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lostcarnival2017-10-24 09:07 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-10-24 09:07 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- 9s,
- @heartstone manor,
- carly nagisa,
- cole,
- commander syrlya,
- connie maheswaran,
- doll,
- five,
- foster van denend,
- ginko,
- herbert west,
- hinawa,
- ichigo kurosaki,
- jasper,
- john childermass,
- joker,
- jonathan strange,
- junko enoshima,
- mari makinami illustrious,
- miko nakadai,
- morgana,
- papyrus,
- peridot,
- reira akaba,
- rin okumura,
- sans,
- sora,
- steven universe,
- tallisibeth (scout),
- the psiioniic,
- tyki mikk,
- yotsuba tamaki,
- yuzu hiragi,
- yūya sakaki,
- zangetsu
⇨ SAY UNCLE
Who: Everyone who isn't in jail!
When: Day 175, 11:30PM onward.
Where: The Realm that used to contain Heartstone Manor.
What: Team carnival has gotten what they came for, but in the meantime they have lost what they came with. With his ace in the hole gone, the Prince is tearing apart the Heartstone Manor and reshaping it into an impregnable fortress to lock away his new most precious commodities - the Ringmaster's captured followers. Welcome to a hostage situation, this could take a while.
Warnings: Violence, and etc.
When: Day 175, 11:30PM onward.
Where: The Realm that used to contain Heartstone Manor.
What: Team carnival has gotten what they came for, but in the meantime they have lost what they came with. With his ace in the hole gone, the Prince is tearing apart the Heartstone Manor and reshaping it into an impregnable fortress to lock away his new most precious commodities - the Ringmaster's captured followers. Welcome to a hostage situation, this could take a while.
Warnings: Violence, and etc.
AFTER THE BALL↴ Around 11:30PM is when everything starts changing - and for most in Heartstone Manor, the triggers will have remained unseen. In the ongoing thunderstorm it was easy to miss, and the Prince losing control over his realm only occured before a small group of workers intent on saving the carnival from a terrible fate. An ancient High Fae artifact called the Blue Rose was stolen from the Prince, and in reaction he is being forced to abandon his plans of controlling the Ringmaster, instead trying to hide away in his realm for the purposes of saving his own skin. His main bartering chip? The workers that he's been capturing up to this point. He knows that, unlike himself, the Ringmaster cares about mortals, and especially about the ones who follow her. He's willing to bet that she won't allow them to die for the sake of her own convenience, and he's right. Now that the Blue Rose is the carnival's, she's intent to take back what was stolen from her, as well as the lives of all the servants that the Prince has been stealing away for eons. By whatever means necessary. ► SPLIT THE EARTH: Characters all across the Manor will be treated with initial tremours that will soon escalate into a full-fledged earthquake, capable of collapsing buildings and rending the earth. The cause of this is simple: the Prince is using his powers of elemental earth to reshape his realm into something more suited to protect him. Specifically, he is changing what was a manor house into a fortress meant to defend, and allowing the rest to collapse into ruin. The Manor is still nothing but a castle floating in a void - as the earth breaks apart, it will be nothing but an endless freefall between the floating chunks of debris. Over the next twelve house that earthen debris will be reshaping and solidifying into a new layout, but having to be there while it happens is one hell of a ride! ► BREAK THE ILLUSION: It's as the world starts shaking that the last of the Prince's spell over the minds of his guests will begin to fade away. However, it may wear off more slowly than is helpful in an emergency earthquake situation. The ballroom trance may linger even as lives are threatened, and it will take a pointed effort to make sure that everyone gets out of the Manor's collapse safely. At the same time, the illusionary guests will begin to fade and disappear. The ones that remain are the ones that are real, but it may be a bit painful to realize which ones were simply a lie to begin with. ► SAVE WHO YOU CAN: Despite being knocked out by a surprisingly massive blast from the Prince's magic crystal, the Ringmaster will manage to gather herself up eventually. When she does, the last of the storm will finally come to an end. She'll be doing what she can to try to gather up both servants of the Prince and all of her workers, but it'll be impossible to get to all of them first. A large portion of the servants have undoubtedly been stolen away by the Prince into his newly built fortress, but with the effort of carnival members new and old, they can still save as many as possible. Of course, those held in the Prince's most secure prisons will remain out of reach... for now. ► WAKE THE SUN: As the worst of the earthquakes stop and the new islands of floating land begin to settle, the clouds from the thunderstorm will finally pass, as the Ringmaster seems to summon up a sun to light the realm for the first time since the carnival's arrival. In reality it's sometime in the early, early morning by the Manor's schedule, but whatever! It's easier to not die when the sun is out, don't you think? The Prince's security and gargoyle soldiers are still out and about, and they're clearly interested in capturing as many hostages as possible. ► SIGN A CONTRACT: This is when the Ringmaster will be taking those that were summoned to the Prince's ball aside to offer them contracts in order to free them from the Prince's influence. She'll do her best to explain that the only way to wipe out his control is to take on a new 'master', but they can take some time to think about it if necessary. The truth is, of course, that until they officially sign onto the Ringmaster's camp, there will still be the chance that the Prince will be able to control them. ► WALK THE RUINS: One Day 176 things will have settled completely, with the land now forming a massive fortress on the far side of several large floating islands. The ruins of the old buildings will scatter those islands, forming towers that will swiftly gain small colonies of gargoyles, ready to swoop down and attack carnival members. Further complicating matters is the fact that the rending of the landscape has resulted in bursting open the underground prisons that the Prince had been keeping his most bestial servants, which mean all kinds of mortals long since twisted into the forms of giant spiders, scorpions, monstrous beasts, and other terrifying creatures will now be running amock on the islands, desperate for food. Try not to hold it against them - they didn't ask to be this way. ► REGROUP: While the Ringmaster doesn't want everyone to just run back home (if they do that, the Prince will undoubtedly make them unable to enter again, or at least take over the landscape more fully) she will manage to open a portal back to the carnival in the afternoon of Day 176, formed between two freshly grown trees. This means that carnival members will be able to fetch new clothing, supplies, weapons, and whatever they need to prepare for the battle ahead. Right now, the chaos is still unfolding, but the battle to save the Prince's captives is still ahead. [OOC: Gargoyles and transformed servants from the underbelly can be NPC'd from this point onward. Gargoyles are the Prince's most deadly servants made of extremely durable rock and bearing scorpion tails with venom that can turn bodies into stone. They want to grab anyone they can, trap them, and then fly them off to the Prince's dungeons as collateral. Don't let them! Transformed servants are the beasts who were freed from the underground prison they were left in to rot. They are servants that were transformed into monsters by the Prince, and most of them have been driven insane with bestial hunger from months and years of starvation and atmospheric poison. The Ringmaster is interested in helping them, to see if there is way they can be changed back, so if you have the heart nonlethal methods are most appreciated.] |
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She finally acknowledges Ichigo, realizing that she's kind of spilled some beans that she wouldn't normally have. Man, she was really out of sorts!
"I- I mean... I've been better?"
Apology for delays! power outages. :(
The point of asking even when one knows the answer though... "I think we all have."
Been better. Kids might not be his specialty but this one.. Connie's not screaming and panicking or yelling for her parents or the normal things one would expect a kid to do. She seemed to be trying it on her own.
"You have the fog all cleared out, or still just want to dance?" Ichigo's tone is careful, neither judgmental nor particularly alarming, and he keeps his stance likewise. If she's still under effects, was there anything he could really do though?
its fine! :D
A marginal improvement.
"And also the knowledge that I'm a hindrance to everyone around me, compounded by the realization that I'm falling into a stereotype of the helpless damsel in distress."
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The rest though, draws a grunt. "You're a kid. Kids aren't supposed to have uses or anything." And she might only be six or seven years younger than him! "But if you don't want to wait around and be rescued, you can always rescue yourself."
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"That doesn't mean anything! Don't you think if I could rescue myself, I would have done it already?"
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"You can do it already by stowing the offended tween routine and heading over there and talking to the lady they call 'Ringmaster'. She might be lying through her teeth, she might not be."
She is a child. That didn't mean she wasn't potentially effective at doing things, simply that she was not required or expected to. "Or you don't go say hello, and stay with the one who screwed us all up."
The hand drops. "Guess you could wait and hope someone else makes a deal for you, but that didn't sound like something you'd be interested in. It's your choice, but if you're interested in saving yourself.. don't wait around on that choice for long."
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But the actual possibility of a way out more than overshadows her wanting to be a butt to this guy. Steven... Steven had mentioned making contracts with the Ringmaster, hadn't he? Everything she'd done in the haze of the ball was only slowly being pieced back together, like she was waking up and trying to recall a dream.
"She can do that? She can break the Prince's thrall?"
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Someone hadn't explained the basics to her before letting her wander off on her own. He'd gotten lucky.. apparently she hadn't. Maybe she'd gotten lost in the shuffle of the panicked evacuation?
Maybe there just hadn't been time.
"Sounds like it. Transferring ownership tags, so the other one can't ... do what he did again. She'll do it in trade for a year or so of service, and let you go afterward. You'll have to take that last bit on faith if you go for the deal."
Ichigo at least isn't going to sugar coat it, or leave out really important bits like 'it might all be bullshit'. She might be a kid but she deserved to be an informed kid. "But if it's not just another bit of brainwashing to make you feel that way, at least you'll be able to think and remember clearly again afterward. No dance compulsion, no desire to go party and forget anything else matters."
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That was a daunting amount of time, to her. Roughly 7.7% of her entire life so far. An entire grade of school and then a summer too!
But... Steven's here, right? And this... taking a contract would let her stay here with him. Help him.
"Is there anything I need to say? Anything I need to do?" A fancy ritual, a particular greeting, a circle on the ground that needs to be drawn?
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"Nothing special I think. Doesn't hurt to be polite. I think she'll know why you're there at least, there's a few of us."
Given fairy tales the glaring lack of interesting rituals is a little bit disappointing, now that Ichigo thinks about it. "... It's not as exciting as it should be given the whole fairy thing."
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She's actually kind of been through the stage where you find out that past legends are all actually true, hailing from a planet where all of human life has been shaped by the presence of immortal alien gemstones defending it from a hostile foreign empire.
"Okay. So. I guess I'll just... go."
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Sadly Ichigo's world doesn't have immortal alien gemstones, just soulreapers and all connected weirdness that really doesn't have anything on shapeshifting actual rocks.
Her declaration of going is met with a nod.
And then a pause. "Hey. Kid." There's that kid thing again! "When she's done clearing the brainfog out. There's going to be a lot of fighting soon I think." So go home, kid! "There's a wardrobe lady in a tent giving out swords. Y'might want to get one."
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"Thank you. I'm Connie. Maheswaran." She bows.
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And after all this, every single person who got brainwashed has EXTRA reasons to get stabby!
"..Ichigo Kurosaki." Annnnd he has no idea what you're supposed to say with those kinds of things so he'll go with the basics. "..Nice meeting you."
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