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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. |
Chiaki Nanami | OTA
The latest change is a significant one. With her head, arms, and torso mostly intact, it's not as disorienting as it could be. Still, it's taking her a little while to learn how to really move. She has to sort of undulate her whole body, and move her fins this way and her tail that way -- it's a lot of work, and she's not very coordinated at it.
Luckily there's plenty of open space. She spends most of the first morning in the open ocean, away from anyone or anything that she could bump into, swimming in slow circles.
ATLANTEAN MERKET
When Chiaki checks out the Merket, she swims fairly low to the ground, the ocean floor currents helping to move her along. It's because of this perspective that she notices a tiny colorful guppie hiding by itself underneath a stall.
She's pretty sure she saw schools of this fish elsewhere. So she takes the fish under the shade of her fins and begins swimming from mer to mer, asking each the same question:
"Excuse me! Have you seen a school?"
TREASURE HUNTING
The ships are exactly like dungeons. Chiaki's not really into hoarding anything, but she does want to explore them in their entirety.
She can be found at the top of one ship, carefully drawing out a map on a large sheet of paper. "Okay. I still have to try there, and there. I haven't even started on the third ship yet."
WILDCARD
[ I'm open to anything!!
Also please note that Chiaki has no pupils. Your character is free to notice this, even if she hasn't! ]
merket time!
nonetheless!!!! he recognizes that voice in the market and heads over! ]
Ah - hello! I think I know you?
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[ She has to think -- she hasn't met everyone in the Carnival. And everybody's doubly unrecognizable here. But then it comes to her. ]
The animal tamer! [ She brightens. ] I'm sorry, I didn't know what you looked like.
[ She still doesn't - at least, his lower half remains unknown to her. ]
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[ he smiles at her, naturally, and extends his hand! he's so formal!!! it still makes him tilt to the side though, his tail trying to compensate for that by flipping. ]
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[ She peeks at the tiny fish to see how it's doing. ] I don't suppose you've seen his family around, have you?
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[ oh the fish. viktor looks to it and then frowns. ] Oh, he lost his family? That's not good at all!
Let's find it.
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treasure hunting!
He's swimming above them when he notices... what looks like a ray? A ray-mer-person?
When he gets closer, he's surprised to recognize the ray as Chiaki.
"Chia-chan!" he calls out as he swims toward her. "You look really different!"
For his part, Tamaki still looks more or less like himself - from the waist up, anyway. His legs have been replaced with a large whale shark tail, the pattern from the tail continuing a bit up his back before fading into his skin. He also has several gills on his neck. Because he's bare-chested, she can probably see the glowing, lime green code that crosses his skin at random intervals before fading away, like a tattoo.
Oh, and he's gotten even bigger, it seems.
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"I do? What about you, Tamaki-san?"
He's easily three times longer than she is now.
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He looks down at himself like he's trying to figure out what's so different. Well, besides the sudden size difference and the tail and the fins and the gills... oh wait, it's definitely all those things.
"It's okay, now that I'm used to it."
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"You're really big!"
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Which is more or less how Tamaki has always learned how to do anything physical. If he watches someone else do it, he can usually mimic the motion. Luckily, Atlantis is full of experts he can learn from.
Still, Chiaki's body looks a lot more complicated. He's not sure how she's doing anything, right now.
"Being big is kind of a pain..." He hopes he shrinks back to a more normal human size later. He holds out a hand to Chiaki, an offer to tug her through the water faster. "But what are you, Chia-chan?"
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A cloak that can move of its own free will. "Mm... Mari said she feels too big, too. But there are good things about being big... nobody'll hurt you, for one thing!"
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The part about being too big to get hurt makes Tamaki wonder. After what happened last time, he's never totally sure what could happen next, and he knows that even whales are hunted, back on earth.
Still, he smiles, though it's thin. "Mm. I hope so."
Wanting to change the subject, he looks back at the ship. "Were you looking for treasure?" Because what else do you do in a sunken ship?
Great Bluuuuue
Ash did not. Ash was a conventional merwoman, fish tail and seashell and all, who zoomed on past like she was born to this.
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"It's a big change for everyone, isn't it?"
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"Have arms, I mean. I'm not... sure about the other thing."
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