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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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[He makes a vague gesture after that, an unsure shrug as he thinks back to the uh frankly awful thing that happened earlier today. He opens his mouth to answer, and then hesitates a moment. She was aligned with the Protector, right? At least for now anyway]
Would you hurt them if I said they were dangerous?
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Besides, I guess you and I are dangerous too, yeah? [She shrugs, seemingly finding the idea odd.] All of us are, really. Well, not so much Matilda and Seth but, you know. We don't have world ending powers or are possibly a humanoid version of the world itself, though, which is what worries me.
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Mm, we're not the same as them. Dangerous, maybe, but not to the entire world. [He sighs, running a hand through his hair and ruffling it slightly]
They destroyed a building when I spoke to them. Carelessly. I don't think they think about us at all. [...] No one was hurt, as far as I know, but they were so... callous about it. I don't know what to think about them.
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[She purses her lips in thought.] Well, they do look like a child. Maybe they are, and they just don't know better, huh? I mean, do we even know if they've ever encountered people before this?
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There was another building. A... the kind that does food? [A restaurant, but he can barely recognize different kinds of buildings much less remember their specific names]
People were bringing them plates of food, over and over again, but they destroyed part of it just to chastise me. Like I was the child. [He exhales roughly through his nose, folding his arms as the continue walking]
They look like a child, but they don't speak like one, you know? Or act it. They're important though. The Protector can't know they exist, or he'll hurt them.
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Huh... they blew up a restaurant? [She thinks for a moment, considering what little she knows about children.] Well, they're like, super powerful, yeah? Maybe that was their version of a tantrum or something. I know I would do some petty, destructive shit to get back at my parents growing up. [She admits, crossing her arms.]
They could, also, just be tiny but as old as the planet, and therefore right about you being a child in comparison. [She shrugs. Who knows with this world.] Not that chastising children is ever- wait, you said they don't speak like a child? You understand their language?
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[He shakes his head a little as he listens to her theorizing, perking up a little when she asks how he was speaking to them]
Oh, no, I... Fen can talk to them. They translated for me. All the animals can speak their language, I think.
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What made them want to chastise you, then?
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It might have. They were scared. [...] But maybe not. I believe that they're connected with each other, so maybe it would've been comforting for them.
[He shrugs a little. It's too late now anyway]
They... they stole my shield, and turned it into a heavy ball. When they dropped it, it broke the table we were at. I told them we'd need to clean it up, and that's when they started getting angry.
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She clears her throat before speaking again.]
I think my Knight power is related to my companion, actually, so if... I wonder if that means they would've been able to... [She doesn't know what, really. Steal Iv away? She's not even fully sure about what the extent of her own connection with her is. She scratches at her arm.] Maybe I made a good call after all.
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They couldn't summon one on their own, but once I had, they were able to change it. They could make it into a solid thing that I couldn't dismiss anymore. [...] It was strange. Like they couldn't control it yet, or they were... exploring their abilities?
[He pauses for another few beats here, trying to figure out what it must mean for them to not know their own magic]
Maybe they won't be able to affect her because she's on of the animals?