⇨ 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

[hippocarnival]

Yuya picks up on it, mostly because he remembers the state of a lot of changelings that he helped during the month they were there. They really didn't have it easy.

He laughs. "I told you, what he looks like now isn't how he really is!" Not that Gongenzaka doesn't still have the size and bulk that's unreasonable for a 14 year old, and would be easily taken as an adult. But he's not a 9 foot tall taur beast, at least.

"That's all changes from being with the carnival."

[whattaprick]

"He still doesn't look like any fourteen-year-old I've ever seen," Lambert says plainly. Is it some kind of condition? Genetic weirdness? Yuya clearly doesn't have it, whatever it is.

"Just how long was he with the Carnival, anyway?"

[hippocarnival]

"He signed a contract for a second year after we left Wismuth... I think he just has bad luck." Some sort of Fae magic magnet even besides the whole dying thing.

"He got like that after dying the--first time, I think." His expression twists uncomfortably. "I guess that was before you joined?"

[whattaprick]

"It was," Lambert confirms. "Lemme guess -- the vampires?"

[hippocarnival]

Yuya nods, but doesn't look like he wants to talk too deeply about it. That's partly because there's only so much he can say simce he wasn't there.

"Yeah, but he had one of those eggs, so..." Obviously he's still with them. "I think it's slowing down, I don't know how much more he can keep changing."

[whattaprick]

"When I was new, someone told me the changes fade, after you go home. If you don't want to keep them, anyway."

Never mind that that real big, lingering if over that question is the if you go home part. It's looking like their chances of that aren't the best, though Lambert wonders what Yuya makes of that himself.

[hippocarnival]

"That's why I'm not that worried about it." He gestures to his own tail as it curls to the side of him. He doesn't, outwardly at least, seem worried about not being able to go home either. "And he's been taking it well, as long as I've seen him here. It's definitely not the worst part."

No, the constant kidnapping and death is.