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livinglot2016-09-29 10:38 am
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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! |
it wouldn't be friendship without a friendship speech!
[..It's a strangely familiar sort of thing, not having friends. With who this is however-] R-Really..!? You didn't have friends..!?
[It's hard to believe.] But you're one of the greatest...maybe even the greatest duelist of all time! [...
Excluding Jack, clearly] Definitely of your time at least!...Why wouldn't you have friends before..?
nope!
[Yuugi smiles a little sadly, curling his hand around the spot near his stomach where the puzzle would have been resting. Lonely. Hah. He's such a hypocrite. Even though he still has all his friends, they would never really fill the empty feeling where Atem's absence was concerned.]
I know that without my friends to cheer me on, I wouldn't have won most of my duels, and of course there was a time before I was the King of Games. [He smiles a bit morosely now.] I was an easy target, definitely the smallest in school, so I got beaten up and bullied on the regular. Two of my very best friends, Jounouchi-kun and Honda-kun, even used to tease me.
[Ah dark times.]
That's why I treasure my friends. I know how lonely I'd be without them.
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...and with any luck, when she gets back, someone who can become a King of the People as promised. She catches herself trying to speak-trying to interrupt, really-more than a few times.
But somehow she manages to let Yuugi finish, chewing her lip as she looks down.] To still be lonely...
...If you really do remember though, that'll still be twenty years at least, I'm sure! [she protests all the same.] It would be that long before I'd be 'this me', and remember this myself, and be able to say hello, and..!
...and... [...It's...sad, really.] ...it seems...so lonely, when it's like that. Even more lonely than normal, for you to go through that...
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I'm used to it.
[Gods knew what it was going to be like, twenty years down the track without Atem, but if he was still around, he had to be doing okay, even if he knew he was probably living in denial. Yuugi looked at her with a slight pause, a little confused.]
You keep saying you won't be "this you". Did being here change you somehow?
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THAT MAKES IT WORSE-/strike>
] HAHHH!!!...Used to it. She's ready to continue with this fairly serious, now fairly depressing way of conversation, with a topic like that on her mind. She was, except-
[It's like looking at a brilliant, orange and black turkey every time those feathers flare...] O-OF COURSE IT DID!!
Normal people don't look like this, right?! When you work here long enough, you start to look more magical! That's how it works!!
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[Well of course normal people didn't look like that but, well, he figured that people in Yuusei-kun's time might have started genetically modifying themselves, but logically he knows that Duel Monsters couldn't be that popular (surely the popularity has died down some). For a moment, he looks worried, then raises his hands to calm her down.]
I-I'm sorry, I didn't...I mean, it wouldn't be the first time I crossed over into the spirit world...
[That moment in time where the veil had been thin enough that Duel Monsters were able to break through flicks to mind before he waves his hands.]
N-not that I'm calling you a Duel Monster or anything! I just...oh for Ra's sake...
[And facepalming. At himself.]
oh god now I see my code
[And for that matter.] I didn't even know there was a world for that! The only one I knew about was-
Mine.
[Ah.
It would seem the shadow at Carly's feet is moving. Also talking. There also seem to be eyes, if one looks.] All duel monsters are spirits. But not all spirits are duel monsters, after all, [He murmurs, eyeing Yuugi almost curiously.]
/pats
I...I know. No one knows that more than me.
[If there's bitterness in his voice, he doesn't acknowledge it, instead taking in a breath and sighing a little, bowing his head, clearly apologising to the shadow.]
I'm sorry for insinuating that. You're right, not all spirits are duel monsters. I guess I just wasn't expecting to interact with any outside of that this soon.
'when yah can use your shadow as an ace monster'
[No that isn't important!] HEH!?
But he is one!! I even have his card with me here!!
I was speaking more to you, than him.
But I knew that too..! [she protests, looking from the shadow to the other.] Ahh... ...Are you alright though? [she adds, staring. ..He seemed a bit tense just for a moment there, after all.]
just normal YGO bullshit you mean
[Realizing when he was looking a bit moody was beginning to become second nature to Yuugi. Insisting that he was fine was beginning to become second nature too. He waves a hand, laughing a little. Mostly at himself, which shows on his face.]
Sorry, sorry. I'm...I'm fine. Honestly.
[Just dealing with things. Yup. Nothing to see here.]
sobs where is the lie