lostcarnival | ⇨ 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.

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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.

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Miko considers that, then... shrugs. Sounds legit! She does, however, wander closer to this random guy, as if to get a better look at how gross he looks. Not too close, though; she'd really rather not catch it.

So instead, she's just kind of... yelling at him from a few feet away.

"Is it contagious? I haven't heard anything's goin' around."

"It's not. It's just from something I ate." Which is technically true even if practically he's missing a few details.

Now that Miko's a bit closer though, Strange can't help but look her over with a frown. She looks familiar, which is odd because why would he know a teenager in the first place. It's a crapshoot whether this is one of those odd memory things or just Strange's natural forgetfulness, but he's certainly looking at Miko with a critical frown. "Have we met?"

"Yeesh. Sucks for you, man." That's... meant as an expression of sympathy, sorry, Strange.

She frowns right back, squinting at him a little. "Uuuh... beats me? Are you a teacher or somethin'?"

She can't think of any other reason she'd know some old dude.

"I'm an accountant." Which is definitely not a reason why Miko would know him. Unless...he doesn't know everybody in the Circle (especially considering he defected earlier in the week), but Strange is arrogant enough to think that most people in the Circle know him. But how best to phrase this.

"Are you...uh, different? That might be how we know each other."

What an awful euphemism.

Yyyeah the accountant thing isn't helpful. But, uh. Different? Really? That's barely more informative.

"Different, like..." She makes a vague swirly gesture that is probably about as helpful as what Strange said to begin with. "I mean, probably, if you mean what I think you mean."

"I think I mean what you think I mean?" This conversation isn't working. Strange pauses, frowning slightly as he thinks of a good way to phrase this.

"Different like Animal Fair or Circle different."

This is going nowhere fast.

"Uh... yeah, I guess so." Still a weird way of putting it, but whatever. "So... does that mean you are, too?"

"I am. I'm a fourth rank mage from-" Nope, and here comes a coughing fit, don't mind Strange as he just doubles over slightly to cough his lungs out.

"...from the Circle of Enlightenment," he finishes, once the coughing's stopped.

...Yikes. Miko leans back a little, just in case this guy's about to hurl again.

"Yyyeah, that might not actually be it. I don't really do the whole... magic thing, I just turn into a dog sometimes."

SHRUG.

"Like...in a werewolf sort of way or a wrong end of a curse sort of way?"

It pays to be specific about these things, especially when you're nosy as heck.

"Werewolf sort of way." Miko shrugs. "No curses here!"

Normally she's at least got enough sense not to just tell people this stuff, but if this guy's involved in magic crap anyway it's probably fine. Probably? Yeah.

"Pity," Strange can't help but remark with a sigh. "I can break curses. I've got nothing to help you get rid of the werewolf thing."

Because of COURSE Miko would want to get rid of the werewolf thing. Why wouldn't she?

...Really. Miko's expression drops into a scowl.

"Uuuh, why would I want to get rid of it? It's totally awesome, thanks."

Granted, she can't eat meat anymore, but you know what? She can be a bigass dog whenever she wants.

⇨ The Tourist Trap: WEEK 3

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