ringleaders: (moonlighter)
Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2016-10-15 06:47 pm

⇨ GAME START INTRO LOG!

Who: EVERYONE!
When: NOW!
Where: Around the carnival grounds, and in the Cookhouse.
What: Carnival worker orientation, Ringmaster style.
Warnings: Alcohol consumption, maybe drugs. Other things?

BRAVE NEW WORLD


THE NEW: It doesn't matter when you entered the tent to discuss your new contract with the Ringmaster, you exit it beneath a blanket of stars. Pointedly alien stars at that - currently the carnival grounds are being treated to a show of shooting stars, and what appear to be unnaturally large and living green moons hanging just a bit too close. The carnival was bustling when you entered, but now it's in the latter stages of being shut down for the night. If you manage to find a clock, it states that it's around 8PM.

Workers from during the day will be passing through the grounds, attending to various pieces of business. None of them will seem very surprised or concerned by the goings on, though some may be sympathetic enough to pause and answer your questions. If you put some effort into finding out how it became nighttime, you may discover that it's been anywhere from a few hours to 7 days since you originally signed your contract. Someone may explain to you that it was probably some kind of time bubble, meant to keep you out of the way until the Ringmaster had time to deal with you.

Every few minutes another new person will pop out of the tent, looking just as confused and under the impression that they had only just finished discussing things with the Ringmaster. Weird.

She passed you a note before you left. Opening it up, you'll see you've been assigned a trailer number, and been given the instructions to drop off any excess belongings and do what you can to get settled in. You have until exactly 9:36PM to do so, because that's when you'll be expected to attend what is listed only as "WORKER'S ORIENTATION".

This is, perhaps, more abrupt than you were expecting - but what can you do? You're here for the long haul.

THE OLD: If you've ever seen a mass recruitment before, then this is no surprise. People enter the tent when they're recruited, and then sometimes how up again days later when the Ringmaster is ready for them. She isn't a big fan of wasting her time on individual orientations when she's expecting a crowd.

Maybe you're too jaded to all of this to care much, but you'll see the newbies wandering around, probably confused and maybe a bit lost. Maybe you're the kind whose is sympathetic enough to pause your role in clean up and give them some directions, and maybe a word of confidence. Maybe you'll just jeer at them, because you're some kind of asshole. Either way, you expect you'll have the chance to see them later tonight.

Whether by world of mouth, radio, or written note, supervisors will be passing out the following message: all workers are to report to the Cookhouse at 9:36PM sharp for "orientation." If you are at all familiar with how things go around here, you probably have a good idea of what this implies.

Mandatory Karaoke Night.

MANDATORY KARAOKE NIGHT!!!


At 9:36PM, the main dining hall of the Cookhouse will be found heavily decorator with various coloured lights and at least one disco ball made of what is ostensibly high karat gems. There are a bunch of cushions and additional seating set up along with the usual tables, and at the head of the call there is a state set up - a karaoke stage. For veteran workers, this is no surprise. Karaoke nights are fairly frequent as activities go, even if they are not usually mandatory. Some of you probably have signature songs already prepared.

The karaoke machine is set up with mostly karaoke tracks that would be popular in the 90's and 00's on the average modern earth, with a few that are more recent. It also has some other random stuff from other worlds that people rarely sing because they are confusing and in languages no one understands. Here is a big karaoke list for your inspiration! The more stereotypically karaoke the better.

Beyond that, there is plenty of food and snacks that were prepared by the cooks earlier, as well as a bar set up for alcohol and other vices. The selection is, as most things in the carnival, eclectic.

Music will be played in between if nobody is singing, and otherwise veterans are encouraged to bring along their own fun and show the newbies a good time. The Ringmaster does ask that vets attempt to be courteous to their new coworkers.

It's just being a good host.
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[personal profile] waitingforplayer2 2016-10-16 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
The panda dancing onstage is enough to set Chiaki giggling again. She's settled a little closer to the stage this far into the night, and wonder of wonders -- she's starting to enjoy herself a little bit.

There are many worse things.
mistweaver: (amused)

[personal profile] mistweaver 2016-10-17 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
And once her song is done, she gives a little wave and smile to the girl as she steps offstage. Surely a big cuddly panda lady can't be all that scary, right?

"Hello! Are you new, too?" Because she certainly could be a circus veteran, but it didn't seem that way, from Jou's point of view.
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[personal profile] waitingforplayer2 2016-10-17 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
She's engrossed in her game by the time the performance is done. Her cat ears swivel and notice the panda before the rest of her does. She jumps a little bit at being approached.

"Y-yeah."
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[personal profile] mistweaver 2016-10-17 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Jou Shan gives a bow, then--slightly unsteadily, as she's had at least one hard drink before taking the stage--and then rights herself.

"I am as well. My name is Jou Shan Aleflower! And who are you?"

She's more than a little curious about the device the girl has, but politeness has her refraining from being too forward. The shyness practically exudes from this young--well, Jou thinks she's human, but. Cat ears. Would not do to assume.
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[personal profile] waitingforplayer2 2016-10-17 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Chiaki..."

She stares at the panda for a moment, then stands abruptly, thinking that maybe it's rude to be greeting someone while sitting down. "It's nice to meet you... where are you working?"
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[personal profile] mistweaver 2016-10-18 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"I will be a nurse! I suppose that is a good way to put my healing abilities to use!" Jou chuckles at that, and bows again, more steady this time.

"I have not yet met the doctor, but I have been told she is here somewhere, and that I should look for a four footer. I shall have to make her acquaintance sometime. What of you? What do they have you doing?"

Jou flaps her hands at the girl, encouraging her to sit back down, and takes a nearby seat for herself as well, curving her red-panda tail over her lap slightly.
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[personal profile] waitingforplayer2 2016-10-18 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh! She's a zebra." Chiaki looks around the room as she sits back down, pursing her lips with thought. To her surprise, her ears pick up the faint sound of hooves from all the way across the room, swiveling towards the sound, and she looks in that direction. "Over there! You see her? She patched me up earlier...

"Um, and I'll be in the Gamer's Circle."
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[personal profile] mistweaver 2016-10-20 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I will have to come and visit sometime, then, perhaps..." But Jou sat up a little, looking around. Shouldn't a zebra (zhevra?) be easy to find? The Pandaren would think so, and yet there's still too many people for her to pick out the doctor easily.

"I think I see her, but I can find her later. And I am sure she will have her own orientation for us!" More because Chiaki seems terribly nervous, and they at least seem to have gotten off on friendly footing. So Jou doesn't want to leave her entirely solo in a big crowd like this.

Even if she might be happier messing with her little device.
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[personal profile] waitingforplayer2 2016-10-26 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mm... she'll be around, I guess." She's not sure how big the Carnival is, but it doesn't seem huge. "Were you a nurse before?"