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lostcarnival2017-02-26 02:17 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-02-26 02:17 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- @celebration,
- annabelle blishwick,
- foster van denend,
- ginko,
- greg universe,
- hinawa,
- jamie hemeros,
- john childermass,
- joker,
- jonathan strange,
- katsuki yuuri,
- koel babic,
- lambert,
- lauren,
- miko nakadai,
- mitsuki izumi,
- mutou yuugi,
- papyrus,
- renzo shima,
- sans,
- sherlock holmes,
- sophie welman,
- sora,
- steven universe,
- susan,
- the psiioniic,
- yotsuba tamaki
⇨ THE MASQUERADE
Who: Everyone! Attendance is mandatory.
When: Late Day 65
Where: The Celebration
What: The Masquerade arrives, and so does the carnival's enemies. For more info, check out the Draculas 101.
Warnings: Further party hell. Also, vampire violence, mind control, etc.
When: Late Day 65
Where: The Celebration
What: The Masquerade arrives, and so does the carnival's enemies. For more info, check out the Draculas 101.
Warnings: Further party hell. Also, vampire violence, mind control, etc.
THE HOST & THE HORDE↴ The time of the Masquerade arrives. You've been given free reign of the place up till now, but a few hours before the party commences the Host will inform you that your presence will be required, and will assist you (forcibly, if need be) to sort out any last minute costuming concerns you might have if you've left it until now. When masks and outfits are sorted, you'll be left to your own devices until you are summoned on the evening of Day 65. The Masquerade will start off normally - relative to everything else in this place, at least. Everyone in the Celebration will be called in for this event, centered in a grand hall with side rooms offered to those that need them for whatever reasons might come up. The food and drink is especially ambrosia-esque this evening, and the music will stir your soul, even if you're not usually a music person. Enjoy it if you can - the peace won't last. ► MASKS: Though the masks seemed only mundane before, once within the Masquerade atmosphere, they will magically begin obscuring people's identities beyond what a normal mask should be able to do. When a person is wearing one, it would be supernaturally difficult to figure out who they are - maybe you forget what their voice should sound like, or maybe the other details escape you. Of course, it's possible to figure out if you look for it, based on general shapes and personality traits, but unless you know someone well it could be a challenge. Of course, you can just take your mask off and remove the enchantment entirely - though the Host will hassle you if they notice you going without. Stop ruining the party! ► TEMPTATION: Though it's felt easy to be whisked away by the draw of pleasure and luxury during the rest of the week, that feeling will seem to come to a head at the actual party. If you are aware of what needs to be resisted then it's possible to fight back and ignore it, but more than ever it feels all too easy to just dance your life away. Nobody seems to be dying from it, at least, or 'burning out' any faster as a result - it's mostly just extremely distracting from other concerns. Like vampires, for instance. VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE↴ It's during the latter half of the party that things will start to go bad. Though it will go unseen by the carnival, the Masquerade has gained an additional set of guests - the vampire's of the demon lord that has been chasing them for the last several months. The Host doesn't discriminate, and anyone is welcome to attend the Celebration, provided they don't start a fight. Right. About that. ► THE KINDRED: The vampires don't like to play fair, which means that they are going to be attacking with stealth and trickery - taking advantage of the way that the party has dulled the alertness of many of the carnival's workers. They'll be using that lack of inhibition to lure individuals into places they can be attacked or turned in private - their primary goals are to capture the Supervisors and to turn as many of the Ringmaster's workers as possible before escaping back to their dimension. Some of their targets will be gone before anyone has a chance to notice. Remembering that they will be avoiding big public confrontations, so if anyone starts one of those it will probably by the carnival members striking back. This is going to wear on the Host's patience extremely quickly. ► COLD IRON: Oh, right, and they are definitely bringing iron weapons - as pure as they could get. They'll have things like iron collars or shackles to try to trap people with, as well as iron daggers and guns with iron bullets. They'll have to be on the down low with, but they are going to exploit that weakeness as much as possible. Those that have only been in the carnival a few months will mostly just feel discomfort at the touch of it - as if they are touching something that is slightly too hot or too cold. Veterans that have been around for years will find its touch to be burningly cold - the type of temperature that would threaten to destroy flesh after prolonged contact. Those that have been here for up to three years will take it the worst. See the Transformations page for more details! ► TURNING THE TABLES: Being turned is a mixture of pleasure and pain, and is often hard for mortals to mentally reconcile as it happens to them. Being drained by these vampires is simultaneously impossibly satisfying and extremely terrifying - once they've started in on your, the way it overwhelms your mind and body can make it nearly impossible to stop them without help. Once you are dead or dying, they will feed you their blood - at which point your body will go through a painful transformation as the demon spirit takes its place inside of you and your dead body is violently resurrected. As soon as you wake up, freshly changed, the bloodlust will set it - it will be extremely hard to control, and at first all you will think about is wanting to sate that hunger. Combined with your sire having direct control if your mind through your blood connection, new vampires will be mostly incapable of doing anything but following the whims of the rest of the vampire pack and seeking nourishment. This blood lust will begin to fade after they've fed. Killing isn't necessary to feed, but it can be hard to stop yourself, as a neonate vampire. ► CLOSING TIME: Before the party is officially over, the Host will have had enough. Before you can pursue all of the vampires or take back the people they've stolen, the lot of them will have escaped back to their dimension, and the Host will have kicked the entire carnival out for participating in so much violence. If you want to make any final moves before you go, this is the time. |
let's burn them all
He may not know who their enemies are (although whether that's due to not being told or due to denial of what's happened to his brother, time will only tell), but that doesn't mean he has a problem with fighting them. After all, they hurt his brother, and who knows who else they could hurt.
So when he sees Carly's attack he heads straight over there, ready to help whatever's going on. As soon as he sees that Carly is the one attacking he races over to her, making sure to stay out of the way. He isn't sure exactly what she's doing, but he's going to help fight the bad guys. He's good at that.
"I can help too!" He's not sure if she has a plan, so he'll hold on for just a second before fighting. He can be patient sometimes after all.
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She hears Susan, and with wide eyes looks to him and then to the neonates, before throwing a hand toward him. 'HOLD STILL-' she can be heard shouting, but it is muted by a roar of flames as a wall comes between most of the remaining party and themselves. It's easier to talk like this.
But as it is. She doesn't doubt he can help here-] Susan! Where's Lauren?! [...Welp time to explain -why- you can help outside the obvious, apparently.]
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But when she asks that his face falls and he looks upset.]
I... I don't know, he got attacked and then he ran away, I'm trying to find him... But I want to stop the bad guys too!
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But to hear that he ran from Susan is at least a little odd. Not too odd, of course, since...well he's done it before, see 'social circumstances'. But in a situation like this?
Her eyes grow serious, and she stoops down to his level.] ...Susan..?
...How was he attacked?
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I just, I saw him with a girl and they were dancing and hugging and then he fell and it was because she hurt him, I didn't see what happened! And then she tried to hurt me, and so I killed her, and then Lauren growled at me and told me to stay away and ran away and I don't know what's wrong or where he is, or, anything... [He would never admit to it, but he's definitely a bit sniffly by the end of his rambling.]
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S-Susan, Susan..! [she exclaims, trying to calm the boy. Quiet shushing passes her lips, and though she bites her tongue and glances around, she somehow manages to remain at least 'apparently' calm. They were dancing, and hugging...and then he fell...
Carly's body runs cold, even with the fires still raging around them like a protective fence. Her feathers, as much as she tries to keep a neutral expression, give her away-rising and filling out, fluffing even her hair.] ...Susan, can you tell me what the girl looked like..?
...I think she did something a lot worse than hurt Lauren.
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Susan, I know! [she counters, beginning to panic herself,] But Susan you need to listen, it's important-
Susan, we're being attacked by vampires... [she breathes, her eyes wide and fearful. And from what she is hearing, if Lauren was 'alright, but ran away'...] And Vampires turn people.
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N-no, you're wrong, Lauren can't... He's a druid, druids hate vampires!
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They just have to force you to drink something, and then it works..! [There they go, the tears. She brings her hands back if only to hold herself, and occasionally wipe them from her face.] Even if you hate something...that doesn't stop it from happening to you. But they're dangerous, Susan...they don't have control over themselves, most of them..! They...
[They're talking about Lauren.] ...If he ran away...
[...She can't finish the sentence. Ran away to feed? Ran away to protect Susan? Either answer is no good, no good at all, and all she can do is shake, and tremble...
And clench her fist.] ...We need to stop the ones attacking. ..We need to stop them, so that we can find Lauren, okay?
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But they are, and now he can help do something about it. He can worry about Lauren and how to deal with that later. When Carly finally finishes, Susan wipes his eyes with the back of one sleeve before nodding, hesitantly at first, before nodding again, more sure of himself.]
Okay. I can help do that!
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[Well.] I don't have those things at all! [she 'laughs' nervously, before sobering up just as quickly.]
But everything burns, right? And everything has energy, so...
[She looks to Susan-that gives him something to work with, right?]
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Okay, I can do that! Burning things is really easy. [He even does it on accident all the time.]
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[She herself has at least some confidence in their abilities-the neonates charge, but contact with her own purple fire starts to slow them down, the vampires growing drowsy and weak. It's an energy stealing flame; not a burning one.
But that should help with things.]
super late i'm sorry