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lostcarnival2017-01-13 04:11 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-01-13 04:11 pm
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⇨ 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.
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. |
THE GREAT BLUE YONDER...
Turn around the corner and up and over and you might find something REALLY BIG, Lars. Careful observation shows that he's not only not moving, but that he has a scroll in front of him.
But that's careful observation. A lack of this just tells you HEY!
SEA MONSTER!
Maybe slightly familiar sea monster, if you can get past the monster-looking bits]no subject
and then he sees Gon, and screams shrilly in surprise (and fear). Because dear lord, that is a huge freaky sea chimera of a person.]
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[Suffice to say, Gongenzaka also screams, a much deeper bellow despite the fear. He practically over turns himself scrambling, looking left and right before spotting Lars.] Th-That-
What was that scream for..!?
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[Lars has his hand delicately splayed across his collarbones. he is Very Manly]
I wasn't expectin' some crazyass sea monster person! I was just chillin'!
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[PLEASE..!! ...That said. His ears twist back, and he looks himself over briefly.]
....I did not think that I, the man Gongenzaka, looked so 'monstrous' however...
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You, the man Gongazaka [listen, he didn't pick it up perfectly], are probably used to it. I'm still kinda new. Still gettin' used to all these wacked out monster people.
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Anyway.] Are you yourself not somewhat a 'wacked out monster'? [he asks, sounding even more like an old man if it were possible.]
im late & dead
When asked about himself, Lars's eyes widen a little, and then he looks back at Gongenzaka.]
Psh, not yet. I ain't nearly as advanced as you are in this stuff, [he points out. literally, because he's pointing]
Gimme time, though.
not as dead as gongenzaka was OHHHHHHHHHHH
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[Looking a little perturbed, Lars gives Gongenzaka a once over.]
What're you talkin' about, man? You look pretty alive t'me.
'when ur so anti magic it refuses to stick'
Because of my contract however, which was to ensure that I, the man Gongenzaka, would not be harmed during my time here, she was able to apparently revive me through some pre-meditated method.
[He gives a slight cough.] T-Though apparently, the magic had a bit of trouble starting off, initially...
fkhjsh
[Lars sounds both terrified and deeply curious. To him, it sounds like info that's good to know...]
Watcha mean?
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...It was apparently difficult to cast any form of magic upon my spirit at all. ...Magic is something that my family has been greatly adverse to, and it very nearly cost my life... [He can't quite say they totally swore it off, since it was just magic and trap cards, but he had sort of done his best to carry the tradition a bit further...
'You wouldn't be here without magic' indeed, he thinks to himself in that moment.]