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⇨ TEST DRIVE MEME #2
WELCOME TO THE SHOW!↴ Or, more specifically, Lost Carnival's test drive meme! This is an opportunity to try out your characters in the setting before you apply, or to put together samples for characters you've never played before. There are going to be options for both new arrivals and veteran characters. Before we get started, let's lay down some details:
NEW RECRUITS↴  You gotta start somewhere, right? These prompts are for characters who are arriving in the carnival for the first time, and who are destined to sign a contract. How they go about that is up to you, but in the meantime they can enjoy the sights and sounds of something truly out of this world. Visitors to the carnival comes from many different worlds today, as the ringmaster casts out her recruitment lures. Will you become her most recent hire? ► ADMISSION FEES: After crossing into the carnival's realm and passing through the trees, most visitors will find themselves at the front gate - though not all choose to enter that way. If they enter legitimately, however, they will have to pass by a clerk who will trade admission and tickets for various attractions and rides in exchange for "anything of value." What is of value may seem highly subjective, and so some may struggle to produce payment at first, though in actuality the carnival will take anything from mundane currency to items of purely sentimental value. ► MIRROR MAZE: The mirror maze (pictured above) is a big attraction in the carnival, and stretches much further on the inside than it looks like it will on the outside. It's hard to get through, and what's more, after you've been in there for a while your reflections will start gaining a mind of their own - mostly in order to taunt and distract you with personal information. They don't know everything you know, but they know more than they should, and their mind games can be pretty hit or miss. ► GAMER'S CIRCLE: Almost all of the game booths are organized in a large ring around the Cookhouse, called Gamer's Circle. Your can play just about any carnival game you can imagine here, for a variety of prizes sometimes traditional, exotic, or outright magical. Dart tossing? Got it. That game with the water guns? Got it. Most of these booths are currently manned by humanoid spirits who look like they are made of smoke. If they can trick you into earning debt, they will. ► NOT YOUR WHEELHOUSE (NEW): Sometimes, even magical ferris wheels get stuck. The carnival's particular wheel is enchanted to create a particular out of this world experience - as you pass along the top, you feel as if they are so close to the sky that you can interact with the stars like baubles hanging above your head. Of course, the novelty probably wears off when the wheel is broken and you've been stuck enjoying the light show with some stranger for the last half hour. How are you going to pass the time? ► TRYING TO LEAF: No matter where you came from, you seemingly emerged from a forest. Obviously, to get back home you should be able to go back in the same direction, right? It turns out you can't. Worse, trying too hard to get through the wood will result in you getting lost, or turned back to the carnival. The trees here are not normal, and are varying levels of alien, including things like trees with glowing fruit or orange flowers that constantly burn like candles. ► WILD CARD: Anything else you can imagine in this setting! There are a lot of possibilities and you're free to explore them. Check out the rest of the game info or the locations page for additional inspiration. Want to make a starter with your character experiencing their first theoretical change? Go for it! VETERAN WORKERS↴  These prompts are tailored to the carnival's existing employees, the veterans. Odds are they've been here from somewhere between a few months and three years already, and know their way around the block. For them, this is just business as usual - and depending on their attitude towards their job, they may or may not contribute to a few people accidentally getting themselves a contract. Whatever you do, though, don't warn visitors away from the carnival - the ringmaster hates losing business like that. ► DO YOUR WORK: This one's pretty simple - just have your character doing whatever you'd like to have their job be! There is a big list of ideas over here, and you could use this to try things out with a character you intend to be a new arrival, as well. ► WILL O' WISPS: The ringmaster's will o' wisps have gotten free, and she's asked that everyone keep and eye out and help her reclaim them regardless of their official jobs. Wisps are small creatures that burn both hot and cold and comes in a few different variations of the same basic theme. Handling them physically (or psionically, or magically, for that matter) is difficult due to their near intangible nature. Touching and being around them can result in confusion and a sensation similar to being comfortably drunk. ► BREAK TIME: Whatever you were doing, it's break time! It's time for you to relax however you see fit. Do you enjoy some of the carnival attractions yourself, or is that old by now? Do you hang out in the Cookhouse to get a snack? Do you take a nap? Yolo, baby! ► RIDDLE GAME: For a bit of fun, the ringmaster has left a variety of locked chests around the worker areas of the carnival, each with instructions and a riddle written on their lids. The chest will accept three guesses from each worker before refusing to respond to them any further. If you guess the right answer, the chest will open and you will be rewarded with some manner of fun magical knick knack. If you've run out of guesses, maybe you can conspire with someone else and promise to split the prize? ► CAPTURE THE... EGG? (NEW): The Ringmaster likes to keep things exciting for her employees, and this time she's devices a game that mixes an Easter egg hunt with capture the flag. She's hidden various metallic "eggs" around the carnival that chime like bells when people get near, and divided participants into three teams (red, blue, yellow of course.) The carnival has been divided into three zones, and the objective is to gather as many eggs as possible for your team (three points for gold, two for silver, one for copper.) However, when you are in a zone that doesn't belong to your team, if they can snatch off your team flag they can take you to "jail" and confiscate any eggs you may be holding for their team. When in doubt, bullshit the rules! This is a prompt, after all. ► WILD CARD: Anything else you can imagine in this setting! There are a lot of possibilities and you're free to explore them. Check out the rest of the game info or the locations page for additional inspiration. Want to do a performance? Hang out in the Backyard? Choose whatever appeals! |
Sam | Until Dawn
She felt like an idiot. Who takes a bargain from some stranger in exchange for money and their father's life? Sam Charleston, apparently. She had no choice in the matter, not really. If she hadn't, her dad would have a bullet hole in his head and her mom would too since the debt would fall to her. Dad was even more of an idiot for being a gambling addict and betting on football games like he had the money to even do so.
So, here she was, covered in thisles and thorns after getting out of the strange and unusual forest. Everything seemed to have a bright glow and she was sure she saw a purple frog in the pond she passed. Favorite color and everything but any animal that was purple besides a chameleon spelled trouble.
She stared at the circus, it was huge in appearance, crazy huge and it looked inviting but she just wanted to go home, be with her friends, go back to college, see that her parents were alright. That her dad wouldn't gamble anymore and put her mom's life in danger too. She knew it was wishful thinking, but she hoped her sacrifice taught want him some sort of lesson.
God, she just wanted to go home. With that in mind, she turned back into the forest. Boots crunching over leaves and twigs as she went. Being wary of her surroundings, a few moments later, her feet caught on a larger branch and she fell to her knees, scrapping them and her palms up on thicker, more harsh twigs in the process. She could already feel the flayed burn on her skin. “Damn it.”
MIRROR MAZE
This is the kind of thing she lived for. Fun house mazes, ferris wheels, games, animals everywhere despite the fact that she didn't like them having to be entertainment for human beings but she had to grow used to it and she would.
She moved through the maze at a slow pace, taking it all in. Her body grew disproportionate in size, grew long, grew shorter than she already was, and fat at that. She was grateful for that extra inch above 4'11 suddenly.
She stopped in front of a mirror that made her slightly shorter and thick, smiling as she made a face, sticking out her tongue and putting her fingers in her new cat ears as she crossed her eyes. Yeah, this wasn't so bad. “I'm acting like I'm ten again. Get a grip, Sam.”
She dropped smile, but she noted that the smile remained on the mirror image suddenly. She blinked, eyebrow raised as she made anothr face, but the smile remained. “Um...okay.”
As she was about to walk away from the strange... thing, she heard it. ”Poor Sam. Daddy ruined your life and now you're stuck here. I bet he doesn't care though, probably glad to be rid of his rally gathering daughter who caused him nothing but grief as a teenager.”
Sam blinked. “Excuse me? Who are you?” She turned around, looking about wildly.
”It was me, dumbass.”
She turned on the mirror image. Feeling a little bit of fear run through her. “Whatever you are. Shut up.”
The smile grew menacing. “But it's true. Isn't it? You mad him so sad and sometimes mad, all the time. Trying to get that vegan menu instated to the high school lunch menu, staging a rally against that kill animal shelter for inhumane ways of disposing animals. You always caused your parents hearts to ache. Sometimes, they thought of sending you off somewhere, just for awhile, until you got your head on straight.”
Sam's mouth set into a grim line. “You don't know anything about me.”
I know, everything about you.”
Sam decided to ignore it and turned on her heel, walking back into the fun house, deciding to look for the way out.
Trying to Leaf
Hearing the exclamation, she looked up curiously.
"Oh my! Are you all right?"
She ran over, hastily stuffing the paper and quill into her belt and holding the crystal higher to cast a brighter light on the area. As she reached Sam, Riza held out a large feathered hand to help her up.