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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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Falling back into a more solid stance, he allows himself to look sad for only a split second before he mimics Doll and pushes forward, like a spring that's been set loose. She's fast, but so is he. The Keyblade is heavy in his hands, and he brings it forward to slash at her middle-
And then she's gone. Sora looks around in confusion, wondering what just happened, and finding Doll on the ground several feet away.
Oh. It's Psi.
Sora backs up again, readying himself. Doll probably wasn't much of a challenge to him, really, but Psi... Psi is dangerous. He doesn't say anything, just glares in the direction of his former friends, and hopes he's intimidating enough to get them to leave.]
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[Doll had seen Sora coming, calculated when she'd have to jump to clear his weapon, and was overall so focused on that part of what was going on that she didn't see Psi coming at all. At least she hadn't leapt already, and Psi's push just sends her rolling along the ground completely perpendicular to her original trajectory. There's a moment where she just lays on the ground, trying to figure out what Sora did that had landed her there, when Psi approaches her. Even then, she really doesn't know what happened.]
[She winces as he helps her up, checking on a scraped elbow and knee from where she hit the ground, and deciding it was more or less superficial and she could stand up.]
Sora's fightin' ta keep everybody in th'dungeon, told me Joker's jus' fine but...
[But he shouldn't be in a dungeon. Doll looks up at Psi, knowing she did a reckless thing, but can he really blame her?]
... thought I could keep im busy, 'n they could go around.
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Getting anyone else captured or injured is the last thing we need.
Go home. All of you.
[He stares each of them down in turn, making eye contact briefly with each of them.... Even with... The cat he guesses. He doesn't care if they listen at the exact moment or not though. He's innately aware of the aggressive anxious energy coming from Sora behind him, and as long as he is here... His empathic abilities, weak as they are, tell him exactly where Sora is. He doesn't even need to look to push Sora back and away from the group. In fact, he only turns to face his foe after he's done it.]
And you're coming with us.
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[Tamaki cries out when she goes charging recklessly at Sora, taking one step to follow - but then suddenly she's pushed aside, and the Psiionic is there. He freezes as the supervisor tells them to go home, but he doesn't move yet, eyes going to Doll.]
Yeah... Let's go back for now.
[He looks over at Miko and Morgana once, before his eyes go back to Doll, holding a hand out.]
Come on.
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[Go home, Dolly. You were always a precious princess, not a fighter.]
[She squeezes her eyes shut and limps back towards Tamaki.]
If you don' get 'im-- I'm comin' back!! [Her voice cracks even as she shouts at Psi, and by the time she's holding Tamaki's hand the tears are coming down her cheeks. She's walking away without Joker, and it hurts more than anything.]
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She crosses her arms over her chest, clutching her upper arms with both hands as she follows behind Doll and Tamaki, risking one more glance at Psi.]
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That doesn't mean that he's going to head back that easily though, but he also isn't going to stick around here if a fight's going to happen. Instead he'll just see if he can follow along before sneaking away from the others to find another way in on his own. Hopefully the fight is enough of a distraction he'll be able to get in.]
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He doesn't want to fight Psi, but his nonchalance makes Sora's blood boil.]
Oh yeah? You and what army are gonna make me?
[He doesn't care about the others; in fact, he hopes they leave, lest they get hurt. But Psi is gonna have to drag him back to the carnival, if that's what he wants.]