lostcarnival | ⇨ CAMPING GROUNDS

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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"Something I missed..?" At that, she nearly falls from the tent, but catches herself- she's quite surprised either way however. "Ah...Y-You mean it makes pictures of things you forgot..!?"

"Things you can't just think about..!?"

Yugo is entirely unaware of the implications behind such a question. But since he's fair hunch about how the photo album works by now, there's no pause of thought before his answers.

Someone sure is in for a surprise. "Yeah! The book wouldn't be as great as we think it is if photos made out of memories like that were constantly getting erased, eh?"

Woah.

This is...certainly bringing a lot of interesting potential forward, or so she feels. At the very least, she's curious to see what the album could possibly do- not thinking, of course, about the strong chance of there being very upsetting memories yet untapped. So instead she disappears, before sending a rope ladder down the middle of the tent.

"Umn-!! Let's try it then!" she decides. "I want to see what pictures I can make..."

"Sure thing!"

Before he gets to climbing, Yugo briefly wonders if the tent is sure to fit all of him- crystals and everything...

Eh, he'll see for himself when he gets up there, because it shouldn't be too much of a problem to keep him balance on the ladder if it's too awkward for him to get through the opening.

He'll find away. Worst case, he can just crawl up through the Big door that doesn't really have much of a ladder to it in the first place. Once he's inside it'll be fine though. The snake-guy could fit no problem after all. Reira sits in a pile formed of the pillows, her sleeping bag, Reiji's blanket, and her own teddy, staring somewhat expectantly.

"Mnh...so...what do we do?" Let's SEE this.

Once Yugo's carefully settled into the tent in a position that shouldn't make a tear in something if he moves in the wrong manner, he hands over the album.

"Here. Just open it to the first page and we'll see what shows up."

Oh boy.

She is, suffice to say, sort of doubtful.

"...That's all I have to do?" she asks, taking the book in her hands. Briefly, she looks over the cover, placing her hand over it. It's a nice book to look at, at the least, but...

"..I don't have to think of anything..?"

Always doubting people, this tiny child. When has this idiot ever steered her wrong?

"Yep, of course it's that simple!"

At least as far as he's tested. Any issues he has with unbridgeable memory gaps tended to be related to blackouts and concussion-induced blackouts.

"Mnh..." Well, here she goes then. Reira slowly opens up to the first page, only to blink. And stare.

They're...faded photos, of a land covered in snow, most buildings reduced to ruin. "...Ah..."

That's 'home'.

Her first one.

Yugo peers closer at the images, not quite sure of what he was expecting- but not this.

"That kinda looks like Heartland, with how wrecked it is." he manages to comment.

... "It's not Heartland," she answers, and Yuugo might catch what's farther down the page before she does- there uh. There sure are. What's probably recently dead in these. "...I don't know what it was called, but... ...Heartland was another dimension, so.."

Maybe not let her see that.

Semi-discreetly (or perhaps not discreetly at all), Yugo reaches over to flip the page. But hopefully there isn't something else in the next set of pages that'll be too disturbing to stir back up for her.

"Man... it's no wonder you got some things about you that people don't expect from a kid your age, eh?"

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"Mnh..." Reira isn't really sure what she's looking at herself. Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is she sort of blocked most of the book- and thus, her life- Out.

"...I don't remember lots of this though..." No guesses as to why that might be, but it does make this a lot less fun than Yuugo likely hoped.

"Hm well maybe..." Yugo looks in thought while settling on a another set of pages that aren't too heavily disturbing.

"You could snap some pictures of these pictures for yourself? Maybe there's someone else that can help you figure these out."

Pictures? Reira blinks- and gets a bit worried. After all, Yuugo is seeming a bit disconcerted himself, so...

"...why..? ...why can't I look now, or...why do I have to look later..?"

Because you'll ruin your camping, child.

"Hey it's only because I don't think I'm right for the job of trying to help people remember stuff. Besides, we're supposed to be winding down and having fun while we're here anyway!"

..... One will wonder than honest or not, why Yugo keeps trying to make excuses with this child. A child that will question 'why' to everything.

Erm. Well, that's worrying...

"...Don't I have to look at them to take pictures...?" she eventually asks.

This might be his job, sadly. "...If you're not right for the job, why did you bring the book though..."

"Well I don't really know that much about you and no one's tells me anything all the time..." Yugo half mutters as he scoops up the book and flips the pages entirely to the opposite cover of the album, with the intent to work backwards.

Part of the current spread now since it would be extremely recent memory is any of Reira's past activities during the current camping trip. Like exciting and impossible shots of her playing with the lake beasts.

"Mnhhh..." Frankly, SHE doesn't know much about herself either. But she opts not to comment on that.

Instead, frowning a little worriedly, she goes to one of her bags.

"...I could get the camera stand, and you could put the camera on it..? ...To make taking pictures faster?"

He thinks over that for a quick second and-

"Sure that'd work. Wouldn't have to worry about keeping it still."

As Yugo still wonders who could possibly be appropriate to show what will soon be a pile of snapshots, he figures they'll be getting out from the tent because a camera stand has to be set up on the hard and stable ground anyway.

"Mnh." Excuse her a moment while she sets up the stand- but it appears to be something that grips rather than 'stands' per-say. She simply fastens it to the middle tent support, and steps back.

"Tadaaah~" You can stay comfortable Yuugo! She knows she was.

⇨ CAMPING GROUNDS

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