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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-07-07 01:57 pm

⇨ The Tourist Trap: WEEK 3

Who: Anyone, anywhere in Portland.
When: October 15st - 22th, 2017
Where: Still in Portland
What: As all sides of the struggle gradually become informed, and the awareness of outsiders begins to spread, Portland faces a critical question - what should be done with them? And who gets to decide?
Warnings: Individually marked!

THE WOLVES AMONG US


► WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS: It's fairly common knowledge that October is a special month - Halloween has always been an excitable time in the supernatural community, because its during this month that the magical energies of Earth seem to disproportionately swell in power. This peeks on the 31st, and has every year for as long as anyone can remember. The holiday of Halloween is a byproduct of this, because the magical phenomenon has gone on for ages past. It's also a pretty common time for wizards to attempt bullshit shenanigans, and also when the Severing first came into effect.

► TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL: Towards the end of the week, Prudence Jaeger will be asking her angelic contacts for a pretty huge favour - she wants them to help her and some of her associates break into the Circle stronghold that the visiting Council members are staying at. It seems that they have some kind of macguffin item that will be needed to crack the barrier cutting off the Earth from the cosmos - and, to that end, allow the angels and mysterious outsiders to return to wherever they call home.

► THE PATH TO HELL: Perhaps unsurprisingly, Team Heaven isn't the only group to clue into the fact that the Circle has what they need. On the same night that the angels go in, so will Anath's army, as the arch demon finally arrives in the city just in time to join the party. Whether the angels and demons fight each other all the way or cooperate to achieve a mutual goal is up to them.

► WITH GOOD INTENTIONS: The Circle and Torchlight aren't all bad, okay? It's entirely possible that they are just acting in the best interest of humanity - unfortunately, that has resulted in them being pretty massive pricks recently, and now the payback for that is arriving on their doorstep. If you're a member of the Circle, you may or may not realize that anything is coming in time for you to prepare. (That will depend on your threads up to the end of the week.) However, once the fight starts, you'll be charge with defending the Councillors whether you like it or not, and Torchlight is getting pulled in as an unexpected ally to ensure their safety as well. Are you going to heed their call? Or is it time to split from the pack?

► BLOOD OF ICE AND FIRE: It's been made no secret that the Rose Queen isn't the only fae trying to pull back her lost changelings - now the Winter Court appears to be doing it, as well. More than a handful of changelings have gone missing over the last couple weeks, lost to both the thorns and agents of the Count. Whatever they're doing, it's also in competition with each other - Winter and Summer will be biting at each other's heels far more than normal, to the degree that it becomes clear they must have some competing objective in mind. Unfortunately for everyone else, that objective happens to conflict with the desires of just about everyone else. Fae are, by nature, opportunists.

- ✪ -

These are the major conflicts that will be coming to a head towards the end of Week 3. In the meantime, your actions will decide how certain elements are set up, and what the likelihood of success is for each group.

Dice rolling handily won the opinion poll where we asked for the preferred method of conflict resolution, so that will be coming into effect a bit later on to determine who actually wins and loses, with advantages based on the choices made.
hippocarnival: (✮ 034 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-07-18 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[He puts his hands on Yugo's shoulders, partly to support him... partly to keep him at arm's length.] She's definitely waiting to see you again, so don't give up on her!

[At least he sounds really confident about that.]
bananaspeedrider: (Yeah~)

[personal profile] bananaspeedrider 2017-07-18 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
.... Well I... [Yugo's not used to getting this sort of encouragement since it was usually always just him and one other person to count on but-] Yeah! Definitely!

[-it's enough for reeling him back into the hope of seeing Rin again, despite other lingering misgivings. Reina isn't akin to being some sort of... replacement goldfish for him while here or anything.]
hippocarnival: (✮ 029 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-07-18 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Sorry man, the rules of associating with Yuya are constant encouragement. He got your back.

There's nothing else they can do about Yuzu or Rin right now, though. And Yuya isn't ready to talk about having the same face--he always gets an awful feeling thinking about it. Maybe next time.

But there is one thing he can make sure of before he lets Yugo go. He fixes him with a series expression.]
Before you go find Noboru, I have something to ask you. Why did you attack him?
bananaspeedrider: (sure whatevs)

[personal profile] bananaspeedrider 2017-07-18 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah yes, that.]

... Because Reina told me to. But since I deserved to know, she did finally tell me that the guy she was with before might've been able to... move on.

[And absolve Yugo of her ex's death? But that part doesn't make sense. He would never orchestrate such a terrible thing.]
hippocarnival: (✮ 073 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-07-18 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuya frowns, knitting his brow.] Why couldn't be move on already? Why is that Noboru's fault?
bananaspeedrider: (straight face)

[personal profile] bananaspeedrider 2017-07-18 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Souls... they tend to stick around for specific personal reasons if they fixate on it hard enough. Obsessively.

...Unless they really can't move on nowadays thanks to the Severing- that's possible too.

[Sounding a bit less like some low-life biker teen there, but side effects from borrowing information out of planted memories must be endured.

Also Reina accused Noboru of feeding on corpses. Don't humans have a thing about bodies being "desecrated" or something? One can connect the dots.]


But helping ghosts isn't part of my role or expertise. You'd have to talk to a... [Brief beat.]... psychopomp angel.
Edited 2017-07-18 03:33 (UTC)
hippocarnival: (✮ 063 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-07-18 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think so... Tamaki said the same thing, that ghosts tend to stay behind if they feel like something's holding them back. I just wanted to know what it was. If she still has a grudge, I don't want her trying to hurt him again.

[And extended from that, for her to have Yugo try and hurt him again.]
bananaspeedrider: (Oh..?)

[personal profile] bananaspeedrider 2017-07-22 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Well it won't happen again...! I know better now and-

[He pauses, but it's probably okay if Yuya knows that...]

I'm the one in charge of the contract. Not that I'll need to remind her of that. Honest!

[This is probably the first instance Yuya has heard of a human in a contract with an angel instead of a demon. Does that still make Reina a warlock or a some other term for a magic user that have less negative connotations?]