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lostcarnival2017-01-13 04:11 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-01-13 04:11 pm
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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. |
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Go back to your trailer, kick Sherlock out if he's there, and slow down. Get yourself settled and then start working on walking.
It's a cascade. Your first leg doesn't know what to do and then the second bangs into it and it all falls like dominoes from there. And the first step in getting that sorted out is calming down.
guess this means this happens before sherlocks thread now lmf
[Well, Jimmy wouldn't know for sure but.]
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[Although, it makes sense that Sherlock would be holing up for now. Not after getting turned into a lizard. It might be worth looking in on him, if Jimmy can get over there.]
If he isn't, that's what I'd do. Unless you've got someplace else private to relearn how to walk.
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[There is an almost dog-like whine, and he rubs his face.] Mmmnhhh...I, the man Gongenzaka, will have to see how well I can walk to the trailer at all, then...
...it is no good if he is stuck there...
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[A waved hand indicates a trailer still billowing clouds of ink. Good for hiding, not so good for observing what you're doing.]
I heard that Sora is also offering swimming lessons, or at least, tips. It might be worth it to go see what he has to offer too. Apparently he's done this before.
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[....Sherlock doesn't deserve this care.]
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[THAT SEEMED LIKE CAUSE FOR WORRY TO HIM]
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I have no idea if Sherlock's left his trailer because I've just now left mine! And since I am neither powerful enough nor tarted up enough to be the Ringmaster, I lack the awareness of what everyone else is doing right at this second.
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And did I, the man Gongenzaka, claim you should have known?! You were the one to bring the matter forward in the first place! Given that he and I share a trailer, it is only natural that such a remark bring that sort of worry to me!
I, the man Gongenzaka, awoke there to begin with after all!
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"You know what? Fine. At this point, today has already been terrible enough that could you please just... go be somewhere else. I don't really care where, but I've just run out of nice and polite and I'm really not looking forward to the mess I have to clean up in there when the ink clears." He waves a webbed hand in the general direction of the Carnival grounds, indicating that Gongenzaka should go find someone else to bother.
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Then what-
He's more confused now than ever before. From the very start of things he'd assumed Jimmy knew because Sherlock had come up at all. Now he's being faced with someone who very obviously is at the last straw on the camel's back, and...
...he can't really say anything to defend himself. At all.
He can't even offer a tip to clean ink, since they're underwater, and all the tricks would fail.
....] ...I, the man Gongenzaka, must deeply apologize, [he murmurs quietly.] ...If there is ever something you need from me...
[...well. He doesn't think Jimmy will take such an offer well. So instead he moves to swim away, feeling considerably smaller than he truly is.]