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!

[freckledninja]

Uh.

So.

Time for bed?

[soul_sister]

Really?

[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?

[dedoctionist]

[startles at the last click, then relaxing]

As if this place couldn't be any weirder.

[nyanotech]

Sealed in?

This really could be anywhere . . .

[tonewlengths]

[This is making me so mad

And also sad

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

[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]

[ ---what the hell, seriously ]

A switch....?

[allsneakandnoplay]

[THE ROBOT IS MORE WITH IT.]

[glares up at the sky...]

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

[thisisace]

[standing around awkwardly]

...Now what?

[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?

[ 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.

[stunningdragoon]

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

[charmed_life]

[Craning up to look at the "sky"]

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

[allsneakandnoplay]

[stomping out dramatically.

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

[ 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... ]