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

[eutychia]

"That shouldn't be any trouble at all, actually. She's less to get through than I must have been. But she won't have you convincing her, so who know."

[sustainer]

"She seemed... hesitant to trust anyone with sympathy for the Wizard. Better to start with you. I'll talk to her if she needs more then that."

[eutychia]

"You'd be surprised. I had dinner with her and she seemed to be already questioning things. Her encounter with the fifth monster went much differently than mine... but, I'll put in a word for you if she doesn't believe me somehow."

[sustainer]

"Mm, okay," he says, nodding to himself. Things are coming together which is more then he'd hoped for after the Protector tried to kill him earlier today.

"The others... I'm not sure. Some will be easier to talk to then others."

[eutychia]

"I don't know where most of them stand. I assume against the Wizard, but what do I know?" Luka says with a short laugh. "I feel like you would know better than I do, honestly. I can only speak for Olivia for now, and... I think many of the Knights are more charmed by you than I."

[sustainer]

This seems to mystify him. He goes completely silent for several beats, mouth opening and closing as he tries to decide whether he agrees with that or not. H certainly hasn't made an effort to get close to most of them. Zafika perhaps. Garrot has forcibly involved himself in his business. That might be it though.

"Hm, perhaps," he says after this long silence, setting it aside for now. Perhaps he'll tease him about it later. It's not every day a famous person says you're more charming then them after all. "Garrot and Haizea will be the most difficult, I think. We should come to them when we've got more people willing to listen."

[eutychia]

"Sure. It's been awhile since I spoke to either of them privately anyway. Whoever Olivia and I bring to meet the Protector tonight... they will be a priority, too."

[sustainer]

"Mm! Mmhm. They will be," he says and he pauses in thought, scratching at his cheek as he considers.

"Now that we're on the same page, maybe take one who can fight. Zafika, or Garrot. If the Protector thinks they're on his side, they're going to be in more danger then most."

[eutychia]

"I wish I knew more about how his magic worked... you know, since we're about to pump someone full of it." Luka sighs. "But you're right, that's something to keep in mind. I don't think I'd want to drag along someone who couldn't fight into getting a big power boon anyway."

[sustainer]

"Mmhm, me too," he says softly, nodding to himself. It's such a huge mess. All of this is so messy.

"That or... someone with a good ability. I don't think the... rabbit man can fight much, but I've heard he can heal a little. Strengthening that might be a good next step as well." He's just mulling out loud at this point, trying to sort through all of them in his mind.

[eutychia]

"I wonder if it would work that way. For non-offensive magic, too. At the very least I'll have a lot of questions for him tonight. Anything in particular you think I should ask?"

[sustainer]

Here is a long, thoughtful pause as he rolls this situation over in his head.

"All questions I'm sure you'll ask. How does it work, what will it do," he says, leaning against Luka and patting at his leg as he thinks. "Perhaps what would happen if you accidentally brought one of the wizard knights to him."

[eutychia]

"Mmm, interesting! I wonder what he'd say. I'll make sure to remember those for you." Luka makes a mental note to bring up those questions later tonight. "I hope he's not too suspicious. But he's never seemed to doubt me, at least."

[sustainer]

Gyre nods slightly, wracking his brain if there's anything else. He's extremely curious how this is going to go, but there's something more important here.

"Be safe. Don't ask the question if you think he'll get suspicious. You and Olivia are more important then whatever information he has."

[eutychia]

"I will be." Luka replies. "You be, too. I don't think he's too keen on you after everything that happened today, and I don't need anyone disappearing on me."

[sustainer]

"I will be, too," he says firmly, taking a deep breath and nodding to himself. It feels like they have a plan. It feels like they can move forward from here, and so he reaches over and picks at a couple of the strings on Luka's guitar.

"Will you play me something else?"

[eutychia]

"Oh, I can't say no to that." Luka replies, eagerly getting back into a play position.

He'll play for as long as Gyre's willing to listen, and maybe even then some. It's much more fun than thinking about the possible inevitable destruction of the world and all the politics going into preventing that, after all.