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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-01-13 04:11 pm

⇨ ATLANTIS

Who: Everyone!
When: The morning of D44 and onward.
Where: The ocean realm of Atlantis.
What: The carnival abruptly arrives at an underwater realm, and everyone is transfigured into merpeople just as suddenly.
Warnings: Body horror, I guess.

THE CITY OF ATLANTIS

The visit starts without much warning, but at least there is a full week of free time before performances start. In the meantime, your characters will be given ample opportunity to adjust their acts for an underwater audience, get used to their new fishy appendages, or just spend the whole time enjoying the sights and sounds of Atlantis city. King Triton will not be immediately seen, but it's possible to gain an audience with him if you get in contact with the ambassadors of the kingdom. Just, make sure that you're not wasting his time. He's a lot less patient with nonsense than the Ringmaster is.

► FISH FRIDAY: You fell asleep, whether or not that's something you usually do, and the next morning you wake up as one of the merfolk. A few last additions may grow in after you're awake, but for the most part everyone will have a method of swimming and a method of breathing underwater transfigured into them upon waking. Don't worry about your belongings - everything is waterproofed, and technology will work the same underwater as it does above it. That doesn't mean there won't be plenty to get used to, though.

► GREAT BLUE YONDER: The ocean realm where Atlantis resides is enormous, and the depths seem to be unending. Despite the fact that there doesn't seem to be any surface, sun glimmers all the way down to the ocean floor. Atlanteans use creatures like whales and dolphins as rides and beasts of burden, and they can be seen swimming in and out of the city as constantly as roadways filed with cars in earth civilization. Beyond that, there's everything you would expect to see on the ocean floor here - huge reefs of coral, both familiar and exotic, enormous ocean plants, deep ocean trenches, and all kinds of weird critters living in them. There are a mix of mythical and standard ocean creatures, and are likely a combined populations of many oceans worth of beings.

► THE ATLANTEAN MARKET: The Atlantean market (aka the "merket") is a long trench between rows of buildings in the middle of the city, lit with bio-luminescent plants and rocks, and filled with all kinds of weird mer stuff that you can buy. There are a great many individual booths, mostly with hand crafted wares and objects that have been salvaged from various sunken ships. The Ringmaster has already traded a large number of goods to the merfolk here, and has taken the profit to award each worker with 100 Atlantean Gold to spend as they please. One gold is worth roughly five USA dollars, for a comparison of how much that is. There is a top level set up below in which characters can make their purchases, and you can also handwave the purchase of random common, necessary items (food, drink, etc) at your convenience.

► TREASURE HUNTING: Right now, the only major salvage areas are a few left over sunken ships that have mostly been picked over by the merfolk. However, you are welcome to head over to them and explore, and see if fortune smiles on you when it comes to finding anything that hasn't been taken yet. The current options are three similar looking brigantine that all probably came from the same world. Merfolk do not seem to consider them to be anything extraordinary, though magical items and gold have allegedly been found within them. Whether or not anything is left, is the real question.

► LIMELIGHTING: Merfolk are curious and generally socially forward, as a species. This mean that they find the carnival's workers to be a fascinating novelty, and also are unafraid to make that fascination obvious. Given the opportunity, merfolk will demand your character's attention for bombardments of questions and for general socializing, especially if they are particularly unusual for some reason. Don't be surprised if you get invited to stay at total stranger's houses, or dragged off to a merfolk bar to surprise party with their friends. They'll let you say no, reluctantly, but they will also be pleased as punch to get up in your gill.

It's also possible to make some money, this way, if you're willing to do street performances, or are willing to sell your "skills" in a more private environment. Yes, there are opportunities to become a fish hooker if you are so inclined. Merfolk may also offer money to take you as arm candy to various public events, escort style. They don't consider this to be a particularly socially inappropriate thing to do, either.


You can ask general questions about this setting over on the event post. There are top levels below for buying Atlantean merch, and also for making dolla dolla, if your character is inclined to try.
betheman: (i can feel the waterworks already)

[personal profile] betheman 2017-01-15 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
AUHH-

[Gongenzaka is already spinning. It's as if he already knew you were coming!

...Or, you know, he just got caught in the turbulence of a few mer speeding by, and now he can't actually get himself...'grounded'.
]

S-Spinning, I can certainly manage...but I, the man Gongenzaka, would wish to stop..!!

[RINGMASTER HE IS SUFFERING-]
lordofthering: (trendsetter)

[personal profile] lordofthering 2017-01-15 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
She sighs, and raises a giant hand to basically squish him down onto the sand, halting his spinning, albeit uncomfortably. How he's even pulled this off, she has no idea.
otoko: (-3- hrmnnnnn)

[personal profile] otoko 2017-01-15 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
MNfG-

[Yayyyyyyyyy it worked. There is a groan, and he manages to stand-no more spinning, no more dizziness...there is a rather dog like shaking of the head before he simply bows it.] Thank you very much-I, the man Gongenzaka, have been attempting to master swimming in this state, however...

[He coughs.] ...I have a ways to go.
lordofthering: (smoothtalker)

[personal profile] lordofthering 2017-01-15 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"You have legs in this form, don't you?" she asks, boredly. "Why don't you just walk on the sand?"
otoko: (HRMMNN =3=)

[personal profile] otoko 2017-01-15 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmh...it is true, this form has numerous legs, however... [He's Stubborn as Heck.] With how many places are accessible only by water travel, and how long we should be here, it would be UNACCEPTABLE to simply do what is easiest!

[Okay then.]
lordofthering: (homewrecker)

[personal profile] lordofthering 2017-01-15 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know," she says, glancing at her claws idly. She's still sort of ticked off about the supervisor meeting, and it shows. "For someone who came here to train and better themselves, you are incredibly adverse to actually adapting or learning anything you didn't already know."
betheman: (W H Y)

[personal profile] betheman 2017-01-15 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
HMM!?

[What what what- He scrambles, a cloud of sand hitting the air as he goes waterborne-]

That is what I am attempting to swim for in the first place!

[....This is a fair point.] Walking is something I, the man Gongenzaka, already know...but creatures such as what appear to resemble these parts don't do that! If I, the man Gongenzaka, cannot adapt to this...then how can I say that I am allowing myself to learn?
lordofthering: (widowmaker)

[personal profile] lordofthering 2017-01-15 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"But you're not adapting!" she insists, mildly irritated. "Adapting is seeing what you have at your disposal and learning to use it most efficiently. Yet, you see an ocean and determine that you must swim before you even learn to walk."
Edited 2017-01-15 20:00 (UTC)
otoko: (o3o)

[personal profile] otoko 2017-01-15 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh that.] ............I, the man Gongenzaka, am able to walk.

[PROVE IT, SHRIMP BOY]
lordofthering: (giantkiller)

[personal profile] lordofthering 2017-01-15 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're stubborn," she says. "And some stubbornness will ensure you stay in the same place forever, if you never truly learn a way to move forward."
otoko: (OW...)

[personal profile] otoko 2017-01-15 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you saying this is a lie then?!

[She's saying you ain't walking proper is what.

But the words do sting, and they do bite down. He has been here for quite some time after all-and there has been plenty to prove he has learned nothing.
]
lordofthering: (trendsetter)

[personal profile] lordofthering 2017-01-15 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't care if it's a lie," she growls. "What I see is a child who believes he already knows exactly what he needs to learn, instead of learning what he needs to know. If you would like to accomplish anything in your stay here, I would advise you to reconsider yourself."

He raises a palm to him dismissively, and then hauls herself up to begin travelling once more.
Edited 2017-01-15 20:32 (UTC)
betheman: (NOT GONNA LIKE WHAT'S BEHIND ME)

[personal profile] betheman 2017-01-15 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[It matters not.

And Gongenzaka feels himself deflate a bit, drawing back in a way that has only happened a few times in his recent life. Of course he wishes to learn. That is what he came for, that is what he NEEDS to do..! To learn and move forward...

Without casting aside his traditions! To find that balance is the most important thing-but before he can ask what can be done, she is swimming away.

....

Gongenzaka lowers his feet to the ground, the entire multitude of them, and looks to the sand.

For today, he walks.
]