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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-01-13 04:11 pm

⇨ 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.
fortuneglass: credit - haptisms @ lj (owo'')

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2017-01-18 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
...Eh?

[...This is very odd, to say the least. She was set to shout and beam, and laugh-'there you are!' She was ready to compliment the other's appearance as well (It looks cool!), maybe thread that into...something.

Something. Instead as he grabs her arm, she feels her face and then a good portion of her 'canopy' brightening in their glow, the orange practically creating some sort of internal lamp to the scene rather than the cover of darkness there should be.
] Ah-Oh!!

O-Okay..!

...Is something wrong?

[personal profile] mylastchance 2017-01-18 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
He blushes, looking away.

"I just. I don't like being crowded in like that."
insidescoop: (MMMMMM...)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-01-19 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Ah! I see...

[She coughs, not willing to tell him to let go of her arm just yet. Instead she looks around the dome covering them, the edges shifting with her motions. It's only somewhat connected to her-just flexible enough that if she turns her head, it doesn't throw everything off. And that is just what they need.] Hey, were you stuck like that for long then..? I had a bunch climb under my domey thing earlier...

[...................domey....thing...]

[personal profile] mylastchance 2017-01-19 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
He shrugs, honestly not sure how long they'd been talking at him like that. Even if he did know, he'd be too embarrassed to say. He shouldn't be so scared of a couple people trying to have a conversation with him. And yet...

"Thanks for coming over here."
fortuneglass: credit - haptisms @ lj (:))

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2017-01-20 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I-I mean...

[Oof, will this orange light please die down!? She coughs, fiddling with her tentacles and dress a bit before gathering more coherent words in her mind.] We still haven't had a coffee, right? I don't really know how getting a drink can even work here, but it'd be nice to do anyway right?

We could even find a quiet spot so that we don't get swarmed!

[Carly. You ARE a quiet spot.]

[personal profile] mylastchance 2017-01-27 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
He's felt so uncomfortable lately that the invitation comes almost as a relief. Normally he disliked social situations, but it was just Carly. He knew her well enough by this point to know he probably couldn't say anything to make her hate him. Without the pressure of messing up the prospect of talking to someone was almost... Nice. He'd never felt like that before, like he wanted to talk to someone. It was weird and confusing, but it was the first positive feeling he'd had in a while, so he wasn't going to just ignore it.

"Okay. I guess that would be fine."
insidescoop: (MMMMMM...)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-01-27 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
['That would be fine' is all she needs to hear. She takes his hand, and if he lets her, starts swimming off in another direction, taking off into the higher levels of ocean water to better look at what's below.] We'll probably have to go back to the carnival grounds for anything with caffeine...but that's probably better right? There won't be as many native Atlanteans in there yet, it's still off-week!
mylastchance: (☁ Balmy)

[personal profile] mylastchance 2017-01-27 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[He lets her, and does his best to keep up, though his best is likely not fast enough.]

Yeah.

They might crowd otherwise.

[Which he'd really prefer to have without for the exact moment.]
Edited 2017-01-28 05:33 (UTC)
fortuneglass: (o-o?)

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2017-01-29 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Right!

[So she swims then-she's not too fast, thankfully. Jellyfish weren't made to be speedsters, and it pays off 'here'. She swims through the water in a bubble of privacy, staining the world around them with sunset colours as they go.

..It's rather beautiful, actually.
]