how she's going to get this started.

Fortunately for Gyre, the Wizard understands his plight. She watches him struggle with his order of just raw eggs and, when he's finally successful with her little assistance, she twirls a finger in the air and-

A plate with two slices of raw bacon, a raw full-meat sausage, and a few little strips of raw salmon settles on the table right in front of Gyre.

"Coffee?" She offers, knowing full well that he's going to say no.

Edited 2019-07-05 02:26 (UTC)

Gyre started to hear rumors about the mountain at breakfast with the wizard, and it didn't take him long after that to remember how difficult it had been to climb the previous day. Something weird is going on! More weird then normal, anyway.

This is to say, he's at the base of the mountain, trailing along it and looking up into the brush. He's trying to find the easiest path up, the one with the fewest cracks in the ground. Half of him is also wondering if other people are going to come here, and if they are, whether they should go together or not. He doesn't know if there will be a fight at the top.

This thought is the thing that makes him hesitate here, his gaze swinging from the path he's picked up towards the peak, then back behind him, scanning the area to see if anyone is coming, then back up. It's almost time to go. He can feel it in his guts. He's not going to wait much longer.

"Oh," he says, looking down at this absolutely delightful plate that she just put in front of him from nowhere. That's uh very cool of her. The salmon in particular catches his attention, and he plucks one of the strips up, cutting a chunk of it off with his claw and throwing it in his mouth. Gross!

He gives her the answer she expects to the coffee, shaking his head firmly before he swallows. "No. Also, last night, I had something I needed to deliver to Bamborough. If you'd asked where I wanted to go instead, I would have told you that," he says, raising a significant eyebrow at her.

"Surprising me in the middle of a conversation is not impressive when you're," a vague gesture all over her, "you."

Don’t mind her, Gyre— she’s just staring at him in complete and utter horror at his request for raw eggs. His diet is never, ever, ever going to be normal to her. She also slides her phone onto her lap, not wanting to risk him thinking she’s trying to get him on camera. She remembers day one’s threat well!!!

It takes her a while to regain her bearings and courage, but when she finds a moment, she looks at him suddenly, locking eyes from across the table. “Can you eat raw cookie dough without getting sick?”

[She watches him blink, kind of mesmerized by it. When he holds up the etch-a-sketch, she carefully takes a few step closer to read it. She doesn't let her guard down, however, with a hand still on her concealed weapon.] Huh... okay.

[She looks at the rails, then back at the monster.] So... what were you up to?

He turns and meets her eyes when he begins to feel her staring at him. He can't help smirking very slightly as he picks up a slice of raw bacon off the plate the wizard magicked for him and slurping it up from between his fingers like a noodle.

That's all the torment he aims specifically at her though, at least until she gets her courage up. Immediately, he meets her eyes, blinking slowly as he answers, "Maybe. What's in it?"

Ten watches her reactions, hesitant because he's been attacked in the past by knights who had seemed totally cool. He didn't know if she was going to be one of the ones that just destroyed him when he wasn't suspecting it, or one of the ones that would chat.

When she asks what he's up to, he watches her for a moment before shaking the etch-a-sketch and scritching a new message into it. This one goes much faster and, when he reveals it, is just a single hastily-scribbled word.

fixing

"Is that so." She answers, first, watching how he delivers the story he wants to deliver while he's eating. She considers him for a moment as she takes a sip from her mug and... does something that he won't be expecting.

"Sorry."

See, Garrot had been running around Far Haven helping and healing people, as a buff doctor is wont to do. But news reached him that a MONSTER was in his city, so. Uh. He's there, staring at it from the train platform. His eyes are wide and the big guy is clearly somewhere between shocked and terrified. This monster is wearing clothes (what the fuck?) that match (what the fuck?) and are fun (what the fuck?) while it... fixes (what the fuck?) the train tracks??

"What," and Garrot cannot stress this enough, "the fuck am I looking at?" To be safe, he's already got a quarterstaff in one hand as he walks to about twenty feet away from the little weirdo. The monsters get one more eye every day, so why does this one have ten? Garrot needs answers quick or else he might lose his mind.

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Day 4: Morning

Morning: 6:00am - 12:00noon

The Weather

Prompts:

Procedure:

6:06am Earthquake, Everywhere

7:45am Train Station, Far Haven

08:00am International Cabin of Crepes, Bamborough

11:00am Mountain Base, Craydon: [Exploration]

Re: 6:06am Earthquake, Everywhere, private with Rory

6:10am Far Haven

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