⇨ JAILHOUSE ROCKS

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone who IS imprisoned, brainwashed, or infiltrating.
When: Day 175, 11:30PM onward.
Where: The Prince's shiny new fortress.
What: Those that have been imprisoned by the Prince languish in their underground cell, while those that are under his control continue to do his nasty bidding. Also, Foster might be here? We'll see how that goes.
Warnings: General fuckery, maybe torture.

THE LAIR OF THE BEAST↴ As the fortress comes into being, the Prince has been reaching far across his realm, beckoning his servants back to him and corralling as many helpless hostages as he can manage. In the case of the unfortunate carnival members who made the mistake of crossing him during their stay, they are being locked away in the most secure inner sanctums, held as collateral against their former master. Those freshly captured haven't yet been bent to his will, but they can certainly be neutralized. Carted away by security and pulled deep underground, there feels like there is little hope of them escaping on their own. ► GROUNDED: The Prince's dungeon is a simple one - in place of cages and manacles, there is only natural stone. A claustrophobic cave somewhere deep in the earth, those within it will soon be completely cut off from the outside world. All the prisoners will have been injected with manticore venom at some point or another, which will be slowly turning parts of their bodies to stone, and if that wasn't enough they have also been partially encased in the stone walls and pillars, as if phased halfway into the rock and left there in various positions. It is an enclosed area, and all the prisoners are within talking distance of each other - which is a good thing, because there isn't a lot else to do with their powers mostly bound and their bodies becoming less and less capable of movement. ► CONTROLLED: Those of the brainwashed that manage to return to the fortress will be set to work guarding and attending to these hostages, along with the help of some of the long term Manor servants. They still need to eat, right, and that can be difficult when you arms are stuck in a cave wall. Otherwise, there may come a time when the Prince calls upon them to do something more specific - and there's also the chance that the new prisoners will fall victim to his power and succumb to his control as well. With the poison in their bodies, it's only a matter of time before they lose themselves.

Comments

[wild_magic]

"I'm... I'm in the treasury department. I'm good at talking to people. I could try and see if I could talk to them." Probably not to the brainwashed Carnival members though. He'd talked to Reira after all - he doesn't think they're going to get anything useful out of them.

"We just need to ask about security or magic?" Even without feeling his best, he should be able to do that much... he does have max charisma after all

[whattaprick]

"We need to ask them about security or magic, but we can't let them know we're doing it unless we think they're not loyal to the Prince," Lambert confirms, then frowns. "I don't even know if the servants have magic themselves, honestly. The nightrunners didn't report anything like that, so if they use it, they hide it well. Before the ball, we spoke with some of the servants who'd run away -- they said some of the others are too scared of the Prince to do anything, but others might want to help."

Of course, that had been before they were trapped in a rock prison with no obvious form of exit. Whoops.

"The next time a servant comes around near you, just take a good look at them. See if they look like someone who might want to get rid of the Prince just as much as we do."

[pipers_son]

"I think me and Susan can definitely manage that," Joker says, adding himself into that little area of responsibility. What he doesn't say is that this all relies on them being conscious and not completely sick... But hopefully things work out for them.

If anything else, it's better than sitting around waiting for nonsense. He has to agree with Lambert on that one.