Day 1 Night

[12npcs]

[ Over the murmur of conversations, explorations and violent attempts at escape, there comes a sound tick tick tick tick tick.............. CLICK.... The sky above snaps across the dome from blue to black... and everything goes dark.

A glow comes from the front door of each of the inns and one by one, you can see street lanterns begin to light up steadily past each of the gates.

The only flickering, organic light comes from above in the tower, spluttering high, high above everyone, through the slats of the closed shutters. After a moment, it's gone. ]

Comments

[snappingturtle]

[SAI ARE COMING OUT—only relaxing when there's no immediate attack]

Man I hate this place!

[thevineintervention]

So prickly!

[tonewlengths]

[And you'd done so well avoiding screaming people. SHRIEKS, hiding behind this lamp post.]

[thisisace]

Oh hey, you must be the turtle-brother.

[freckledninja]

Uh.

So.

Time for bed?

[thevineintervention]

. . . [ yawns ]

[snappingturtle]

We're not sleeping here.

[soul_sister]

Really?

[freckledninja]

Looks like it!

[direstnews]

[Flinches back at the final CLICK, but relaxes when all that goes are the lights.]

What sort of sky machine doesn't even manage a sunset?

[freckledninja]

Agreeing with Loki!

[thevineintervention]

Ah! You're right! That's pretty shoddy workmanship!

[dedoctionist]

[startles at the last click, then relaxing]

As if this place couldn't be any weirder.

[thevineintervention]

[ OH WOW HOTNESS ]


Mm, somehow, I do imagine that it could.

[nyanotech]

Sealed in?

This really could be anywhere . . .

[thevineintervention]

It could! How alarming!

[tonewlengths]

[This is making me so mad

And also sad

WHACKS A LANTERN POST WITH HER FRYING PAN, LOUD CLANG]

[direstnews]

[Considering look at that pan.]

There was no end to gates?

[tearsinnajar]

[Craning her neck to the 'sky', trying to make out any details as her eyes adjust to the darkness, and then the lamplight.]

There's gotta be a way to get outside.

[devotedtothecore]

[ the scrape of footsteps over paving stones, and a familiar voice from behind. ]

At the least, that we're still 'inside' seems confirmed.

[devotedtothecore]

[ ---what the hell, seriously ]

A switch....?

[soul_sister]

No warning at all.

[allsneakandnoplay]

[THE ROBOT IS MORE WITH IT.]

[glares up at the sky...]

Great. Why not? Is this some kind of clockwork Truman Show?

[tearsinnajar]

I was thinking more like a really creepy version of It's a Small World.

[thisisace]

[standing around awkwardly]

...Now what?

[soul_sister]

NOW! We look for things that can be used as explosives.

[Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[soul_sister]

[A nun has slung a large box across the table and opened it up. There are rounds of ammo, several calibers of handguns, a first aid kit, two hand swor-]

... We should figure out what we have.

Hey. You. What did you get nabbed with?

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[atacarme]

[. . . draws her sword and places it on the table, then pulls a knife from her cloak and places it next to it]

I am a mage, as well.

[ Swordings and Shieldings and Spearings, oh my ]

[devotedtothecore]

[ REGROUPING AT THE RECEPTION AREA, tugging at his headband. There's a worn six-inch adjustable wrench and a flathead screwdriver on the small round table ]

Alright. Would be best we worked out what we've got between us, in craft or knowledge or item.

...I've nothing of the last but the clothes on my back and these.

Re: [ Swordings and Shieldings and Spearings, oh my ]

[freckledninja]

[twirls a nunchuck]

I'm a ninja!

[stunningdragoon]

[glances up, watching the sky switch over for a moment before continuing her examination of those stationary guards]

[charmed_life]

For all that guy's complaining about us being here, he's sure making it hard to get out.

[charmed_life]

[Craning up to look at the "sky"]

Even a mechanical sky? Isn't that a bit much?

[devotedtothecore]

[ overhearing and glancing over from where he's standing, by the doors of the swords-and-spears inn ]

Apparently not.

[allsneakandnoplay]

[stomping out dramatically.

TIME TO NINJA RUN OVER SOME BUILDINGS TOWARDS THAT TOWER. TO TRY TO JUMP UP THE TOWER.]

[atacarme]

[. . . ohhh, more entertainment]

[ MEANWHILE IN A DARK ALLEY ]

[devotedtothecore]

[ with a glass candle in one hand and a wrench in the other, looking for that guttersweeper marionette somewhere around here before... ]

Re: [ MEANWHILE IN A DARK ALLEY ]

[12npcs]

[He remains where you last saw him, though the drain he seemed to have found of such interest seems to have been pried up a few inches.]