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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! |
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Oh, me? Perhaps if you were willing to be so kind...
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No. He's not. However, Vietnam isn't want to actually fear such actions only because of her beliefs in her ability.
So she pats the spot beside her.]
Then join me. I am a fair woman, if you say you wish to help, then I am willing to share.
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[After a second or so of thought, Gilgamesh agrees, and saunters over. She doesn't look too tough, and even if she did, Gilgamesh doesn't back down in the face of a challenge. And he can sense he's being challenged here. Game on, then.]
Very well. What is the riddle?
[Naturally, he believes he can solve it straight away, but he'll hear her out regardless.]
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Alright, it goes: When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don't have me. What am I?
[It's probably not that difficult to him.]
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[...oh, gods, it's already begun.]
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Her face turns bright red, HOWEVER--]
S-surely you jest! [POINTS AT THE CHEST.] A-and it remains locked!
[And it remains locked. Honestly now.]
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[Of course he's pieced together solution. But just giving it to her wasn't any fun; he'd make her work for it first.]
You must whisper something you hold close to your heart to another person. That, in itself, shall provide the answer.
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Fine. Come here. [And so she urges him to lean down, pulling at his arm, so that she could whisper quietly into the ear of this very tall dragonlord.]
As a country, I hardly have any sec...rets... [She blinks. And while her voice isn't any louder than the whisper since she hasn't pulled back--] It's a secret!
[Treasure chest: Click!]
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Claim your spoils.
[In a tone of warning:]
Half. Half is my price for assistance.
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[And so for the gracious(?!) dragon, she will give him half, after she goes to claim the prize, that is. She goes to see the contents of the chest, what magical trinkety thing would it be...?
She lifts it up, and it looks like some kind of pretty bracelet, really.]
It can't be shared. [Instead she holds it out to him.] You can have it.
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Only if you are particularly uninspired. Watch and learn, woman.
[Gilgamesh takes the bracelet... and without warning, snaps it in two. Summoning magic to his fingertips, he waves his hand over the two pieces, and begins to reform them; within seconds, they curl into the shape of matching rings. Gilgamesh manages to seal the rings back together in such a way it is impossible to tell they were ever apart.
Gilgamesh hands back one of the rings to her, and slips the other onto his pinky.]
There. Now you have witnessed the power of a true craftsman.
[Gilgamesh stands back and really, truly, honestly seems to expect applause for his efforts.]
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[LOOK, such magic does not really exist where she came from, and if it did, it was up and over in Europe. She never gets to witness anything like this, and so her eyes grow wide at what happens in front of her. Not to mention, it's all rather beautiful, isn't it? How he does it all, and the end result.
She takes the ring and stares at it for a while, before slipping it onto her own finger.
And really, he does get a clap for it, as right after she does.] That was incredible! And it's very beautiful...I will treasure it. [She holds her hand to her chest.] Thank you very much--ah?
What should I call you?
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[Wait, no, this wasn't how this interaction was supposed to go. She was supposed to embarrass herself, or get fed up with his attitude and storm off, or something. Instead she's thanking him and saying she'll treasure it like a gift, except it wasn't a gift, he barely lifted a finger at all! She's gotten the wrong idea completely!
He huffs in embarrassment when he realizes he's been cornered into an emotion vaguely resembling generosity and immediately backtracks.]
But do not address me casually! I am in charge here, so you shall do as I say! Understand?!
[...but he wants to ask for her name, too... dammit.]
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[Now, she doesn't have good recollection of Gilgamesh's epic, nor his history, due to the fact that it was beyond her time and it's way over on the other side of the continent. However, thanks to the Silk Roads, she's heard enough. So Gilgamesh really was a demi-god.
He may have acted too soon, but Vietnam, having seen that he's trying...what is this, it's almost like those animes she watched with Taiwan while they were at Japan's house, tsundere? Surely not. But it's familiar to some of her own reactions.
So she bows politely.] It is nice to meet you, Gilgamesh, the first King. And apparently someone who is in charge here. Don't worry, if I say I will work hard, I will! My name is Vietnam, it seems we both come from Earth.
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Not because she's being rude—she's the farthest possible thing from it—but because she brings up a title he has largely chosen to forget, a sudden crack of nostalgia he'd prefer to avoid. Where once he'd proudly announce himself as King of Heroes, here it made no difference. Here, he was no longer a Servant, but something much, much more...
At least she gives up that name willingly. And he's also willing to acknowledge it.]
I know of you. I know of your country.
[Actually, it was more like...]
You say you are that country?
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He's not saying anything about it though. Rather, he just speaks of her name and her kind.]
It is more accurate to say I am a spirit that represents that country, who walks with it in history. [Hang on, as Gilgamesh, he wouldn't have heard of her. She wasn't around then...] How did you find out about me? I mean, my country, it didn't really come to being until...a couple of thousand years after, really.
[...NO SHE STILL FEELS BAD.] Oh, look, let's go get a drink to! I hear the, how do they say...m-milkshakes brings the boys to the yard.
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I only drink the finest wine.
[He's trying to get out of this... he's just not doing a very good job of it.]
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But seriously, Gilgamesh, is that even a problem.]
Oh! [So he's not against going to get something, in any case.] Then let's go get some fine wine. I will treat you. [Somehow?!] To thank you.
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[So he says now. This is defeat, he realizes.]
But... I will allow it. If you are that insistent.
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There are so many mixed messages, man.]
I do not know how that came about, but if I offended you somehow, I do apologise. [She taps her chin, with the hand that will remind him that now they wear matching rings?!] So yes, I insist. I will thank you and make it up to you somehow. Let's go to the cookhouse. But we must be sneaky, for I do not want others knowing that we will be claiming a nice bottle of wine.
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[...
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...Gilgamesh just kind of stands there...
It looks like you may need to nudge him into action, Vietnam. Check out that huffy puffy face!]
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But it's strangely endearing, so she thinks. And she's wondering if he needs more egging on...fine! She holds out her hand.]
Let's go, Gilgamesh. We can look at other things at the same time if we go through the carnival.
[Look at that hand! She might have to reach out and take his arm if he's not convinced.]
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[...]
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...can get there faster than you, mongrel!!
[And off he goes like a rocket. So much for subtlety—Gilgamesh has now made it a race.]
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[And he's already off! YO THAT'S A LITTLE UNFAIR SHE'S NOT BUILT LIKE HIM YET...or blessed with the gift of flight!
But she's versatile, so she immediately darts to the left to grab what happens to be a delivery bike and throws herself on it.]
We will see! [And speed pedals after him. He'll hear the chiming of a cute bell after him too.]
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HOW DID SHE EVEN GET A BIKE
WHY WAS THAT THERE
WHY IS ANY OF THIS HAPPENING
@#$%]
You are too slow!
[Which will now be worsened by the fact he's spitting fireballs at her from the sky. Yes, fireballs. All part of the game, all part of the illusion that he gives a damn.]
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