⇨ CAMPING GROUNDS

[ringleaders]

Who: Everybody!
When: Day 64
Where: The Camping Grounds
What: While the Ringmaster attempts to purge the carnival of magical tracing spells and deal with the angry fire fae in her belly, everyone else is getting sent on an emergency camping trip with some unusual local fauna.
Warnings: Camping.

CRYPTIC CAMPGROUNDS↴ You're given about three hours to prepare, after the Ringmaster tells you her plans for the coming week. There is a vast selection of camping equipment at your disposal, and the means to take along enough food for the length of the stay. The wilderness of the planet you're left on is nearly idyllic, but some people just don't like the great outdoors. ► CRYPTOZOOLOGY: As it turns out, the carnival won't be alone here. There is a varied ecosystem of cryptids to be found as well, living in relative peace and mostly reacting to the newcomers with curiousity. More details can be found on the plotting post. You are free to NPC the cryptids as much as you need to, as long as you stick to the behaviours described. ► DREAMSHARING: There is a player plot going on which will allow characters to share dreams! These are specifically more dreams than nightmares, and the mushi-adept characters will be here to help. ► CHILLAX: There isn't any plot twist for this setting, so this is mostly an opportunity to decompress from the last plot and get ready for the future. The Ringmaster will show up occasionally to help with needed medical treatments and check on things, but won't stick around for long.

Comments

Re: camping

[seniorvicejanitor]

Yeah, the problem is the camping.

[ duh!!!! ]]

Can you honestly say this is what you want to be doing right now?

[anti_nonsense]

[Rita glances away, her eyes narrowed.] Of course not.

But it's not like this world has any inns we can check into instead. Be glad we had a chance to grab tents and sleeping bags.

[seniorvicejanitor]

I would have preferred to just stay back where there were trailers that had roofs.

[ would that have been so hard? rhys doesn't think so. ]

[anti_nonsense]

[Rita sighs.]

Normally, I'd be the last person to say this... but the Ringmaster had a good reason to throw us all out of the realm for while.

The lack of roofs isn't that big a deal, is it? Haven't you ever had to rough it before? [He might notice she's looking him up and down, as if trying to figure out at a glance what kind of life he's led.]

[seniorvicejanitor]

Not like this.

[ camping was a whole new kind of roughing it for rhys. he'd always had a roof and a room and a way to lock the door. he wasn't expecting to do be doing anything that would require privacy but sometimes it was nice. ]

No one camps on the surface of Pandora unless they want to get eaten in their sleep. It's too dangerous.

[anti_nonsense]

Eaten? By what, monsters?

[It's unclear if her nonchalant tone is because she finds that normal, or because she doesn't believe him.]

[seniorvicejanitor]

On Pandora? Hell yes.

[ monsters, monsters and more monsters. ]

There's corpses all over the place on Pandora. I don't want to add to the numbers.

[anti_nonsense]

Hmph... sounds pretty similar to my world. It's a problem if you're careless or your equipment fails, but... [She shrugs.]

You don't have any way of keeping them away from campsites?

[seniorvicejanitor]

Some of them. But, bullymongs tend to be huge and they go where they want.

[ eat what they want too. including people. ]

You can carry guns and kill the but again, some of them are huge and hungry and gross and they smell.

[anti_nonsense]

That... sounds like most monsters.

[Huge. Hungry. Smelly.]

Where I'm from, camping equipment usually comes infused with a scent that repels monsters, so people don't get attacked in their sleep. [She glances over their own bundles.] Doesn't look like any of this is treated, though.

[seniorvicejanitor]

That might be a thing but I don't really camp enough to spend money on stuff like that. It'd be a waste. I'm usually in a room with a roof and a door that locks. Much better.

[ a tent wasn't going to repel things like bullymongs and skags and nightstalkers and anything really. ]

I would hope that we weren't sent to a place where we're going to have to deal with an attack. I'd like to get some sleep at night.

[anti_nonsense]

We'll be fine. Probably.

[She sounds unconcerned.]

Anyway, you're new around here, right? [Relatively, anyway. Rita doesn't pay that much attention to who comes into the carnival and when.] What's your name?

[seniorvicejanitor]

Probably.

[ HOW COMFORTING!!!! ]

Rhys. I'm pretty new. Been here a few weeks now so not brand new but still new.

[ kind of. ]

[anti_nonsense]

Rita. [He gave his name, so she gives hers.] I'm a scholar, and... one of the mercenaries here. [You know, the mercenaries who just took a huge blow to their reputation.]

You picked a pretty lousy time to join a group like this, Rhys.

[seniorvicejanitor]

Well, the timing wasn't exactly great where I was coming from either. So, bad times all around.

[ nearly getting killed by robots made a guy a little tetchy and a little uncaring of anything but getting away from that. ]

I'm a janitor.

[ S I G H ]

[anti_nonsense]

[Well, okay, she can see that. Maybe this guy comes from a really crap situation. Still...]

... A janitor.

[That might just be the lamest job around here.]

Was that what you did before coming here too, or...?

[seniorvicejanitor]

No!

[ because he'd left before vasquez could actually make him clean shit up. he was a smart one, that rhys.]

I don't know why I got the job. Maybe it was the only one open.

[ yeah, that was it! ]

[anti_nonsense]

I doubt that.

[Sorry, not sorry.]

So what did you do before?

[seniorvicejanitor]

Vault Hunter.

[ that, technically, was true! he hadn't been a vault hunter for long and he'd never found anything but he'd been trying! ]

[anti_nonsense]

Huh. [There's a look on her face that says she has no idea what that is, but it sounds vaguely more interesting than what she expected.]

And... what the heck is that?

[seniorvicejanitor]

You hunt vaults.

[ duh! come on now. ]

To further explain, you find the locations of vaults where unimaginable treasure is buried. You gotta get past all kinds of nasty things to get there.

[anti_nonsense]

So you're a scavenger, basically.

I guess I am a little surprised, though. I was starting to think you were a coward.

[Actually, she still isn't convinced otherwise.]

[seniorvicejanitor]

Vault Hunter.

[ there was a difference! ]

And I'm not a coward. I just know when to protect myself and run and when to fight.

[anti_nonsense]

Uh huh.

You mentioned guns before... but those are banned in this group. You know how to fight without them?

[seniorvicejanitor]

Of course I do.

[ just BARELY. ]

This arm of mine isn't just for show.

[ he waves the robotic arm around and smiles proudly. ]