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lostcarnival2017-10-05 12:51 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-10-05 12:51 pm
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⇨ HEARTSTONE MANOR
Who: Everyone!
When: Day 170 - Day ???
Where: Heartstone Manor
What: The carnival arrives at the Heartstone Manor. Do your best to play along, and try not to get too far ahead of the schedule with threading if you can avoid it, in case something that would affect your character happens early on.
Warnings: Individually marked! Could be a lot of things.
When: Day 170 - Day ???
Where: Heartstone Manor
What: The carnival arrives at the Heartstone Manor. Do your best to play along, and try not to get too far ahead of the schedule with threading if you can avoid it, in case something that would affect your character happens early on.
Warnings: Individually marked! Could be a lot of things.
BEAUTIES AND THE BEAST↴ When the carnival arrives at the Manor, everyone will be taken into the Throne Room to greet the Prince for the first time. He will be lounging on his throne, and will take a look at the guests that the Ringmaster has brought before eventually dismissing everyone so that he can talk to her alone. After that, they will be given a brief tour of the Manor by some of the servants, and then brought to their rooms to start picking out clothes for tomorrow. On the first night they will be permitted to wear regular clothes, but starting the next morning the dress code will be enforced. There will be a number of servants helping guests with clothing, and making alterations to suit the non-humanoid features they may have. The tailors work with fabric by hand, but their stitching is impossibly quick and accurate, with changes being made to complex clothing at unbelievable speed. Some guests may note while working with them that one of the seamstresses has wooden mannequin-esque hands instead of human ones, and another has two sets of arms. The arms are one of the most obviously inhuman traits that they'll see while first touring the building. Come the morning of Day 171, the daily routine will begin. ► FIVE MEALS A DAY: Between breakfast, lunch, tea, supper, and evening drinks, the meals you are required to attend are frequent and long. Each meal (except drinks and tea) will have multiple rounds, and use all of the fancy cutlery. It will be difficult to keep up for those that are untrained. The food will vary greatly, but will generally to be palatable to those that are into whatever kind of food it might be. Some of them are odd delicacies that are very much an acquired taste, however. People who cannot eat will be given a pass once the Ringmaster explains it, but will be looked down on for it. ► DAILY ACTIVITIES: There are scheduled activities for every morning and afternoon, and everyone is required to attend. Descriptions of each activity are provided on the "Event Descriptions" tab of the spreadsheet linked up above. There is only one hour of free time scheduled per day, after supper, and beyond that the servants will almost constantly have you on the go. The Prince and Ringmaster will not be present for most of the activities, but they will be there for every meal. If you character refuses to follow the schedule or makes a huge mess out of proceedings, make sure to report it here. ► AFTER CURFEW: At 11PM, everyone is expected to return to their quarters and spend the rest of the night there. Wandering after curfew is unacceptable by the Prince's rules, and if you do it there will be the chance of discover. Based on your character's stealth abilities, there will be dice rolling to determine if they are discovered or not, and by whom. Make sure you report any after curfew activity to the mod post here. This can also take place as an investigation if they are actually looking for something instead of just farting around. ► ROOM AND BOARD: The servants will remain upbeat for most of the time the guests are here, unless something is done to provoke them. They will be present at every activity, and there will be a variety of different individuals. One frequently spotted character will be the butler, a man with dark hair and small, sharp horns. He seems to be the main organizer of things. ► ODDITIES: Even beyond the obvious, there is something off about the Manor. Doors, windows, and other household objects will sometimes move seemingly without cause, and other times there will be banging sounds in the walls, or mysterious voices heard at a distance. It feels like you're being haunted. If you have a moment to wander the corridors, then you'll sometimes see open doors abruptly slam shut the moment you lay eyes on them, and wall sconces turn off or on. It's weird, man. ► THE HUNT: The Hunt activity will have its own event post, and some sign ups for those that will participate meaningfully. There will be some dice rolling to determine who hunts the most impressive game, and rewards handed out accordingly. Before that post goes up, however, you can do some investigations for the start of the event, if your character is interested in looking into the specifics of the contest and overall context. MAKE SURE THAT ALL DECORUM VIOLATIONS ARE REPORTED HERE. |
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As they reach the little table, Strange makes a decided effort to get there before Scout, so he can push her chair out and hold it open for her to sit in. Yes, he doesn't need to do that, but dammit, he's already in the polite and helpful mindset, he's not going to stop now.
Going to sit down in the chair next to Scout, Strange quietly asks, "Well! Which of us shall reveal what we've learned first?"
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With a little difficulty thanks to the corset, she twists around to watch herself sit. Unlike at the Carnival, the chairs here are not really made or designed for tails and nonhuman legs. Her tail is too thick at the base to just casually tuck away, too, and it's made yet more complicated with her floor-length skirt.
"I may as well." She gets to the point, knowing that before long a servant will be by to see if they need anything. "Look, I can feel the presences of the people around me. It's like I'm in a dark room and most people have, I don't know, a glowing object on them. But there's a lot of presences I can't see here. They don't move and I haven't heard them do anything yet, but they're there all right."
She used a visual metaphor there, but the sense she uses to pick up on them definitely isn't sight.
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"I would say that it would be the servants but if they don't move...that's the worrying part." Because Strange has plenty of ideas as to what could have happened to someone who's there but can't move and none of them are any good—and he imagines Scout has just as many slightly macabre ideas.
But, as to his information, Strange pauses before he starts talking. "I peered in on the negotiations between the Ringmaster and the Prince last night. They...aren't going as well as either of them would hope."
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She clasps her hands together before her on the little covered table and vaguely wishes her dæmon were here, so she could stroke his head. "It figures. Is there any way either of them can find out you're doing that? Is it dangerous?"
There are Force-equivalents to scrying, but she doesn't know anything about them beyond that they're difficult to control and well outside of her ability. The most she'd ever get is a feeling, a hunch. Not for the first time she bets to herself that if someone stronger and more useful had survived and reach this place, things would be completely different here.
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"But as for the Ringmaster? I've no idea if she can trace my magic here in the first place. If she can, I doubt she'll be happy, but it's been around a month since I last disappointed her. I'm afraid I'm overdue."
Strange is trying to keep his tone light and joking, but he's a little bit bitter about it. His last instance of fucking things up wasn't even under his own power. If he had his memories back, Portland would have gone differently. Of course, if wishes were horses....
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"But we don't have a lot going for us. We're stuck waiting and reacting, and no one's being forthright with us." Scout starts to worry at her lower lip but stops herself. She doesn't need to pick up a nervous habit. "There's the whole thing going on with balancing knowing anything with dubious, really dubious safety. I guess it'd be riskier to scry on the head butler or the other servants... When are you doing this, by the way?"
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As for Scout's question though, he frowns. "I suppose I could scry on the butler or the servants, but as they're most likely under this realm's protection, it would be harder. Besides, as long as we don't know what's happening, I'd rather focus my efforts on the Ringmaster."
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She makes a face, which in turn makes a servant across the room disapprove. "Yeah. For now, anyway."
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He catches the servant's disapproving look and Strange can't help but smile slightly. It really would be a miracle if they managed to survive the next few days, wouldn't it.
"I think someone thought you were being a bit unladylike," Strange teases, nodding slightly at the scowling servant, straight up throwing the poor dude under the bus. "Though, considering that we're from a literal carnival, you'd think that would be expected."
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Scout rolls her eyes and sets her face into the blank, masklike expression that's her best bet for not giving anything away. Instead it clearly gives away that she's trying to keep a still face, admittedly. "They and I just have a different perception of the rules. I think it's permissible to be familiar with a friendly associate, they do not. And so there is conflict."
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"The servants probably aren't used to the Prince having company."
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"What do you suppose they do most of the time?" This is far, far too many servants to support one person. It's the opposite of the Summerlands this way. "Take turns being the served and the servers?"
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Though, that is assuming they had people outside the household to talk to in the first place. Which it's looking like the Prince doesn't have.
"I'm honestly surprised they aren't more chatty with us. We might be 'guests' but we're hardly above their station. After all, are we not servants of the Ringmaster?"
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"You'd think so. Even if they were forbidden... well, I guess it'd depend on if he told them not to mingle, and they were afraid of him." She presses her lips together. "They seem happy."
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As for Scout's other question, he sighs. "It's a damn pity we can't simply ask one. Every time I've tried to start conversation, I've been shut down."
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In the Temple there was a large staff of droids, in the last several years. Before that, before the war, there had been fewer and people handled a lot of things themselves. Padawans might have chores, but it kept Knights and Masters humble, if they cooked for everyone sometimes and mended their own robes. Scout has trouble imagining having this kind of authority over people.
She starts to make a face but visibly stops herself. "I know! They're so reserved! Universally reserved. I think - I'm not sure, but I think a lot of the ones moving around at night are different. Maybe they're more talkative, but I can't just ask." The risk is too great, and her sometimes gift for anticipation doesn't stretch out that far.
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"It's a pity that he isn't well-known enough to have the obligatory social climber and hanger-on. They're usually a wonderful source of gossip."
From Strange's tone of voice, he's definitely thinking of one person in particular. For all his faults, Christopher Drawlight had an annoying way of finding out information.
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"As far as I know he keeps to here and to himself," she says, flicking at the tablecloth in a not-that-I-know-much way. "If he had a proper court, with a bunch of people closer in status to him, we'd have to worry about them, too. But absolutely we'd hear more."