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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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Yum

[personal profile] espigeon 2017-11-19 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Sooner or later the tyrannosaur is going to catch a scent nearby that is going to make it perk up and pacing, sniffing deeply. Is that another tyrannosaurid? Should it be territorial? Should it start making affiliative noises? It's been so long!!

It is not another tyrannosaur, it is Julien. It is both halves of Julien, one helping support the other, stretching out his abused legs. The tyrannosaur has seen the big pigeon-body before, of course, the largest other feathered thing around but still relatively small.

However. He is the right shape, ish, and patterned nicely, and has good plumage, and now he has the right smell. Smells like a male. Not a particularly healthy one but still. Hm. Hmmm.

Julien of course has no idea why the dinosaur is up at the border of its pen sniffing and staring.]


Oh, hey. I don't have a treat for you, sorry? It was the one time and I probably shouldn't have done even that.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-19 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Hello Julien! Reira was about to say hi. Was. However.]

I THINK SHE THINKS YOU'RE REALLY PRETTY JULIEN!!

[GETTIN' THAT VIBE.]
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[personal profile] espigeon 2017-11-19 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He blinks and a few more eyes appear. Pretty sparklies the tyrannosaur can watch!]

Reira? You're riding it? ...Is it a girl?

[When both halves of him are in the same place he has a way of tilting his heads; synchronized, but each in a different direction. Julien doesn't actually know he does this.]

I think I'm flattered!
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-21 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Umm.....I just came up here so she could get a treat, [Reira explains, staring. As it is.] ....Umnnhhh.... [Nice head trick...]

....I guess if you're ok, it's ok then, but she might try to pick you up, then. [Or whatever birds and similar do in this mood. It's not really something she watched.]
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[personal profile] espigeon 2017-11-21 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but from on top of her head? I mean... tyrannosaur! I know a lot about how dangerous they can be, just be careful!

[She's an animal keeper so? Maybe it's okay? He feels like he should at least make a token protest.]

Hah! Well, as long as she didn't bite down!

[Julien doesn't really get what Reira means by the dinosaur thinking he's pretty; he thinks it's aesthetics and a birdlike fascination with colors and shine, maybe finding him cute like a rex baby, not hmmmmmm is this the closest thing to a compatible male in years.]
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-24 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
...Why would she bite you, she thinks you're pretty, not food........ [Unfortunately, Reira has...no understanding of just how much danger most anyone else would be in right now.

That bird affinity she has is probably working in her favor. A lot. That and being a Tiny Child on top of the bird affinity.
]

...I've been sitting on Tyrannosaurus a lot, anyway....

...Umn.... ....she'll probably want to play with you soon, though.... [That's what birds do when they think they're pretty, right? Chase each other around?? Or something?]
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[personal profile] espigeon 2017-11-25 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[sniff sniff SNIFFFFF he's so tiny tho and clearly ill. Perhaps he needs to be fed??]

With big enough animals it doesn't always matter if they want to hurt you, they can do it on accident!

Reira, could you get down? Safely? [He's been more speaking with his beak for this conversation; as a bird he can be a lot louder without sounding as much like he's shouting.] This is a really awkward way to talk.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-26 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I knew that. [A beat.] ....And it's definitely safer up here, if you think she's going to do something accidentally....

...Why don't you come up here?

[It's Totally Fine.]
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[personal profile] espigeon 2017-11-27 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
The getting on and off parts are a little problematic right now, Reira! Another time!

[Julien's told her about wanting to ride the dinosaur, but right now, he doesn't have the strength to fly. He guesses he can move on, catch Reira at a less ridiculous time.]

See you later, I guess?
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-27 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.... [Yes, she hadn't quite. Caught that issue from up here. But if he must go, he must go.] Um, ok..!

[There is a pause, and-] ...Julien..!? [she calls out, sounding somewhat worried.]

....

...I'm not mad about everything, ok..! And.... ....And I'm sorry..! ...About what I did, and what happened..!

[She didn't get a chance to say that before. ...She'd like to say it while she can, even if it's from numerous feet up, shouting, from a pile of feathers that surround her so thoroughly she might as well just be a face.

Tyrannosaurus would, frankly, just like to 'smash' right now, guys. This is very upsetting.
]
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[personal profile] espigeon 2017-11-27 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Yes?

[His tail quivers and he stifles a chuckle. She does look silly up there; he's got to take it on faith that she knows what she's doing. But maybe it's good they're not really having this conversation; his human face is turning away, because it always takes him by surprise when anyone cares.]

I know! I'm sorry too! Some of it was also my fault, but mostly it was the Prince!
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it was short but now Snow can happen I guess lmf

[personal profile] soft_focus 2017-11-28 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Mostly the Prince.... ....There that is again, but even still, she can't find herself content to place blame on the force they were up against, rather than the actions that left them open to it.

But she's argued with enough people to know it's pointless. So she just nods from atop the T-Rex, and waves. Right then.
] Umn....

...I'll see you later, okay? [She eventually says in the end.]