⇨ GAME START INTRO LOG!

[ringleaders]

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.

Comments

[coinsforlockerrooms]

[ Yukine's hold on Chiaki tightens, as she moves closer to her, looking down at her eyes, realizing by the hesitant hold that she was hurting -- and Yukine felt she had to help her heal emotionally as well. ]

I'd like it if you could see me as a friend, too. [ Yukine smiled. ] I am alone... None of my friends are here. I will not see them again for a long time.

Likewise... I see this as an opportunity to meet new ones.

[waitingforplayer2]

I can try. [ She looks down. ] But I don't think I would be a very good friend...

[coinsforlockerrooms]

[ Yukine's palm opened, and closed around Chiaki's hand in her hold. ]

Empathy and love are practiced. People willing to open his heart to others can learn it, and use it to understand others.

[ Yukine smiled. ]

I believe that by being brave, you can sometimes make friends with people you expect with the least.

[ And with all the violence that happened in this world, love is needed, required, for the welfare of everyone alive. ]

[waitingforplayer2]

[ She's still looking down, but she nods a little at Yukine's words. ]

I guess so.

[ It just hadn't seemed to pay off as well as she'd thought, last time. Maybe she'd been wrong.

Now she felt awful, though. She leaned her head on her knees, trying to erase the faces of her friends from her mind's eye, hating herself for doing it. ]

[coinsforlockerrooms]

[ Deep inside, she knows the difficulties to make that happen. There had to be a lot of pain in her world before either gang in Hikarizaka got to end their gang war.

She didn't want to think about the kind of thing Chiaki would have seen in her world before the Carnival rescued her. But she knew she'd have to, one day.

With little else to say, Yukine sits beside Chiaki, in silence, trying to be at least one friend in that period of terror and loneliness through all the blood and terror she arrived with. ]

[waitingforplayer2]

[ She stays that way for a little while, not sure if she's grateful for Yukine's presence or not.

Eventually, the exhaustion gets to her and despite the noise and bustle of the party, she falls asleep, her ears slowly sagging on her head as she does so. ]