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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.
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?"
insidescoop: (MMMMMM...)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-10-05 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Other than teasing me you mean!?"
amusicaladventure: (Smirk)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-06 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Ehhhh," Ash said, shrugging with every pretense of innocence. "It needs another point?"
insidescoop: (BWAUUUHHHHHHH)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-10-06 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes!! Definitely, it definitely does!!"
amusicaladventure: (Smirk)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-06 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Why? I mean, I'm just saying, if the purpose of the pose is to show 'em off --" Here Ash posed again, showing 'em off pretty effectively -- "then driving you bonkers means I'm achieving the purpose of the pose, right?"
fortuneglass: (.3.)

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2017-10-07 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mnnnnhhhhh....it's not a very hard one to pull off you know..!!" YEAH SHE'S PLAYING THIS CARD
amusicaladventure: (Pointing it out)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-07 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"As opposed to everyone ELSE in this carnival, who all seem baaaaasically unaware that I'm a girl." NOT THAT SHE WAS BITTER. "It's nice to be acknowledged sometimes, you know!"
fortuneglass: (>3>)

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2017-10-08 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ahhhh...." Hooo.

"...Was...there anyone you wanted to notice most...?"

Because that's not a loaded question at all, Carly-
amusicaladventure: (Disgust)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-08 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Carly... I've spent all my life being noticed by pretty much everyone." That was not really an exaggeration, either. Not at her age. "I'd settle for anyone. ANYONE. Just someone act like I'm attractive for once!"
insidescoop: credit - haptisms @ lj (hwauuuuhhh)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-10-09 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

"....I guess....that's the problem with suddenly going somewhere that has people who are more polite about things...huh..." The fact is after all, most people are Definitely Not as easy to fluster up as Carly is.
amusicaladventure: (Sadness)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-09 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"I really don't think politeness has anything to do with it. I really think they just plain don't notice." Which bothered her right down to her core, no matter how illogical it sounded.
insidescoop: credit - haptisms @ lj (>3>)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-10-10 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Well I mean...if someone doesn't notice, that means they probably aren't thinking about.... ....those things, right?" She's trying. Trying really hard.

It isn't working.
amusicaladventure: (Shrug)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-10 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, but that many people? Not being at all interested?" It baffled Ash, the more so since a lot of them seemed in the age range where a girl like her ought to merit at least a second look.
insidescoop: (MMMMMM...)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-10-11 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
"...I guess.... ...it's just the difference between worlds..." She stammers a bit, shaking her head. "I- I mean...Not in terms of what people like, but just... ...well, a lot of the people in the Carnival don't seem interested in much of anything along those lines, you know..!? I suppose Psiionic might, but..."

She frowns.

"...I don't really recommend that."
amusicaladventure: (Ash!)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-10-11 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Some of 'em are real horndogs and some of 'em are definitely interested." Orientation kept some of them looking away, but Ash could handle that just fine. That was a very understandable reason not to desire her. "So I don't know. I guess it's just weird circumstances and lots of really different people."
insidescoop: (Bwueh?)

this seems a good place to close -nod-

[personal profile] insidescoop 2017-10-12 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess so..."

Hohhhh...