⇨ 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.

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[whattaprick]

[ Baker catches far more jackalopes than Lambert can efficiently cook, so on one particularly bountiful afternoon, the witcher will stop by with Butcher. At least six cleaned and skinned jackalopes have been bound by their ankles and slung over the little Mudbray's back, the smell of meat and blood apparently not bothering the Pokemon at all.

So yeah, Rin will be getting a visitor stopping by, waving at the jackalopes on Butcher's back as he goes. ]

Think you could use any more of these?

[ Unless he misses his guess, the cooks have a few already, but the Carnival is a ravenous bunch. ]

[flashover]

[so. many. horned rabbits. It's a good thing they have some other protein sources, because these suckers are lean. But super tasty, too!

Rin is in the process of washing and sorting some fruit and berries from the forest when Lambert heads his way with his little donkey-pokémon. Pokémon are so great. SO GREAT. While he's around the tent, his Flygon Nosh is curled up and snoozing, and Kuro is... somewhere. The bats a short distance away react to Lambert's presence by chittering noisily for a moment before going back to sleep.

He smiles and waves to Lambert, then walks up to pet Butcher on the head and around the ears]

Well, they're the best meat we have around here, and people seem to like 'em, so-- Wagh!! [he's just noticed how many there are!] Where did you get all these?!

[whattaprick]

[ Butcher, thoroughly spoiled for attention, waggles his ears happily. Yes, pets are good! But ... food would be better. He's already intelligently trying to sniff around Rin's pockets for fruit. ]

Baker's been hunting. [ Lambert explains. ] Can't really eat this many between me and Childermass, so...

[flashover]

[YAAASSSS Donkey ears!! So soft and amazing. Unfortunately, Rin doesn't have any fruit on him, but he can tell that Butcher is looking for a snack. He'll get to that in a moment.

Rin takes the bound carcasses]

Oh yeah? He's been helping Kuro and Nosh keep the Mothmen outta the goods, too. He's a good boy! Except for the... killing all the rabbits. [Rin takes them into the tent and comes back out with two native root vegetables. They have their mildly luminescent greenery attached, and the roots themselves look like a mix of a yam and a carrot, but in a bright shade of purple. He offers one to Butcher] Here you go! I dug up a bunch of these, they're really tasty.

[whattaprick]

Yeah? Might be part of his training or something. [ Lambert shrugs, easily. He's not necessarily up to speed on whatever Childermass is teaching Baker, but yeah.

Also, donkey ears are definitely the best, and Butcher happily takes the vegetable and makes quick work of one, while Lambert snorts. ]

Maybe we should have named him Piglet, instead. [ He straightens, cocking his head at Rin. ]

I heard another person from your world showed up. Seems like a nice kid.