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pajamabox2019-10-15 08:19 pm
wizardseason) wrote in pajamabox2019-10-15 08:19 pm
Day 5: Evening
Evening: 5:00pm until Midnight
[ IRL Timeframe: October 15th -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?
The Weather
- Birds are chirping again.
- 59°F / 15°C
- It shouldn't be this chilly?
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?
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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"Honestly, you seem like the sort that can always handle himself. Or at least," she pauses for another sip, "the sort who can always fake it. Which is probably a better skill," she remarks before going back into her drink. She'll polish off the first one right quick.
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"Thanks, but you know what I mean..." Terrence almost looks downtrodden for a moment before putting on the exact same face she just describes, "Despite our session the other day, I'm no fighter. Even a prodigy such as myself couldn't pick up enough to be on a competitive level in only a day or so. And our enemies are far beyond 'competitive level', you'd agree..?"
He sounds more like he's poking fun at himself than anything.
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"Honestly, I ain't too sure 'bout that. The fourth monster, they didn't want to fight at all, just wanted to play their gameshow. I wasn't much good at it, just kinda brute forced my way through 'til Four got tired of me. But maybe someone like you woulda had a better time of it. Maybe you coulda actually beat Four. Or somethin'..." she trails off, and reaches for her second drink.
"I know I'm good at fightin', but I'm thinkin' that's not the only thing that matters in all this anymore. Back home, I got to where I am now not just with my own skills, but by helpin' out folks who could do what I can't. We all thought that we just had to pummel these monsters, but maybe we were all wrong," she says with a sigh, then shakes her head and this time she DOES chug the whole drink at once.
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"A few of them certainly do seem more interested in interacting with us than killing us, at least when they're 'off-duty'," he muses.
Just as she's annoyed at not having a chance to fight Five one-on-one, missing out on Four is likewise a bit of a sore spot for Terrence. A monster that they have to beat just by being clever, and in the format of popular media? That could've been his real chance to shine! Alas, he should simply be happy those involved survived. The recordings are pretty amusing, too.
"I've always followed coverage of Wizard Season, but I can't recall a year that they've ever been so..." He pauses, frowning slightly, "'Friendly' isn't the right word, but... Docile..? Maybe it's like this every year and we simply never saw because we weren't so close to the action. It makes the Wizard Knights a bit easier to understand."
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"D'you think the Wizard Knights from before really were tryin' to end the world? Or did they just not wanna kill the monsters that were more personable?" She sighs a bit and places both hands on her drink.
"Not everyone is cut out for killin', 'specially if your foe talks back to you. Or maybe they just started thinkin' like me, that maybe pummelling the monsters ain't the only way to win and keep the world goin'. Don't think the Protector would like that idea much, though," she says with a dark chuckle.
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"None of them have ever been able to give a good enough reason for it after the fact," he replies thoughtfully. It's not a condemnation, but a genuine lack of understanding laced with the very same kind of compassion they're projecting on past Wizard Kinghts. "I can understand hesitating when being forced to kill, but there had to be a damn good reason they'd risk the end of the world. Not that we'll ever get to know it I guess, heh."
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"Not sure there could be a good reason to risk the world endin'. Even if- if they sympathized with the Wizard, you can't risk somethin' like that when you got folks to protect. Maybe if they were alone in the world..." she trails off, thinking to herself, then downs the rest of her drink.
"Barkeep! Three more, please and thanks!"
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"But then you'd think in that case that the Wizard would pick those who are actually in such a lonesome place, shouldn't they..? And yet most of them seem perfectly personable," Terrence muses, having studied pretty much every year of Wizard Season fairly extensively. Obviously he could only watch around half of them during his actual life, but he's gone back to read up about all of them in some capacity. "I just continually fail to see what anyone would get out of it."
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"Hmm, well..." she trails off, pausing a bit to pick her words carefully. "What if she don't pick 'em at all? Say she just gets who she gets and she's gotta try and get them on her side. Would explain why some don't work with her, at least."
The bartender silently returns with her drinks and she picks one up to take a sip. "Maybe we oughta ask Gyre what he's gettin' out of it," she says, tone making clear that she doesn't actually want to ask that at all.
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"There's a thought," he acknowledges with a grin. "Going right to the source, who would've thought? Mm, well, perhaps not the source source, but you know what I mean!"
The rabbit knight's cheeky grin grows even more as he thinks more on the implications of Haizea's words. "Would you beleive that I've been thinking the same, though..? The Wizard must be just as stuck in this damn cycle as we are. It simply doesn't make any sense otherwise. As powerful as they've proven to be, even if the Protector was living up to his namesake, she'd have been able to turn the tide before now. There's just no way."
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"As for the cycle," she starts, pausing for another sip of her drink, "I'm thinkin' the whole 'everyone is trapped' answer might be pretty likely. But, well... Should we even care? Like this whole bullshit, it happens every year, and the world keeps turnin'. The Wizard gets beat, we all get to live. Even if the Wizard and the Protector are trapped, maybe they need to stay trapped. Maybe we all do," she says darkly, and goes back for more of her drink.
Heavy thoughts with the dragon knight.