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lostcarnival2017-11-11 10:17 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-11-11 10:17 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- 9s,
- @heartstone manor,
- alphys,
- amethyst,
- cole,
- commander syrlya,
- doll,
- five,
- ginko,
- gongenzaka,
- hinawa,
- ichigo kurosaki,
- john childermass,
- joker,
- jonathan strange,
- julien delacroix,
- junko enoshima,
- lambert,
- lauren,
- mari makinami illustrious,
- miko nakadai,
- papyrus,
- reira akaba,
- rita mordio,
- sans,
- sora,
- susan,
- tallisibeth (scout),
- tyki mikk,
- yotsuba tamaki,
- yūya sakaki,
- zangetsu
⇨ 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.
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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"It simply is. They look at me funny too."
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Seriously, though. When he said they look at her funny, was he talking about people at the carnival? Or did he pull that from her memories, of how people in Aspio treated her...? That's the problem with having a mindreader around who doesn't communicate like a normal person.
She sighs, using her other hand to trace a finger around the red-jeweled core of her blastia. "The two of us aren't witchers. That's something different. The word you're looking for is freaks." It's a word she uses liberally to insult others a lot, but it's also one that she kind of sort of realizes applies to Rita herself... sometimes. In a way.
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"But we all have important necklaces. What would you call us then?"
Cole might not know much, but he knows that if someone's a freak (odd, strange, what a weird kid) then they might not have an important necklace.
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"I don't know." There might not be a word for what Cole's thinking of. What the heck did Lambert tell him? And... no, more interestingly... "What kind of important necklace are you talking about, anyway? I didn't think spirits usually cared much for trinkets." Of course, Rita's experience with spirits is still very limited... but there is a part of her that kind of hopes it's something with unique magical properties.
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In reality, the amulet helps keep him from being bound by others. Being bound, forced to serve, something changing and warping Cole into something different and dangerous...he hates the idea of that. It will not happen.
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"Safe from what?" Rita asks, leaning forward with obvious interest and staring as if somehow hoping to see the object through his pocket.
But when she thinks about it... Rita might already have the answer. Back at the ball, Cole said he can't be bound. They made it so. Could the amulet be the mechanism for that...?
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A name that doesn't really mean that much to Rita but, from Cole's tone, he means the world to Cole.
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"What's this Solas like?" Could he be a spirit, like Cole? Or maybe a human?
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"He helped me become. I've got to thank him for that."
No matter what Solas does, whatever reason why he left, he helped Cole figure out who he is. And for that, Cole's always grateful.
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Not the real Cole. The real Cole was someone else, dead, body buried, remains rotting. But Solas helped Cole find himself. The current one.
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"Spirit and human? What do you mean? I thought spirits and humans were fundamentally different." As in, there generally isn't any blurring of lines between them. Or so she thought.
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"They captured mages. Those that were a danger, those that were a threat, trapped in the tower by Templars. The real Cole was there. Small and scared and suffering. I reached out but I couldn't do anything. Compassion can't comfort the dead."
It's odd. He says all this in a relatively emotionless tone, as if Cole's detatched himself from the memory of that event.
"So, I took his shape. But things went...odd. I didn't know, it just happened. Trapped between two Coles. I thought I could be both."
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"So, in other words..." Rita's going to attempt to put this story into normal-people-speak... "You took the form of a dead guy because you felt bad for him, but then you ended up having an identity crisis because of it?" Which Solas apparently helped him sort out.
There are some other things she wonders about, though... like his mention of captured mages. They were dangerous? But how dangerous could they be, to get captured in the first place?
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"I think so?" Cole answers, with a confused little frown.