⇨ THE SUMMERLANDS

[ringleaders]

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.

Comments

[atouts]

"I'm usually up before sunrise," Childermass suggests that time. In all honesty, Joker probably doesn't care when people get up and go about their work, but lazing most the day away is wasteful, in his own opinion. "Although I suppose I'll need to be up earlier now to get the Big Top to myself if you plan on being up that early as well."

And while he may be 'boss' later down the line, for now, he's still only another of the carnival's magicians.

[prazerbutterfly]

He grins almost instantly at the suggestion and the implication. He might show up very early just to account for someone else being there but he'd fall back into his old ways rather easily. Tyki could sleep the day away if he wanted. He was only up if he needed to be and could do so with ease. It's just when he had a choice did he sleep as much as he wanted to.

"You're a Magician too? What's your act? Something special? I ask only because I wouldn't want to copy on accident. A good crowd likes something different from every entertainer in their life even if just a politician or butcher."

[atouts]

And so Childermass would only have to wait him out, regarding the Big Top, and Childermass, if nothing else, is ever a patient man.

"A vanishing act, mostly," he answers with a shrug and, for the briefest of moments, as he takes a moment to smoke on his pipe, it seems like he may just leave it at that. After he pulls the pipe away, though, he'll carry on. "I make things appear, disappear, that sort of thing."

[prazerbutterfly]

The only exception to this likely scenario is if he had a reason to get up that early consistently. Allen did work as a clown in the same area and the boy could be an early riser.

"Yourself as well or just objects?" Because he could do a lot of things if he used just objects. Then again, Tyki would have more fun with high risk magician acts than simple things. He taps his cigarette only because he's forgotten about it. Joker will help him fill in the methods of Mister Strange later.

[atouts]

"Myself, objects, other people, beasts," Childermass says. There's more than just, of course. He has his shadows, all the magic he can work out with them as he goes, but that part has been a work in progress. For now, he'll simply note what he does the most of.

"I've been training a giant fire-breathing dog to come on stage for the finale." Which is not really a secret anymore, with how many people stumbled upon him working with the aforementioned dog while he was still a small Growlithe. "I plan on making him vanish under an equally giant red cloth before he can get me."

Not exactly dangerous with him trained to run through that act, but the audience doesn't need to know.

[prazerbutterfly]

"Good to know," he says casually like he's not probing for information. His entire attitude right now is one of laziness and he even rests a cheek into a hand as he leans over. He's getting far too comfortable with you, Childermass and that is never a good thing. It means he'll get no peace in the long run with him almost always popping up somewhere.

"Akuma?" He has to ask because that's the only thing dog like that he knows of that could possibly breathe fire. "A good crowd despite the need for their own safety does enjoy watching others nearly die themselves."

[atouts]

"I'm sorry?" Childermass has to ask, tilting his head curiously and squinting just a hint at the unknown word. Akuma? Did he mean Baker? Ah. "I'm afraid I don't know what an Akuma is. If you mean the dog, he's an Arcanine, not an Akuma. A beast from another world."

Though to the rest, he just shrugs. Tyki's not wrong there. The chance to see something go terribly wrong is more often the greater draw than not.

"Can't say I blame them for wanting to see something dangerous, though. We'd be out quite a bit of the crowd if they didn't."

[prazerbutterfly]

"Ah, my mistake. I have not seen a dog that can breathe fire unless they are an Akuma in my world. Think nothing of it. Yet, now that I know things can be brought from other worlds to this carnival more than it's patron residents that answers a lot of my own questions."

He is likely going to 'acquire' a book or a pillow from every world he wanders in.

"Heh, people never change. Humanity will constantly want more."