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

[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?

[tonewlengths]

[Frying pans are cool]

No, no luck.

[direstnews]

We might try out luck at raising bedlam.

[tonewlengths]

What did you have in mind?

[direstnews]

He seemed ill disposed toward something so simple as knocking. Perhaps if we arranged for a more prolonged disturbance, he might step out to see it dealt with.

[tonewlengths]

There are definitely enough of us here that we can make some noise.

[direstnews]

And implements enough to see it done.

[With a sweeping gesture to the pan - and then the entire town around them.]

[soul_sister]

[I approve of your energy.

I wonder about your targets though.]

I know. It's probably going to be a setback.

[tonewlengths]

[There are no useful targets in range :(]

Yeah, something like that. But there has to be a way out, there has to be.

[charmed_life]

No way out yet, I take it.

[tonewlengths]

[Shakes her head]

They yell at us to get out and then put a weird magic dome over us and block off all the gates.

[charmed_life]

Seems like they can't make up their minds about anything.

[tonewlengths]

Well, we'll make it up for them.

[charmed_life]

[Nods]



I've been meaning to ask you. You said something before. Something about a card the hands tried to give you?

[tonewlengths]

The one with the cracked mirror? What about it?

[charmed_life]

Did the hands pick that card for you?

[tonewlengths]

[Nods] They laid out a bunch of cards on the table, flames and starbursts and Ace's, but then they tried to give me that card and they didn't tell me why. Is that what happened to you?

[charmed_life]

Yeah. Flames and death and empty. When I mentioned they had a pair of sixes, they said they would split a card with me - ah, it had a picture of a worn stuffed rabbit on it. Said it was mine.

[tonewlengths]

What are they supposed to mean, do you think?