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

[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.

[sustainer]

What do you mean?

[Give him some tips!!!]

He had a scary sword today...

[wizardseason]

[ She scrunches up her face. ]

If you saw him with his sword, he probably tried to kill you with it didn't he? He did, didn't he? Of course he did, he doesn't have a weapon out if he isn't going to try to kill someone.

[sustainer]

[...is she worried about him?]

He did. He was going to stab me in the back. One of you saved me. The little one, maybe? [...]

Who put me in my tent?

[wizardseason]

[ She gives this hollow laugh, of course the Protector was going to kill him! She was right! She knew it! ]

Of course. And Ten saved you, it sure wasn't me. You know where I was. He said he was bringing you here, that's why I came here. Why? You gonna whine that you sleep on your back and he put you on your stomach or something?

[sustainer]

N... no. That would be useless. [He grimaces slightly, wondering how she's going to take his actual reason. She's so... tetchy]

I would prefer he not go into my personal space again. That's all.

[wizardseason]

[ Wow she completely agrees! It would be completely useless to whine about that! Also yeah! She is tetchy today! She did die once, that tended to make for a bad day! ]

[ Geez! ]

Okay. [ A beat. ] Tell him that.

[sustainer]

[What is this confrontational aura???]

Okay. I will. [Blink] I haven't seen him in days.

[wizardseason]

[ She's ready to fight! She's on edge! She just finished a day, HER day, where she was supposed to fight literally everyone! According to some idiot's stupid setup! ]

[ Ugh! ]

Yeah, do that. [ Folding her arms. ] He's in Craydon, he'll probably be there tomorrow too.

[sustainer]

[He holds his hands up in this pacifying gesture, giving her a confused little quirk of his head. What the heck Five be cool]

Alright. I'll talk to him. [...] How are you?

[wizardseason]

[ She is cool, geez. But she doesn't unfold her arms. ]

I don't have an answer to that. [ Narrowing her eyes. He's been cool so far, so she doubts he's up to something bad, so she allows the slightest reveal: ]

Hungry. [ Nailed it. ]

[sustainer]

[He nods when she says she doesn't have to answer, agreeing automatically. No she doesn't have to answer and he's not going to make her, smiling slightly at her. The smile becomes a grin when she answers anyway, and he makes a low amused sound]

I've got some venison? [...] You'd have to cook it though.

[wizardseason]

[ If she could make a line face :| she'd be making it right now. ]

Why would I have to cook it? What's venison?

[sustainer]

It's deer.

[...]

Do you not need to cook your food?

[wizardseason]

[ She stares at him. ]

I've eaten a deer. They're pretty quick but that didn't stop me. [ A beat as she pulls down her mask and reveals her shark teeth. ]

No, I don't need to cook it.

[sustainer]

[He........... grins. It's the same impulse that made him smile at her earlier today honestly. It's nice to meet someone who has a proper mouth and a proper diet out here so far from his home]

Would you like to eat with me then?

[wizardseason]

[ Anyone who didn't have teeth like this and didn't eat like this was wrong. ]

[ Period. ]

Yeah, I'm hungry. [ W a t c h i n g him. A pause. ]

Please.

[sustainer]

Sure. Give me a second.

[He picks himself up at last, stretching his limbs out now that he's gotten feeling back in his body. He sighs contentedly, and then moves over to his tent, unzipping it again and pulling a big box out of it. It's an ice box, and when he opens it, it's filled with ice that's been stolen over the past few days and big slabs of meat]

[He pulls a knife from his belt and slices that topmost slab in half, plucking both halves up and offering one out to her]

This enough?

[wizardseason]

[ She follows close behind him, watching him, and when he offers her the slab she takes it and immediately puts the whole thing up and into her mouth. She opens her jaw wide and bites into it like a chain chomp. ]

Mrph. [ She responds before giving a thumbs-up with her now-meat-free hand. ]

[sustainer]

[He......... looks decidedly startled when the whole piece disappears into her mouth. He watches her chew for a second, before smiling decidedly happily]

Happy to help. [He closes his ice box and shoves it back into the tent, zipping it again. He doesn't have quite the mouth she does so he'll go sit by his fire pit instead. He brings his knife back out, cutting the first strip of meat away and throwing that whole into his mouth]

[Once he's got his mouth full, he gestures to a rock where she can sit with him. Come on over new friend]