⇨ THE PRINCE IS DEAD

[ringleaders]

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.

Comments

[eclipsingblade]

..Here, this'll help wash out the flavor.

[The unopened bottle of miscellaneous juice is offered; an aspirin taken dry tended to have LINGERING taste and who the hell ever wanted to deal with that?]

Back home they'd probably suggest some kind of cosmetic surgery. Remove the stone bits like .. those overgrowths people sometimes get with the keratin.

[Ichigo grasps after what the hell it's called, the tree-man illness, but it eludes him. He was a decent student but he wasn't top marks, and remembering everything he'd heard off-hand doesn't.. work.

But people directly stung by the prince were dealing with something kind of vaguely similar as far as he'd heard. Cutting it off and making some grafts in theory would work..]

Maybe that'll be an option if we hit somewhere a little more modern. I wouldn't try it with the magic stuff.

[Bad ideas: that. A note is made about the butterflies, which are eyed. That they're carnivores eludes him, he presumes the butterfly feeder only comes out now and again when needed.]

[prazerbutterfly]

[He had meant to take that juice earlier when it was offered but he was focused on sitting down, getting comfortable, and then got sidetracked by the aspirin.

He takes it and cracks it open to take a long swig out of it. It's suprising how trusting he's being given how he just met Ichigo. The boy seemed innocent enough and usually he can read a good poker face of someone rather vicious or pulling a fast one on him. Still, there are several long swallows and he manages to empty half the bottle. He finds that more times than not he's really thirsty and ravenous with that poison coursing through him. Water, juice, and easy liquids go down easy. Food is an entirely different monster right now.

He eyes the bottle and lets his thumb roll over the plastic. Again, he's fascinated with how far humans have progressed to even storage bottles like these.] Cosmetic surgery? That's a thing now a days?

[It makes him think of how he could just start to peel that petrification off but seeing as it involved magic he hadn't of thought to try. It's been more than a week now and it was spreading skin deep.]

They are special butterflies. A gift from an Earl that I respect. Having something I don't have to tend to all the time with my usual Lord duties helps. They are kind of fragile and I wouldn't be able to entrust them to just anyone. [He is from 1880-1890s. Lords, Earls, and servants were still something present.] I don't really know much about modern advances so I am little help to them other than samples of my own infliction.

[eclipsingblade]

For some, if you're wealthy enough. Or have good insurance.

[It's reasonable, there needs to be a little trust when intending to sleep in the same space as someone else. If Ichigo were a crazy ax murderer, taking a drink he offered isn't nearly as risky as going to sleep around him!

... Thankfully there is no such risk.

However, the revelation he's dealing with a Lord draws Ichigo's eyebrows up sharply. Well, it seems like Tyki could afford that cosmetic surgery after all!]

S' far as I know, most butterflies are fragile.

[A lord. Sadly, Ichigo's not about to begin bowing and scraping, he never did to any other noble houses he encountered, but it did make him wonder why their trailer was less luxurious than the opulence he generally expected from the mega rich.]

....It probably won't help any to say so, but I grew up around all those advances and still don't really know how any of it works. Just that it does, usually. It's worth a shot, if someone doesn't come up with a method here.

[prazerbutterfly]

[Titles matter little here so he doesn't expect bows and other services he normally would have at home. At the mention of wealth he does seem to perk small and he'll scratch at his cheek before taking another drink of that juice just to ease his throat from all the coughing he's been doing. Plus, the juice will taste better coming back up if he eats too heavy again.

His Tease would alert him far in advance if Ichigo smelled like anything like blood or similar to it. Not to mention they were a temporary measure in case of an attack while he was sleeping. Normally his power would be absolute but here in carnival he was heavily handicapped.]

You have a point, Ichigo. Most are.

[He allows one to rest on his fingertips as he moves them and it'll methodically open and close its wings as if waiting for something.]

I, for one, don't need to know how it works as much as how to work it. I might look into a couple of things later. I do already enjoy the hot showers that don't have to be drawn and heated manually. There is also neat methods of keeping food cold like this tiny ice box we have. [He's referring to the fridge.]