Lost Carnival OOC

January 9th, 2017

Hello hello!

Name's Wolfeh and I'm a newcomer to the game~ I'll be joining you guys as Katsuki Yuuri from the anime series "Yuri!!! on Ice". He's coming in post series so fresh off a silver medal win at the Grand Prix Finals. \o/

Yuuri's going to be a showman here at the carnival and not have any idea what to do with himself for awhile. :'D

Feel free to add me on plurk if you'd like! I'm

AllintheBones over yonder!

10:17 am - -1 Purple Dragon, +1 Robot Turned Crow

predaconchow

HEY EVERYONE it's Possum, player of your lead Engineer Peridot, coming at you with a little CHARACTER SWITCHEROO

Bad news is, I've dropped Spyro. Thanks to everyone who indulged me with threads, he was a fun little guy to thread with and I'm glad I even briefly got to play him in a game. Unfortunately my motivation for him kind of dried up back around mid-November, so he was the first on the chopping block when I got the urge to app a THIRD character...

Which is why I now bring you an old favorite of mine, Starscream from Transformers: Prime. I've apped Starscream in as a veteran with some unusual circumstances that other veterans will want to be aware of. Fresh from a canon point from JUST BEFORE he rejoins Megatron in S2 and gets his transforming abilities back, he willingly joined up with the Carnival in the hopes of being able to fly once more. This was month or two before the whole VAMPIRE WAR incident went down, and when the blood suckers DID attack, he... tried to defect to their side?

Obviously the Ringmaster wasn't happy about that, so now instead of being a 30ft tall robot that can turn into a jet plane, he's a cantankerous little hooded crow. Bummer for him.

Anyway, he was a Scout before all this went down, so anyone who works in that area probably at least knew OF him. If you have any questions at all about any of this, or if you want to hash out any previous CR (he is a negative CR MACHINE), let me know and I'll be happy to discuss C: His official job title NOW is Roustabout/Ringmaster's Pet, and he basically has to be errand boy for literally anyone who asks? So that's fun. Just. Don't entrust him with important messages or anything like that.

01:39 pm - ⇨ New Location: ATLANTIS

ringleaders

PREPARATION↴
There isn't actually a lot of preparation leading up to Atlantis - at least not on the part of any of the workers. The Ringmaster, it would seem, has been preparing for it on her own, and the first anyone will be hearing about it is when they wake up with the carnival inexplicably underwater on the morning of Day 44. Also, they will have magically mutated into having fish parts, mermaid style.

Just what kind of fish parts they end up with is infinitely variable, and doesn't even have to stay restricted to fish, technically speaking. Any aquatic creature will suffice, whether that be dolphins, seals, crabs, shrimp, eels, squid, or anything else that would fit beneath the ocean. Even if you choose to base your mutations on a mammal that regularly requires air to survive, they won't need to go above water in this case. Everyone can breathe underwater equally, and so other physical changes will be mostly aesthetic and/or just affect the way they swim.

Character cannot ICly pick their mer forms - what they change into and how much they change is entirely an OOC decision. You can go for the full fish tail, or just webbed digits, gills, and a swimmer body. It doesn't really matter, as long as they function in the ocean.

Naturally, the suddenness of all this may be quite alarming, and it will seem that the decision to come here was very impulsive on the Ringmaster's part. Even if your character doesn't usually sleep, they will find themselves having drifted off during the transition period between there being water and no water. The Ringmaster will explain to those concerned that everything is safely waterproofed via enchantment, and all of the carnival equipment will work the same as it did before. It's just... underwater now. Huh.

SETTING↴

Atlantis is an underwater city within that the Ringmaster has describe as a "primordial ocean realm" that has no surface and no land above the sea. It is apparently connected, in small amounts, to many other oceans across the multiverse, and ships and other ocean vessels have a tendency to sink into it, Bermuda Triangle style, allowing the merfolk there to gather sunken treasure from across all of existence. The city itself is shockingly grand and elaborate for something that was apparently constructed underwater.

The Ringmaster has indicated that merfolk are some distant cousin to the fae, and the magic within the place will feel familiar to what exists within the carnival. Along with the merfolk inhabiting it, there is a large variety of other sea creatures and monsters that live in the surrounding areas. It's not clear how far the ocean stretches, but it feels effectively infinite. The carnival has located smack-dab in the middle of a beautiful underwater park within the city, and has physically merged with the local realm as opposed to remaining separate as it usually does. Tall underwater plants have replaced the barrier of trees.

( MORE PLOT DETAILS BELOW )

Tags:location, mod post, plotting post

This page was loaded May 22nd 2025, 5:13 am GMT.