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⇨ TEST DRIVE MEME #1
WELCOME TO THE SHOW!↴ Or, more specifically, Lost Carnival's first 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. ► 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. ► 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? ► 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? ► 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! |
Elizabeth Midford | Kuroshitsuji | Newbie
Oh! Oh! Well, you see, I haven't any money on me, exactly... My maid, she... [Elizabeth is fidgeting, so unlike a lady, and the embarrassment of that makes her fidget even more. Her face has colored because of this, and she pinkens further when she rises on her tiptoes to lean and look past the clerk, into the glamour of the circus. Her hands are clasped at her chest.] Well I can't find her anywhere, I'm afraid, and so I suppose I really can't buy tickets. Oh! Isn't that so sad... Isn't it... [She's still getting every eyeful that she can of the festivities beyond. She isn't asking for charity, of course! But her yearning has the intensity of any young girl's, and she really wants to go inside.
To bargain doesn't occur to her; she's wearing various fineries, of course, could pay for more than one good dinner with just her earrings, but this is only a carnival, which is paltry, and it wouldn't do to give away something silken or jeweled just for an entry fee. It also doesn't occur to her that the loss of her maid is much more concerning than prospective playtime at a carnival. In most other situations she'd be shaken, but there's something downright entrancing about what she sees, and what she wants to see.
So, she fidgets.]
b. mirror maze
[Well, one way or another, Elizabeth's made it inside. The Mirror Maze is absolutely beautiful, shining and colored like a dream... and perhaps this is vain, and perhaps she should be ashamed, but like a bird with particularly good plumage, Lizzie cannot help but admire her dress and its silks and its lace as she flounces by each mirror. But horror hits her when she finds a wider mirror and stops in her tracks. She gives a gasp, ladylike in its delicacy but not in the shrill whistle of her throat, and her hand flies to her mouth.]
Oh, what a rotten trick, [she cries, and turns in a flurry of skirts to run away from it. The wide mirror had made her not only ridiculously tall, but quite stout as well. Her face is red like a poppy even as she flees it.
She doesn't notice the interloper among her retreating reflections: one little Elizabeth, curls bouncing with all the rest, has something special glinting in her hand. The gleam is violent, and she hides it in the wide folds of her skirt.]
c. gamer's circle
I do think it's a little uncouth, [she's saying, blushing and demure. She has a dart in her hand, and the dartboard looks awfully far away, pockmarked with failures and only a few wins.] Isn't this... wouldn't you say it's like gambling? Oh, I really can't do it!
[But don't you want this darling rabbit, someone asks her, and the stuffed rabbit really is darling, large and soft. This carnival is doing awfully queer things to her; it's strange she came in in the first place, and it's strange she's acting so improprietous. But the atmosphere here is dazzling, and she feels like she's had a glass of wine at Christmas.]
All right, [she says;] all right! It isn't gambling if I won't lose, right?
[And she throws the first dart. It's almost a direct bulls-eye.]
d. wildcard
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c.
Wonderful aim you have there.
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Why thank you! [she squeaks, noticeably pink. Her mother would scold her harshly if she saw all that Elizabeth's been doing tonight, including how mindful of her surroundings she hasn't been. To think she was this engrossed in a carnival game...] That is, it's just... It's not very difficult! It's just that I want that rabbit so badly, so I thought I'd try, oh, this looks terrible, doesn't it, I promise I don't usually do this sort of thing. [Yet her aim is so good?! Her protests are coming clumsily.] It's just, um, yes, I just thought I'd try! That's all!
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It's a lovely and cute looking rabbit. I won't judge you.
[A beautiful little girl with surprising reflexes. A girl after her own heart.]
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Um, um, Miss! You're very kind, so— Is there any prize here you really like? I think I could win it for you, too!
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[Oh Elizabeth, don't make her take you for her own.]
a!
Excuse me for intruding! Do you have anything on you that you are not attached to?
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I cannot say I have anything to offer... I have neither pockets nor purse, so I can't carry anything with me!
[She's still not got the idea that she could give up anything else. It's all so unorthodox and frankly she's used to having her maid shell out payments whenever necessary.]
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What of your accessories? Are there any that you are willing to part with?
[She would understand if not, she came here with things she likes, it's not really fair to lose something.]
c
[ These games are all so old fashioned though, it's pretty cool. What's also pretty cool is that she hit so close to the middle that easily. ]
But Miss, you're really good at that, have you done this before?
[ He has not. He uses the anti-Shinigami gun regularly but that's the closest he gets to these sort of things. He mostly plays video games when he plays games, though he's done some Japanese festival games before. ]
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But she gathers herself up, skirts and curls and dignity, flushing slightly.] I have never gambled before! [she announces a bit loudly, as if everybody needs to know this. Then she settles down some.] Um, well... It's not difficult to aim and release. I know it's brutish, but— [She clasps her hands tightly.] But isn't that rabbit cute!
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How is it brutish? [ He can't help the confusion. Everyone plays games at the arcade or festivals, and he spends a lot of time there when he's at shore not working, but he's never heard anyone call any game brutish before. Then he looks at the rabbit and nods. ] Yeah, it is. It's really cute. Do you know if it looks a lot like real rabbits?