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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2018-03-21 03:33 pm

⇨ SPACE OLYMPICS

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 30 - Day 44
Where: The carnival, Zargon, and Olympic Spaceship
What: Things return back to normal as the carnival performs for aliens of all sorts at the Space Olympics. Or at least, as normal as it can be when you've got an underfunded and falling-apart spaceship hovering over a deadly planet.
Warnings: Sports and people's inability to do them.

REACH FOR THE STARS

At first glance, the Space Olympics seem marvelous. Aliens from all over the universe, of all shapes and sizes have joined together in an intergalactic display of teamwork and sportmanship. What could be more inspiring than that? It's only when you hang around for a bit that you notice things aren't exactly in tip-top shape.

► OLYMPIC SPACESHIP: This is where most of the events are held. It's a massive spaceship spanning hundreds of miles and consisting of multiple floors. Teleportation discs and space public transport can take you anywhere on the spaceship in a blink of an eye. It has almost every amenity an athlete can think of: multiple gyms, practice arenas, saunas, etc. Likewise, there are plenty of things for civilians and spectators: merchandise stands, shopping malls, grocery stores, and television screens everywhere so people can watch the event. Shuttles to and from Zargon arrive on a regular basis.

► ZARGON: Facility wise, Zargon itself is less impressive than Olympic Spaceship. The carnival and the athlete's village comprise most of the habitable areas. Both are concealed underneath a large biodome, the main thing making the area livable. Enterprising Zargonites have set up stands that let people explore outside of the biodome. Rent a spacesuit and you too can enjoy Zargon's natural wonders, such as the distant red plateaus and the stunning solar winds. Just try and stay away from the toxic mold, naturally occurring pockets of hallucinogenic gas, and ten foot tall Zargon Death Flytrap.

► 1980s TRAINING MONTAGE: Since carnival members can only attempt to medal in one event, why not try different sports to see what that one event is? There's equipment for all sorts of sports: gymnastics, swimming, biathalon, snowboarding, etc. They've even somehow brought space horses up here for Space Dressage! There's also equipment for sports that carnival members might not have even known existed: Space Gymkata, Space Pooh Sticks, Space Limbo Skating, etc. The sky's the limit!

► A BIT OF A BUDGET SNAFU: The Space Olympics is kind of falling apart. After performance week, the carnival is drafted to help out and keep the Space Olympics running as smoothly as possible. This means fixing buildings, breaking up fights, helping in the kitchen, trying to sell merch, etc. If there's a feasible problem, the carnival members will be drafted to help fix it. The biggest problem of all is the multiple mechanical failures: artificial gravity stops working, temperatures on the ship rapidly shift from hot to cold, and the snow machines for Space Slopestyle won't turn off.

► PERFORMANCE: Performance week will start early this stop, to try and get everyone back into the swing of things after the chaos of Wismuth. Athletes from the village roam the carnival, taking in the sights and sounds. A lot of them haven't ever seen anything like the magic of the carnival and it's workers and will proceed to ask question after question about how all of this works: turns out that sci-fi and fantasy don't crossover as much as one would think. Still, don't be alarmed when you turn the corner and there's a Hutt trying his hand at test your strength.
alphudo: (confusion)

A or B (bully your new underling)

[personal profile] alphudo 2018-04-11 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
If Peridot doesn't remember who Yuusei is thanks to his alien form, he might at least be recognisable by how stupid he looks stumbling around on six limbs, a certain idiocy observable in the carnival as well with his taur body. With the neck length, he might still be taller than her even as a Krogan, but that doesn't mean he's unliftable. In fact, he looks a little... spindly? For a mech-dragon-alien?

He cranes his neck into a head tilt as he can't help but watch Peridot's enthusiasm for being Big, but to be fair, there's a certain sense of power he can feel as well in this current body of his.

Or at least he would if he could walk properly.

[re:subject line, i wrote this with A in mind but it could probably work for B as well, do what you like !!]
periphrasing: (How to Train Your Pumpkin)

Sorry for slow response I've been TOTALLY PANTS at tags lately

[personal profile] periphrasing 2018-04-16 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
She certainly doesn't recognize him like that, but can you really blame her? Everyone looks completely different here.

So instead she stares at him, waiting for some kind of response to her request. But when it doesn't come she grunts, nonplussed. "Uh. Can you even talk?" Maybe there's some kind of language barrier here? Enough time at the carnival has taught her to be more respectful of the sapience of various lifeforms no matter HOW different they look, but. Maybe this isn't a person at all? That would be annoying.
alphudo: (tense)

GOD that's a mood though, you're good

[personal profile] alphudo 2018-04-17 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It does admittedly take him a minute. He can understand her, yes, but the request itself is definitely... guard-dropping, to say the least.

He does eventually 'blink' - the little lights that appear to be his pupils simply wink out of existence for a moment in the black voids that are his eye sockets - and shake himself out of his stalled state.

"...m-mm, ah-" and puts his tools down along the edge of the wall to keep any of them from potentially falling onto his supervisor during this stunt of sorts. "Er... Go ahead, I guess?" What is one really to say in this sort of situation? Is there anything he needs to do to let her pick him up??