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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2018-07-23 02:43 pm

⇨ EDEN PT. 2

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 86 - Day 88
Where: Eden
What: The Furies of Eden have been found and have agreed to ally with the carnival to achieve their mutual goals. Meanwhile, tensions in the city only get thicker. How much longer until everyone's cover is blown for good?
Warnings: Increasingly high chances of ritual sacrifices.

FRUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

Progresses has been made, but obstacles are approaching. As various characters fall under suspicion for their unusual natures the threat of backlash from the community of Honorables and Architects grows imminent. Several carnival members have fled to the Barrens, allying with the Furies of Eden, a rebel group bent on defying Lilith and taking Eden for themselves. Meanwhile, those still in the city are left with the aftermath.

Information is still being cycled between the two groups, via various super powers and delivery methods. Sans has been freed from the control of his Architect and has left to find the rebels, but his delivery service is still being used to disperse information. You can assume to have been told about anything on this spreadsheet that's been addressed to the entire mailing list.

► TENSIONS GROW: As the days go on, the attitude of long term residents have only grown more suspicious and hostile. Several members of the new arrivals have gone missing, and it seems as if the locals are starting to suspect these absences are intentional rather than accidental. Some of the most ornery of them will say things that suggest that they think they've run off to join the heretics, but they will be hushed by those near them. However, no immediately violence is being imposed on people from the carnival's entry group. Not that you've seen, anyway.

► SAMYAZA'S INVITATION: Displeased by the atmosphere being created by all this distrust, Samyaza the Hare, Architect of Festivities and Music, has invited all of the remaining new arrivals to an exclusive garden party of hers. Everyone who is still in the city will be invited to attend, along with some choice members of the native population. The actual party will be happening on Day 88. Attendance is strongly recommended by the other Honorables. The nature of this even will depend on what occurs before it, and will be covered in more detail later in the log. The invitations go out on Day 86.

► HERESY UNVEILED: On the evening of Day 86, the city of Eden is alight with controversy - a band of Furies have been found! Hasma of Araqiel (the horse featured in Missing posters last week) has been caught within city borders, along with two Honorables of Eden who had been secretly colluding with her. The three condemned Furies have been bound and chained in cages in a public areas of the city, awaiting trial and punishment. It's a similar tone to criminals being locked in stockades for the civilians to mock, though the initial city mood seems more uncomfortable and nervous than angry. There is a horse, squirrel, and border collie currently imprisoned.

► RINGMASTER'S RETURN: On Day 87, the Ringmaster will be returning from her investigation. Specifically, she'll be arriving at the doorstep of the Furies in the Barrens, and will be entering to visit her associates within. Apparently, she's been spending all this time searching the barrens for entrances into the core of Eden, as well as trying to communicate with the Serpent. Neither have yielded major successes, however. Carnival members at the Furies base can ask interact with her through investigations.
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Invited

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2018-07-28 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuya stops, so wrapped up in his thoughts that he almost doesn't even register what Reira's saying at first.] Huh? Oh, yeah... I got one of those too.

[He's more uneasy about it, but he's at least making an effort not to show that openly. It's probably supposed to be a good thing, as far as any other Honorable would know. He can't help but be worried when so many of them have had to run off now, and with Strange and Ignatius wanted...

He shakes his head.]
Yeah, it should be fun.
soft_focus: (extra 04)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2018-07-28 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Open doesn't mean anything when it's Reira, and she looks a little disheartened suffice to say.] .....Mnmnnhhhh... ....you're all worried instead though... [she mutters, before moving to immediately start climbing the other's leg. Here, let her up-]

...You should stop being worried, things don't get done otherwise.

[A nice vague statement that has solid meaning underneath. No one's getting out of here if everyone frets.]
hippocarnival: (✮ 008 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2018-07-28 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not worried. [He is, but it's not a good look on them to the rest of the Honorables he's pretty sure. He's already noticed the growing distrust, how much would it take them to turn on all of them?

Yuya's definitely decided that subterfuge just isn't for him.]
Everyone just seems kind of... tense because some of us aren't fitting in.
soft_focus: (-sigh-)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2018-07-28 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
.... [She does not IMMEDIATELY call him out, but it is certainly tempting. So she instead opts to more or less change the subject all together.

For now, at least...
] ...Mnh. I guess so.

Do you want to see the sculpture I finished then? To make you feel better? [And more importantly, to get him somewhere she can call him out??]
hippocarnival: (✮ 069 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2018-07-30 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? Oh, sure. [His own crafting has fallen to the wayside, though not long enough to be noticeable. And he's got enough of a backlog of flowering teas to excuse himself, if he felt he needed to.

His response is a little empty coming out, but he'll follow her.]
soft_focus: (.w.)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2018-07-31 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Okay! [She hums, already running off ahead. Best hurry Yuuya, or you'll lose sight of her.] This way!

[She runs quite a ways- she seems to be leading him to a series of trees above a nearby aqueduct, the water moving at a slow, but no less constant rate. It's difficult to see what she intends to display............initially anyway.

She will no doubt fix that.
]
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2018-07-31 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah--wait! [Yuya gets moving quickly, trying not to lose sight of her. It's not easy when she's white and two inches big and it's daytime, which means he's paying more attention to her than to their surroundings at all.]
soft_focus: (Hair01)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2018-08-01 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[NO SHE CANNOT BE CONTAINED

But that said she will at least wait until he arrives at the shore before explaining. Studying his height for a moment, she gestures to a large rock before moving toward a tree overhanging the water.
]

Okay. I have to go uncover the sculpture. You just need to...stand there, ok? And look...that way, [She adds, nodding to herself.]
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2018-08-01 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuya leans over, squinting to try and see her tiny gestures as they come around the shore.] Uh--stare at the rock?

[He assumes that's where the shadow's going to cast, anyway.]
soft_focus: (O_O)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2018-08-01 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
No, stand on it, [She repeats, pointing again.] You have to look in the water.

[Which will certainly seem odd, but she's busy climbing the tree now- occasionally poking her head out from the branches to make sure Yuuya's looking.

Interestingly she somehow found a red maple...hmm.
]

...Are you ready?
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2018-08-01 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Yuya's head turns from Reira to the rock, circling it before hopping up with a swish of his tail. And then he just... stares at the surface of the water.] Ready!
soft_focus: (say what now)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2018-08-01 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[As Reira tugs a small cord, a sheet falls to the ground behind Yuuya. What is being revealed however, is indeed upon the water- the leaves, cut in layers, show an image. First, a lighter shadow becoming a large stingray; as the water moves, the shadow ripples somewhat, as if it swims.

Within the stingray however, is a familiar octopus shape- small, and a more thorough shadow, its tentacles sway similar to the stingray, along with the strings of a clear headband. There is light still, at certain points- things like the eyes, for example- the shadow on Gongenzaka seems to sit tonally between himself and the stingray for certain patterns as well.

Considering that the tree above does not look like a cut-out of these things, it's rather neat.
]
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2018-08-01 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuya leans over, swaying side to side a bit as he watches the shadow ripple. His expression eases a little in curiosity.]

That's a sting ray and an octopus, right? [That latter reminds him of Gon, but he doesn't immediately assume that's who Reira was trying to make.]
soft_focus: (oAo)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2018-08-01 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Mnh! It's a big stingray...because it's Baraqel! She's the one who's in charge of the octopus...who's Lamechi!

[She pauses, and peers down from the branches.] Um...I wanted to do something with the water, but it was easier to watch Lamechi before....I couldn't find the other one from the water that came with us, and it's hard to get people to let me watch them now...

[Not that Gongenzaka 'let' her watch persay, but he at least wouldn't complain if he noticed, she feels.]
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2018-08-01 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! [So it is Gongenzaka--well, he's glad to hear his friend might be helping keep an eye on Reira with circumstances the way that they are. He's not exactly talked to him much about doing that, but he probably doesn't need to.

He crouches a little as he regards the shadows again, watching them change. It's kind of relaxing to watch.]
That's really cool... uh, did you see Baraqel?
soft_focus: (.w.)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2018-08-01 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
No.

[She's pretty honest about that.] I just know she's a big stingray. I didn't see any of the Architects.

...That's normal though, most people haven't seen them, really... [Except shadows or something but anyway. That's not the point. She flaps down, dragging her sheet with her to join Yuuya. It's rather comical, given the sheet is far larger than she is.]

...Do you like it then? [She asks, hopeful.]
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2018-08-01 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[That's... kind of a relief, actually. That sees just guessing.

He turns his attention back to Reira with a smile.]
Yeah! You did a good job.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2018-08-01 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhh... [Well she looks down right pleased as punch with that complimen-]

...I told you I could work big!

[you little shit]