Egg Timer (forward dated to Friday, 23rd of June) [WIP]

[dirtyredneck]

There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.

The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.

Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.
-The Goose and the Golden Egg, Aesop's Fables

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24 Hours On Repeat

[dirtyredneck]

[Any events you want to play repeatedly, 50 first dates/Groundhogs Day/etc style, can be posted under this top level for organizational purposes.]

[stauncherhearted]

"Hey, Daryl?" Nancy looked up from her lunch (a large bowl of salad) the second she noticed her friend enter the shop. Knowing she was in good company, she waved him over to where she sat, setting her book aside.

"You got a second?" There had been a fellow in asking about him, and she wanted to pass on the message.

[dirtyredneck]

He wiped his hands off and headed over. He'd spent most of the day outside the garage proper, combing through some junkyards for very specific parts that weren't available through manufacturers any more for a custom build. It left him just as dirty and sweaty as if he'd been in the shop all day. And he hadn't even found the part he wanted. Still had four more yards to go through. But he also needed to check in with the shop.

It was a lot. Tiring, too.

He grabbed the chair next to Nancy, turned it around, and sat down straddling it, "'Sup?"

[stauncherhearted]

Often, Nancy had to wonder if she was the cleanest person in the shop. Sure, she came home smelling like oil, occasionally with grease stains on her jeans, but then she saw people like Daryl and really had to appreciate her ability to keep herself clean.

"A wolf came in asking for you," she explained. "Something about an egg?"

[dirtyredneck]

She probably was one of them. The Manager tended to stay pretty clean.

He frowned at the statement. Not many people knew he'd been the one to pick up the Egg for transport. It'd been done as quietly as possible. His brows scrunched, "Yeah? He want me to make him breakfast or something?"

[stauncherhearted]

Nancy lets out a huff of air through her nose in a sort of laugh. "No- though I can't say, considering we've done breakfast." He'd been a really good force, the day her hearing had been written about in the paper. It's a bad line though, falling flat the second she says it. Too late to take it back now.

"They were looking for it and said that you had it. I said I had no idea what he meant, but I'd pass the message along. He said you'd know what it all meant." She shrugs.

1st Break

[dirtyredneck]

[The chase leading up to the first time the egg breaks goes here!]

[bellbound]

Mogget was on his way to the Redbright Institute when he heard the scuffle break out. Normally he'd ignore it; it was hardly uncommon to witness a fight or two in London. But this one was different. A surge of magic made his fur stand on end. Mogget froze for a moment, crouching on the ground, and then slowly, carefully made his way to the source of the magic.

The cat hugged the shadows of the alleyway, pausing when he recognised a familiar figure. "Oh, dear. What's this?"

2nd Break

[dirtyredneck]

[The repeat of the fight and attempt to keep the egg from breaking (and failing that) goes here!]

[bellbound]

Mogget was on his way to the Redbright Institute when he heard the scuffle break out. Normally he'd ignore it; it was hardly uncommon to witness a fight or two in London. But this one was different. A surge of magic made his fur stand on end. Mogget froze for a moment, crouching on the ground, and then slowly, carefully made his way to the source of the magic.

The cat hugged the shadows of the alleyway, pausing when he recognised a familiar figure. "Oh, dear. What's this?"

3rd Break

[dirtyredneck]

[Trying to change location of the encounter to stop the egg from breaking (and failing that) goes here]

4th Break

[dirtyredneck]

[Saying 'Screw it all' and attempting to preemptively stop the fight from ever happening (and also failing that) goes here.]

5th Break

[dirtyredneck]

[Daryl putting that stupid egg in a padded box and carrying it around in a baby sling to try and stop it from breaking (it doesn't work) goes here.]

6th Repeat

[dirtyredneck]

[Finally succeeding (somehow) in not having the egg break and life going on normally again, goes here.]