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

[daddykong]

"It sounds like you don't listen very well, either." All that deep breathing and his discussion about not killing monsters with Gyre makes this quite a trying conversation. He wants to punch Six. At least twice. So (un?)luckily, his tone shifts to that of a chiding parent.

"Four's show was about playing a game. Four didn't tie us up or dangle us from wires." He scoffs, trying really hard to maintain composure. Fuckin hell, Six. "Four also didn't hang around and talk to us and we listened just fine. Wasn't I listening to you this morning?"

[wizardseason]

If Garrot had any intention of un-confusing Six, he doesn't succeed. The tone is lost on him and--

"You're right! I shouldn't hang around, that's why it's all so confusing!" He claps his hands together like he's had the greatest revelation in the universe.

"Thanks for the advice! Hold on, I'll be out of here in just a sec-" He follows, pulling out a small black device from his pocket and starting to tap away at it. Is that a tiny cell phone?

...

Who's he texting?

[daddykong]

What the fuck? Garrot sees that cell phone and his eyes go wide- Six is probably calling one of the monsters, maybe? But why? It's not something he'll let go, so he's got a hand up in a stop kind of gesture, and he's even taking a few steps towards Six!

"Wait! What- are you texting Ten?!" Ten's pretty smart, if nothing else. Ten can tell Six he was being stupid. "Where are you going? How?!" Truth be told, he's not against the idea of Six just disappearing so he can catch his breath, but this... this is super weird.

Probably more magic bullshit.

[wizardseason]

Six doesn't look up from his phone as he finishes the text. It's only after his fingers finish moving that he looks up at Garrot and tilts his head.

"Why would I be texting Ten?" He asks, sounding deeply confused.

All at once, it looks like the space around him is getting punched out with a hole-puncher. There's a flickering distortion in a circle around him as he flickers through it like it's a wall of water. Beyond the circle is somewhere that clearly looks like a lush garden.

And then it's like the hole gets plugged back with reality, or at least this place's version of reality? The distortion gets patched back over with what should've been there all along, like the hole was never there.

But Six is also not there anymore.

...

That was unmistakably more magic bullshit.