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lostcarnival2017-03-02 02:48 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-03-02 02:48 pm
HELL OF A HANGOVER PT. 1
Who: The people who escaped!
When: Very early Day 66 to Day 67
Where: The Carnival
What: The Ringmaster brings everyone she can back to the carnival after getting kicked out the Celebration, a bit worse for wear. Those that have resolved their threads at the Masquerade can start trickling over here as they sort things out.
Warnings: Angst, mostly likely, as well as potentially graphic injuries.
When: Very early Day 66 to Day 67
Where: The Carnival
What: The Ringmaster brings everyone she can back to the carnival after getting kicked out the Celebration, a bit worse for wear. Those that have resolved their threads at the Masquerade can start trickling over here as they sort things out.
Warnings: Angst, mostly likely, as well as potentially graphic injuries.
RETURNING HOME↴ About 45 minutes after the conflict with the vampires begins, the Ringmaster will finally show her face at the Masquerade - and immediately be mortified by what she sees. Though initially mostly confused by the fact that there's been problems over the week, and characteristically obtuse about what's going on, as soon as she realizes the severity of the threat she will launch into action. If the Host managed to miss the combat already going on, they won't be able to miss the Ringmaster tearing up the joint and looking for her people. She's quick to scoop up those that have managed to gather in the dining hall - but unfortunately her arrival seems to be the vampire's cue to retreat. Her attempt to challenge the Host about this will result in the being finally losing their patience and banishing all the vampires and all of the carnival workers from the premises, forcing them back to the portals they arrived from and launching their remaining belongings out with them. The Ringmaster will be pretty fucking pissed off when they return (once again) and will tell everyone to take the time they need to recover, but to stick together and stay safe for the time being. She has a plan to chase down the carnival members that have been stolen, but it will take time. ► BEER PONG: Apparently the Ringmaster spent the entire week playing a nonstop game of beer pong, against several dozen of the Host's bodies. She hadn't quite won yet when the Masquerade began, so she was late. Whether or not she was caught up in the same spell as everyone else is up to interpretation, but the answer "definitely probably." She won, for the record. ► MISSING: Upon doing headcounts, it will turn out that all the supervisors are missing, as well as several regular workers - a few of which will have been spotted as freshly turned vampires during the fighting. Whether that was the point of the attack or not is unclear, but it's pretty clear that the Ringmaster is a little bit devastated about it - particularly about the supervisors. However, she will refuse to talk to anyone long enough to get into too many details. ► THE PLAN: The Ringmaster will announce that she intends to get everyone back - it's just a matter of figuring out their way back to the dimension they've been stolen off to. She guarantees that she will find it, but that it may take some time. In the end, the workers will have a total of two days to recover and plan - during the evening of Day 67, she will be leading a rescue mission to get them all back. You don't have to come, but lives do depend on its success. |
time to off the ringmaster (closed)
But everything wasn't okay, and between Lauren and Annabelle talking to each other and trying to tell him, he finally had to admit to himself things were different now. Lauren was a vampire, no matter how terrible that would be for his undead-hating brother, and Susan couldn't do anything to stop it. He may have missed some of the conversation, but he'd caught enough to know that everything was going to be different now.
Of course he'd been angry, it seemed he always got angry when things went wrong. He'd yelled, he'd blamed people, but really when it came down to it, there was only one person he was mad at - the Ringmaster. If it wasn't for her, he wouldn't be trapped here, going to dangerous places he knew nothing about. Lauren wouldn't be stuck here with him, getting hurt and killed and worse. No one would have to be dragged everywhere while she turned a blind eye to the dangers and let them get attacked over and over.
Susan is generally a very impulsive and irrational person, and so it doesn't take much for his anger to turn to an impulsive plan: if the Ringmaster was gone, everything would be okay again. He knew she was powerful, but he knew he was powerful, too; he wasn't sure how powerful she was exactly, but he was confident enough in his own abilities that he was sure he could take her on. All he had to do was find her.
Luckily (or perhaps unluckily) he was angry enough that he didn't give up before he found her, no matter how long it took for him to do so. He sees her from a distance as she comes out from her office, and without a thought he rushes towards her, already casting the Scorching Ray spell as he runs, flinging the fire balls at her once he's in range. Whether or not they hit, he immediately starts casting another spell without even saying anything.
Nothing was okay, and it was all her fault.
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Very shortly after, half of her clothes have been immolated, and she's aware that they're coming from Susan. Her initial thought had been that it would be something demon related, but this is far more irritating.
"You have one chance surrender," she says, her voice dangerously level and her eyes filled with orange light. The skin and hair beneath her clothing is completely untouched by the flames - if anything, they are glowing with strength.
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"No, this is all your fault! You're supposed to protect us, but you just let everyone get hurt and killed!" And with that he launches his spell, a powerful Lightning Bolt blasting out from him straight towards her.
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As she does, Susan will find himself unable to move - as if something, psychological more than physical, is binding him to that spot as she moves.
She reaches into his chest with a decisive movement, passing through flesh and bone as if intangible, and grasps a hold of something deep within Susan - and pulls. With a flick of her wrist, she's dislodged Susan's soul and pulled it out in the palm of her hand.
Before his shell of a body can fall over lifelessly, she brings that yellow light closer to her face, and hisses with eyes full of malice.
"You will never strike me again," she says, and then thrusts his soul back into his body.
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But she doesn't kill him, doesn't attack him, only reaches into him and he doesn't even know what's happening, but she tugs just like that and, even though he's scared and worried and angry, he's mostly only confused and overwhelmed at what's just happened. That again turns more to fear as she hisses at him with those words, and before he even can quite process everything that's happened he's back in his body, falling backwards hard. He can only look up with her in fear, although still tinged with his anger from before.
"But, you... Lauren..." His words even fail him, now, not even sure what to do with himself now. He only wanted to make things better, but he couldn't even do that.