lostcarnival | 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.

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.

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[Oh hey, pants/scarf man. She....definitely does not remember his name. Fuck. She's always been bad at that, hence her tendency to give people nicknames. Honestly she's leaning towards Pants Man for him, and she really hopes he's not going to object. It's already kind of sticking in her brain oops.

And hey, that's neat. Might not be exactly what she needs, but it also could be totally sufficient. She tilts her head.]

How hot can you get it? I need to turn these- [She rattles the collection of rings and jewelry.] -into something more useful.

[Several of them are pretty...blood smeared, so if all else fails she can go back to just using them as improvised "brass" knuckles which was effective enough. But it'd be nice to upgrade her crowbar to Fully Lethal where their enemies were concerned.]

[ How hot can he make the fire? Hell if he knows! Which really, in Strange's mind, just means that he's now got an opportunity to see how hot he can get it in the first place. ]

I'll admit, I don't know how hot it needs to be for silver to melt, but I'm certain I can get it somewhere close to that.

[ It's said with absolute confidence. In his arrogance, Strange believes that he can do anything with regards to his magic. It's when he tries to do things and inevitably fails at some of them that's the annoying part. ]

However, I'm not a smith. I can get that melted- [ said with a gesture to the rings and jewelry ] -but I wouldn't know what to do with it.

It's a soft metal. I mean, it's used in jewelry because it's relatively easy to melt and shape, right?

[That seems true. She probably learned that in some chemistry class ages ago, but whatever. And well...Sophie's no expert in metallurgy either, but not knowing how to do something has never stopped her from trying to anyway. Improvisation is a particular talent and skill of hers.]

I'll handle that part. We need like a stone, or iron, wait shit not iron, I guess steel bowl or something? And uh, a bucket of water probably. Aaaaaand...

[Those were the two things they used in movies and stuff right? A little hot furnace, tongs, the bowl part. She's just gonna shove her crowbar in the stuff, they probably don't need an anvil. There's a bunch of ways this could go wrong, and she's well aware but doesn't really give a fuck.]

We could probably find a steel bowl in the cookhouse!

[ Strange responds, obviously a bit too proud of himself for coming up with that suggestion. After all, things got cooked at high temperatures, right? Ergo, a cooking bowl should definitely work. ]

We would definitely be able to find a bucket of water there, at least.

True! Let's get going.

[They are absolutely going to burn something down or at the very least wind up with pretty severe burns. Someone stop them.

She makes an about face, then heads pointedly in the direction of the mess hall.]

[ Strange follows Sophie, trotting along behind her as they walk to the mess hall. ]

I wouldn't worry about the stone either. I'm certain I can conjure one up from the grounds of the Carnival. It's some of the easiest magic there is!

[Sophie really does not know enough chemistry or technical metallurgy skills to be dictating this whole project. And it's pretty apparent that Strange doesn't either.]

Oh, we don't need a stone AND a bowl, I was saying a stone bowl might work...

[A pause.]

Honestly I have no idea which would work better? I guess we'll just have to do this by trial and error.

[She lets out a bit of a sarcastic chuckle. How else does she ever do things?]

Why not both methods? Perhaps we can melt half of the silver in the bowl and the other half over the stone. And then, should you come across any more silver, we'll know what works best.

[ It's phrased like an honest suggestion but really, Strange just wants to show off. Let him do cool magic and be useful Sophie, come onnnnnn, what's the worst that can happen. ]

[Sophie's eyebrows go up and her head tilts from one side to the other, as if she was manually rolling the idea around in her head.]

Yeah, good call. And if you're the one making the bowl, you can make it the size we actually need.

[Not to mention, two bowls means in theory they could like...pour things. She's pretty sure it's unlikely that she has enough silver here to actually dip her crowbar in, but pouring over it could work. And with two bowls, they wouldn't wind up wasting any by just dumping it out on the ground.]

[ He can't help but look a little smug as Sophie okays the bowl idea. There we go, they know what they're doing, they've got this down pat. ]

All in all this sounds like a wonderful plan!

[ And a half formed one that Strange isn't entirely sure how well it will work but hey, details.

By this point, the two idiots are pretty much at the mess hall. Out of reflex, Strange jogs up so that he reaches the door first and holds it open for Sophie. ]

[Sophie tromps forward, not reacting to Strange's courteous gesture one way or the other. Her focus is fully on the "plan" they've set up. Straight to the back, rifling through cupboards, and soon enough she's found a hefty stew pot that looks probably like it won't melt before silver would. So, good enough.]

Alright, got this. I guess we shouldn't start the fire inside a tent.

[Apparently she does have some safety concerns, if only the bare minimum.]

[ Strange....is already muttering under his breath, about to start a fire inside the tent, when Sophie says otherwise and he's suddenly concerned with a spot on the ceiling. Why no, he wasn't halfway through casting a fire spell, why do you ask, he certainly has foresight and can think things through ahead of time. ]

Isn't there a clear area out in the back? Maybe we should start the fire there.

[ And then he gets a flash of minimum safety concern as well. ]

Let me get a pitcher of water first. [ said as he heads over towards a different set of cupboards. Strange has already almost set one person on fire at the carnival (long story), let's not have Sophie be person number two. ]

HELL OF A HANGOVER PT. 1

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