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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-11-21 08:41 pm

⇨ THE LUNAR SOLSTICE

Who: Everyone!
When: Winter Breaks: Day 6 - Day 25
Where: THE MOON
What: The carnival journeys to one of its moons to celebrate the Lunar Solstice. More information here.
Warnings: Winter fun.

MOON WALKING

The journey to the moon only takes a blink of an eye, but it leaves the carnival far away beneath you. The second moon can be seen on the peripheral, massive compared to its usual view. At least when the holidays start out, there will be no notable wildlife on the moon, though this is something you can talk to the Ringmaster about if you think it needs a change. It sounds like this is the first time she's used it in quite a while - it probably needs some dusting off!

Claim your cabins, and proceed to... well, do whatever you want! There is no rush and little obligation, besides to enjoy yourself. For real, this time. She promises there will be no vampires. Or, at least, none that don't already work for the carnival.

CABINS: Living arrangements are character choice for this event, and there are a variety of cabins of various sizes, mostly built to house 2-6 people, though you can fit more in if you squish. They are all made of wood and of a rustic design - no fancy modern furniture, here! Each building is housed with a fireplace and the needed amenities. You can pick up materials to cook with the private kitchens if you like. Theoretically, you could spend the whole holiday sequestered away, watching the snow fall. Some of them also have outdoor hot tubs available!

ACTIVITIES: Activities are mostly going to be character driven, though there will be some large group games like bingo and maybe a poker tournament happening at some point in one of the festival halls. Otherwise, there is a lot to offer: skiing, snowboarding, hiking, ice sculpting, snowball fights - it goes on! If you'd like to run a winter activity, just let the mods know, and we will get the word out there for you.

FEASTING: Every day isn't a full-out feast because that would get a bit unhealthy, but there will be a number of specific feast events over the holidays where everyone is encouraged to let out their inner hedonist and stuff themselves. There will be one big feast per week, with smaller but also delicious meals offered in between. The feast dates will be B12, B18, and B24. There's also plenty of alcohol available for anyone who wants it.

SHOPPING: As mentioned in the planning post, there is a massive market being run by the World Walker Caravan! The Ringmaster has given everyone 1250 credits to spend on items, but there is a caveat - must spend at least 500 of those credits on gifts for other people. And it better be a good one, if you only buy one! (She will ask that you do not buy her presents, however. She appreciates the sentiment, but it seems sort of silly buying her things with her own money! If you'd like to gift her, please have it be something more personal or handmade, but you are not obligated to get her anything at all.)

TREATMENTS: The beginning of the holidays will also be about the time that the emergency Medical Team will have finalized their treatments for the Prince's poisoning. Watch out for further information on that - and make sure to get treated if you are suffering from petrification or poison induced illness! The holidays will be a lot more fun that way.
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her execution had her being hammered by a bulldozer without dying and getting a fire truck dropped on her, she'll be fine. ]

Fine, fine! Parricide!
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oooooh, I don't think I'm supposed to let you make corrections. So sorry! What a waste!

[ And yet he's... taking... a shot??? ]

Never haaaaave I ever... played "Never Have I Ever" before today.
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shot down. Amazingly, she doesn't look woozy yet. ]

Never have I ever had a vacation before this...? This whole carnival thing.
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Ditto.

[ He might not look affected, but it does take him a moment longer than normal to pour two more shots, sliding one over to her. ]

To getting some time off, I guess.

[ that's not how this game works but fuuuck it ]
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ They can take a time out! No problem. She'll accept the shot and take it down after clinking it with his glass ]

To time off. For you, out of your job, for me, out of the hell called predictability.
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Cheers to that.

[ Clink and drink! He slams the empty glass down with a long sigh, running his hand through his hair. ]

You ready to back out yet? I'm not saying it won't be hilarious if you puke all over the place, but if it happens in the trailer I don't want to have to deal with the smell.
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not ready to back down!

[ Junko's insides are twisting up saying 'why, junko, would you make your own liver despair', but she's a model. She's been to all the parties and all the bullshit that it has to deal with. She could politely sip down someone's knockout drug and steel herself through it long enough for her sister to snipe the bastard that did it. ]

... Let's go to one of the cabin hot tubs. [ this is smart. it's also a part of a plan that may or may not come into fruition, which is all the more exciting. ] You won't get electrocuted, will you?
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mercury's experience with drinking is less Social Survival and more Coping Mechanism. When dad's an alcoholic and he's out of the house, you dip into his stash to go numb for a while. A lot. Regularly.

But not "slamming every shot of vodka in the universe" regularly. ]


Nah, they make these things to be waterproof. Otherwise I'd have to de-leg every time I took a shower. Let's go.

[ ...

He's going to let her stand up first. ]
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ She stands up in her three inch heels, and--

Wobbles, nearly falling over, catching the shelf. You can see the surprise on her face that she even did, but it frustrates her into grabbing the vodka (fuck the glasses) and model-strutting outside back to the cabins.

It's weird how nice and well lit they are and a grazing hand makes it even more apparent they're the perfect temperature, even for the snow. She unlaces her boots and dips her legs in.

(little known to her, she actually picked up a specially made vodka. Yeah, mostly because their caterers are magic people, this is... strong. Stronger than Junko estimated. She has very little time before it kicks in.) ]


Neeeever have I ever... -- Hahaha, we're so similar, you know! Never have I ever made someone pay for what they did. Never have I ever killed someone because I was having a boring day and I needed to lighten the mood. Never have I ever made everyone who fucked with me get some fast karma!

Fine. Never have I ever used an 'aura'.
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs at the way she wobbles, rising up to his feet and... catching himself quickly on the chair to pretend that no, he did not just wobble too, he's fine. He's fine! This is fine. The room's not quite as stationary as he'd like, but that's also fine.

It's fine.

Once he's upright for a few seconds he's able to coordinate himself to walk behind her as they wander over to the hot tubs. He's not so hurried in undressing, lazily undoing the necessary clasps to remove his boots as she goes on. ]


Maybe you did. Maybe your 'ultimate analysis' or whatever is just the way your aura works. Maybe... [ he turns to her, lifting his hands to wiggle his fingers mysteriously in her face ] ...we're even more similar than you thought.

[ A shrug! He'll take the bottle from her to down a gulp. ]

Never have I ever... fallen in love.
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ She doesn't drink. But she does raise her eyebrows and grin at him. ]

Never have I ever been this... opposite-of-the-word-bored in my entire life.

[ Her words aren't great right now.

Suddenly, the water's just inviting enough and the air around them is too cold. She's going to get impulsive soon enough. ]
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ He tries to think about that for a moment, because it's the opposite of an opposite, right? So that's a double negative? So she's asking if he HAS been this not-bored before? Can he even quantify that?

Ugh, fuck it, he can't think straight enough to work it out. He's taking a drink. ]


Never have I ever wanted some guy who pinned me against a gargoyle and nearly got freaky with me to join me in a hot tub and finish the job.
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ She drinks. ]

Never have I ever...
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Gotten undressed in front of a guy in a hot tub at night.

[ Junko is Drunko and grabs both sides of her jacket and rips it off. ]

BUT I'M NOT TAKING A SHOT BECAUSE THAT FUCKING ENDS TONIGHT!

...

...

[ immediately blacks out ]
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'll just take yours for you, like a gentleman.

[ Mercury proceeds to drink entirely too much vodka.

Mercury proceeds to throw the bottle over his shoulder and jump into the hot tub.

The only thing Mercury took off prior to that was his boots.

For fuck's sake. ]
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Junko is slung over the side of the hot tub, arms and head, drifting back into consciousness. Of course there's a hangover of a thousand hells, but Junko loves pain more than anything, so it... it hardly makes a difference...

No, they didn't do it. She'd be able to tell. But somehow, someway, their empty heads at least managed to get their clothes off sometime during the night.

...

Which means they're wet and freezing around the side of the tub.

Checking to make sure Mercury doesn't drown, she scoots over to him and gives him a firm slap. ]


Don't go dying on me! Wake uuuup!
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't even open his eyes - he's too uncomfortable for him to even think about adding the pain that light will surely bring to his eyes, so for all intents and purposes he still looks asleep even once he wakes up. He hears Junkp waking up, stirring about, but remains perfectly still in the hopes that she'll leave him alone.

One slap in the face and entirely too much noise later, he's wasting no time in grabbing her by the back of the head to shove her back under the water and away from him. ]


Shut. Up.
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ She squirms away from him and tosses her hair back-- she remembers-- they were gonna, and she was ripping her clothes off, and nothing. ]

Mercury.

[ Holy shit. ]

Mercury, did you sharpie all over me in the middle of the night?

[ She stands up-- again, shame is for people who aren't Junko-- And look who's a tiger. ]
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ He opens one eye slowly at the question - then the other, at the sight of her completely undressed, which he can now be certain to actually remember thanks to sobriety! ]

Oh my god, did we get you inked up while we were smashed?
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
It feels like more than a tattoo, and a soak overnight in a hot tub would have made it fade-- Ah!

[ she zooms over to him and keeps some distance lest he dunk her again ]

Holy shit, your eyes! They've changed c-- not color, they've changed everything!

[ She scrambles for her compact in the pocket of her skirt, and pops it open to show him. ]
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He rears his head back a bit at her sudden energy - which he doesn't share, blinking blearily as she finds her compact to show him what she's so worked up aboWHAT THE FUCK.

There's nothing like a little body horror to snap someone out of their hangover, the nausea from overindulgence overwhelmed by the nausea of the realization that those are his eyes that have suddenly warped into something else. White sclera now black as night, pupils burning red, the only thing unchanged is the deep steel of his irises.

He reaches a hand out to grab the compact for himself, holding it closer to get a better look. ]


So that's... that's something.

[ Was this in the contract? He does not remember this in the contract. ]

Is this permanent?
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone gets changes... little things that make them a part of this world. Physical changes that usually reflect the person inside. A sign that you're growing more magical.

[ She sinks back into the hot tub to lift a leg. The stripes blur into coal-black down to her feet, and her hands look like they're covered in thick, dark ash, her red nails standing out. ]

Maybe we did something to trigger it?

[ somewhere in Junko's subconscious, the truth is there-- they talked about all the fucked up ways they did murder and what if they fucked on that balcony, would the castle-golem feel weird about that, a game of truth or dare that never got sexy, and a myriad of other things before they puked up the vodka over the side and passed out. ]
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[personal profile] sarcaskick 2017-11-26 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess so.

[ He leans back slowly against the edge of the hot tub, tossing her compact somewhere in the general direction of her clothes as he watches her show off her changes. Not that he needed the excuse to look at her legs, shameless as he is, but it's a different kind of stare this time. Something scrutinizing. ]

You know, for all you build up my aura and stuff as magic, it's not. Magic is something on a whole other level. Something I never thought I'd get to be part of.

[ One... two... three... there's the grin, slowly creeping back into its home on his lips. ]

Could be interesting.
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[personal profile] disjunct 2017-11-26 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I think so too.

[ Junko lets her pigtails soak in the water before she draws herself out, admiring the aesthetic-- black stripes on her pale skin, leaving her back bare and her torso unstriped. It was just down her sides and making an elegant shape around her neck. ]

I'm always down for an upgrade. Who knows? Maybe they'll make us stronger, too.

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