HELL OF A HANGOVER PT. 1

[ringleaders]

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.

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.

Comments

[wild_magic]

"It's her fault for bringing us somewhere that wasn't safe! It wasn't the first time, either, it happened in the city too!"

[mylastchance]

"Nowhere is safe!" he shouts back, taking a step forward. "Don't you get it?! It's the people who attacked us who are to blame! We're just in the most danger because we're outsiders!"

[wild_magic]

"They attacked us, but it's her fault, she brought us there and then abandoned us! That isn't right, why would she do that? Lots of people here can't even fight!" Why doesn't Lauren understand?

[mylastchance]

"You don't even know what she was doing."

[wild_magic]

"That doesn't make it okay!"

[mylastchance]

Lauren throws his hands up in the air. "Do you hear yourself?"

[wild_magic]

He glares at his brother, annoyed by that.

"What's that supposed to mean?" It makes perfect sense thank you very much, he doesn't understand what Lauren's problem is.

[mylastchance]

"Your talking about killing someone who hasn't even hurt us!"

[wild_magic]

"She doesn't have to hurt us to be evil!"

[mylastchance]

"No, but she has to hurt someone!"

[wild_magic]

"No, not if she let people get hurt over and over! That's just as bad!"

[mylastchance]

"She's not letting it happen! She saved us from being destroyed by those vampires!"

[wild_magic]

"Yeah, after they already attacked everyone and kidnapped a lot of people! And in the fake city she didn't care either, she didn't do anything to stop anything from happening when people got attacked, she didn't care till they attacked everyone an extra time! If she can just make us leave whenever she wants she should have done it when people were getting kidnapped!"

[mylastchance]

"Why would she leave without the people who had been kidnapped?"

[wild_magic]

"Well... After they got back!" Obviously, Lauren.

[mylastchance]

Did Susan really not realize how ridiculous he sounded?

"That's when we did leave!"

[wild_magic]

He's frustrated, now, and he turns away from Lauren in a huff.

"She didn't do it fast enough!"

[mylastchance]

Lauren is frustrated too, and has absolutely no idea what he should say.

"You aren't making sense!"

[wild_magic]

"You aren't making sense! Don't you want people to be safe?!"

[mylastchance]

"Yes! But I also want my brother not to be a murderer!"

[wild_magic]

He just makes a frustrated noise before standing and moving to storm out of the room. Of course Lauren is in the doorway but that doesn't stop him from trying to go past him.

[mylastchance]

"No." he shouts, moving to grip the door frame with his arms to stop Susan from moving past.

[wild_magic]

He glares angrily at Lauren before storming back to the bed.

"You don't understand!! It's not murder, I'm trying to help people!!"

[mylastchance]

"Name one person this would help!"

[wild_magic]

"Everyone! Everyone could go home and not be trapped here any more!!"