lostcarnival | ⇨ ATLANTIS

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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.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Lauren may only be feigning interest, but Susan really is interested - even though he was only out here the day before and explored so much, it's still super exciting to him. He can tell that Lauren isn't super into this, but he kind of hopes that if he shows him enough things that'll change... After all, Lauren likes nature and stuff, and this is just a different kind of nature, right?

When Lauren moves closer to investigate Susan is pleased, but then his brother is hurt and his eyes widen as he swims closer, a worried look on his face.

"Are you okay?"

He looks to Susan before glancing back to his hand. It's a bit hard to tell, but it looks small. Probably just a bleeder.

"Yeah. It's fine." He closes his hand, trying to stop the flow of blood. Can wounds even scab up down here?

"...Okay. If you're sure." Lauren could just heal it if it was a problem, so he knows he shouldn't worry... He just doesn't want this to make Lauren enjoy this even less than he already was.

"We could look at something else, if you want. Or more weird underwater plants still? I know where there's others... I don't know if they cut you when you touch them though, I didn't try."

He sighs, looking from his hand back to Susan. He knows his brother is just trying to make him feel better. Still, Lauren just can't seem to cheer up. He nods, at least agreeing to go look at other things.

"I'll just, not touch them from now on."

"Okay, then let's go!" He reaches for Lauren's hand to try and start tugging him around, towards some other cool looking coral or something. Too bad he can't swim very quickly like this...

Lauren isn't much better off though. At least they can basically move at the same pace, even if the pace is slow.

"Fluff isn't bored staying home all day?" he asks, looking around at the sea as they move.

He shakes his head.

"No... She didn't like it out here 'cause she's an even slower swimmer and she had to stay with me the whole time. Normally it's okay because she can walk and do what she wants. She likes sleeping though and stuff so I think she'll be fine at home."

He nods, falling silent again when Susan is done speaking. He doesn't know what else to talk about. He isn't sure what they should talk about, or even if they should still be talking. Either way he has nothing to say, so he lets Susan silently lead them onward.

Lauren may be silent, but Susan isn't. After Lauren doesn't respond, he just starts to talk about whatever he can think of, content to just talk out loud to himself if Lauren doesn't feel like responding. Of course there's nothing important said, but that doesn't matter.

Soon enough they get to... Some other part of the reef, where there's some cool anemones or something to look at, which Susan excitedly tugs Lauren over towards.

"See, look! Isn't this cool?"

He looks at them. They were weird. Were they even plants? As promised he doesn't reach out to touch them, but he does kind of want to.

"Do you know what they are?"

He shakes his head, smiling excitedly. If he was standing instead of floating he would totally be bouncing in place with excitement, but as it is he's just floating there still.

"No, I forgot to ask... They're cool though, right?"

He nods.

"Yeah. They look neat."

He still doesn't seem enthused, but at least it doesn't seem like he's lying.

That's better than before, at least, so Susan will take it.

"One time I saw this little fish swim into it... I think he lives in there."

Lauren rolls his eyes.

"He was probably just hiding from you."

He laughs.

"Maybe I wasn't quiet enough?"

Lauren shakes his head.

"Knowing you he might have gone deaf."

He laughs again and shoves him.

"I'm not that loud!"

He smirks, smiling at Susan as he's pushed.

"Could have fooled me."

"I'm only loud 'cause you're so loud that I have to be too so you can hear me over yourself!"

"That's your own voice you're screaming over you dummy."

"No way, it's totally you!" He's just laughing now, happy to have finally made Lauren act more normal again. He was starting to worry about him.

He reaches out, trying to get Susan in a headlock.

"You're delusional."

"No, you are!" Susan of course isn't fast enough at swimming to get away and is easily captured, giggling as he pushes at his brother to try and get him off of him.

No escape for the wicked, or the annoying. Lauren reaches over with his free-hand to deliver a truly epic noogie.

He squirms and keeps trying to push him away, even though he knows it's useless.

"Quit it!!"

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