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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-11-11 10:17 pm

⇨ THE PRINCE IS DEAD

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 178 - B1: Day 6
Where: The Carnival and sometimes on top of the Heart of Stone.
What: Now that the Prince is dead and gone, there's a lot left to sort out. As the remaining servants are liberated and those captured by the Prince are tended to, it's time for recovery and goodbyes.
Warnings: Nothing in particular.

HOME GROUND

At long last, it is over. The Prince is dead, and all of his stolen Names have been restored - all that's left to do is treat the wounds and move on. For the first day or two, the Ringmaster will be arranging passage for the servants that are left, all of which have remembered their names for the first time in years. The earth elemental that had been trapped and forced to serve as the Prince's manor, the Heart of Stone, is happy to help for the moment. It appreciates the Ringmaster's mercy, and is free after untold eons of imprisonment.

Yet, there are plenty of aspects that are far from simple. There are still servants left mad and transformed into beasts, with no easy way to change them back. The Prince's spells outlive him, and those bearing his poison and his curses will have a difficult road ahead of them. Though most of the bestial servants have been rounded up, and a large number that had been reduced to unmoving statues returned, even the Ringmaster can't return them to normal so simply.

The next week is for rest and for settling remaining affairs. If you want to bid farewell to any particular NPCs, or assure care is given where it's needed, now is the time to do it.

A CURE: The Ringmaster will tell everyone simply - there is no simple way to undo another fae's magic. The Prince's powers were essentially on par with hers, which means that those who have been transformed to stone and those that were cursed into beasts and driven insane are not something she can trivially fix. It will take the work of the carnival and a couple weeks of treatment to shed the curse of stone, and the maddened servants are an entirely separate matter. She will do what she can, but for the most part she is arranging for the Prince's servants to be cared for elsewhere. At least for now, the Ringmaster will be animating the stone portions of people's bodies with magic, though those portions will still be a bit clumsy and numb feeling.

THE NEW HEARTSTONE: In the absence of the prince, the Heart of Stone will be taking over the remains of the Prince's realm and preventing it from collapsing into void. As it turns out, the manor had been an earth elemental all along - a form of Wyld Fae almost on par to the Prince and Ringmaster themselves. How the Heart of Stone was enslaved is a long story presumably, but the Ringmaster considers it to be a sign of the Prince's own depravity. The Heart will be allowing visitors for the first couple days of this period through the portal, but keep in mind you are essentially just walking around on its body. At least the realm has a floor, now, instead an endless abyss surrounding it.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-13 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mnh-!" Naturally, the resident empath has not taken this well. It isn't anything near 'that bad' of course. She'd be in trouble if that were the case, but bursts of rage do not jive well with her recovering body, even as they settle into misery.

Reira waits....quite a while before she goes in. Quite a while, before she pulls the door to the bunk room open.

"....neesama..?"
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-13 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
There's the sounds of soft sobbing as Yuzu lays there. Briefly, she looked up as she heard Reira's voice.

"...R-Reira...?"
Edited 2017-11-13 23:03 (UTC)
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-13 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"....." Reira doesn't say anything for a moment, merely ducking her head. Eventually though... "....It's.... ...going to be okay, ok?" she tries, not entirely sure about her words herself.
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-13 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuzu sniffled as she looked down, her face uncertain. "...is... is this what we're going to have to deal with all the time?"
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Reira doesn't know the answer to that. Not exactly. ....She just knows...things. Bits and pieces about what she saw before.

"....I don't think so," she says honestly. "....if it was.... ....Don't you think that even a few people here would seem used to it too?"
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
"I just..." Yuzu couldn't really find the words, just shivering as the memories of that last hunt came back. "...I don't want to hurt anyone else again..."

Honestly, unless the Ringmaster said something about this, she couldn't trust her again.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
"...............No one does," she says quietly. "....but... ....all the people from the castle..."

"....You know they're free now. Right?"
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
“What does it matter?!” Yuzu said, her voice rising slightly before calming down. “That’s not going to get the sight of Gongenzaka dying out of my mind.”

Yuzu flopped back around, covering her head with her pillow. “You weren’t there; you wouldn’t know!”
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Reira's brow twitches, just a little. But she doesn't say anything.

Nothing. Nothing. And...

"................What you're feeling right now..." she moves, gently grabbing the pillow. "....It feels like... ...A little worse than a battle royale shock, I think." She pauses, trying to take the pillow away.

"..................why do people have to see the same things, to understand things?"
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Reira would find that she can take the pillow quite easily, as if Yuzu isn't giving it much of a fight.

She looks up at Reira, trying to find an answer to her question, but she really can't. All she's doing is stammering and looking like she just wants to bawl right here and now.
soft_focus: (...oh .-.)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
"....It's ok to be sad," Reira says in the silence. "And...confused. ...And mad. ...And all of those things," she decides in the end. "But...."

"........When I talked to the Ringmaster............ ..........She was sad too. ....And angry, and worried. ...She was all of those things, even if she only wanted me to see one thing. ....A lot of people do that, I guess," she adds quietly. "....Look like one feeling, when they feel something else..."
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
And Yuzu can't take it anymore, just reaching out to take Reira close as she starts sobbing.
soft_focus: (...oh .-.)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
It's a bit of a role reversal, certainly. The despair is overwhelming, not in the sense of pain but in the mere sense of existence. Reira tries her best to hug the other as she's pulled over-the pillow dropped, and her eyes looking to the side.

But she doesn't know what to say.

She can't know what to say, and the only thing she has which could in any way be comparable is....

....She can't share that. It's too far ahead of Yuzu's time.
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry, Reira... I'm sorry!" Yuzu sobbed out, clinging to the little girl for a little while longer, just crying her heart out until she was pretty much drained.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
What? Reira frowns, but lets the other cry. And cry. And....

"....why?"
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
"I couldn't protect you, I couldn't protect Gongenzaka...!" Yuzu said. Ah, probably the big point of the guilt and anger and frustration has come out.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"................No one could though. ...Even she couldn't, that was why she felt bad too..." Reira swallows, and tries tightening her hug.

"............And... ...you brought me back, didn't you?"
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
"But, he took you and you freaked and...!" Yuzu stammered. "I... I just don't want to lose my friends anymore..."

"I hate feeling helpless..."
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"..........that's because I was poisoned though. ...So I wasn't thinking." And... ...There's not a lot she can assure the other with, except, perhaps...

"....I don't think anyone liked it. ....but.... ...I know you weren't the only one feeling it. ...And.... ....even though you had to hurt him to do it....you brought Gongenzaka back, too. And I think.... ....He'll be ok."
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
"...I hope so, Reira..." Yuzu said, finally feeling drained and tired. Her hold on Reira is loose, allowing the younger girl to finally squirm out of her hold if she so wished.

"...'m sorry about the wall..."
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Bah. Reira's got a tight hold herself, so no squirming. Yet.

"....I wasn't looking at the wall," she admits, blinking. "....I just knew you were feeling lots of bad things..."
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yuzu chuckled a bit at that. "I... I guess everyone really could at that point."
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Ummm....I guess everyone would know you were mad, but.... ....I don't know about the other ones..."
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[personal profile] fusionactuallysuitsher 2017-11-14 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yuzu let out a soft sigh. "I guess not..." she uttered. She let out a yawn - being upset was tiring.

"I think... I'll be alright. I think."
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-14 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," she 'assures' the other. It'd be far worse, after all, if they Couldn't get better...

.... "And everyone else is going to be fine too. ...so...it's going to get 'okay'."