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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] 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] joysweeper is our guest event runner for this location, and location specific questions should go to them.)
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.
amusicaladventure: (Pointing it out)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-13 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Ash shrugged. "Not really? I mean, souls are technically unmoored from all biological considerations, but the truth is that who you are is shaped to a large part by your biology. Think about how different you'd be if you were taller, or shorter, or had red hair even -- it'd make a big, big change in everything about you." Ash, at her normal towering height, lived knowledge of that every day. "So if you consider that witchcraft is apparently inherently biological, and is also directly correlated to a given range of physiological traits, then that pattern of commonality isn't unreasonable."
insidescoop: (MMMMMM...)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-09-14 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Are they..? I didn't think I ended up the way I was because I looked like this...definitely not to the point that my soul would be really different..."

Well, she frowns, crossing her arms. "It just seems a little weird I guess...There's lots of other things that fly after all!"
amusicaladventure: (Pointing it out)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-14 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, you think so? Don't tell me you haven't seen the difference between, say, how people treat pretty girls as opposed to plain." She cocked a finger at Carly, though the gesture lost a lot when it didn't have a claw to emphasize the point.
insidescoop: (Bwueh?)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-09-15 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"....Well, I have, but..." ....That's the thing Ash.

She never really. Counted herself in that box. "...You're still pretty 'pretty', you know?"
amusicaladventure: (Shrug)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-18 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ehhhhhh," Ash stretched out, looking down at herself. "Androgyny's a thing people can work, I guess, but I just identify with --" She made an hourglass figure in the air with her hands. "It feels weirder looking like this than it would if I looked like something else entirely, you know?"
insidescoop: credit - haptisms @ lj (>3>)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-09-19 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess that makes sense.... ...it IS kind of weird not to have to worry about my top when I'm running..!!"

This is not quite what Ash was talking about Carly.
amusicaladventure: (Laugh)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-19 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
But she can't argue that Carly had a pretty good point. Ash had been forced to surrender a certain level of tomboyism herself when she got top-heavier. "Man, you're completely oblivious, Carly. I don't know what to do with you some days."
insidescoop: credit - haptisms @ lj (nnnnooooooooooo...)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-09-22 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"That doesn't tell me anything about what you're meaning at all..!!!" HELP
amusicaladventure: (Pointing it out)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-23 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean how other people look at you. How other people treat you. Both good and back things -- I haven't had to tell anyone 'eyes up here' since I got here, but it's gonna be a lot harder to flirt my way into getting what I want, too."
insidescoop: (GIMME A SEC I SWEAR)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-09-24 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hmnmmhh... ..I only really had to do that after I joined the carnival..." Clothing thing, maybe? "Ah-H-HEY, should you really be doing that to people anyway?!"
amusicaladventure: (Pointing it out)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-25 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey, hey, I promise nothing and offer nothing. People are always, always gonna treat me different because of my looks, so what's wrong with taking advantage of that? If I'm gonna be ogled and treated like a thing, then I'm gonna own it instead of just getting beaten down by it."
insidescoop: credit - haptisms @ lj (Eheeeewhoops)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-09-25 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mmnnhhh.... I guess I can't really argue..." She murmurs, grimacing.

"At least they're not ogling now..?"
amusicaladventure: (Surprise)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-26 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, but... I know I shouldn't, but I kinda miss it," she said rather sheepishly. "Like between these glamours and the fact that no one in the Carnival looks twice at me, I'm starting to feel real ugly lately."
fortuneglass: (:'3)

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2017-09-28 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
"...But... ...You're not..!" That doesn't mean much coming from her right now, probably, but. Well. "Really, you're not..!! You remind me of a friend at home sometimes, and she's a super model you know..!"
amusicaladventure: (Smile)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-28 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Glad someone still notices," Ash said, with a bemused grin. Really, she did appreciate it -- but Carly was so easy to rile up, it was kind of like shooting fish in a barrel. Easy mode, when she was used to playing on hard at best. "Even if at the moment it sure isn't true. Glamours, feh."
fortuneglass: (:D)

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2017-09-29 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's what looking through the glamor is for isn't it~?"
amusicaladventure: (Pointing it out)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-29 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"But we don't WANT people here to look through the glamour," she said.

"It WOULD be a bad thing," Twyth abruptly commented from a perch not far from Carly. "Never mind that Ash hates glamours in general for just that reason."

"Unless they leave me mostly looking like me. That computer world was fun. Not the first one."
fortuneglass: (:'3)

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2017-09-30 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Not even me though?" But AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAASH...
amusicaladventure: (Smirk)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-09-30 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey, hey, you can see as much of me as you want whenever you want," Ash said with a big wink. Truth be told, it DID look a bit strange on her more androgynous glamoured appearance than it did on her normal face.
fortuneglass: credit - haptisms @ lj (OnO)

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2017-10-01 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"MMMNHHHH!!! Don't you start..!!" Hey!! HEY!!

It really does look quite. Odd actually, though her blush is still as crimson as ever. Some things never change.
amusicaladventure: (Delight)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-01 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"I haven't ever started. Hell, I barely even wear skimpy clothing around you. What would it take to get a pair of short shorts out of you, tailor boss?"
insidescoop: credit - alpha-graphics @ lj (HOLY WOWWWWW)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-10-02 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"You could have asked..!!!" But also PLEASE SPARE HER
amusicaladventure: (Smirk)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-02 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm asking! Also something tight in the chest area." Ash posed, rather innocently or at least pretending to be so, to put all those relevant areas on good display. She was, quite clearly, not sparing Carly.
insidescoop: (BWAUUUHHHHHHH)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-10-03 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Th- That doesn't need any posing you know..!!" People are going to stare. "AaaAAAAaash..!!"
amusicaladventure: (Delight)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-03 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"What? Sure it does. What else would be the point?"

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