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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] livinglot2017-07-31 09:49 pm

⇨ New Location: THE SUMMERLANDS

PREPARATION
This time, there is no preparation. When the Severing was broken, the Ringmaster immediately returned everyone to the carnival, no matter their earthly location - only to then drag the carnival's realm all the way to the Summerlands right after. As the workers arrive, they will have been scattered around the carnival grounds, back in their original bodies - including their old faerie changes, of course, plus perhaps a few new ones. Bodies and memories will return to what they were before Portland, and while the life they lived there will stay with them as memories, they will only now be left to fully contemplate what they just experienced.

SETTING

The Summerlands are an idyllic realm of glorious mountain-top cities and vast fields of flowers and grass. It is inhabited almost entirely by the Summer Fae, a faction of the Summer Court which broken ties with their Arcadia homeland a long time ago. Veterans that have been with the carnival since the vampire's first attack will remember staying here for a couple months while everyone was recovering. The fae here will remember those workers as well, with an accuracy that is sometimes eerie.

There is plenty to do in the Summer Fae's city - though there is far more space than there is people, given that there are only a few hundred fae present here. There is no shortage of good food, music, and dancing - with plenty of other amenities like waterfall-side pools and gardens filled with small miracles. All workers will be offered rooms they can stay in within the city if they prefer, but they are also welcome to stay within the carnival grounds if that makes them more comfortable. There is magical wildlife of various sorts, but none of it is particularly aggressive beyond basic predatory tendencies.

The days and nights and both of pleasant temperature and weather. It's only major downside is that the peaceful and unchanging nature of civilization can come across as unsettling to those unaccustomed. Once you have been welcomed here, it's like you never left.


PATRONS

► SUMMER FAE: Many carnival members have likely been given an unflattering view of Summer Court fae, given their actions back in Portland. However, despite the fae here being very similar in magical ability and physical form, they possess none of the maliciousness or aggression that their kindred have elsewhere. Their behaviour towards visitors is polite, if reserved, and will only be more courteous the more kindness you show towards them in return. A good deed receives a good deed in return, it seems - though it seems likely that the same would go for ill deeds, as well.

Fae are predominantly humanoid, with supernaturally beautiful (if oddly samey) features and a variety of skin colours and superficial physical distinctions. The structure is always similar, though the colours and style vary wildly. Some have plants for hair, some have horns, some have small amounts of feathers or scales, placed in aesthetically pleasing manners. One major distinction is that about two thirds of the population have wings of various kinds, while the other third does not. Apparently this is a racial divide, among True Fae.

In the Summer and Winter Courts, fae with wings are generally less powerful and considered of a lower class, working as servant to the higher caste. They also tend to be much smaller in body, appearing in forms as small as a cat all the way to a particularly short human. The Summer Fae will explain that these castes are not enforced within the Summerlands, but any further explanation will require some investigation.

All True Fae go by titles rather than given names. However, some of these titles will shorten to things that sound like names.


DANGERS

► SUSPICIOUSLY... NOTHING?: The Summer Fae themselves may seem like enough of a threat, after what some witnessed in Portland. However, here, they seem to be perfectly civil, and claim no affiliation with the Summer Court you've just become familiar with. It's hard not to feel like there must be some kind of catch, or hidden ruse, but... maybe this place is actually as safe as it claims to be.


REWARDS
Any specific rewards will be earned though exploration and NPC interactions. There are no huge mysteries lurking here, but it's possible to score some info about the carnival's metaplot if you ask the right questions. There may also be some random item opportunities, depending on how things go.


CHANGES
No changes, at the moment. Wasn't getting retconned into a totally different person enough for one month?


Beyond that, this is a PLOTTING POST, which means you can use it to make plans! The game chat is also a great place to discuss plots, so we welcome you to pop on in if you haven't already! A mingle log will be posted tomorrow.
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TAAKO

[personal profile] tacosgay 2017-08-01 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Taako is going to be resting and recovering from the ritual, and Portland in general; he's gonna be VERY reluctant to get up to any real shenanigans for a bit, honestly. I feel like this is gonna be a good time to actually talk to him and get to know him a little better, if you want to! He'll be spending a lot of time in his trailer resting when he's not working, or practicing his magic to kind of get back in the hang of using it, since it HAS been a month since he's even had access to his staff, which he's also extremely happy to have regained.

He's going to wake up back home with two new changes, with a third coming whenever I feel like it: small horns, retained sort of from his demon form, and his freckles are now bioluminescent and glow lavender. The third change is sparkly blood, and I'll bring that in whenever I see a good opportunity, basically, given the nature of it.

The following plans are spoilery for his canon-- if you're not up to date on The Adventure Zone and are avoiding spoilers, you shouldn't read any further!

Other than that, he's going to be slowly regaining some of his memories that the voidfish erased-- bits and pieces of his time in the IPRE, and of having known his teammates before he thought he'd met them the first time, as well as his being a "red robe" at one point. He's gonna be REALLY CONFUSED by this, and they'll be physically painful for him, but he might not talk about this much out loud unless he gets particularly distressed by them, or your character notices him experiencing this and directly asks what's going on. (Even then, he'll probably try to dodge it, though.)
diamondsare: (And I've taken so long I know)

Blue

[personal profile] diamondsare 2017-08-01 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Blue is going to be trying, and failing, to forget. With happiness once more snatched from her without her ability to do anything about it, Blue has a lot to come to terms with and no real coping mechanisms, which means she's going to be doing a lot of wandering around place to place being Sad. She'll act otherwise of course when other people are around, so it's a perfectly good time to say hello or what have you.

She's also going to be on the lookout for a silver sword and a locket, which means she'll probably be politely making a pest of herself to anyfae who looks like they might be of the crafterly sort.

.. I dunno what to put on plotting posts. 8(
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FOSTER

[personal profile] control_freak 2017-08-01 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
There's a whole thing about his post event here, but the short version is that Foster will be taking his return to being himself very hard, and simultaneously struggling to navigate his new sense of reality, and how to deal with people around it.

This is actually a GOOD thing.

He's a little bit of a clearer communicator now, and he's noticeably less quick to set fire to a situation as a first response, but he's also trying to figure himself out. So he'll be trying to kind of recover/reform a sense of (non) identity. Unfortunately his actual (lack of) identity sucks. It sucks so hard, guys. But changing is? Worse???

Character development is hard.

Maybe now is a good time to start... getting back into magic?

That's definitely not avoiding the issue(s)
Edited 2017-08-01 03:52 (UTC)
flashover: (240 wistful)

Re: Blue

[personal profile] flashover 2017-08-01 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Mom :C
kingsroads: (maybe we can talk about other things?)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-08-01 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
So I really liked Strange & Blue's thread on her intro log and definitely want to do more with them! He...uh, will be coping mostly with alcohol and so much denial so there's potential there for these adults just having no idea how to cope with things.
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Rita Mordio

[personal profile] anti_nonsense 2017-08-01 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Like a lot of people, Rita will be a bit of a wreck right after coming back. She's going to be upset about having temporarily lost her identity and very nearly getting trapped in another world and this is way more than she signed up for!!! Fae suck, and Rita's mad at everything.

THINGS RITA WILL BE UP TO:

• Blowing off steam! Rita's frustrated as hell and will probably just want to go blow some things up with her magic to make herself feel better. Maybe she'll spend some time with those training dummies she built in the new training area.
• Maybe even brooding and being kind of homesick but if you ask about it she's gonna tsun so hard at you.
• Hugging her cat??? She hasn't seen him in so long :c
• Getting some new changes, including minor things like more fae marks and some feathers, but shortly after she'll get her rare change: a pair of feathered wings! Which... she might not use much, because she's actually scared of heights. Oops. I'll also hopefully be purchasing some new fire magic for her to play around with!
• She might try to get back into doing magic research, which will be helped by her new third eye ability!

OTHER THINGS I'M INTERESTED IN DOING WITH PEOPLE:

• Reconnecting with people she met, or got closer to, through the AU! This will be awkward as hell for her because she's not sure if those relationships are even real, but they give her feelings anyway. :c
• Blowing off steam together?? Does your character want to blow things up with Rita? Do they have something that can be safely blown up by her? Let's hang out.
• Is your character magic, or do they have magic possessions? Rita will want to analyze that!!
• Rita's gonna be pretty unpleasant with these Summer fae. Sympathize with her? Tell her to chill out and stop being so rude?
• Anything!!! I'm always happy to plot and get her out meeting new people and doing new things.
Edited 2017-08-01 06:03 (UTC)
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Yuya Sakaki

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-08-01 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yuya is going to be on a slow recovery after having his soul directly injured. He'll be super out of it for a day or two and then bedridden in his trailer for at least a week... but he's gonna get sick of that after like, an hour tbh. He can only tolerate playing phone games for so long.

Things Yuya will be doing:

- Multiple escape attempts while he should be bedridden. He'll desperately want to be stretching his legs because he doesn't take to sitting around very well, but given his health state he won't say no to people helping him get around. Attempts to get him back in bed will result in whining but ultimately he's too ill to get very far on his own anyway. Or fight back.

- Checking on his fellow Carnvy members! Mostly he'll be looking for people he was interacting with in Portland, but if he spots anyone he'll want to see how they're fairing and talk or just help them take their mind off things.

- Side-eyeing the Summerlands but checking them out anyway. Once he sees how different they are he'll probably be a lot more open to these particular Summer Fae.

- Although the fake history will largely be fading it's still gonna wig Yuya out that their presence altered other people's/their memories because he uh. Has way too close experience with that. :') He'll be putting on a smile and keeping those thoughts to himself but if other people want to talk to him about how the AU affected them he's going to be all ears. Also having to watch everyone get tossed around while he couldn't help in the final event opened some too raw wounds.

- He probably is gonna be forced to sit the performances out for health issues so it'll be a good time for him to watch everyone else instead.

- Idk other things, HIT ME UP WITH IDEAS YO. Yuya's prolly going to be more making CR than having any personal plot going.
Edited 2017-08-01 05:41 (UTC)
otoko: (o3o)

[personal profile] otoko 2017-08-01 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
For anyone in need of significant medical attention, is it safe to assume those guys appeared relatively near the ah. Medical services?

Obviously physical got reversed since Bodies, but this is more for the guys that got their souls stabbed. (Or is someone going to have to find them and drag them to a bed-)
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[personal profile] diamondsare 2017-08-01 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I also liked it, and would happily bounce Blue off Strange again in the future. Especially if she finds a silver sword. Maybe they can work on a memory erasing spell!
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Re: Blue

[personal profile] diamondsare 2017-08-01 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
rin. :c
kingsroads: (uh hell yeah we're doing that)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-08-01 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
he already knows one memory erasing spell and that's called GETTING BLACKOUT DRUNK
diamondsare: (Wouldn't last a mile without you)

[personal profile] diamondsare 2017-08-01 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
but that doesn't work on gems and besides blackout drunk only erases right now not a month ago
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-08-01 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Once Yuya figures out "who's the bear" from Portland he'll want to find Foster just to talk. He left off on kind of a worrying note there.
control_freak: (But ground yourself with Jacob's ladder)

[personal profile] control_freak 2017-08-01 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Foster will be... totally dumbfounded that Yuya followed up on him, actually. Also, suspicious. But he kind of interpreted the NO DON'T DO ITs as a kneejerk response (and thus he holds them in contempt,) he won't know what to do with someone who bothered to figure out who he was.... what's your deal, person. >:|
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[personal profile] whattaprick 2017-08-01 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It's cute that Blue remembers Lambert asked her to look for that, being as he's totally forgotten he ever asked for it. Given that they didn't have a lot of reason to interact with each other during the event, I think Summerlands is a great place to pick them up chatting at each other again, and possibly avoiding their problems.
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GINKO

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2017-08-01 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Like a lot of people, Ginko is gonna have some serious trouble coming to terms with what just happened, particularly as relates to things like suddenly having been FRIENDS with Foster of all people, and also the whole. Kissing Psi and then living with him for a significant period of time thing. That's going to be hard to process.

As usual, he's going to handle this by... throwing himself into work and ignoring his emotional problems as much as possible. Ginko will mostly be in the menagerie, checking up on all the animals he hadn't seen in a while (with Miu with him, back to being a spewpa instead of a guinea pig), but may also be found around the medical tent, since he's going to want to start being more active about helping Zecora with medical stuff.

He'll also be hanging around the Summerlands some! Having been here with the carnival before, he knows not to expect these fae to try to kidnap him or anything, probably. He... may still be a little nervous around them, and when it comes down to it he will still be sleeping in his trailer and not staying outside the carnival grounds for very long at a time.

Ginko will be pretty open to talking about what happened in Portland if people approach him, but he's unlikely to approach anyone about it himself unless he sees a specific reason for it.

EDIT now that the post is up, also the first thing he's gonna do is going to have to be rounding up the menagerie animals, which. he SURE WOULD appreciate help with 8'I
Edited 2017-08-01 18:53 (UTC)
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MIKO NAKADAI

[personal profile] pullingamiko 2017-08-01 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Boy there sure is a lot of "not acknowledging or addressing what happened" going around, huh. Miko will of course be adding to it because feelings are complicated and stupid and she'd rather just not think about them thanks.

That said, she will probably actually be approaching people she knew in Portland, just... under the pretense of having a totally separate reason for approaching them. Other than that, she'll be running around making a nuisance of herself as usual.

She'll be exploring the Summerlands some, but honestly the same-ness of it all will kinda creep her out. However, she didn't have as direct of Bad Experiences with summer fae as some people did, so she may not be too bothered by the residents themselves.
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[personal profile] whattaprick 2017-08-01 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's go blow stuff up, Rita! We already discussed this briefly on plurk but I definitely would like to do some alchemy+throwing bombs at shit shenanigans.
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[personal profile] diamondsare 2017-08-01 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
All for avoiding more problems! Blue has a good memory (which annoys her right now..) so maybe questing for a silver sword will occupy them both for a bit!
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CHILDERMASS

[personal profile] atouts 2017-08-01 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
refusing to speak to any of you ever again

I mean—

THINGS JOHN CHILDERMASS WILL BE UP TO:

- He's finally evolving his Growlithe from Alola, Baker, into an Arcanine, so there will be a massive fluffy fire dog running around the carnival now.

- Since he picked up Faerie Aspect (Winter Court) from Portland, the Summer Fae are... going to be giving him a massive side-eye. Not being rude or anything, but it's enough that Childermass will spend his time in the Summerlands exploring out of sight (via shadows) or out away from the city itself. He will also be finding the pleasant summery temperature to be slightly bothersome. Maybe he should stop wearing like five goddamn layers, who knows...

- At the carnival, he'll be spending a lot of time sulking and smoking on the far side of the lake, assuming wrongly that few people will bother trekking that far to pester him. Seeing as a huge bright orange dog will be with him, it won't exactly difficult to spot where he is.

- Job upgrade, more on that to come IC.

- Messing around with more magic? Working a few bugs out of a shadow prison spell? Just magic stuff. Always magic stuff.

- Change-wise, his rare change isn't actively visible. His blood has been replaced by "shadows", which is just an edgy way of saying he bleeds black mist now. He'll also be keeping fae marks, but they're basically just that the scars left behind by the Count's ritual will glow around faerie magic, as fae marks do.

So he'll be around, both in the carnival proper and out in the Summerlands. In spite of being a huge avoidant sulk, he's not actually that difficult to drag along for whatever else anyone might be up to.
Edited 2017-08-01 18:07 (UTC)
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Jonathan Strange

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-08-01 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Dear everybody, sorry I got brainwashed, xoxo Jonathan Strange. He's a bit knocked around as well so logically that just means keeping going and pretending he's okay and fine and everything's back to normal before crashing for like, an entire day.

THINGS STRANGE'LL BE UP TO:
- so much denial. Strange is going to push through all of this and pretend like he's fine! No problem! He is coping 100% well despite the fact that he's a bit of a wreck when he's by himself. This denial means that he'll be spending a lot of time hanging out in the Summerlands and will probably accept their offer of a room there because actual beds.
- Strange is getting a couple of changes! first, his 'mirrored covering that covers up wounds' will appear over thorn scratches he has all over his wrists. Secondly, he's getting a cool smoke form which'll be pretty amazing until Strange realizes he needs to relearn how to move when his legs are in the cool smoke form.
- midway through Summerlands/after everybody's moderately less traumatized, Strange'll put up a big ol'network post with some lovely exposition he learned about the fae before he, uh, got tortured

OTHER THINGS I'M INTERESTED IN DOING:
- awkward reconnection with people from Portland that'll probably end up with Strange getting punched again. Also! Hello eventual newbies, Strange is gonna befriend you so hard because newbies weren't here for Portland.
- stupid drunk decisions. :) What do you mean alcohol's a terrible coping method, Strange is having a great time. alternatively, stupid drunk decisions that lead to drunk conversations and issues unloading and just general kvetching.
- joining Rita in the 'let's be creepy and nosy about people's magic' club.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-08-01 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Childermass is on Yuya's list of 'people to make sure aren't dead' since least he saw him he was strung up to be bled dry. How are u recovering after nearly being sacrificed, buddy.
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[personal profile] atouts 2017-08-01 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
not too well but he's Childermass and therefore will never admit as much, sooo. He's fine. Everything's fine. Things are fine.
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Tamaki

[personal profile] puddingemote 2017-08-01 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Tamaki is actually super happy to be back from Portland because a, he's not dead, b, remembering actually having friends and a life purpose and a family member is like really exciting you guys.

He'll probably have a new change or two when I get around to deciding what I want. Also possibly new magic when I also get around to that (probably tonight).

THINGS I'M INTERESTED IN:
- reconnecting with people over portland memories; he'll probably be especially interested in talking to Yuya, Lambert, and Doll but he will gladly talk to anyone! (he might also try to avoid former angels for a bit because wow that was Embarrassing but also he's still not sure how he feels about that...)
- post ghost shenanigans especially if I buy the thing I'm thinking about lol...
- NEWBIES HI NEWBIES
- the adults can drown their worries in alcohol but Tamaki wants food
- newly awakened spiritual leanings???? idk man. Tamaki's gonna become some weird earth spirit hippie

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