lostcarnival | ⇨ THE PRINCE IS DEAD

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⇨ 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.

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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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==Creeping On The Wounded, D1 through when everyone's harder to find==

[A newcomer and reluctant employee, Ichigo had stayed in the Carnival as everyone else went to go slaughter their friends and allies. And now that it was over..

Now that it's over, he's ghosting through the carnival, to the medical tent and anywhere else the injured have been brought, running a mental tally in his head. There were many people changed, many killed and though he didn't know ANY of them except for maybe one, he did have a rough idea of numbers and if the right number of people are recovering..

So Ichigo's lurking. He's not going to interrupt unless spoken to because injured people need their rest, but ANYONE hurt is worthy of attention, their injuries weighed versus what might be needed to kill someone. Those sleeping are left to sleep. Those not .. are also left to their business, for the most part. But he's watching, a perpetual frown on his face. It might almost look like he's disappointed they're all alive but .. very much the opposite.

It's just counting, really.]

==Closed to Tyki Mikk==

[Most of the time when Ichigo arrives at his new trailer, it's during the day. Guard posts required night shifts sometimes, and as much as he resented even being there, that aprt he didn't resent much. Jobs came with weird hours.

Now he figured out fast that someone else lived in the trailer too, there were belongings. And that certain scent that said 'this isn't a dusty locked up place that hasn't been opened for years', so he's been carefully mindful of anything that looked important. Sinks, fair game. Bathrooms, fair game. But anything else.. he's not one to mess with other people's stuff. But over on the side he'd decided to call his own because it looked slightly less lived in, there's now two balloon dogs set, and a very small number of boring teeshirts and pants folded up and tucked away.

And yet he hasn't encountered his new roommate. So this time.. this time he's going to stay all day and as much of the night he can manage just to see who or what he might be sharing space with.

Which means when Tyki does return, inside the trailer (with all its windows opened, and the door as well) is lurking one orange-haired punk, with a beat up and tattered paperback book to pass the time. He's patient. Sometimes.]

==Time To Hit Things==

[ONE good thing about this place, it has a training yard.

Once he's found it, Ichigo's decided to spend all day there, from literally dawn til dark. He even fetched some packed lunch to bring! It's ... sort of an elaborate toy as far as he can tell, and figuring out how it works (he's NOT asking thank you) is half the interesting part.

Normal mode proves too easy very quickly, and that venture stops after he completes it at a run without pausing.

Hard is ... harder, but he manages that pretty well too, though it takes a few singes, scrapes and a nice burnt patch to figure out yes that's actually real fire, those ARE lasers and hey, the floor vanishes!

It's this mode he'll spend most of the day on, and it's pretty clear after a while that Ichigo's just doing it for fun. He's not exactly goofing off but he's definitely not trying his hardest.

By the time evening rolls around he's eyeing Death March with interest. After all day running through the other ones, he's tired (the downsides of being human), and his reflexes won't be fantastic, so clearly this is the best time to consider the hardest setting.

He can be interrupted or joined at any time. Company makes things more interesting.]

[If Ichigo is observant enough he might notice the few Tease scattered in the trailer will start to flit their wings a little faster than normal the closer Tyki gets. It's their way of warning him that there is someone up close or nearby. He had noticed signs of someone else being in his trailer the first couple of nights but hadn't bothered to try to really find any way of figuring out who it was.

Normally he could use his Tease to track the scent but the effort in following them when really there was only certain places he would rather be was rather tasking on him with that poison running rampart in his system. He honestly shouldn't be out of bed at all but he was out wandering every day.

It's slow and staggering as he makes his approach toward his trailer near the back of the trailer park. Every heavy step from a days worth of effort is taxing on him and his eyes will lift to see the Tease, the windows and doors open, and then the orange haired person waiting inside. He smiles a half cheerful, half tired look towards the other.]

Ah, so you're the one that's been lurking around my trailer...

[It's not the flutter of wings or the sound of footsteps that first alerts Ichigo that someone's headed his way. Over the years he's gotten good at sensing the approach of powerful things, mostly because then he has to fight them, but it still had its uses. Like not being easy to sneak up on. He pauses his reading of the tattered book, glancing in the direction of unfamiliar power.

Nobody he knew, not yet. And they were definitely headed towards the trailer. His missing roommate perhaps?

The butterflies seem restless.

And then ... then there is the sound that tells him weakness, and opportunity, and Ichigo stills, listening, weighing. Nobody here has been hostile yet. There's no reason to think this would change ... and of course it makes sense there would be wounded, exhausted people. Recovering people, ones that didn't need more trouble at this point.

In comparison Tyki's appearance is almost anticlimactic, and Ichigo blinks once in faint surprise. That explains a lot.]

Yeah. Got told by the head lady to stay here. You need a hand?

[Nothing of his bearing or tone really suggests anything other than grumpy punk, but the offer seems genuine by the way the book is set aside and he rises to his feet. Was this one of the recent 'prey', or one of the hunters? Or neither?]

[Tyki often carries himself like a noble but one of less importance and more of an average person. While he does have some power behind him he isn't one to flaunt it that is until it is necessary. When he's actually showing off it'll be apparent how easy he could take control of almost any situation.

He's just down on his luck and in a lot of pain right now. The poison was much deeper than skin, muscle, and flesh. It's evident in every step, stagger, and gesture he makes. He was able to hide it at first but now it's showing more than he likes by the end of each and every day.]

I was wondering when she'd stick me with someone else. The last one I had moved out before went to the manor. [He has no idea she's left the carnival completely and while he might find that out later it wasn't important right now.]

I've made it this far by myself. [Said casually as if it wasn't a yes or a no. He's wary of everyone right now but that was just the poison talking. It's a heavy step once he reaches the door and he's gripping the side of it to heave himself up the couple of steps into the trailer.]

There's a few of us new here, I guess she'll just take any place to put us for now.

['This far by myself' wasn't actually a no, and as much as Ichigo tended towards abrasiveness and bad temperament, he has ... issues with doing nothing when faced with obvious suffering, and it's obvious Tyki isn't having a good time. So since he hadn't actually been told no, he heads for the door with every intention of getting ahold of the man and if successful carefully pull him up and through the door.

He is much stronger than he looks. And a lot more gentle than one might expect, he's used to dealing with wounded.

Finding somewhere to set him afterward will .. take a minute longer, if all goes well.]

Yeah well, doesn't mean you have to keep doing it by yourself. We might be stuck sharing spaces for a while, after all.

If you're assigned to this trailer then you're right. You'll be here for a long while unless you move elsewhere or I do.

[Not that he has any plans to move anywhere. He only had a strong attachment to one person right now and they already had a roommate.

When the orange haired human goes to touch him he doesn't exactly protest. He's used to being touched on a daily basis and despite his health right now he's not turning down help. He isn't a doctor, he's being gentle, and he's actually being helpful without mocking him for being so weak.]

Just put me on the couch for now. It'll take more effort to get into my bed. [Given how only half the bed was visible seeing as the other half was tucked behind the ladder stairs he would have to bend. He'd do that later.]

[Moving, or not, can be handled later. If it wound up that they hated each other and it was the only way to prevent murder then that would be seen to then, right now he has ... to make sure covertly that he's not about to squash a butterfly while working on maneuvering Tyki to the couch.

At least this is reasonably not difficult to do.]

Be better than sitting on the floor at least. Trailers aren't really made for comfort.

[At least as far as he knows. This one was well enough appointed though that he didn't feel like he was living in a death camp or something, so there's that! Once he's sure Tyki isn't about to fall off or collapse or SPONTANEOUSLY DIE or something, he's reasonably quick to step back into a more comfortable personal bubble range.

Being helpful and lurking super close were two wildly different things.]

You need anything til you're feeling better, let me know. I'll do what I can.

[That caveat is there - til he's better.]

.. Name's Ichigo Kurosaki. The uh, butterflies are yours or do I need to keep chasing them out.

[Tyki rarely hated someone unless they gave him a really good reason to. A death of a family member or threatening his family would do it. He's cheerful most of the time so there was no worry of upsetting him. Right now he's just a little cranky but again Ichigo was handling this well.

The Tease will gently walk out of the way when Tyki is moved onto the couch. His hand grabs the edge of the cushion and he'll pull his back against it to ease his discomfort. Other than looking like a hot mess there were no injuries present on his body. It's because the petrification is spread down across his back and the manticore wings are trapped under his shirt.

He chuckles lightly and then coughs abusively at the thick rumble hurting his throat and chest. It's sometimes hard to breathe. Already he can tell this person is a good boy.]

Heh, I might take you up on that offer if they don't dish out a cure fast enough. Every day I feel like I'm getting better but I know it is likely getting worse.

[His hand is out to allow a Tease to step onto his fingertips.] Tyki Mikk. They are mine and if they are chased out they will find ways to get back inside.

[Healing things and dealing with poison is entirely out of Ichigo's realm of experience, but moving people onto more comfortable things than standing around was easy. The lack of the smell of blood at least was reassuring. Open wounds were a bitch.]

That poison shit, huh?

[After a moment Ichigo turns away, heading for the small refrigerator. He'd been restocking it with things he found more appealing than the collection of apples and comes up with a bottle of some sort of juice.

He should ask the kitchen people what it is exactly but he knew it tasted good and that was enough. After a moment it's offered.]

I got aspirin but I don't know if that'd help much.

[The fact that those things kept coming back is probably why all the windows and the door were open. He did what he could but without wanting to squish them, Ichigo's options were limited. To a lot of shooing. It hadn't worked well.]

... Huh. Surprised there aren't more flowers then.

[He's a gentle person so far and that is doing wonders to keep Tyki calm and cheerful in this situation. It's just that with all the pain and his recent tramatization/enchanting he's very wary of most.

It's why when he's finally sitting down he'll push his back all the way against it and lean into it a little lazily. He needs to examine Ichigo now that he's sitting and it doesn't take much to try to examine his soul. He knows a human when he sees one. He always will with how they were the ones at home to be eradicated.]

I don't know what aspirin is, Mister Kurosaki. [Despite his usual gentleman's he is wearing something a bit crisp yet casual.]

It's a small white tablet medication usually for pain relief. Sometimes heart attacks.

[And a whole lot of other stuff he never really bothered paying a lick of attention to, but he was certain of the parts he did.

It takes a moment for the rest to click - the 'Mr. Kurosaki' part. And like pretty much any teenager, that's not something he's keen on being called, that's his dad.]

..And if you don't mind, 'Ichigo' is fine. You might invoke my dad or something.

[Things to avoid: that. Granted it seemed like this place could use another doctor, and a trained shinigami too, but if he's stuck here for a year he'd rather do it without suddenly being donkeykicked out of nowhere.

But taking medicine from strangers might not really be on the top of Tyki's list, especially given apparently some of this poison going around came from the food. That cheeseburger betrayed him!]

..Uh, I've also kind of been guessing about where to put stuff. If I moved anything important, wasn't to piss you off or anything.

Hmm, sounds useful. Does it actually work?

[Because he's willing to try a lot of things at least once. He's not sure if it'll help at all but if it eases the discomfort even a little...

Manners and speech are hard to break but he'll note that Ichigo is one of those that don't appreciate titles.]

I'll try to remember, Ichigo. [Yet he laughs a little sorely with an added cough after.]

I have my bed, the top shelf in the mini refrigerator, a shelf above it, and wherever you find my clothes. Other than that I have no qualms on where you put anything. I'm not especially territorial over anything else.

Yeah.

[Wait.]

..On some stuff anyway. There's other things for stronger pain but maybe it'll ..take some of the edge off. I don't know. Poison's not really my thing.

[But if he wants to give it a try, Ichigo will spend a moment fishing a little tin of aspirin from a pocket and ..then hunt for somewhere to put a tablet that didn't mean getting his fingers all over it and thus maybe GERMS god there were downsides to a medical parent he could just hand it over and--

the tin is offered instead.]

Hey, trying's important even if it doesn't always work, right? I'll keep those spots in mind.

[Because that left a whole lot of OTHER places, and while he didn't have much stuff it didn't seem likely at all that there would be a conflict in space. So for now he's going to take over one of the table's seats, and work on shooing a butterfly out of the way in the doing.

Avoiding those is going to be a little harder.]

...Oh last thing real quick, so you can sleep or rest or whatever you need to do.. do your butterflies need feeding? I didn't see a lot of flowers or a feeder or something.

[And if anything happened to Tyki someone was going to have to find a butterfly bush or some other plant and ..

...Hey that mouthy daisy. He was going to have to find out if that thing liked butterflies.]

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[Hitting things isn't really Reira's forte, suffice to say. She's not really built for it on account of not yet being built for much of anything. But if there's one thing she's good at, it's running. It helps that the lasers are running for someone of Ichigo's size of course, but having 'Film Magician' float around to take her hits helps even more. It means she can focus on that-but it also means that as they come to the part where floors begin disappearing and gaps for jumping actually appear, some....platforms? Appear?

There are footsteps behind him, and unless he stops them, those footsteps will be moving on, and hopping the platform created by her handy duel disk, because frankly she was never making that jump, thank you.] H-p!

[He knows someone's coming long before there's footsteps. Spiritual sense has a way of doing that, but until that person interfered or spoke up, why interrupt? They were likely busy too!

It's not a small course, but having someone else on the track can cause complications, as far as he knew it wasn't a team sport and as footsteps actually draw close he does stop - less out of concern and more out of it's messing up his own pattern.

Reira is simply watched as she makes her careful hops. He's not going to reach out and grab her, nor does he seem terribly surprised by her comparatively tiny size.

He's met a lot of tiny people who were hardly helpless, after all. He just stays where he is, on a platform slowly swaying from side to side, and observes for several long moments.

What she was doing, was in a way far more important than who was doing it. Capability - or the lack thereof - would be swiftly apparent if he just watched.]

[There is certainly-and fortunately, for that matter-capability, enough to get her through a course running for Ichigo's build. If she were unarmed, this would absolutely be impossible. But it seems as though she's taken that into consideration, to the point where at the corridor ahead (meant for the practice of movement while keeping low, which....isn't testing her at all), she breaks into a quicker run.

...

"W-oo-f!"

And proceeds to fall flat on her face going too fast. This is what happens when you get over confident about the stretches that don't affect you in anyway, apparently.

She's just going to. Take a second or too to accept her fate and move on, but at least Ichigo can finish the platforming obstacle now.]

You might wanna wait til it's set up for you.

[It could be a chastisement, but there's no real irritation in his words, at least not yet.

Probably he'd be saying or doing something different if it were obvious she were injured, but she didn't seem to be. The lessons that get taught from being a little too overconfident were important ones!

Just so long as they didn't end in real injury. Which was possible, this wasn't Easy Mode he had it put on. He's just lucky his current spot seems to be stable enough to stay where he is for the moment.]

Mnh?

[She has a good excuse for that, other than, well. Not realizing she could do that.] ...............The world isn't made for little people though, it's made for adults.

[When the heck are the gaps she encounters going to be her sized, Ichigo, that's her question. Better to make sure she's Ready.

That said, once she's standing up, she dusts herself off and looks back at the other.] .....Does that mean you set this up though?

Depends which world, doesn't it?

[Not gonna win that one, short stuff.]

Besides, jumping in while someone's already on the course is dangerous. Not just for you but other people. Whether or not you might out in the world doesn't matter.

[He missed dealing with Nel. Sure she was childlike and ridiculously dense most of the time, but when she wasn't she was an incredible person.]

The controls seem to be over there. Mind the lasers if you're going to fiddle with it.

Most worlds where adults are fighting are made for adults. [Anyway.] I didn't know someone was on this one. I've just been going around it more than once.

[In other words, this thing got set up while she finished, and she Looped Around Anyway because no one actually told her how the damn course works. She looks toward where he's pointing, and moves to carry on.]

....You're not supposed to stop things half-way, [she decides, jogging ahead.]

Most worlds where adults are fighting also don't have obstacle courses. You weren't on it when I began, hours ago.

[Because he'd know. She doesn't have magical no-reiatsu powers.]

So in the future be more careful. Spend a few minutes looking.

[And he's going to make sure she's OFF the course before he continues, because getting people mauled through not paying attention isn't something he does.]

....

[They must have really been missing each other, then. ~~or maybe you're just slow to get from the end to the start, kid~~]

...That doesn't mean you make it easier, [she decides in the end, disappearing into the next challenge. Even if obstacle courses aren't in those worlds, making it easier just because of that seems dumb. If this is to prepare someone for the worst, then bring on the worst!

....she says before avoiding the heck out of Death March.]

[He's going to try death march later. Not yet. Maybe after dinner. It's there, he has to touch it.]

Education and training doesn't work that way. You work up to it, at a setting designed for you. It's not meant to be a real world equivalent.

[Because real world equivalents won't have most of the crap in this place to begin with. Realism is very obviously not the point of it, and Ichigo was fine with that.

He hops off his platform and takes a leisurely stroll through a set of panels that aren't moving. Weave-poles he suspected, just without the pole. It's a good way to avoid the flying laser bots.]

They aren't? [She doesn't really go to school. And hasn't. And on top of that, her dueling knowledge was programmed, so....

She continues on through, doing as well as ever now that she's not trying to speed ahead.] ...Why not?

It's supposed to make you ready for it, right?

It makes you ready eventually. But taking someone who's a newbie and tossing them in the deep end is more likely to drown them than help them.

[Mind the fire. And the laser robots; she's moving more than he is and is a far more tempting target.]

ANYONE can learn to succeed, but if you kill off three fourths of them because you tossed them into the hard stuff immediately, you got a whole lot fewer people to work with. And maybe a lot of maimed survivors. What doesn't kill you doesn't always make you stronger, kiddo.

⇨ THE PRINCE IS DEAD

ota, except the one part that isn't.

> Picks the one other than the one assigned to him...

NOOOOOOOO

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TIME TO...HIT...

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