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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-08-01 10:34 am

⇨ THE SUMMERLANDS

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 138 - Day 152
Where: The Summerlands
What: The Ringmaster brings the carnival to the Summerlands immediately after being freed from Portland so that everyone can take a fucking nap. Her included.
Warnings: Individually marked! Most likely discussion of torture and trauma in here.

DAYS OF SUMMER

You made it! And things are back to normal... more or less. Upon waking, you will be greeted with a clear blue sky and gentle breeze – the carnival has found itself situated between a pair of mountain peaks, with great fields of flowers extending in the distance. In the other direction, you’ll see mountain-top cities and tall waterfalls accenting vast swaths of forest.

Some of you will already know this place. It’s the Summerlands. You game here once to rest in safety nearly a year ago, and now you’ve come to rest once again.

► WAKING UP: Shortly after the carnival arrives, the Ringmaster will send out a somewhat cryptic radio message - but her immediate location won't be clear. Whatever items you had on your person at the time the Severing was broken will still be on your person, including whatever clothing. All of the animals and pets of the carnival will have returned to the grounds as well, though they are currently free from their designated living spaces. Things in the carnival will appeared to have naturally aged a month, as if the carnival was been sitting here empty and waiting while everyone was in Portland. The lawn needs mowing.

► SUMMER CITY: After the Summer Fae become aware of everyone's presence, they will welcome you into their city. There are stairs that lead up the sides of the mountains, but thankfully there are also magical means of getting up there as well. The Summer Fae will be willing to help workers with the injured as needed, offering herbal remedies and healing magic to those that want it. You'll also be invited to join them for dinner, but they will not be particularly offended if they are turned down, for now.

► SUMMER PEOPLE: The fae here will mostly enjoy the company of any carnival members that offer it - it doesn't seem that much happens here besides day after day of peaceful meditation and relaxation. It is not uncommon to see Summer Fae spent days doing exactly the same thing, whether that be enjoying the weather, listening to music, or dancing - the day and night periods may be similar to earth, but when you don't need rest it can all blur together just the same. Some of the fae work on feats of agriculture or craftsmanship, and while there is no particularly need to work in this place, they take pride in the fact that they do.

► NEW ARRIVALS: Though the Ringmaster will not be offering much guidance for the first week or so, eventually the carnival will begin running for a few small performance sessions, off and on, as a thank you to their fae hosts. The carnival will also be open to receiving new arrivals during that period, and so there will likely be some newbies to train and get orientated as well.
wild_magic: (18)

Different from Susan, and probably less simple than an animal but more than a person!

[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-08-19 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[That... Doesn't quite make sense, really, but he can kind of feel how Fluff is feeling, and he did have a spell once that let him see what people were thinking, so...]

So you can just kind of... Tell what he feels, like what he's thinking?
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ok!

[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-08-19 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmn. Reira thinks for a moment, and eventually shakes her head.] ...Thinking is different from feeling.

....Feeling is just feeling. [Everything still doesn't make sense. But! Susan being confused is definitely a feeling Reira is familiar with. Confusion happens. A lot. She's always confused all the time (or most of it anyway). So...]

....I don't know how else to talk about it, though. ....It's just 'feeling'.
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-08-19 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[He still doesn't quite get it, he thinks, but she's obviously having trouble with it so he isn't going to ask any more. He shrugs a little before looking back to whatever animal it is she's trying to catch.]

So... Maybe if you try talking to him in a quiet voice? Or petting him, if you can reach...

[Actually that gives him an idea though -]

Oh, I have a spell that makes a hand, I could try petting him and calming him down like that! [Except Ginko said no magic, when he talked about helping with animals, but whatever. Magic is a good idea, always, if you ask Susan.]
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-08-20 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Umnnnnn... [She hasn't heard the no magic rule, but, well.] ...I don't think he'd like a hand that isn't attached to things... Just crawling in is better than that, probably. [To that end, she's flopping on her front to try and get going on that.] ....h'llo, [she says simply to the underneath of the area.]
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-08-29 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, so no magic for now, then, but he doesn't know if crawling is good either... How can you crawl out if you're holding a cat?? Either way though she does it before he can say anything, and at least she's smaller than him so it's probably easier.]

Isn't just crawling in his space gonna scare him too?
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-08-30 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
No! [She is...once more, very certain of this.] He's not scared of me, he's scared of something that isn't a thing!

[THAT MAKES EVEN LESS SENSE]
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-08-31 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[He thinks about that for a minute, trying to figure it out, before just shrugging.]

...You're kind of weird.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-08-31 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Everything is weird to something.

[Reira please.]

...I think I got them!
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-08-31 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, you did? [He's actually kind of surprised that it didn't run away or bite her or that she just couldn't reach it or something. He leans down to look under and see if he can tell what's going on, but of course with Reira still under there it's probably impossible.]

...But how are you going to get out?
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-08-31 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! [It was pretty easy, especially since that empathy trick helps find the best spots to pet...but as it is, she starts shimmying back out.] ...I can get out fine, I just have to go backward...

[It kinda sucks, but she can make it.]
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-08-31 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't that hard when you're holding a cat? [Not that it's a problem, and he isn't offering to help. He's honestly just curious.]
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-09-01 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Well...

[Shimmying takes time, but she does manage to get out. And gently, gently, still patting it's head...

...It looks like a metal ball with teeth and large eyes, on a chain.

'RFF ARF!' says the ball and chain.
] ....This one is different.

...They feel better now, since they're not stuck I think.
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-09-01 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[That one definitely looks weird, that's for sure, but he's at least seen most of the animals in passing, so even though it gets a curious look, he doesn't comment on the strangeness of it.]

Yeah, that would probably make anyone feel better.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-09-01 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Mnhh! [Well, that's that then.] ...Now I just have to bring them back, I guess... ...I don't think this one was missing originally though...
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-09-01 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...Maybe it went to look for the others? Oh, or maybe it thought everyone else was hiding and it was just trying to play too and then it tried to hide and it got stuck then?
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-09-01 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmnn... [Well, it isn't as though she'll get an answer to THAT from whatever little Bow Wow is feeling, so Reira merely continues petting it.] ...Maybe? I think they want to go home now, though.