⇨ CONFLAGRATION

[ringleaders]

Who: The Ringmaster, Peridot, Amethyst, Shima, Tyki, Childermass and Ignatius.
When: Day 68
Where: THE CENTER OF THE (OTHER) MOON.
What: The Ringmaster has recruited the help of a not-so-elite group of carnival members to help her deal with the imprisoned Ignatius.
Warnings: Weird egg stuff.

THE FIERY ONE↴ When you meet up with the Ringmaster at the portal she's in her humanoid form, but that doesn't last long. After a brief period of waiting, she will take you back to the carnival grounds, still fresh and partially undefined from her rebuilding. It's familiar, but as if details have been left out - like a painting that's not finished yet. The sky isn't right, and and the forests are oddly barren. She'll assure you she simply isn't finished with it yet, but that this has taken precedence. Soon, she'll be turning into her dragon form and whisking you all away, up into the second moon. The flight happens almost instantaneously - first you see the carnival grounds, then the sandy oceans of the moon - then, you see nothing. It doesn't last for long, though. A ring of glowing stones light up the new space you're filling - a cavern carved out of the center of the moon itself. Unlike the moon with the Blue Rose, however, it isn't perfectly spherical, and gravity goes straight down. There is a rough, uneven floor you can walk on steadily, with boulders and rocks scattered about. The Ringmaster's current dragon form fills about half of it. In the center of the room there are two man-sized eggs. One glows brightly with an inner light, radiating heat. The other does as well, but less so. There's an impromptu nest of rocks around them, preventing them from falling over. The Ringmaster seems unsure of how to start. "So," she begins, uncertainly. She is till hunched over in dragon form. "This... is a bit complicated."

Comments

[drrdrrdrr]

"Geez," says Amethyst quietly, slouching against one of the Ringmaster's enormous scaly forelegs. "No one's gonna, like... stick around to keep him company or anything?" She considers this for a second. "Okay, I guess he doesn't want that outta any of us, but he could probably use some entertainment up here, right?"

[atouts]

"We could always spare the karaoke machine..." Childermass says wistfully, if only if it meant never seeing it again. Sure, that's basically a distant memory at this point, but one can never be too careful. That said, Amethyst isn't wrong about it. The real question is does Ignatius even want anything? Besides his freedom? Besides his domain back?

He'll look back towards the High Fae, quirking an eyebrow quizzically.

"Is there anything we could get for you? Something to read? Something to drink?"

Or food or pants or... He's kind of doubtful Ignatius would want anything reasonable from them, but there's no harm in asking.

[worldlyafflictions]

It's tempting to add a 'no need ta be shy~' in there somewhere but he figures he got his jab in when there was a reason for it and any more mocking isn't needed now.

"Or save requests for company 'n stuff for next time if ya want," shrug. "Nobody's gonna be popping in randomly or monitoring ya otherwise for now, I don't think," he gives the Ringmaster an inquiring look there since he's not sure that's true, though he figures that's one way to give him space, "I mean, other than noticing stuff like unauthorized contact 'n breakout attempts."