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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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Well. Reira does consider that a moment. Certainly, no one stays happy after a movie forever, but.] ....all feelings are like that though.
...no one just stays happy forever after they watch it do stuff.
[That aside, she does wonder now-] Ummmm...
Does that mean you don't like carnival shows either..?
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Hm. Well...]
Actually, I did like the shows I saw!
[But the kid does bring up a point. 9S' gloved hand goes to his chin as he thinks about why he enjoys the carnival shows more than the story.
Aside from the fact carnival shows don't feature machines.]Maybe it's because they're about the skill of the performer entertaining the audience and not something imaginary being acted out. Hm.
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[You brought up skill so. She kind of feels she has to point that out, because she's PRETTY SURE that's a guy in a cat suit playing the lion, and not a real lion.]
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[It's said with a lot less heat than normal, thanks to Reira being a small human.]
Yeah, I get that it takes skill for the humans to pretend to be someone they're not.
[That's what it essentially is, right?]
But in the end, a story's just that. A story.
[He rubs the back of his head. He's not sure if he's making any sense to this kid. Why are kids always so exhausting?]
I guess I can't enjoy it knowing that it's not real. I'd rather see, I dunno. An actual pair of people who were separated reuniting safe and sound. Or an actual person excited over getting a new pet fish or something.
[Pet fish is real serious business for androids. Wasn't there some kind of riot over fish at some point?]
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...Does that mean you'll never watch another movie ever?
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I'm here to learn about humans and bring back all the information I can, sooo... I could watch another one, I guess.
[He sounds pretty unenthusiastic about it, but he would do it.]
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Hah. So it was a dream then.]
...What kinds of...other things do you like?
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Hmm... Well, if I had to pick, solving hacking patterns is pretty fun. And so is testing out new equipment made by the R&D team.
[But most of all, he just likes hanging out with 2B, so he adds--]
Fishing's good, too. Have you ever tried?
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[She's pretty sure at least. Also, be glad this wasn't Citizen Kane, 9S.]
...Fishing is catching fish, right?
...I have to learn about a lot of things still, but I think that one was mentioned on some cards...
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Yeah, that's right. Do you want to come fishing with me?
[Android fishing is quite different from human fishing, though...]
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i'm so pre-emptively sorry 4 reira because android fishing is the most boring thing
[A pause. But what if this small human doesn't actually want to go fishing? 9S hastily adds.]
Er, I mean. If you want me to.
i mean lbr she's probably dealt with more boring
[In other words YES, FISHING, NOW]
Tie it up here like we discussed?
[So is that a yes or a no?]
Well, come with me if you want to go fishing.
[And with that, he walks away from the film credits. ]
thread endo-
[OFF THEY GO FOR A BORING ADVENTURE...]