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

[daddykong]

Garrot absolutely doesn't like Six. Is Ten their manager? Can he report this behavior? It's decidedly horrible, especially because that weapon went from axe to knife to ball???? in like what, ten seconds? Ish?

"Why are you asking?" He squints, leaning over a bit to try and read the- no, absolutely fuck that, that is literal gibberish. Is this what it's like when people complain about his handwriting?! "You want to hurt and possibly kill us all, why would I tell you a damn thing?"

He does respect the persistence, though.

[wizardseason]

Ten isn't his boss. Neither is Five. There's no one that Garrot can report Six to. No one... but Six himself.

"It's important for the story!" He answers immediately, smiling as he scritches more notes down in the corner.

"Is hurting and killing people something you would say a hero does?" He counters, deeply curious. It's like he's not even acknowledging that Garrot's accusing him and he's instead using the things Garrot's asking to ask questions of his own.

[daddykong]

"Trust me, you're not a hero." Garrot's pretty sure most (if not all) of the monsters have killed in cold blood over the last 40 years, and the shift from "you want to hurt and kill people" to "is that heroic" is uh... kind of gross? Lucky for Garrot, he spent time at a monastery. He knows how to tackle philosophical issues... and also how to utterly disregard them.

"If you want stories, go to a damn library." There's a moment of grumbling, and then he decides to test his luck. "And give me your weapon, so you can't hurt anyone."

There's no way that'll work. No way at all. But he's still trying.

[wizardseason]

"You misunderstand, I'm not the hero of this story." He gives a little laugh, before motioning at the ground where there's now an anvil in place of the previous weapons.

"Go ahead and take it, I don't need it. But I've been to the library and read all the stories. They're imaginative! But I didn't write them."

[daddykong]

Garrot sees that there is now an anvil, and he groans very loudly and with the exaggeration of a tired parent. If he could lift that anvil, which he doesn't feel like trying since he just got out of the hospital, he wouldn't even know what to do with it. Drop it off the pier?

...Since the second monster blew up on contact with water, it might not be a bad idea. But.

"You're telling me you want to write a story where you're the hero? Or are you the hero of some other story?" Took all he had not to call said other story stupid.

[wizardseason]

"Nope, wrong again. I'm writing a story about a hero. I'm just the author." He gives a little chuckle, having no idea what Garrot's thinking in this moment. After a moment, he stops writing and looks up to meet Garrot's eyes as he adds:

"And you're not the hero either."

[daddykong]

Garrot just scoffs at the mention of how he's not the hero. Being a monster's storybook hero seems like a bad thing. So a moment after their eyes meet, the Monkey Knight is rolling his.

"Okay, so who is the hero, then?" If Six is making a story based off real people, since Garrot is Not The Hero, then whoever it is warrants some investigation. Future snooping, really.

[wizardseason]

"The audience, of course." He answers immediately, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world.

"Led by the Princess!"

[daddykong]

The Monkey Knight snorts at that. Audience participation? Sounds like the time he took his youngest to such a show for kids and she did the songs and dances for about two months after the fact. Absolutely exhausting.

"Led." He raises an eyebrow at that one. "The Princess is gonna be in on it?" That tells him one thing, at least. As for the next... "Who are the bad guys?" Assuming there's one would be fine, but Garrot has been so exasperated by the monsters' bullshit so far that he won't give them wiggle room if the obvious is wrong.

[wizardseason]

"The bad guys are a surprise, but I think you can guess who!" He answers with a little laugh.

"It's obvious when you think about it!" He adds, not confirming anything about Garrot's assumptions that the Princess is in on it.

[daddykong]

Garrot snorts again, this time a little closer to a laugh. Six is woefully unhelpful in all ways. So he crosses his arms instead.

"Obviously the bad guys are you and the other monsters. You try to kill the Princess and the Knights every year." If nothing else, he'll try to turn Six's words against him and see what he can learn. It might be easier to kill him now, but with that shapeshifting weapon and the monsters' penchants for nonsense, he might just get stabbed in the gut.