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

[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?"

[wizardseason]

Six's face scrunches further and he looks further concerned before he gives his answer.

"I just ask Eight." He says, pausing before he shakes his head.

"Only a few of us. Everyone... has their own things to do."

[sustainer]

"Hm..." he murmurs, glancing down at his hands for a second. "What kind of things? Even Seven?"

He pauses there, remembering that uh phones exist. He pulls his out of his pocket, staring at the screen for a second before he asks, entirely unsure, "Could I talk to Eight? Do they have a phone?"

[wizardseason]

"Seven never joins us." He answers, sounding more sad than anything.

"Eight has a phone but... I don't know. You could talk to Ten...?" He offers, pulling his own little nokia-tier flip phone out. There's a little cowboy hat on the top of its antenna.

[sustainer]

"Where do they stay? Are they alone?" he asks, his tone going equally sad. He knows Six wants him to just fight them, but so far they sound more upsetting then dangerous to him. Minus the saw with legs thing anyway.

"Is Ten in charge of you all?" He doesn't understand why Ten could give him Eight's number but Six couldn't!

[wizardseason]

"No one knows. We've looked. They just appear, every year, on the seventh day." He shakes his head, really hoping Gyre isn't going to say he doesn't want to fight Seven here.

"No, Twelve-- Uh. Ten just likes to talk to everyone."

[sustainer]

I mean Gyre won't say out loud that he doesn't want to fight them, but the idea of one of these monsters being alienated even from this tiny group of them is nightmarish to him. If they die every year then they're still barely a child too. The idea of fighting them fills him with this intense dread, and he's still not entirely sure what to do.

"Does he? He didn't talk at all the first time I met him," he says curiously, a question there in his voice. "Were you going to say something about Twelve?"

[wizardseason]

"Oh." He pauses, concerned.

"He said he talked to you?" He looks confused, before shifting to that other comment and--

"No, I-- I didn't say anything."

[sustainer]

"Oh, I... yes, he's talked to me now. I first met him a few days ago, and he just pointed at me." He reaches up and rubs at his throat, remembering Ten pointing at it like he wanted to know something about it.

"Are you sure?" he asks, leaning towards Six an arching an eyebrow. You're not fooling him, little buddy.

[wizardseason]

Six makes another face. He guesses that counted as talking?

But when Gyre presses him, he takes a step back.

"She wouldn't be happy if I said anything for her."

[sustainer]

Gyre immediately backs off when Six steps away, holding his hands up to pacify him. He looks quite apologetic, smiling awkwardly.

"That's fine. I didn't mean to pressure you," he says, hoping that Six won't hold it against him. He had meant it as a tease, but clearly it hadn't been taken that way.

[wizardseason]

Be nice to him, Gyre!

"Don't try that with Seven, either." He jumps the topic back, clicking on his cell phone to pull up Ten's number and hold it out to Gyre.

"Tell Ten if you seen them, Seven, when they show up."

[sustainer]

"Ah, I won't... I'd have to be able to talk to them first," he says absentmindedly, revealing more of his hand then he means to as he takes the phone and holds it in front of himself.

There is a long moment here.

And then he hands both phones over towards Six.

"I don't know how to add him to this thing."

[wizardseason]

Six stares at Gyre for that long moment as he does nothing.

Um.

...

And then Gyre offers the phone and--

"Give me that." He states, taking both phones back and typing rapidly on Gyre's before offering it back to him. Now on his screen is a big emoji "10" as the name with a strange phone number listed in the "Cell" field.

"There. That's his number."

[sustainer]

He looks at the strange number for a beat, and then tucks his phone away. It's good to have, he thinks. He can maybe warn the monsters if the knights suddenly turn on them or something.

"Thank you. For all of this," he starts, before pausing and frowning deeply. "Except the show. Don't tie me up again."

[wizardseason]

Though Gyre thanked him, that second comment catches his attention. Immediately he's rummaging in a pocket to pull out his notebook and starting to pace... in the other direction.

"Encore... bad idea..." He mutters, going back into his writing mode as he drifts away.

Uh.

Unless Gyre goes to re-engage him, looks like Six is tapping out?

[sustainer]

Gyre watches him for a few minutes, but when he doesn't ask any more questions or add anything else to the warnings, he turns and heads back towards the seats. He has a lot to think about now.