Day 5 Morning

[wizardseason]

Morning: 6:00am - 12:00noon

[ IRL Timeframe: August 28th - September 11th 25th, 2019 ]

The strangest part about the morning of the fifth day is the silence. There's no earthquake like day four started with, there are no horrible hero-kidnapping shenanigans, and there are no glowing cracks in the ground. The cracks from before are, unfortunately, still there. But there's no glow now, no sign that anything out of the ordinary was going on.

At least until after sunrise.

The morning is shaken up by three significant events of varying intensities: The Wizard, Four, and the unknown child that had appeared on the mountain. The heroes could've easily guessed that things wouldn't go smoothly for anyone. With impressive teamwork the previous evening, they'd brought that unknown child to Harsen Island's only actual hospital in Far Haven.

Unfortunately for everyone, the doctors really can't tell much of anything. None of their machines can get a reading of... anything. There doesn't seem to be a pulse, the child doesn't even appear to be breathing. The only thing that anyone's been able to comment for certain is that the child's eye glow matches the glow that everyone had seen coming out of the cracks in the ground. That's not a good sign at all!

Fifth Morning Event: Far Haven: The Hospital.

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The Weather

• Eerily still.
• 72°F / 22°C
• A little hotter today.

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Prompts:

• 06:00am Train Station, Craydon: Anyone going for a walk in the Craydon area is going to be in for a surprise: There's a new crater. Laying sprawled at the center of the crater is the Wizard, unmoving and unresponsive. Standing on the defensive is Ten, and he's already urged several locals away from the scene. Despite wearing a pair of shorts and an "I love the beach" T-Shirt, he's looking surprisingly intimidating with all of his fingers turned sharp as needles. Looks like he's not letting anyone close to the body of the Wizard! For anyone who gets a look, there's a very clear scorch mark like she'd been blasted by something... and whatever that something is, it isn't here anymore. By the time social media has started buzzing about it, the hashtags of #heroeswin and #goodprevails are almost instantly coined to celebrate. Better go make sure the Wizard is dead, heroes!


• 07:00am Train Station Video Stand, Bamborough: Apparently unfazed by the events transpiring in Crayon, Four has arrived at the train station in Bamborough to capitalize on sales in the tourist region of the island. Fortunately for everyone, they're offering the full 9-hero-set of videos for every one of the heroes that had participated in their game shows the day before. There's a special discount for participants: It's free! For tourists it still costs money, but no one's buying it. They'll be visibly losing their optimism about sales opportunities by 8am. And to think, they even put out a tablecloth and designed their own poster to go above them to advertise! Their handwriting isn't the worst!! (They think that, but they're wrong.)


• 08:00am Harsen Island Regional Hospital, Far Haven: When the child wakes up, it happens abruptly and without warning. They sit upright, eyes snapping open to look at the room they're in. Unfortunately for everyone inside, they turn to the window in their room and detonate it. For anyone watching, a visible blue glowing circle appears on the wall a second before it explodes outward. The child hops to the ground a moment later, their feet clacking like glass strikes stone, and they move to leave. If anyone's in the room, now's the opportunity to stop them. If no one moves to stop them, they'll be jumping out of the window.

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Comments

[wizardseason]

Ten immediately takes several steps back towards the Wizard's crumpled body when Terrence arrives on the scene. He looks him over, acknowledging the pacifying gesture, and relaxes only slightly. He still has all his claws out with one hand before he moves to grab his phone and type up a Microsoft Sam-voiced answer:

"Probably not but they're not here."

[zafika]

Zafika's still covering their ears in response to Ten's screech when Terrence arrives, and their eyes immediately flick over to him. THey've... talked to him, once, during the first day haven't they? But if memory serves he was at least tipsy back then.

They turn to watch Ten retreat back towards the Wizard. They want to find out more about this new stranger. But the Wizard is still knocked out cold, and they don't want to approach her and risk being attacked. "Don't suppose you know where they went either?"

[fop_lop]

At Zafika's acknowledgment, Terrence gives them a slight nod of his own, stopping within a few feet of them so as to not unintentionally antagonize Ten further.

"Morning," he offers, sounding pleasant enough but curt and clearly still focused on the situation before them.

"Do you mind if we wait with you until she wakes?" he asks Ten. The rabbit knight's tone immediately shifts to something softer, like he's speaking with a child. It's possible that might insult the monster's intelligence, but he's willing to try it. The implication, of course, is to ask the Wizard herself once she wakes, but he doesn't elaborate just yet.

[wizardseason]

At Zafika's inquiry, Ten points out in the direction of the Hospital where other events are taking place. It's so far away that his pointing means absolutely nothing because you can't see the Hospital from here. But it's clear he's answering the question of where they went. Way, way over there. He's not there though, he's here.

At Terrence's inquiry, though, Ten watches him for several moments before shifting one thumb back to normal from a claw. He holds his hand out and gives him an immediate thumbs-up. Sure bud, that's fine. But then he's back to defense mode, turning an intense gaze on a bunch of tourists who are trying to get in on a selfie.

They manage the selfie, with a collapsed Wizard and a terrifying approaching Ten in the background. The tone is so disjointed and the poses are so exaggerated.

It immediately goes viral.

[zafika]

With Ten's attention on the tourists, Zafika walks over to Terrence, sort of keeping an eye on the tourists being approached by Ten. For now peaceful or not, better not risk anything with one of the Wizard's monsters.

"So... apparently there's a new threat all of a sudden... the one who did this to the Wizard wasn't the Protector, but someone new. Which, I don't like..." They cross their arms, frustrated by their lack of information on the situation. "Listen, are you heading anywhere any time soon? I can't stay around and wait for the Wizard to wake up, but if you can, could you tell me what you find out? I want to know what could have done... this to her."

[fop_lop]

"I don't have anywhere in particular to be, I suppose," Terrence admits with a shrug. Just sitting around waiting seems rather boring, but he truly doesn't have any more important obligations this morning. Having at least one of them wait to see how this plays out certainly seems important, and it's bound to be far more interesting once the Wizard is actually up.

Finding a particularly large and rounded bit of rubble nearby, the rabbit knight plops down with an agreeable wave, "Alright, I'll keep you up to date if anything should happen!" With nothing else to really do in the meantime, the CEO pulls out his phone and immediately goes about setting up a photoshop contest on the Hopeful Hearts main site to see what wacky places and adventures people can send the laid-out Wizard on, including an example of her rotated so that her splayed-out arms are skyward, looking like she's having a great time on a rollercoaster despite the closed eyes.