Day 6: Morning

[wizardseason]

Morning: 6:00am - 12:00noon

[ IRL Timeframe: October 31st - November 7th 13th, 2019 ]

In the typically quiet town of Craydon, most residents know that the beach is only a short walk away from the train station at the base of the mountainous region they live in. They've constructed a long wooden path out to the edge of the sandy area, with a number of benches available for any residents. Typically there are a handful of locals either walking, relaxing, fishing, or ocean watching on this normally quiet and uneventful beach. But today, at sunrise, the Wizard and the Protector are on the beach. The Wizard has made short work of sending everyone away but a few have remained to post it to social media.

It's a stalemate, for the most part. For every blow one flings, the other parries it. For every shout, there's one in return. Most unsettling, however, is that they're arguing in a language that isn't native to this world.

Far Haven isn't having an uneventful morning but it is having a quiet morning. The Hospital is looking better after the events of Day 5, the front doors are now available for use and a construction team is hard at work undoing the damage that had been done the previous day. It's definitely not fixed yet, but it's clearly on the way.

That isn't the big event that's drawing people's attention, though. Six, today's monster, has borrowed a chair from inside the hospital's lobby and placed it in the courtyard right outside the front doors. He can be found sitting, one leg propped up over the other and showing off one of the cowboy boots he's wearing, with a clipboard leaned up on his leg. Two of his arms are sitting on the armrests, casually drumming like he's impatient. Two more arms are folded across his front, and the last two arms are holding and writing on the clipboard. His yellow skin is bright as the sunlight hits him, but he's clearly ready for the sun with a pair of aviator sunglasses covering his eyes. Are there multiple eyes under there? He's wearing a cowboy hat with a white bandana around his neck and thick hair(?) bound up in a ponytail dangling off the back of the chair. This monster's a cowboy!

Oh, and there's a huge double-headed axe propped up against his chair. Can't forget that, that's scary.

Bamborough is a strange blend of eventful and not. The Child's boat is back and social media has made no secret of where they headed: Breakfast. The Bamborough Diner, a staple location in the tourist town, has been serving them meal after meal all morning. They're on their sixth meal, stuffing pancake after pancake into their mouth. They've been using the diner's picture-filled menu to order item after item and they haven't repeated one yet. It's time to EAT!

But with all this happening, surely the heroes won't be up to anything else? There's definitely no reason why the Wizard has suddenly chose to go toe-to-toe with the Protector this morning, right? No way, no how.

There's definitely a reason.


Sixth Morning Event:: The Fight.

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The Weather

• A little foggy.
• 55°F / 13°C
• Uh, grab a jacket, it's actually chilly.

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Prompts:

• 06:00am The Beach, Craydon: Today, at sunrise, the Wizard and the Protector are on the beach. The Wizard has made short work of sending everyone away but a few have remained to post it to social media.
  
  It's a stalemate, for the most part. For every blow one flings, the other parries it. For every shout, there's one in return. Most unsettling, however, is that they're arguing in a language that isn't native to this world.
  
  The heroes can try to get close, but they'll eventually find a barrier in their way. Is your hero here? Are they talking to others? Is there anything they can do? Or do they know more about what's happening than they've told others?


• 07:00am Harsen Island Regional Hospital, Far Haven: Far Haven isn't having an uneventful morning but it is having a quiet morning. The Hospital is looking better after the events of Day 5, the front doors are now available for use and a construction team is hard at work undoing the damage that had been done the previous day. It's definitely not fixed yet, but it's clearly on the way.
  
  That isn't the big event that's drawing people's attention, though. Six, today's monster, has borrowed a chair from inside the hospital's lobby and placed it in the courtyard right outside the front doors. He can be found sitting, one leg propped up over the other and showing off one of the cowboy boots he's wearing, with a clipboard leaned up on his leg. Two of his arms are sitting on the armrests, casually drumming like he's impatient. Two more arms are folded across his front, and the last two arms are holding and writing on the clipboard. His yellow skin is bright as the sunlight hits him, but he's clearly ready for the sun with a pair of aviator sunglasses covering his eyes. Are there multiple eyes under there? He's wearing a cowboy hat with a white bandana around his neck and thick hair(?) bound up in a ponytail dangling off the back of the chair. This monster's a cowboy!
  
  Oh, and there's a huge double-headed axe propped up against his chair. Can't forget that, that's scary.


• 08:00am Bamborough Diner, Bamborough: Bamborough is a strange blend of eventful and not. The Child's boat is back and social media has made no secret of where they headed: Breakfast. The Bamborough Diner, a staple location in the tourist town, has been serving them meal after meal all morning. They're on their sixth meal, stuffing pancake after pancake into their mouth. They've been using the diner's picture-filled menu to order item after item and they haven't repeated one yet. It's time to EAT!


• 0?:00am General Post, Anywhere: Are your characters interacting elsewhere? Are they texting everyone? Put any threads here that don't fit elsewhere with the time and location in the subject.

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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.

Comments

Early AM, Texting & In Person

[sustainer]

Good morning everyone! You're all going to receive a text! Gyre sends the exact same message to everyone individually, something which takes more brain power then he cares to admit!

I have something I need to show you. It's important. It's about this game we're all trapped in.


Gyre spends much of the morning sitting on a bench on the main street of Bamborough. He looks vaguely uncomfortable the entire time, watching anyone who gets a little too close to him with a wary eye. When he's not eyeing people though, he's on his phone, brow furrowed as he actually puts effort into figuring out how this damn thing works. At last! What a change!


As the sun gets higher though, he's going to start wandering the island, trying to track down every single Hero, especially anyone who didn't answer his text.

[eutychia]

Luka rolls over in bed at the sound of his phone receiving a text. It's normally something he'd ignore in favor of getting more beauty sleep, but he'd filtered out texts from unimportant and irrelevant contacts-- and so he grudgingly feels around on the sheets beside him until his hand makes contact with his phone.

He holds his phone to his face as it reads back Gyre's text before he taps a message back in return:

Something to show me? I hope you don't mean literally. I'm not the best man for that job.

[sustainer]

Oh. He hadn't thought about that. Would Luka even get anything out of this experience? It's probably better to have them all in one place, right? He mulls this over before eventually responding.

I want to bring everyone to the place I mentioned last night. The chamber where he continues the spell every year. You might be able to feel something there that the rest of us can't?

[eutychia]

Maybe.
I haven't felt anything like that in awhile and I am starting to think it was related to the Protector being with me, but he didn't know anything about it.
Either way I don't want to miss the party. Are we meeting up?

[sustainer]

He didn't know anything about your weird feelings?
We are. At the bottom of the mountain. We need to go back to the door where the child came from.
The protector is going to be distracted while we are there.

[eutychia]

Not about the powers.
Like the fire that came out and killed the train monster. At least, it wasn't him doing it.
Is there a time we should be there?

[tropicalstorm]

Haizea is already awake and eating a muffin she'd snagged from a cafe when she gets the text. Hoo boy. She pauses, debating whether or not she should even reply, before she sits her ass down on a fence and attempts a text. Honestly, she'd never gotten super into technology even once she could afford it, but she does know how to text at least.

Something new?

[sustainer]

The room where all of this started. It's important we all see it so we know what to do next.
I want everyone to meet at the bottom of the mountain. We can climb it and go to the door the child came out of.

[tropicalstorm]

Right, the child... she'd been occupied at the time, but she'd caught up on the coverage of the strange exploding child later. She's pretty concerned about that whole situation, honestly.

What time?

[sustainer]

In a couple hours. Enough time to tell everyone.
Are you in?

Haizea is one of the ones he's been the least sure about for the past few days. He can only hope she doesn't refuse out of principle or something.

[tropicalstorm]

She doesn't reply for a while, just kinda holds her phone and debates internally. Honestly, she isn't too sure about anything these days, but eventually she decides the only way to get her head straight is to try and learn more about the situation. What she does with that knowledge is her own business.

Yes.

Haizea does know how to text, but she doesn't really have any concept of how tone translates over it.

[fop_lop]

Oh my~! If it's about Wizard Season then I'm still excited, but I must admit I thought this text was going somewhere very different at first~! Where/when shall we meet?

If the text didn't come specifically from the complimentary phone all knights were given upon arrival, Terrence would think someone was just messing with him. Gyre was pretty much the last person he expected to receive a text from on any given morning. Thankfully the rabbit knight is an early riser himself, so the reply is nearly instant.

[sustainer]

This is not the text he expected to get back from Terrence! Honestly, he wasn't sure what to expect at all. He's spoken the least to this man, and while the talk was pleasant that first day, things have changed. Changed a lot potentially.

We can meet now if you have questions. I'm gathering all of us in a couple hours to climb the mountain. The place the child came from is something everyone needs to see.

He sends this text first, trying to hit the important details. Then he scans over what Terrence actually said, his brow quirking slowly. Is he flirting with him?

Where did you think it was going?

[fop_lop]

I suppose you're rather new to texting in general, but... Usually when a man DMs you that he 'has something to show you' before 7AM that means something very specific!

Terrence most certainly does have questions and would like to be there early so as to not get left out... But still, he needs a minute or two to get ready anyhow, so it could be fun to continue teasing Gyre until then.

Although... Gods, does Gyre even know enough to follow along this far..? To be fair, flirting via text doesn't make much sense even to people who do it regularly.

[sustainer]

Gyre looks up from his phone, glancing towards the horizon. It is early, isn't it. Not his usual time for that sort of thing by any means, but he has known people who preferred it at dawn. He snorts to himself, returning to the conversation. He's only ever eaten rabbit before. It'd be interesting to see how one acted in more intimate situations.


I've got a lot to do this morning. If that's what you want from me, we can find time tonight. Climbing down from the mountain will be a good warm up

text

[scandeled]

omg omg omg omg


໒(◉ᴥ◉)७ you're texting!!!!

[sustainer]

What does any of this mean. Gyre stares very hard at this message, and draws a complete fucking blank.

What does any of that mean

Re: Early AM, Texting & In Person

[silentwords]

Seth is definitely surprised to receive a text from Gyre, especially having witnessed his difficulties with using a phone first hand.

He's quick to type out a reply though, pausing in his wandering.
This is Seth, where do you want to meet?

[sustainer]

I'm in Bamborough now if you want to talk. I'm gathering all the knights at the base of the mountain in a couple hours. We need to go to the top, where the child came from

[silentwords]

That works. I've kinda been meaning to talk to you too but yesterday well...I was pretty occupied. Do you want to meet in front of my house or...? I'm fine meeting wherever.

[sustainer]

I don't know where your house is

Sorry Seth, Gyre is building blind. Every street looks basically the same to him, and he couldn't picture the outside of Seth's house to save his life at this point. He looks around though, trying to find some landmarks. There are the trees that line the street. He could describe every single one of them, but he remembers how confused Garrot was about his directions earlier. So something different...

Eventually, he picks himself up and moves towards the one unnatural landmark he's been able to memorize after a week.

I'm outside the train station

[daddykong]

Garrot is awake, putting the grouchy pressure on his doctors to get him off bedrest as soon as possible. There were two magical altercations in the hospital, while he was barely aware of his fucking surroundings! Not their fault, but... he wants to get back out there and keep the others safe. They sure seem like they need it. But then he gets a text, from Gyre, surprisingly coherent, and Garrot's sending text-messages rapid-fire.

We have a lot to talk about.
Can I call you?
Where are you?
Are you safe?

Frankly, the fact that Gyre could barely text before, when he's suddenly using proper grammar? In Common?! It's suspicious, to say the least, especially given everything Gyre got up to in the last day. Garrot takes one day for himself, and everything goes to shit...

[sustainer]

Oh my god Garrot please. This is so many texts. He's trying to respond to one when the next comes up and changes his screen, and then the next and the next. He gets extremely flustered, setting the phone down facedown beside him for about fifteen minutes after the messages finish.

At that point, he can't stand waiting anymore though. Garrot had him pretty worried the last time he saw him, so he snatches the phone back up and finally tries to respond.

I don't like to call. I'm in Bamborough. I'm safe. How are you? Are you still at the hospital?

[daddykong]

Leaving soon, I'll find you. Send me a picture.

Garrot has, in fact, already left the hospital at this point. He still doesn't trust the sender given the marked shift and the weird behavior he saw online. That delay could've been, like, crazy kidnappers or something.

Show me «you've got your head on straight.»

Yep, he knows about the head. And which languages Gyre can use over text. And how Gyre feels about idioms. And that Gyre is bad at technology. So that's in literal Amarosian, no idioms at all.

[sustainer]

Thank god he switched to Amarosian. His brain has been thoroughly fried after all this writing in Common, and he lets out a long, pleased exhale as he sees the far more familiar letters.

And then he tenses right back up again when he actually reads what he said. A picture?? No, Garrot, that's an S tier unlock with him.

《I told you I was fine. My head is exactly where it's supposed to be.》