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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.
spaghettimonster: (WHAT A SAD EXISTENCE)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2017-12-12 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Asking on the main public channel is a great way to get even more distracted by chatter, but rarely a great way to accomplish anything. Maybe that would have been the best approach after all.]

She... She is fussing. But probably not too much! Not with books as distractions.

[The question is, are there enough books to distract her enough?]
pipers_son: (I'm convinced that I'm the main)

[personal profile] pipers_son 2017-12-12 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that's not too surprising, he guesses.]

We'll have ta find a way ta get her more books some day, huh?
spaghettimonster: (THIS WAS A TRIUMPH)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2017-12-16 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Mayhap our next destination... will be somewhere like Alola! Plenty of bookstores. And other stores.

[Mostly pokemon stores, admittedly, and everything else was still pretty related to pokemon.]
pipers_son: (bestia-domitor) (And I'd rather cry while putting a)

[personal profile] pipers_son 2017-12-17 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Hopefully. After, ah.... You know. [There's a lazy and vague wave of a hand gesture.] We did go ta Alola after that.

Ringmaster knows better... than ta send us anywhere really dangerous after this sort of thing.

[At least she damn well better.]
spaghettimonster: (I STILL THINK THAT BUT...)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2017-12-18 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm... sure she does. As long as she... knows it'll be dangerous.

[But the Celebration...]
pipers_son: (sillica) (Some lady just walked up to me in)

[personal profile] pipers_son 2017-12-19 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm. Right.

[Fantastic. Poison really is doing a number on him, if he can't remember that much, which is a laugh considering how much those memories have been antagonizing him. Joker lets out a huff of air.]

S'why oters gotta watch out for that too.
spaghettimonster: (A BURDEN SHARED IS A BURDEN HALVED!)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2017-12-19 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Well! I'm healthy and injury-free. I can watch very carefully for vampires! And, uh, other dangers.

[There are so many unfamiliar kinds of danger out here, it's probably going to keep tripping him up. But he's learning. Anytime peoples' feelings about something suddenly change... that's probably a sign of something bad.]

You can call me, any time you want to know if I've seen something dangerous.
pipers_son: (bestia-domitor) (He threw a pool chair off of an)

[personal profile] pipers_son 2017-12-19 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. I'll keep that in mind. But, y'know-

[He peeks over at Papyrus.]

Yer the janitor, right?
spaghettimonster: (RAD CONFIDENCE)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2017-12-19 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh? Yes, I... I am. The head janitor, not the sole janitor! It's a big carnival, and I'm only one skeleton. Some of the cinder spirits clean too.
pipers_son: (sillica) (If I buy you $300 worth of Popeyes)

[personal profile] pipers_son 2017-12-22 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Either way-

[His hand continues through the air laconically.]

Ya don't have ta do that, y'know? That's... for the Nightriders, and Security, and all that.
spaghettimonster: (FASHIONABLE GRUMP)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2017-12-22 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Papyrus' smile fades, and his voice goes blunt.]

Most of them are sick and injured right now. They can't. And how many times has that happened, just in the months I've been here? I can help. Cleaning isn't that hard. Just... tedious.
pipers_son: (sillica) (Some lady just walked up to me in)

[personal profile] pipers_son 2017-12-22 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
S'what we signed up for. [Even if he tries otherwise, Joker's tone is tired and resigned.] Them and us supervisors.

But you don't have ta. It's not part of the job. Ya can just work for yer debt, and not get hurt for anythin'. No one would blame ya.
spaghettimonster: (SOMEBODY HAS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2017-12-23 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe not... [Polite agreement, but not much more than that.] But, that isn't the point.

Standing by, doing nothing, as people disappear... It's so easy. But then it hurts, because they're gone. I don't like it.
pipers_son: (icons-for-the-baes) (I'm gonna make a therapist very)

[personal profile] pipers_son 2017-12-27 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[For a while, Joker only lays there in silence, thinking, before a sigh rustles out from him.]

Yer a good one, Pap.