lostcarnival | ⇨ 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Fucking hopefully!" Lars retorts back loudly through his door, grasping the slippery, soft end of his super long tail to try to right it as he struggles for balance. "Or else I'd'a definitely drowned, considering we're all submerged in water all'a sudden!"

Lars's room is kind of a wreck—not beyond repair, but definitely worse than usual. He's almost twice the length he was previously, and his room in the trailer just isn't enough space to compensate for such a large, inexperienced lower half.

Honestly, it's embarrassing. So damn undignified.

Strange is still just trying to figure out how to get his fins to work so that he can swim over to the door. Instead, he just kind of floats uselessly up to the ceiling.

"Don't worry," he yells back, hint of annoyance in his voice. Because wonderful, he's found a way to swim to the ceiling, that will certainly help him in figuring out how to navigate the submerged carnival. "I've got fins and a tail as well. It's—" and this is the part where Strange directly hits his head on the ceiling, swearing loudly.

"It's annoying," he settles with, as Strange just tries to finagle a way that he can push himself off from the ceiling and towards Lars's door, knowing full well that the likelihood he'll run into things is fairly high.

Lars kind of uselessly drifts upwards, and he tries to flail his tail to propel him downwards, which—just kind of haplessly turns him upside down. Lars resigns in frustration, crossing his arms as he sort of floats there for a bit, his tail falling in front of his face.

"Yeah," he grouses loudly in response, then grumbles as his hair floats in his face, all pieced apart and uncharacteristically loose. He combs it away. "I've got a fin, and it's down my goddamn ass. I hate this damn place."

"Well, just hold on a moment longer," Strange yells as he wiggles himself in a way that he's facing Lars's door. He pushes himself up towards the ceiling...and then just propels himself towards Lars's door, slamming into it with a loud thump. With one hand, he grabs on the doorknob while the other hand goes right up to his nose. It's not bleeding but wow, slamming your face into a door hurts.

"I've got the door," he responds, voice muffled through Strange's hand. Still floating upwards slightly, Strange manages to turn the knob and open the door, looking into Lars's room...and huh. He certainly has an eel body now. That's unexpected, and certainly a contrast to Strange's brightly colored goldfish tail.

"This is a bit ridiculous," Strange has to admit, with a sigh.

"Oh! Yeah," Lars agrees with aggressive, fake enthusiasm, throwing his arms up. He sort of tilts to the side, still mostly upside down. "Only a bit!"

He thrashes his tail, trying to right himself, but just propels himself downwards, smooshing his face against the floor a little. He pushes himself away by his palms with a loud, frustrated grunt, successfully drifting him some ways in the opposite direction. "Ain't so fun now, is it?!"

Strange is still holding onto the doorknob because look, as long as he's holding onto this, he's not going anywhere that's not up or down. Right now, he's still sort of uselessly floating upwards, trying to flail himself back downwards with his goldfish tail in the process. It's not going so well.

"I'm certain that when we actually get used to these...tails, it won't be as bad as you think." Though that did raise another question...how on Earth did they get them in the first place? Magic, obviously, but by who? The Ringmaster?

"I'm certain you're dead ass wrong on that," Lars snaps back, crossing his arms brattily. Ha manages to correct his posture into a mostly vertical way with an irrate thrash of his tail. "I mean, cripes sake! You ever seen fish poop? This is gonna suck and be gross."

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As a matter of fact, Strange hasn't seen fish poop and briefly pauses to consider that weird mental image. How would it work in the first place?

"At least it's not the Matrix," he finally settles on, crossing his arms over his chest. Look, being a fish person might be weird but at least it's not cars, Strange is still a bit too bitter about cars and all that Matrix nonsense. "I think I can still do my magic here."

"Bluch, who cares!"

Lars, starting to tilt a lot to one side, so he wildly flails his tail, correcting himself again. "God! I would kill to have legs right now." Lars grabs the end of his tail, scowling. "And I got so much'a this fuckin' tail, too!! It's like—" he lets it go. "—taller'n me!"

"We're underwater! Would you be able to swim better with legs in the first place?"

Well yes, probably. But Strange's swimming skills are minimal to begin with, he doesn't know what's best for swimming. Fish swim fairly well and they don't have legs so not legs is the ideal solution?

"Well, I wasn't born with a fish ass!! I'd prolly do better with legs!"

It's depressing how typical this sort of exchange is between these two. A grown ass man and a giant baby that is almost legally considered a man.

"Well if you're so angry about this, ask the Ringmaster to turn you back then!" he snaps, giving Lars a glare.

Because really, it's got to be her fault why they're fish people in the first place, right? Who else could have done this to both of them?

⇨ ATLANTIS

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by their powers combined they'll suck at being fishes

so useless...

give it up for the worst.

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