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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. |
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[...They knew?
Carly feels cold-colder than she has ever felt, even in death. She trusts the Ringmaster, after all. She trusts her Supervisor, she trusts Psii, Joker...she trusts them, and while she knows and understands that there are things they can't share with the carnival in its entirety, a part of her honestly hoped that at least these sorts of things would be open to her ears.
She was a scout. She needed to know. She NEEDED to know if there would be danger, and yet instead, here they were.
...She feels like crying. She is crying, she thinks, bits of water dotting her eyes.] They...
They knew..? [He already explained it. She can't ask for the details, they're already there, but she can't keep herself from asking all the same.]
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They knew, [ Strange repeated, but a bit more gentle this time. ] As did I. I spied on their meeting in the forest and was drafted by the Ringmaster to help in the ritual. The thrall of the Celebration pushed the thought of telling someone about the ritual right out of my head. But the meeting....
[ He trails off, looking around at the chaos. Now it all seems a little silly to have kept that spell a secret. Childermass and Strange had decided not to talk about it, mostly to try and stay out of trouble. But now, thanks to the loose lips that he dealt with in the Celebration, Joker and Lambert knew about the spell as well and the idea of keeping it secret in the first place just seemed so...ridiculous. ]
I'm sorry I didn't tell you or the others. You're a nightrunner as well, you deserve to know.
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He spied on them. She should feel angrier about that than she is, she thinks, but she keeps from doing that. If the ritual happened just before the Celebration...well, she had been taken in by the thrall herself after all, drowning in some well deserved relaxation until 'this' pulled her out.
The meeting in the woods... ...She bites her lip, but she nods.] ...If you weren't supposed to, and you kept it secret from the Ringmaster, it makes sense to keep quiet though...especially if she found out, and said so...! I...
...I guess our Supervisor would have agreed with that idea as well, then...
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[ And honestly? Until told otherwise, Strange is straight up going to attempt to spy on any further meetings. After all, if Carly and some of the other veterans knew about the vampires, things might have turned out different. ]
I'll certainly try to keep you and the rest informed of any other information I come across, Miss Nagisa.
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Hmm. It's a bit odd. Then again she supposes the Ringmaster has been a touch stressed lately. She knows SHE has, at least.
The awkward pause created by such a question however, seems to have at least stopped Carly's tears. Her fires have remained surprisingly stable around them in the meantime, and the woman looks away for a moment before nodding.] ...Right! ...Thank you, for that. I...
[She chews her lip, shaking again.] ...It's really important when you're a scout, that you don't miss anything...
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[ Which really? Strange is a bit bothered by. Because she might not have done more in the first place. But what with all the everybody not telling everybody anything, it's entirely possible that the Ringmaster's already talked with Joker and Mari to find a way to keep Strange further on a leash and he doesn't know about it. Of course, she's also fae as hell so who knows what she's thinking in the first place.
Still, as Carly chews her lip, Strange attempts to give her a small smile, trying to cheer her up a bit more. ]
Well, we're all nightrunners. We should be trying to help each other out more in the first place.
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It's very confusing when she's met with something someone disagrees with her on, to say the least, though fortunately she's not the sort to do more than puff up about it.
Cheerfulness on the battlefield is certainly going to be a feat, however.] ...Y...yeah, [She manages, sniffling.]
...It'd be pretty nice, if we worked together a little more on these things...wouldn't it....
[Not to say her coworkers aren't great, but between a few of them it feels as if there isn't really a lot of camaraderie. At all. Just doing their job, and moving on.]
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I suppose there'll be another sort of conflict where we can prove how well we work together.
[ because yeah. As Strange looks around at all the confusion and chaos, he realizes that any sort of working together isn't going to be here. ]
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They should have had their chance, their 'other conflict'. But evidently that changed nothing.
It makes her think.] ...I wonder if we should have trained, for this... ...Practiced...fighting together, you know..?
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And even if they did, Strange knows that once they hit the Celebration and everyone succumbed to whatever spell was cast over the place, people wouldn't want to practice fighting to begin with. He knows he spent far too much of his time here playing games and getting drunk to even think about doing his actual job. ]
Perhaps we can mention the idea to Miss Makinami once all this has...passed.
[ said as he looks over the utter chaos. The conversation has been absolutely great and gave Strange a few moments just to catch his breath, but as he looks over at the crowd, he thinks of all the ways he can (and should) be of use. ]
I should go back out and help people.
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Fire does little to keep the sight of the world at bay, and Carly grimaces, but nods.] I... ...I should do the same, [she starts, only to pause and look back to Strange momentarily.] ...
...You'll be alright, right?
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Still, he gives Carly a little smile, trying desperately to seem that he's got everything under control. ]
Of course I will. [ he's not questioning if Carly will be alright because really, the giant fire demon's gotten rid of some of his worry about her. ] Best of luck until all this blows over.
that'd be a wrap there :|a
[Well, fires will be banished, and it's back to work with them, then.] ...Good luck then!
[And off they go to battle-!]