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pajamabox2019-07-17 10:30 pm
wizardseason) wrote in pajamabox2019-07-17 10:30 pm
Day 4: Monster Arrival
Afternoon: 12:00noon - Evening
[ IRL Timeframe: July 17th - July 31st, 2019 ]It's monster time.
The bright, glowing blue fissures are still open throughout the ground, they haven't gone anywhere. At last, social media has started buzzing about the source of the cracks. They're all originating from the mountain up the slope from Craydon! There are a ton of theories, including a non-negligible amount talking about a 'Wizard death machine'! Guess the heroes will have to find out for themselves.
As usual, though, social media is the fastest source of information. Do they have an inside man? Is one of the heroes actually the one feeding all the information to social media? Either way, there are numerous discussions going on about the "door on the mountain". Apparently satellite pictures have traced the cracks all the way up to a glowing door in the side of the mountain. It's absolutely not a manmade door and it's definitely magic in some way, but why is it there now?
The Weather
- Eerily still.
- 66°F / 19°C
- Is... is that... air conditioning?
Prompts:
- 12:00pm The Game Show, Craydon: Garrot, Rory, Joanna, Haizea, Olivia, Luka, Gyre, Seth, and Zafika will all find themselves teleported from wherever they were to a new and fantastical location. The room is dark, the stage is set, the hero is seated in a contestant's chair. Suddenly, the spotlight is on them and the curtains open: The crowd goes wild! In front of the hero is a big television screen with the words "Welcome!!" on it and, beside it, is the fourth monster. They're entirely humanoid, standing at roughly six feet tall, wearing a positively striking suit and tie. All four of their eyes look surprisingly normal on their face. They look like a regular person just with a second set of eyes where their upper cheeks are. They settle their yellow pupils on the hero in the chair as they smile wide and their mouth squishes as the space opens up into existence. Looks like the mouth isn't a permanent feature, but there's a soft bubbling sound that follows it and then their voice breaks the strange noises up. Their voice is high, eager, and unmistakably excited about the news they're about to share.
"Are you ready for the show? Smile, you're on camera!" They say, hopping back and forth on their feet by the screen, barely able to contain their enthusiasm. Any hero who gives it even a moment of thought will realize two things: 1) Cameras don't work, and 2) That's not a real audience, this room is actually just dark and it's only them and the monster.
Oh god, it's only them. Where are all the others? One on One monster fight? Great!- 1:15pm Lounge Time, Bamborough: Social media is going bananas! That monster that was roaming around Far Haven's train station has made his way to Bamborough! The effects of the earthquake here may be less apparent, but there are still things to fix. But Ten won't be found fixing anything this time. Instead he's sitting on a beach chair, under an umbrella, on the oceanfront at the Bamborough Resort. On the little table to his right is a tall glass of tea and a portable USB charger. Because, in his hand, he's fiddling with a cell phone. Where did he get a cell phone? Who brought him tea? What on earth is happening?
- 4:00pm International Bungalo of Burgers, Bamborough: The social media war of "Crepes or Burgers" has begun, it's been set off by the Wizard arriving at IBoB for dinner. Just like the morning, she's asked for a group table in the restaurant. Gail, Terrence, and Matilda have all received special invitations right into their pocket (or their hand if they lack pockets). Enjoy a little card that says "One free burger!" with a stylized tiny Wizard face to the side looking very surprised!
- ??:00pm Mountain Door, Craydon: [Exploration] [Not yet revealed]
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If the following four got into a fist fight, who would win?
A. The Princess, Luka
B. Seth
C. Four
D. A rock
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For the longest time he just stared at the options, in fact he did it for so long you'd seriously think Seth.exe encountered an error and crashed.
How the fuck was he supposed to know that???
What kind of question even was that???!!!
And this was just the second question!!!
He sure did not believe it would be him. A rock was an obvious no. But he had no idea would Luka or Four win!
He didn't want to use his advantages this early, especially if things were going to just get harder.
So...guessing it was.
"...I'll select C. You.", he signed, bracing himself for...whatever might happen if he was wrong.
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"How flattering! To think you think I could best these worthy adversaries..." They give a little drawn-out "hah-ha..." laugh before they clap their hands and confetti fills the air all around Seth.
"Your flattery is correct!" They beam in excitement, waving a hand to clear the board of the second question.
"Are we rolling right into question three?" They ask and, well, don't actually give him the chance to say 'no' before the third question appears on the screen and it's uh... it's a doozy:
Which Hero is the worst?On the list, Web's name is crossed off but even so... what kind of question lists twelve answers???
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The worst??? In what way??? That was such an ambigious answer already, and twelve answers to boot, wasn't it supposed to be four???
Gods...
Well...okay...let's think this through.
Garrot (despite his personal feelings), Gyre, Haizea and Zafika were solidly out, they could hold their own in a fight.
He didn't know much about them but Rory and Olivia he could probably exclude from the list of possible right answers too, they seemed like they could handle themselves.
That left Gail, Joanna, Luka, Matilda, himself and Terrence.
Terrence he'd take off because of his ability, and from what he'd seen of the stream of the first monster being chased, he knew how to use it. Matilda could teleport so regardless of how good she was in a fight she was useful, and potentially a troublesome opponent for anyone. Luka was...well, he was the princess, and regardless of his dislike of him personally, he really was, important...though he wasn't sure how well he'd fare in a fight by himself.
Gail was as nervous as he was but also a centaur so he was probably at least decently strong, not to mention fast.
Joanna...well he didn't know much about how she fared in a fight, though he'd caught a brief glimpse of her training with her power and it seemed potent.
So the correct answer was probably, Joanna, Luka...or himself.
And while thanks to days 2&3 he could admit his power had a lot of potential, both for support and offense in the right circumstances...he still panicked a lot and acted mostly without thinking too much. Really, he figured he'd been lucky to be of as much help to Haizea as he'd been on day 2.
All things considered...if he had to choose one hero that to be 'voted out' for some reason...most would probably pick him, at least that's what he figured.
After long deliberation, he signed: "Listing twelwe answers isn't really fair but...I'm going to answer J....myself."
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"Oh dear contestant Seth, there was no wrong answer!" They say calmly, the words dripping with the worst intentions in this moment.
"I just wanted to see how you'd answer." They explain even as confetti poppers silently fill the air to show celebration for Seth getting the question right.
"Do tell the audience how you feel, I'm sure they'd love to know!" They add, a definite sinister curve on the end of their words. Are they being innocently mean, or intentionally mean? Either way, they're very clearly being just subtle enough about it to give themselves plausible deniability here.
Was it an act, or was it genuine? Either way, it was bad. It was bad and there were six questions to go.
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"I think I'd rather just move on to the next question."
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The question has little sparkles behind it as it appears:
What weapon will Four use to hurt the knights?
A.) A lot of knives.
B.) A big boulder.
C.) Words.
D.) The knights' own weapons.
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Seth gave another sigh, the longer this went on the more he hated this.
Okay, let's think this through, come on, you can do this...probably.
The boulder he could probably exclude the big boulder, and the words for that matter. As much as Four's overly cheerful attitude was annoying and some wording painful in a way, he doubted that the whole hurting thing was the point of that since the wording was either just pointed or painful because he wanted to band his head against something...
So that left A and D as potential answers.
Well...this was a mock game show...
Just using a lot of knives while comedic to start with would get boring real quick...
...besides the odds were that option D, which he'd hate to be the right answer because now that would just be troublesome, would be the correct answer exactly because of that.
"I half wish I'm wrong but with my luck, I bet the answer is D.", he signed reluctantly.
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"Bet?" They pick at the way he'd phrased that.
"Dear contestant, we aren't betting, we're choosing!" They steeple their fingers as the audience all around them shrink away into hushed whispers.
"Are you quite certain you'd like to choose that answer?" And as they ask that, the word 'answer' flies through the air and 'thunks' into the chair Seth's sitting in. It looks like it's a slightly transparent cut-out of the word, very very thin but very sharp.
Did... Did four just throw a word knife at Seth? Oh my god? And they're smiling about it?
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That certainly scared Seth, causing him to pretty much jump in the air.
God that made the question even more of a trick question!!!
However Four hadn't exactly hurt him with it so even if he chose A or C Four could claim it hadn't hurt him with that fucking...word knife.
Skittish but scared, he signed: "I'd say you could hurt me with all of those if you wanted but...I'm sticking to D."
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"That answer is wrong," they say at the same time that all the lights in the room, except the one spotlight on Seth, turn off. The area is plunged into blackness. Four is still visible faintly, but they're at the edge of the light and that makes one feature stand out above all others:
All four of their eyes are glowing.
"And that means we have to bid you farewell. Any last words, dear contestant Seth?"
What a terrible turn of events! For the viewers watching this online, they're treated to a pretty dramatically edited set of camera angles that are designed to show what a bad situation this has become! How dramatic! How chaotic! It feels like a soap opera!!
If anyone was actually able to see the man behind the curtain, it would just be Four sitting at a computer doing all the editing. Because of course it's Four. This is their show. Why would they trust anyone else to make a good show out of their work?
This is their masterpiece!
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Probably should have picked C.
Well nothing he can do about that now, he unfortunately can't travel back in time at will.
Poor Seth is just left there shaking in terror and pretty much starting to panic.
Sorry Four, he can't sign, he's too busy trying to just focus on his breathing.
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"Then goodbye, dear contestant Seth!" they say it with such delight, like someone who's just won an award. Except as they say his name, the ground beneath him shudders and drops open.
It's a trapdoor.
Seth, and the chair he was sitting in, fall through it and fall through darkness until-- Until he wakes up facedown on the beach. The sun is setting, the waves are lapping against him, and he's no more than ten minutes from civilization. Craydon? Seems like it.
But when he gets there, he won't be greeted by people. Instead, everyone is the same faceless, expressionless, monster-yellow fake people that the audience in the game show was.
That can't be good.
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Oh no.
Now, the trapdoor trick was bad enough on it's own as it is, he would have screamed like a little girl if he could have, but the same faceless, expressionless monster-yellow fake people?
With his current situation of not having been able to talk to anyone at all about the current existential crisis he was having regarding his dolls and puppets due to the shenanigans of the 3rd day?
It's just far, far too much for poor Seth.
He panics and starts 'screaming', really it's just a bunch of faint broken noises, as he hastily, and without too much thought, sends his wires around as many of them as he can.
They're creepy, they're so, so fucking creepy, no wonder everyone thought his puppets and dolls were creepy, oh god, he's been so creepy this whole time hasn't he, he must have been with how much he's liked his dolls and puppets prior to this and been so blatant about it, everything others have been saying about him and his hobby have been true...
And on and on his brain goes as he mindlessly tries to use his wires to make himself enough room to get away.
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...behind the curtains that are around him is the game show stage.
It looks like Seth had been surrounded by a fake reality to make him think he'd escaped the game show.
But in reality, he was still here.
Beyond the shredded curtains that he's ripped apart with his wires, Four is still sitting in their host chair. Their hands are steepled in front of their face, fingers intertwined as they level their gaze and smile on him.
"Welcome back, dear contestant. Are you ready for question five?"
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There's tears falling down his face, which looks pretty out of place with the dumbfounded confusion that's settling in.
It...wasn't over?
It takes him like, 15 whole minutes to process all of, this, before he then very shakily and uncertainly nods.
....it's not like he had much of a choice anyway, right?
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"Dear contestant, tell me you're alright, you look so very frightened! It's just a game, isn't it?" There's an unmistakably wicked tone in their voice. They both know it's more than just a game, but that wasn't the point. The point was that Seth was going to play, and Four was going to have fun.
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Dear gods.
...He hated Four.
Sadistic son of a bitch.
It takes a moment but then...
Seth flips Four off.
His emotional resources were in the negatives and so anger and frustration moved to take the front of the stage, temporarily covering up his panic.
He'd still definitely have a meltdown later but for now...
He was just pissed.
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"Ohhh? How interesting, dear contestant!" They exclaim, standing up suddenly and throwing their arms out in the air to their sides like they're showing something off.
"Dear audience, it looks like we've received a request to go to the lightning round!" They say dramatically, earning several loud gasps from the audience in response.
"And that means it's time for the last, and final question! The one with the most stakes! Dear contestant, this question is all or nothing... are you ready? Here it is!" They give a spin in place, motioning towards the board as the ninth, and final question appears. What happened to the ones in the middle? Why was this the end? This is all very unexpected!
Is this the final year of Knights, Monsters, the Wizard, and the Protector?
A.) Yes.
B.) No.
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And starting to sign rapid fire style.
"It better fucking be A, if I see or even hear of anymore Wizard related shenanigans after all of this absolute bullshit is over, I'm going to lose my goddamn mind! I've been ready to peace the fuck out the moment I was thrown into this tomfoolery and yesterday's shenanigans sure as hell just solidified that notion. But if I piece out I'd be doing the Wizard a favor and that's last thing I want. So I pick A, YES, and no I'm not changing the answer so just tell me am I right or wrong so we can get this over with, I'm goddamn tired, I haven't slept more than a few less than an hour naps since I woke up YESTERDAY."
....and there you have an example of Seth when he's ranting online, ladies, gentlemen and monster(s).
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"That you're correct, you've won!" And as they say it, the four confetti cannons fire more confetti than they've ever fired before, completely obscuring Seth in the multicolored paper.
When the colorful paper settles, Seth is right back where he came from. He's no longer in the game show, he's back out in the world. The only signs that he was even playing the game are the colorful paper piles laying all around him now, and a neatly-folded piece of paper in his hand. If he looks, the paper is a note from Four that reads:
"Thank you for the lovely time, dear contestant Seth! Our ratings were positively through the roof thanks to you! Congratulations on your victory and my defeat! I'll see you tomorrow, ta-ta!"
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But then, he's out in the real world it appears. His eyes turn to the paper, staring at it for a few moments...
Before just, physically deflating and laying down right then there, uncaring of where he actually was, letting out a strangled mix between a groan and a sob.
Guess it was time for that meltdown that had been waiting to happen since last evening huh?