what's cooler than being cool? ice cold

[kingsroads]

Who: everyone!
What: hey wait a minute, why's it suddenly cold oh for fuck's sake Strange...
Where: the carnival + Alola
When: all of day 76!
Warnings: none, will edit if needed

the Carnival
Surprise, it's now winter.

Starting from the early hours of day 76, the Carnival is covered in snow, the temperature rapidly dropping from 'nice' to 'freezing.' Patterns of frost cover everything and icicles dangle from most buildings. Try to be careful as you're walking around, patches of the ground are frozen over and incredibly slick. Nobody be that dumbass who tries to stick their tongue to the ferris wheel, you're just going to regret it later. Enjoy the fact that almost anything that used to be a liquid is now frozen solid. All in all, it's like someone flipped a switch from summer to winter--there was absolutely no sign something like this would happen in the first place. Why not ask around to see what's up? Or, just enjoy the change of weather and pelt your friend in the face with a snowball, that's also an option. The Carnival re-enacting the plot of Frozen lasts all day, though things finally start to melt and/or magically vanish once dusk settles.

For all you vampires who've slept through most of this, the effects of winter still linger a bit after the faerie's vanished, though in slowly diminishing form. The temperature's a bit warmer and some of the liquids have started to melt, but it's still a bit uncomfortable. It's hard to clean up an entire magical wintery hellscape by yourself, okay?

Alola
Due to the way the Carnival drops people in Alola, it's entirely possible to miss the fact that something weird's going on at the Carnival. Still, some of the winter wonderland manages to seep it's way into the tropical paradise. For most people, the changes are noticeable but easily dealt with. The temperature drops to something more chilly but not downright freezing. Occasionally there are small flurries of snow, but they'll end up melting fairly quickly. Locals are downright confused, mentioning that really, it shouldn't be this cold, this weather is weirdly unseasonable.

Also, what's that weird little ice fox that keeps showing up? More and more ice Pokemon feel a little bit braver thanks to the cold temperatures and are willing to venture out into areas that ice Pokemon might not normally live in. Go train all your fire cats by having them beat up the sentient ice cream cones, everybody.

( ooc: here is the relevant ooc post! This is an open mingle-style log, so feel free to create your own threads, tag around & have some fun! )

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Jonathan Strange | all throughout the carnival

[kingsroads]

closed prompt for the actual summoning
Strange had picked this time for a specific reason: the less people in the Carnival, the less people to bother him or try to stop him. Alola was serving as a wonderful distraction from what he was planning to do. That potion he had picked up in Atlantis was supposed to grant one's darkest desire. Well, that was easy enough for Strange to identify. He wanted to find his wife and rescue her. That involved summoning the faerie who had kidnapped her, remarkably imprecise magic to begin with, and...he hadn't planned that part out yet, possibly threatening the faerie? He'd work on it as they got there.

So naturally he just chugged the entirety of the potion in one gulp. Somebody needs to have a talk with Strange about 'don't put things in your mouth that you don't know where they've been.' Still, once it was drunk, he could feel the power granted by the potion flow through his body. Of course he could do this. He was one of the greatest magicians of the age, he would certainly summon that faerie and save his wife! Muttering under his breath, he lit the candle and cast the summoning spell. Almost instantly there's a chill in the air as the faerie is summoned.

Giving the other man a small nod, Strange started up the conversation. "I'm sure you're wondering why I summoned you here. My name is Jonathan Strange and I wish to discuss terms of the release of an English woman from your realm."

It doesn't really occur to him that with the imprecise magic he used, he might have summoned the wrong faerie in the first place.

open prompt! scavenger hunt time
In retrospect, he probably should have paid more attention to that little lecture about realms and dimensions and whatever that the Ringmaster gave him a few weeks ago. Whoops. Because this was obviously not the faerie he was looking for--a fact that's just a massive blow to Strange's pride. He should have been able to do this! Why on Earth did it fail?

And now here he is, charged with cleaning up the mess, which would have been easier had he not mentioned the whole 'your presence here is tied to the candle' thing to begin with. Great job, dummy. Strange storms around the Carnival, occasionally casting spells, occasionally just lifting things up to look underneath them. He's obviously trying to find something (the candle used in the summons) but is coming up with nothing, a fact that's intensely aggravating.

There's something different about Strange, and not just because his hair's returned to it's wild state. He seems more on edge, more willing to snap at people and just grumpy. It's an odd change for the magician who, at least for the past few days, had seemed genuinely excited and happy about things for once.

So sorry random carnival worker, you're getting a side of grumpy Strange today as he points to you and walks right up. "You there! Have you seen a lit candle sitting around any where? He's obviously cloaked it from me but I've no idea if he's thought to cloak it from everyone."

Ash | Carnival

[amusicaladventure]

Alola was beautiful. Warm sun, golden sand, sea breezes -- it was a downright tropical paradise, one that Ash was enjoying thoroughly. Coming back to the carnival, though...

"W-w-w-w-whyyyyyyyyy?" the catgirl demanded through chattering teeth, her arms wrapped around herself to try to salvage every last drop of body heat as it leeched out way too much bare skin for the conditions. Shorts and a tank-top suited Alola perfectly and this not at all.

Ash broke into a run for the trailers, flip-flops slapping noisily against her heels as she sprinted forward. Someone stop her before she hit the patch of ice she hadn't noticed...

lambert, and ota!

[whattaprick]

[ CARNIVAL ]

Lambert really, really hadn't wanted to come back here. It proves to be a particularly terrible idea because the moment he steps back through to the carnival and he ends up somehow in the one patch of snow that's shin-deep.

For the record: bare legs and snow don't go well together. A sentiment Lambert proceeds to express at the top of his lungs with a loud, hollered--

"FUCK!"

--that announces his return. However, he's here with a purpose, which means despite having to clench his teeth against chattering, he's forcing himself to move through the snow and navigate the ice to the lakeside. That does involve having to get through the trailers, though, so anyone who isn't holed up inside (and even those who are) might catch a constant stream of quiet bitching as a horned man in quickly-soggy floral shorts and a tank top slogs through the slush and tries not to slip through ice, trailed by a curious-looking donkey-creature that doesn't seem nearly as bothered by the temperature.

[ ALOLA ]

Once he's satisfied himself that all the snow and ice is nothing more than a spell gone awry and doesn't need anything killed to fix it, Lambert is fucking right back to Alola, good luck everyone else. However, he can't quite shake the chill from his bones.

Clearly, the solution is to warm up. So this means he's dug a pit on one of Alola's beaches, dragged in stray driftwood, and set the whole thing on fire. So yeah, Lambert's right beside a bonfire that is definitely breaking ten different kinds of safety regulation, exhaling in relief as he drops down on the sand next to it.

"That's better."

The Carnival!

[empty_vessel]

This should probably be a cause for concern. Under other circumstances, 'Scorching hot summer' to 'Multiple inches of snow on the ground' should at least raise eyebrows and possibly a surge of hits to the FAA website for what the weather's supposed to be. Except Jimmy's in a reality hopping, faerie enchanted Carnival, and he's going to enjoy himself.

Even if Castiel is here, Jimmy refuses to sit in the corner and worry himself to death about what the angel is up to. So seeing that it's snowed has him up and about in surprisingly light clothes for the temperature (jacket, jeans and boots), and is off to the kitchens, Sweet Pea bouncing after once she figures out that snow is Harmless, but Not To Be Trusted.