Day 6: Evening Monster

[wizardseason]

Evening: Evening - Midnight

[ IRL Timeframe: December 4th - December 18th, 2019 ]

Three significant things happen when the heroes have finished their venture into the mountain.

First: Just outside the mountain cave entrance are four doors just... freely standing there. The heroes will be able to walk around them, walk past them, and generally inspect them. But they just look like normal doors. Three are marked "Bamborough", "Craydon", and "Far Haven" and sure enough if the heroes open them they'll find the marked city just past the door.

What?

The fourth door is marked "Guest List" and has the names of all the heroes scrawled down below it. Six had said everyone was invited, after all.

Second: The Wizard and Protector's fight has ended, but social media is losing their collective mind over the crater the two had left behind. A significant part of the beach is now gone, filled in with water in the empty space the battle left behind. How did it end? Who won? Is it all over?

Third: Six's show has started. Luka's princess senses will point him straight to the door with the guest list on it, and he'll know he's meant to enter. Courtesy of some time nonsense, even if the heroes take their time entering from the mountain-side of the door... they'll all arrive at the same time in the monster space. They won't all arrive back on the mountain at the same time, though, instead they'll go back at the end in the order they went through in. First in, first out, after a shared same-time-Six-showdown fight.

But is it a fight?

Monster Arrival: ???: Where is this?

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The Weather

• Cloudy.
• 52°F / 11°C
• Still chilly!

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Prompts:

• 5:00pm Mountain, General Post: Any character interactions atop the mountain or in any of the towns before the heroes go to face Six can be added here. Five and Ten both say they won't be joining the heroes to watch the show, they weren't invited.


• 5:30pm Onward: Monster Theatre: When the heroes arrive in Six's space, they'll be surprised to see that it's set up very much like a movie theatre. There are exactly enough plush, reclining chairs for all the heroes to have one each. At the front of the room is a big red curtain that's down, with a sign over it stating "Take your seats, the show will be starting soon!"

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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.

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Activity Check: December 2019

[ IRL Timeframe: December 1st - December 31st, 2019 ]

Comments

[wizardseason]

Six immediately makes a face.

"Yeah. That's why the knights aren't heroes." He states, folding his arms.

"They're usually just a bunch of bullies."

[sustainer]

He glances upwards, storing this news away. It's not exactly surprising, but he's not sure how to handle explaining this dynamic to him. The more he talks to Six, the more Six seems like a child to him honestly. He's definitely a person with barely any real world experience apparently.

"The entire world has been lied to about you. I won't make excuses for them, but I want to do something different this year. Will you help me?"

[wizardseason]

Well that's actually a relief that Gyre says that? It's the first thing he's said that makes sense. But also:

"I helped you already." He says, motioning at the show.

"I've been working on this help for years!"

1/2

[sustainer]

He glances towards the stage, his expression mellowing out for a second. He has words about this help, Six.

[sustainer]

But he won't address it for now, shrugging lightly.

"It's not over yet. I need your help until we've figured out how to break this cycle. We all need to work together."

[wizardseason]

Six blinks at Gyre and then blinks as he looks towards the stage. Um.

"Okay. But uh." He looks worried for a moment.

"You're going to fight Seven tomorrow." He puts his hands together and--

"How do I say this... Uh. Don't try to not fight? You'll die." And he doesn't want to see Gyre die.

[sustainer]

Gyre......... tilts his head, utterly confused by the flip flop in his sentence. Don't try to not fight??? Is he supposed to fight or not?

"You think so? Can you tell me about them?"

[wizardseason]

It makes perfect sense, Gyre! Don't do that thing you do where you go "hey can we maybe not fight" because somewhere around the 'maybe' in that question, Seven's going to rip your face off!

And Six doesn't want Gyre's face ripped off. Seven's the most dangerous, after all. Because Seven ate Nine.

"Uh." He looks thoughtful.

"Imagine... a chainsaw?" He offers, hoping Gyre will understand.

"With legs."

[sustainer]

He pauses here, looking deeply, deeply thoughtful. He doesn't know exactly what a chainsaw is, but he knows what the saw part means. He tries to imagine one with legs, and his skin prickles anxiously.

"What... do you mean? Are they not like you?" he asks after a moment, tilting his head.

[wizardseason]

"No." Six answers, immediately, looking nervous.

"They're not like me at all. They're more like... a dog? Uh--" His face scrunches up as he tries to explain it.

"That's... not right. They're a lot. Like. A lot of everything."

[sustainer]

He frowns deeply. He doesn't have a problem killing an animal that's hurting people, but Six being so vague makes him feel incredibly uncertain. If Six is trying to convince Gyre not to show this monster mercy, he's doing a very bad job of it.

"If we can trap them someplace safe, then they won't have to die."

[wizardseason]

"You can't trap them." Six counters immediately, looking worried still. If Gyre needs convincing in some way, he should say it. Because right now Six is just trying to tell him what's up.

"They can teleport."

[sustainer]

"Hm..." he murmurs, glancing downwards. He rubs his chin lightly, clearly trying to figure out some way to not kill another one of these people. But if they're just going to brutally murder people then... ugh. He can't think about this right now, turning his mind to other things instead. If Six has this information, then he should definitely share it with everyone, he thinks.

"If all of you, you monsters, warned everyone what was coming, then you might able to convince the knights that we're on the same side."

[wizardseason]

"I..." Six starts to explain, looking worried as he wrings his hands together.

"We can't always share. Only sometimes. You know the Protector can kill us, right?" He explains, looking Gyre over for any sign of dismissal.

[sustainer]

He doesn't look dismissive at all! He takes the information in, chewing his lip as he tries to figure a way around it. It feels so close. It feels like they're only a couple steps away from everyone working together, but he can't let the monsters get hurt just for an easier alliance.

"What are the limitations? Could you announce it now? While we're all here?"

[wizardseason]

Six looks thoughtful for several moments as Gyre asks that question, considering it to himself...

"He can't see me here..." He mutters to himself before seeming to have a realization.

"HEY! Everyone!" He shouts out, raising his hands in the air and looking around Gyre.

"Seven is dangerous! Really really dangerous! You have to fight and win!" He says, leaving his hands in the air for a moment before deflating and looking back at Gyre.

"Was that okay?"

[sustainer]

Gyre................ grins up at him, nodding when he asks for confirmation.

"Yeah, it's something. It'll help us prepare for them," he says, beginning to look thoughtful again. "Are you only limited when he can see you? Is it just because he can come after you?"

[wizardseason]

Six gets a big stupid smile when Gyre grins at him.

"Yeah, don't die. And yeah, I don't want to die so I don't want to be where he can see me or any of us."

[sustainer]

"Mmm," he hums softly, glancing around the room at all of them. The more they plan together, the more dangerous it's going to get for them. He has to know.

"Where are we safe to talk? Safe from him, I mean."

[wizardseason]

Six blinks at Gyre. From what he'd heard...

"Don't you know? Twelve's garden." He answers, looking confused. Shouldn't Gyre know this? He was there.

[sustainer]

"Ah..." he says, pursing his lips for a beat. "I don't know how to get there. There isn't anywhere else?"

[wizardseason]

"You..." Six starts to answer, but then scrunches up his face.

"Uh." He looks... fairly perplexed for a moment.

"Ask Ten?"

[sustainer]

Wait.

"You don't know how to get there?" he asks, sounding just as perplexed as Six looks honestly. Of all the answers he expected, this was not one of them.

[wizardseason]

Six looks visibly uncomfortable here as Gyre asks that question.

"I know how I can get there." He starts, transitioning into a shrug.

"I don't know if you can do the same."

[sustainer]

"How do you get there?" he asks automatically, leaning forward in pure curiosity. He's clearly not going to drop this unless Six asks him to stop.

"Are you all there usually?"