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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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Obviously, the killing of Four wasn't self-defense, but it's beside the point.
"Ten didn't make it seem very intelligent. I'd be surprised if it turned out to be."
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I was pretty surprised to hear you'd killed one of them all on your own. [She says, making it sound as casual as she can.] Sounds like you don't need Rory and I as bodyguards after all, huh? [She sounds like she's smiling as she says that, but her face is quite serious as she watches for Luka's reactions.] All he did to me was drag me into this... weird game show. Did he attack you?
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"They weren't expecting it." He admits. "I wasn't even being particularly subtle, but they weren't expecting it at all."
He stirs his drink with a straw idly, distracting himself.
"It was the first monster to just walk away from a battle. I came back later with a sword. They were acting like a fan of mine."
He feels a twinge of guilt inside himself when he says those words, but tries to shake it off. Four wasn't a fan, they were a monster, and it was good that they were dead.
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You know, I still don't fully understand how their deaths work, considering there's twelve every year. Maybe it's not permanent, yeah? [She sighs.] I wish you'd come to me or Rory about it, honestly. I mean, I don't blame you, you were doing... our "job", I guess. [She clicks her tongue.] I've been thinking about One, too. It didn't really attack anyone, yeah? We just trapped and killed it?
[She rests her chin on her hand, pausing for a moment. She sounds sad when she says,] I think it was just watching the clouds.
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He didn't like to admit it. Saying it aloud made it too real.
"I thought killing the monsters would be this grand moment. I thought killing Four would heal my wounded pride, but I didn't feel anything at all when I did it. Nothing about anything is even close to how I thought it would be. How stupid."
He breathes in sharply, and if Olivia's observant, she'll notice that Luka is trying to hold back tears. He quickly gathers himself and raises a hand in the air to summon the waitress.
"I think I need another drink."
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None of us knew any better. You thought you were doing the right thing. [She may not know the first thing about being a friend or comforting others but, for Luka, she'll try. There's not much else she can say, really, so she just keeps holding his hand until the waitress comes back.
When she does, Olivia gives him a light squeeze before letting go.] Hopefully we can... fix all of this. It's really sounding like we're going to have to con a conman.
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"Maybe." He mutters, but he can't believe it. He'd sought Four out unnecessarily to kill them. It was far from a heroic thing to do, not like slaying a monster in a battle.
"We will fix this. We need to fix this." He emphasizes, turning his hand under hers to take hold of it. "No matter what fixing it ends up requiring."
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[Hopefully "no matter what" didn't mean either of them would end up on the Protector's bad side, she thinks with a sigh.] So we pretend it's all good with him but we keep investigating on the low, yeah? I don't think questioning him directly is a good idea anymore.
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Luka keeps his hand on hers, making no effort to move it.
"We'll need his trust for as long as we can keep it. I don't want to think about what might happen if he turns against us all."
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She uses her free hand to rub circles along the rim of her glass, thinking to herself for a moment. Her mind can fill in the blanks to what would happen if the Protector turned against them pretty easily, and none of these threads end with her going back home to her cat.] Fuck, should we even take a Knight for him to power up? I mean, I guess we have to but, is it... I don't know, safe?
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He laughs a defeated sort of chuckle.
"We just have to make sure whoever we choose isn't also at risk of turning against us as well."
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Well, that sort of narrows it down... I think Matilda and Garrot are the only two I can imagine asking us for an explanation rather than simply branding us traitors if it came down to that, you know? But I don't think Matilda would... [Hmm.] I mean, she seems to get easily stressed out.
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Luka releases Olivia's hand, finally, pulling it back to himself and folding his arms again.
"I think he's our safest bet."
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Hopefully Rory agrees, too... have you heard anything? [She asks, an eyebrow arching up. The big girl looked like she could take care of herself, so Olivia wasn't too worried - but she had picked a weird time to go off on her own.]
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"No..." He says, an unsettling feeling coming over him in that moment. Rory wasn't exactly easy to miss in a crowd - she had an undeniable presence which Luka admired, but its absence lately was concerning. "Nothing at all. It's harder now that we don't meet at night, but... maybe she's laying low. I know she's been helping civilians in the aftermath of all this destruction."
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I suppose we won't have any more... dreams. We just have to wait for the Protector to hit us up from now on?
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"The Protector seemed pretty surprised about being here." Luka explains, thinking back to his reaction the previous day. "Maybe he'll come up with another way for us all to meet safely, but for now I think it's too dangerous."
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I wonder what it actually means that he's here now, though. Does it make him weaker somehow?
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Luka stirs his drink with its provided straw, the colors of the beverage swirling inside the glass as he does.
"It must make him vulnerable at the very least." He says, lowering his voice to a whisper. "He did tell us that the only way to kill him or the Wizard was when they were pulled into the real world."