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lostcarnival2017-09-04 07:53 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-09-04 07:53 pm
⇨ GREYSOL
Who: Everyone!
When: Day 155 - Day 169
Where: Greysol
What: The carnival resumes its tour, this time heading to Greysol, a city tied deeply into the fabric of the multiverse. Here, everyone has an animal companion from birth that is the second half of their soul - and thanks to the Ringmaster, so do you. (Remember,![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
joysweeper is our guest event runner for this location, and location specific questions should go to them.)
Warnings: Individually marked!
When: Day 155 - Day 169
Where: Greysol
What: The carnival resumes its tour, this time heading to Greysol, a city tied deeply into the fabric of the multiverse. Here, everyone has an animal companion from birth that is the second half of their soul - and thanks to the Ringmaster, so do you. (Remember,
Warnings: Individually marked!
THE CITY OF GREYSOL↴ The carnival arrives in a manicured park in the center of a big city that sprawls out along where the river reaches the ocean. It’s spring, early enough that nights are chilly, warm enough in the days that people and their souls savor the weather, and sometimes shelter together from the rain. Greysol was designed from the bottom up to accommodate the human-dæmon bond. Go out and see! ► THE SHAPE OF YOUR SOUL: The dæmon-forming spell kicks in at about four in the morning. Most characters will wake up with their souls in some small form, curled against them. Even if they were awake, they became dazed and unfocused while their souls were being drawn out of their bodies and have little memory of how it happened. Until that evening every character's dæmon is able to change shapes, and children and some teens will continue to do so. Most will settle on their permanent forms by evening. Characters without dæmons will just look on, and the few who are thousand-pound bears have to handle being really big. ► IT’S GOOD TO SETTLE: Elaine Tavis Aracari, sixteen-year-old daughter of two actors and a moving pictures sensation herself, just ‘settled’ - her dæmon Tavis stopped changing shape - as a stunning blue peacock. Settling is a major coming of age milestone and celebrated as such in different ways all over the world. She and her family are throwing a massive party in the central park and inviting the public to join in! Enjoy easy access to free catering, live music and showings of moving pictures, and displays of mostly trivial magic. There are also form readers from across the country setting up booths, happy to accept a small fee to inspect your dæmon’s settled or most favored forms and tell you what they mean. Is there anything to these analyses? Eh, maybe, but they’re flattering and fun. ► WITCHING HOURS: Characters who are clearly witches for this event will often be assumed to be in town for a lover, and people, witches and not, may want to know who that is. Humans usually regard them with wary respect and interest. Real witches living with their human families or on business quickly suspect that something’s up, but without clear and present danger take a relaxed wait-and-see attitude. Wait for long enough and any possible decision will come around again, they believe. There isn’t time to learn much witch magic, but witches, real and carnival-made, have an inherent power: the ability to fly using branches of “cloudpine”, an attractive soft-needled tree common in the park. Witches usually ride large branches as if they’re steeds but can use even short sprays, and you’ll probably see the few witches in the city coming to the park to do so. Why not try? ► BEAR PUN: Human-panserbjørn relations have historically been troubled, but have warmed in the past century. It’s the 65th anniversary of the breaking of the Siege of Bertin, a much-mythologized time when Spectres flooded Greysol and a company of panserbjørn arrived and directed efforts to get the survivors out of the city. A statue is being erected and many florid accounts of the story are being told. If you’re in a panserbjørn shape for the duration of the visit you will probably get thanked and celebrated by people trying to hide their nervousness of you. Expect someone to ask if your dæmon would be a human - it’s a common supposition. ► KERNER ISLAND: From the harbor you can see a wooded island. Although there are no rocks to speak of it sports a tall lighthouse, and nearly all boat traffic avoids it carefully. On a clear day someone with binoculars or a particularly sharp-eyed soul can see loads of trash, birds and various other animals that don’t seem local, and… children? Adults and settled teenagers will see tall vague shapes moving about too. When asked about it the most important thing adults will tell other adults is don’t go there. They’ll hold their dæmons close and tell you that on that island are things that eat souls. They may also admit with mixed pride and shame that it’s been a source of wealth and innovation for the city. There’s a facility there that can open windows into other worlds, and the children who can reach it can cross through and bring things back. Many of the children are recruited by research and development teams on the lookout for items they can use, but there are also kids out to have adventures or who’ve run away. More on this later. |
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"OHHHHHHHHH!!! YOU GOT A CAT!!!"
Iskai!!! Be more polite..!! [Carly laments, shushing her snake-companion before going back to focus on 9S.] A-Anyway, clothes are easy! We provide all the outfits for the carnival after all!
Since you've only got the one though, I guess that means you need a proper supply...hmmm... ....It might be easiest if we get some things from our current stop then...
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The cat isn't mine. It's my roommate's.
[He feels he needs to make that clear. There's just one problem with going out to their current stop for clothes; he doesn't have any legal tender on account of being recently arrived.]
If you can teach me how to remove this from my clothes, one or two sets will be enough.
[It's not like he can sweat and make his clothes stinky that way.]
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Iskai, shush! [Honestly, this snake! Though, she does cross her arms even still.] ...With cats though, she has a point... ...it might as well have claimed you already.
...Ah-!? But seriously, only two?! Aren't those going to get dirty pretty quick!? Where are you working?
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Repairs and scouting.
[Well, those are occupations that would get his clothes dirty, but as long as they don't stink, it's fine by him. A little dirt never hurt anyone, especially after he had to make tracks through the desert repeatedly. He thought he'd never get the feeling of sand out of his boots.]
I guess they'd get dirty, but... they're not gonna start stinking that quickly.
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You need to be prepared! Never underestimate how fast the stuff from another world can get messy!
[....She didn't even HAVE to try and bring biology into it...]
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Whenever I scout, I don't get that dirty...
[9S kicks at the ground, huffing. But... he does get into fights a lot with 2B around... and usually when his clothes get damaged or super dirty, he's usually so damaged it's about time to get a new body anyway.]
Well, I guess I don't mind if you want to make more. Do I have to do anything extra?
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It's just. Usually people...
[Make him go and run errands and stuff. It's a dangerous world down on the surface.]
You know what? Nevermind. You just need my measurements, right?
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[Anyway. With a wide grin, she pulls out a tape measure.] Yep~! Just spread out your arms please~!
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Usually people have me running around gathering their needed materials. I get why--
[Machines are everywhere and a lot more dangerous to non-YoRHa.]
--but sometimes it's kind of... get it yourself!
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That's just rude though..!! Honestly! [She starts doing just that on the measurements though-she occasionally asks him to move a limb or similar, but that's about it...at least until the end, but...] You shouldn't tell someone to go get stuff just because you don't want to..!
...Anyway...Is the blindfold important? I want to make sure nothing clashes when I design the colours. The eyes can change a lot!
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It's a combat visor, not a blindfold. I can take it off if you want me to.
[Ducking his head, he unties the knot keeping his 'blindfold' tied, letting the fabric slip free before he raises his head to look at Carly. His eyes are a steel grey blue
despite my icon.]Does colour clashing really matter?
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I-In any case, it really does! Clashing draws the eye-it creates distractions, and can even make people feel ill if it's extreme enough! You want to make sure that you have something that's comfortable to you without causing eye strain, you know...
....Is that really a visor though, it looks like a blindfold...
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Alright, alright! I get it.
[Sort of.]
It looks that way but as an android, I can see through it fine.
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...though I guess everything would be, here...
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It's kinda different from home, but that's why I'm here.
[To experience and learn about all the lost lore of the Old World. Anyway, while she's fussing about and doing things... He may as well introduce himself.]
Anyway, my name is 9S. You are...?
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[She beams. Introductions are certainly something she can work with.] Carly Nagisa!
Er....Just 9S though? ....Is that an android thing?
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My official designation is YoRHa Number 9 Type S, but that's a mouthful, especially out on the field. Other androids have name, though. Like Anemone from the Resistance.
[He smiles.]
Oh, but people who know me well call me Nines. So you can call me that, if you like.
[It's just not an 'official' name.]
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[Well, there's someone he really wants to call him Nines... but she hasn't done it yet. Sigh.]
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It is, isn't it?
[But they're getting distracted.]
Oh, but, um. Is there anything else you need from me for the new clothes?
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[She stands back, and crosses her arms.] ...I think I might have to teach you a few things about cleaning these...
[Sit tight 'Nines', you're gonna be stuck here a while...]
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I was gonna ask anyway. Back home, I didn't have to handle laundry...
[ooc: Aaand we can end it there!]