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pajamabox2019-11-13 07:35 pm
wizardseason) wrote in pajamabox2019-11-13 07:35 pm
Day 6: "Monster Arrival"
Afternoon: 12:00noon - Evening
[ IRL Timeframe: November 13th -Following the events of the morning, with the Wizard and Protector locked in a heated duel, Gyre has paved forward with his plan to gather all the heroes to show them something. Be proud of him, he texted EVERYONE!
The fight between the two powerful entities continues, they won’t be joining anyone just yet. Sxicq, meanwhile, is… somewhere. No one really kept tabs on them, even social media has lost sight of them.
The Weather
- Clear with a few clouds.
- 52°F / 11°C
- Bring your heater, the chill continues!
Prompts:
- 12:30pm Mounain, General Post:
I.
Gyre arrives early to the main hiking trail at the base of the mountain. There’s a big sign advertising where it starts, and he sits against one of the legs of the sign. His legs are neatly folded, his arms crossed over his chest. As people begin to arrive, he greets each of them, standing after a second or third has arrived.
Once they’re all gathered, he raises a hand to get everyone’s attention. “Is this everyone?” he asks, clearly counting heads. A flicker of angst crosses his face as he realizes how much smaller they look without Rory and Web and Gail. As he counts, he realizes Zafika and Joanna are missing as well. He wasn’t able to talk to either of them, so he supposes he’s not surprised, but there is a little bubbling concern in his chest. He’ll have to address it later.
He waves at the lot of them once he’s done counting, gesturing for them to follow, “We’re going to the top. I’m going to move quickly so we can get back down before dark. If you need help, ask me. Rely on each other,” is all he says before he turns and heads up the trail.
The ground is worn enough to make the climb relatively easy, but it’s still climbing a mountain. How is everyone taking it? It’s a long trip. There’s time to catch up now that they’re all together again.
II.
This is the top of the mountain. When the heroes arrive, they’ll find Five and Ten seated at a small foldable table playing cards. Five is wearing jeans and a black hoodie with a computer error screen printed on it. She looks at the group of heroes arriving, giving a small wave once she’s seen some familiar faces-- but she immediately moves to hide behind Ten when she sees Luka.
Ten, meanwhile, is wearing a shirt with a picture of himself wearing a shirt with a picture of himself wearing a shirt-- you get the idea. How did he pull that off? The shirt is printed with a picture of him here, on the top of the mountain, outside this cliff door. Did he plan for this? He gives a wave at the group, greeting them with a Microsoft Sam voiced phone message:
“All around me are familiar faces. Ha ha, hello.”
Did he just reference a song? He definitely did. That was definitely “Mad World” by Jary Gules.- 12:30pm Onward: Mountain, The Mountain Cave Entrance:
When the heroes decide to descend into the cavern, what they’ll find is a strangely winding corridor that’s barely lit at all. The ceiling is rarely higher than six feet, sometimes shrinking down to four feet and even three feet near the bottom, and most of its length is only wide enough for two people to fit through. The floor is slick with water, the slope of it acting as the perfect place for water to drain into from above. This means the descent is cramped, dark, and slightly slippery.
Good luck, heroes.
The corridor suddenly opens up at the bottom into a wide-open cavern, the walls spreading out too far in every direction and disappearing into the darkness of the cavern. The walkway into the space narrows as it crosses over a massive pit that surrounds a central circular platform. There aren’t any other walkways leading to the middle.
The circular platform in the center has twenty-seven metal rings that make up the floor, smaller ones in the middle surrounded by one massive ring around the outside. It'd take a lot of counting to see the 27 rings but, believe me, they're there. What the heroes will be able to spot, though, is that a few of the rings on the floor are rotating very, very slowly. It would be easy to miss, but once noticed it’s clear that there are exactly ten rings moving and seventeen that are not.
Surrounding the center platform are twenty-seven raised platforms in a big circle around the center. Floating above four in a row are bright yellow blobs with one, two, and three eyes respectively. The fourth and fifth have the slain bodies of Four and Five. Four is wearing the game show garb they’d worn on the day of their games. Five is wearing a set of heavy black robes, not the assassin garb she’d worn on her day. The other side has five occupied platforms each with knights floating in them. Web, with Aqrisqi floating above them. Rory, with Sefaq floating above her. Gail, with Giqra floating above him. Joanna, with Fius floating above her. Zafika, with Muraj floating above them.
Wait. When were Joanna and Zafika defeated? Both of them have a single red mark above where their hearts are like they’d each been stabbed with a blade.
Five and Ten have followed everyone down to this room, looks like they’ll be able to answer questions… maybe? But everyone knows that neither the Wizard nor the Protector will be here, they’re still fighting up on the island’s beach.
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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"Hey, uh, oh... sure," he says, taking the piece of jerky. He looks at it for a moment, considering whether this is good jerky or the insanely salty shit that normally gets sold to these people. "I haven't seen you for a bit. You're talking now?"
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But at Gyre's inquiry, Ten nods and then does some one-handed tapping on his phone while shoving the rest of the jerky in his other hand... into his face. There's no mouth, he just shoves the jerky into roughly his chin area and waits for it to disappear.
"Text to talking. I heard you lost your head. Are you okay." Normally that'd be a question, but in the robotic voice it uh... sounds like a statement.
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"I'm fine. I heard you saved me. Are you okay?" he asks immediately. He truly has no idea what happened past realizing that the Protector was going to stab him, so hopefully he wasn't hurt too badly, if at all.
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"No one touched me" Ten's response comes immediately, texted out in the middle of Gyre talking.
"The Protector is just a jerk"
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"He is. I'm glad he didn't hurt you," he says, pausing briefly to wonder if he should just dive right in here. He probably should, just so Ten doesn't get any weird ideas about being his child or something.
"Did you go into my tent?"
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Um.
Yeah? Why?
"I put your body there."
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"Please don't go in there again. You can leave me outside, uh, if you need to do that again sometime.
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And stares.
All ten of his eyes blink in a circular motion before he texts his response, the emotionless text-to-speech voice answers him:
"Don't pretend to be dead again, you weigh a lot."
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"I wasn't pretending," he says quickly, smirking down at the little monster. "I'll try not to though. Would you have come to help me if I hadn't collapsed?"
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"Don't not pretend either. I won't let him stab you."
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"I'll put up a better fight next time, too."
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"Will you kill him?"
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Either way, he blinks at the abrupt question, opening his mouth to answer almost as quickly. And then closing it again. He takes a beat to find exactly what he wants to say first before nodding hesitantly.
"If I have to, I could. She says she has to do it though," he answers, a question there in his tone. Is that how that has to work?
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"She wants to. It doesn't have to be her. In some situations it doesn't have to happen. In some it does."
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"What do you mean, it doesn't have to happen sometimes? Which situations are those?" Because as much as he doesn't like the guy, the fewer deaths there are the better. He knows a lot of people on this side have it out for that dude, but murder is, in general, bad.
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"But if they both die, he has to die. Or we all lose." Ten adds, swiping on his phone to bring up a screen-filling ":/" emoji to show Gyre.
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"Hm... I'll make sure they're all alive then," he says like this is the easiest thing in the world. His mouth thins into a hard, concerned line after that though, his voice getting quieter, more focused.
"What does losing mean, in this case?"
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☠️
And, for added effect, he brings a hand up to his neck and runs his thumb across it. Dead. Toast. Everybody's killed. Hopefully Gyre gets it.
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"I thought so," he murmurs, glancing up towards the entrance to the cave. He sighs softly, trying to keep his thoughts organized. Today is important. "I'm glad you checked up on me."
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"No problem. More Jerky?" He offers, offering another stick of the dried jerky out. It's the least he can do to try to lighten the mood.
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"No, I... I need to check up on everyone. Is there... anything I can do? To help you?"
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"Don't die."
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"You either."
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