⇨ 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

[exaomori]

GRumpy and overly serious or not, the important thing is that he's still playing along with her. "A squid?" Was that about the bachelor's favorite food or a reference to their home planet being from the ocean? Shura peers over the cards, but no one seems to be proudly displaying any kind of squid, and she nearly gives up until one particular card catches her eye. He does look a little aquatic, but most importantly, his mouth is just a mass of tentacles. She pauses, picking up the card and looking closer.

"This guy--was that clue about squid, or was it about somethin' else?"

[atouts]

"It was about..." Good lord, he's beginning to regret playing along with this even if he is adamant to stick it out until the end. "Having the most luscious tentacles in the quadrant."

It's something he says with a tinge of distaste. Only a tinge. Not because he doesn't find it weird but because he isn't all that prone to overreaction.

"I wasn't aware tentacles could be luscious."

[exaomori]

Luscious? Luscious. Shura glances between the card and Childermass, back and forth a couple times, then back to the cards. There's a vague sort of revulsion washing over her as she tries to process just what the implications of luscious tentacles might be. It's okay if Childermass has a restrained reaction since Shura is going to make a terrible face.

"Ughh. I've seen plenty of tentacles, but ain't nothing I'd ever call luscious." If her stomach was any weaker, she'd be gagging, but she holds back, only tossing the card back on the board. "That's too much for me, but it's your man, not mine."

[atouts]

Childermass will reach for that same card, if only to pick it up and confirm the alien does, indeed, have tentacles. An aquatic alien as a space pirate makes sense to him, too, if only because he thinks of sea pirates when he imagines pirates at all.

"The people of Atlantis might disagree," he says, at least finding some humor out of this awfulness. Still, it is only a card. "I do think this one might be him."

Is that how the game works? Does it matter? Let's find out.