Day 5: Evening

[wizardseason]

Evening: 5:00pm until Midnight

[ IRL Timeframe: October 15th - October 23rd October 31st, 2019 ]

Evening is calm, evening is serene, evening is-- a time for everyone to catch up with all the nonsense that just happened today. For anyone checking social media, there are a number of significant events that went down to catch up on:

• Gyre's head straight-up fell fucking off. Somehow he's not dead.
• Gyre and Luka fought each other.
• Gyre punched Luka in the face.
• Terrence posted a Photoshop Phriday contest on the Hopeful Hearts homepage in the morning, when the Wizard was KO'd. It's finally gone viral.
• Two hospital rooms are out of commission due to the floor collapsing.
• The hospital's main lobby is inaccessible via the main doors, good thing the side doors work.
• Rory is missing. Where did the Tiger knight go? Social media fears the worst.
• The child teleported off of the pier, leaving anyone with them behind as they boarded a tourist boat. If the side is to be believed, it's headed back to Bamborough, but with the child at the helm where would it be going?

That's... quite a bit of bad stuff. Thankfully most of the afternoon events are still ongoing, so there's plenty of opportunities for the heroes to unwind in each others' company. The evil-allured knights get their own chance once they fall asleep for the night.

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The Weather

• Birds are chirping again.
• 59°F / 15°C
• It shouldn't be this chilly?

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Prompts:

• 5:00pm Onward: Hospital, Far Haven: After the rooms were destroyed and the lobby floor was ripped up, the Hospital is hardly in tip-top shape. Any heroes can drop by to try to gather clues with others, to try to help pick up the place, or of course drop by to get medical attention.



• Most Evening Times: Gyre's Camp, Forest between Craydon and Bamborough: Gyre can be found in his camp for most of the evening. It's taking up a little clearing in the trees and it's extremely nicely kept even at first glance. There's a fire pit dug into the ground, and lined with rows of gently polished rocks. There are three delicately carved wooden figures sitting on the rocks, one per rock. There's a little boar, a curved antler that very nearly looks real and uh a wizard hat.
  
  Off to the side, there's a canvas tent that's just barely big enough for a Gyre-sized bedroll and his emptied backpack. It's been zipped shut except for a couple inches opening left at the top. There's a little pile of chopped wood beside the tent, and a bowl filled with a dark purple dye and a few folds of leather. In front of the tent is a boot with the sole coming off, partially unsewn.
  
  Across from the fire, there's a rack set up with one cleaned rabbit? skin, and a deer skin hung on a pole to dry. The deer's skull has been set on a pike up high to bleach the bones.
  
  At least one person has promised to visit, but will he even after their fight? But perhaps he won't be the only one to drop by tonight.



• 5:00pm Onward: Unlimited Tacos, Bamborough: Even after the rails are fixed in Bamborough, the unlimited taco deal didn't come to an end. If the princess or any knight drops by, they won't even have to ask because there are free tacos for the rest of the day! Any hero may show up and sit down to dine on tacos of all types and flavors. Unfortunately this taco shop only specializes in flour-shell options, but their flavors are on point! Dine in with your fellow heroes and discuss all the nonsense that's been happening... and it's only day five.



• 5:00pm Onward: Free Drinks, Far Haven: If your hero is just tired of everything having to be So Much All The Time, they can drop by one of Far Haven's brightest night life bars called "Reach". They're offering free drinks all night to celebrate the Wizard getting put in the hospital. Things are looking pretty easy for the team this year! The special drink being offered is the "Wizard Bomb" which drops a blue shot into a bubbly red drink. It's pretty tasty and, best of all, free! Which heroes will find each other here before the night crowd shows up? Sun's going down fast!



• 5:00pm Onward: Free Admission Meditation, Craydon: Heroes need to take a moment to breathe, and one of the locals in Craydon has realized that. They've offered any hero a free meditation session in their garden room. Incense will be lit, hot towels will be offered, and the gentle serene environment of their garden room (complete with the carefully-combed and designed zen sand pit) will make sure any stress just melts away. Does your hero run across someone else while walking in or leaving? The Wizard can be found sitting outside, staring up at the sky, for the rest of the evening.



• 7:00pm Bed & Breakfast Helping Hand, Craydon: The owner of the Helping Hand Bed & Breakfast needs a helping hand! They threw their back out after carrying a large stack of firewood in for the wood oven. Looks like they're down for the count for at least the rest of the day. Care to lend a hand, perhaps with your fellow heroes, to get things taken care of? The laundry needs to be done, more firewood has to be cut, the food has to be cooked, the guests have to be checked in and out... Who's going to do all this if they can't even get up off the ground? They're in a rough spot! Social media was kind enough to report on what happened, but now that night's falling, things have to be closed up for the night. After the events of the day, Ten can be found here helping out. Looks like he's doing a little bit of everything!



• 8:30pm Protector Meeting, Far Haven: After the events of the day, the Protector sought out Olivia and spoke with Luka before he handled his own evening tasks. They both received a card from him with an address on it and a request to bring one knight that they trusted along with them. The address, not strangely at all, will take them to the center of a small local park in the middle of the business district. When they arrive, the Protector will be sitting on a bench overlooking a fountain. All around him are screens that are showing the events of the day, and he appears to be reviewing what happened.
  
  Of course, this isn't his dream space so he can be found by just about anyone at this point. But will anyone else find him? Before or during the meeting? Will they spy on the meeting or make themselves known?

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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.

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Activity Check: October 2019

[ IRL Timeframe: October 1st - October 31st, 2019 ]

Comments

[wizardseason]

Tiger knight. [ She shrugs. ]

[sustainer]

[...he goes silent for a long beat, looking off to the side]

Her name was Rory. [He slowly exhales, reaching up to wipe a nervous hand down his face. She probably doesn't care at all, he knows, and so he shifts topic: ]

Were you able to meet up with the child?

[wizardseason]

[ She doesn't care, he's right, but she's not going to be a jerk about someone being dead. Instead she's going to take his topic change like a life preserver. ]

No, they jumped on a boat. I don't know if they're coming back.

[sustainer]

[Wait]

What? [He jerks, as if to jump to his feet before just uh pausing there. Oh my god??]

They're gone? They didn't even talk to you all?

[wizardseason]

[ Oh that's what got him gearing up to get off the ground? Really Gyre? She immediately puts her hands on her hips as she judges him. ]

I just said I don't know! They might be going fishing for all I know. They went to the pier, hopped on a boat, and off they went. You want answers? Go swim out there yourself, because I'm not gonna.

[sustainer]

[He sighs roughly and uh... slumps back onto his ass again. He looks disappointed? Conflicted? It's a mix of emotions really. Either way, it's clear he's got no interest in trying to swim after a boat. He just has to hope that things go okay for them]

[Eventually though, he'll find the conversation again, murmuring: ]

Where was that place we fell into?

[wizardseason]

[ Well, while Gyre takes his sweet time getting himself together Five is going to rummage in a nearby bush for some berries. By the time he speaks again, she's munching on some raspberries. ]

Twelve's garden. Where else would it have been?

[sustainer]

Was that... Twelve? Meditating?

[He looks utterly thoughtful as he turns to watch her munch those berries, adding after a second: ]

Don't eat them all, please.

[wizardseason]

[ She glances to the berries in her hand, then to the many more berries still on the bush, then she turns back to Gyre and very deliberately eats one more out of her hand. Sure, but she's finishing the ones she's picked. ]

No, it was the Protector. [ She rolls her eyes. ]

Yes, Twelve was meditating in her garden, of course it was her. [ And she munches another raspberry. ]

[sustainer]

[He rolls his eyes back, scoffing a little. Why does she have to be rude!! He's just asking questions!!]

You say that like it's obvious. I've never met you all before.

[wizardseason]

[ Because she missed bonking him in the head with his dumb amethyst! And she had a really, really bad day! Like, an exceptionally bad day! ]

Yeah but who else would be in Twelve's garden. [ She counters, not intending to back down. Come on, Gyre. ]

And don't say she should've introduced herself, she would've ripped you in half.

[sustainer]

You were there. So was... whoever that was you called. [He raises a significant eyebrow, and then shakes his head]

I wouldn't want to interrupt someone meditating. [...] Would she really have attacked me?

[wizardseason]

[ She watches him as he brings up her phone call with Eight, he heard her make the call. But she nods when Gyre asks if he would've been attacked. ]

Yes, she would've. She fights every year, she likes it.

[sustainer]

[He purses his lips, opening his mouth and then closing it again. He wants to ask more questions but he doesn't know if she'll stick around long enough to answer them. Ugh, he has to try while he can, he supposes]

Does she need to? To do... her part? [That last bit is said with this searching tone. He wants to know more about the spell they're stuck in, and he's hoping she'll pick up on that]

[wizardseason]

[ There's that 'part' bit again. She's tempted to give him a hard time about it, but instead she just throws her hands up in the air. ]

I guess! If you don't fight her, she would probably mess everything up just based on principle. She's really compelling.

[sustainer]

[...what the fuck does that mean]

Compelling?

[wizardseason]

[ Ugh, don't make her explain WORDS. ]

You know. Like. Hey, go eat a bucket of dirt. You wouldn't do it, but she could make you do it.

[sustainer]

[Squints. He's literally never met a person who could convince him to eat dirt, Five, is that a thing that you fuckin weirdos in capitalism land have to deal with?]

You think she would mess things up for all of you if we didn't fight her? Does she want to kill us?

[wizardseason]

[ How dare Gyre think she was a capitalist in any way, shape, or form. ]

She wants to fight, that's it. [ Hands on hips! ]

[sustainer]

Hm... [...he nods]

Okay. I'll fight her. [He knows he can hold his own and also how to to kill a person in the final moments of those fights. He's definitely for sure the best choice]

[wizardseason]

[ She stares at him for several moments as she waits for a joke to follow it, for some kind of sarcasm to subvert what he'd just agreed to. But he doesn't, and she blinks her anticipation away before speaking again. ]

Oh. [ Blink. ]

Good. [ Looking pretty surprised here. ]

She'll like that.

[sustainer]

[He nods sagely, smiling broadly at her. It's an incredibly genuine smile!]

You deserve something nice after all this time.

[wizardseason]

[ She folds her arms again, looking at him skeptically. ]

The 'something nice' that I want is the stupid Protector out of my life.

[sustainer]

Well... we'll get there. [...he purses his lips slightly, watching her]

The Wizard has to kill him, right?

[wizardseason]

She wants to, but probably anyone can. [ She shrugs. ]

But he's strong. Like Twelve.