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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] livinglot2018-06-01 09:52 am

⇨ New Location: CAMPING GROUNDS

PREPARATION
On Day 63, the carnival will arrive a new world, filled with vast forests, and the Ringmaster will promptly kick everyone out. You guys are going camping, while she tears the carnival realm apart and expels every single thing the Faerie Courts could be tracking them with - if they go after the Silver Mirror, they can't risk being followed. So, instead of spending the week in trailors, the Ringmaster will dump a wide array of camping equipment onto everyone, including appropriate food and recreational drink. She says this place should be totally safe, but knowing the irony of that statement, she is issuing a number of safety precautions as well.

Characters are encouraged to camp all in the same area, but it's possible to slip away and be a loner. At least until the Security Team gets on your ass, anyway. Otherwise, you're advised to take some time to recover. This place could be considered pretty idyllic... even with the odd local inhabitants.

SETTING

The Camping Grounds are set in a vast alien forest, complete with waterfalls, lakes, and unreasonably big trees in places. The local animals are mostly benign, but on the strange side. There are various plants and insects with fluorescent qualities, including some over-sized mushrooms. There are also edible fruits and berries - the Ringmaster has provided the kitchen staff and Nightrunners a list of which ones are poisonous.

There is no high civilization here, so there won't be any performing necessary. Some of the creatures nearby come close, but fore the most part it's pure wilds. Also, notably, there are few local carnivores - the primary source of meat is fish, and most of the animals feed on insects or plants. As a result, the ecosystem is of the peaceful sort. Unfortunately, those fish also have fur.

PATRONS

► JACKALOPES: Essentially just rabbits with little antlers. They are particularly populous here. Herbivorous and only slightly smarter than a regular rabbit.

► MOTHMEN: Flying creatures with an almost impossibly black pelts and eyes like red traffic lights. Any details of their anatomy are very hard to make out from a distance, and they only appear at night. Most of them are approximately the size of a large owl. They mostly feed on insects and are as intelligent as parrots.

► LAKE MONSTERS: Close to the camping grounds, there is a large waterfall area that branches into a big lake. Living there is a pod of Loch Ness styled lake monsters, or essentially just plesiosaurses. They are a communal species and behave much like whales. They are quite intelligent, and primarily feed on the fur-bearing trout that inhabit the lake.

► NIGHTCRAWLERS: A pair of spindly white legs with a head, the nightcrawlers also appear mostly at night, through they stick out like a sore thumb due to their colouring. They exhibit little coherent social behaviour and mostly just wander around gawking at things. They are presumably herbivorous but you never really see them eat. How intelligent they actually are is a mystery.

► BIGFOOTS: The classic big ape people in the woods. Thankfully, they are not actually violent, nor will they they show any territoriality towards the campers. Instead, most of their interest will be out of curiousity, and as the week goes on more and more of them will come to start looking at the camp ground, watching the inhabitant peacefully. It seems like it will be fine, as long as no one pisses them off. They are omnivorous, feeding on mostly fruit and fish, and seemingly at least as intelligent as gorillas.

DANGERS

► INSECTS: There are bugs here, like most places. Some of them are bigger than average, but none of them are super threatening as anything but pests. Thankfully, they Ringmaster has some very good bug-repelling candles that will keep the campgrounds mostly clear of them.

► PETTY THEFT: As a curiousity, it's likely that the campground with attract some grabby fingers. Mothmen and bigfoots are the creatures that are most likely to nick things from the carnival out of sheer amusement/curiousity, so watch out for that. They will also root through your garbage like bears.

REWARDS
Camping is its own reward.

CHANGES
Nothing for this trip.


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! The calendar has been updated with event timing.
catsatan: (you've been hit by! you've been struck b)

[personal profile] catsatan 2018-06-05 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
You know that thing cats do where they get excited about nothing at like three in the morning and run across as much of the available living space as possible, making as much noise as possible? That's gonna be Tigerstar.

But yeah, aside from some late night zoomies he's probably going to be trying to hunt stuff and present it to his new associates. Kicking around the possibility of an encounter involving some angry jackrabbits or maybe some bugs. Probably the former though, because when presented with a chance to give Tigerstar a fear of rabbits - who wouldn't?

Nudge me here if you would like a gift of fresh-kill from your resident feral cat! This is gonna be an opt-in thing for tag-ins so I don't go and gross out folks who don't want to see/read that kinda thing.
catsatan: (aaa)

[personal profile] catsatan 2018-06-05 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Inb4 tigerman pounces on whatever charming forest creature Ginko is observing >>
dontpokethat: everything gets worse forever (hey kids i know youre struggling now)

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2018-06-05 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
LMAO GOD

ginko just like: ah. the natural processes of life. also we have food for you, asshole, this is unnecessary
scientificist: (Confident)

[personal profile] scientificist 2018-06-05 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Please.
catsatan: (If you doodoo on yourself)

[personal profile] catsatan 2018-06-05 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Tigerstar is very angry and he finally has an excuse to murder things (even if it's against the rules to mutilate prey)

I also am pretty sure Tigerstar would (begrudgingly) probably try to get him a thank-you for the bandage pants that he will probably not ever admit out loud helped his butt heal.

Tigerstar would sooner die than eat out of a bowl tbh. Also he wants to know what jackalope tastes like.
catsatan: (And you just have to say that you're fin)

[personal profile] catsatan 2018-06-05 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hdjshd YES

This may or may not be the first of several provisions tbh. It is a warrior custom to fetch prey for your healers so they don't have to hunt...
scientificist: (Science!)

[personal profile] scientificist 2018-06-05 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god....

Herbert's going to be in a generally at least partially open large tent mostly set up as a standby medical tent so there will be lots of places for Tigerstar to place things that Herbert may unfortunately use as specimens depending on how intact the animals are.....
dontpokethat: and its none of your business (im well aware)

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2018-06-05 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
omg. he'll appreciate the sentiment even if the execution is... troubling, probably.

it's fine he can use a plate
catsatan: (What up I'm Jared I'm nineteen)

[personal profile] catsatan 2018-06-05 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
WELL another part of warrior custom is, lucky for herbert, treating prey with respect and not making a mess of it until it's time to eat.

The question is whether or not Tigerstar finds out what Herbert's doing with all this prey :|b because I could see cat man finding out what Herbert does going in some pretty, uh. Interesting directions.
scientificist: (Focussing on Reagent)

[personal profile] scientificist 2018-06-05 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
GOD. Yeah. It really probably depends if Herbert lets it go or not. Depends on the intelligence level of the prey, really. Squirrels no. Mice yes.
kingsroads: (dude are you sure?)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-06-05 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
once Strange ain't dead, he'll volunteer himself just with the caveat that 9S doesn't tell ANYONE EVER ABOUT THIS. because their friends are dumb and would get angry

he knows he's like, the world's easiest person to possess, might as well have 9S practice on training wheels over here
kingsroads: (GIVE IT UP FOR MAGIC)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-06-05 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
because Zangetsu stabbed Strange real good in the rescue log, he's now dead and currently an egg. Strange won't be hatching until at least halfway through the forest stay so surprise, the camping trip now involves a person-sized egg.

otherwise, Strange is going to be fairly useless at roughing it. the last time he did anything remotely like camping was in the peninsula which also means that he will not shut up about the goddamn peninsula this entire stop. he also won't shut up about the peninsula b/c he's still in a bit of a soldier mindset thanks to the mindwhammy Ignatius put on him. who wants to help Strange loosen up a bit and have fun in the wilderness?
scientificist: (Weird Science Boy)

[personal profile] scientificist 2018-06-05 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
OK FINALLY MADE A DECISION.

Herbert's going to have a sort of...semi-med tent setup in the form of a Crua Loj. Only one half of the black sleeping segment is gonna be his tent, the other half is set up with cots, and the rest of the tent has enough supplies for the week and some fold out tables/chairs/etc. It's gonna be public to walk into, basically, with the front porch bit always rolled up and the windows and doors always open to the mesh segment...and maybe slightly open at the bottom during the day for certain cats who can't unzip their way into the med tent.

Soooo come and bug Herbert! Make him do things. He's going to be starting to moult into new wing feathers out of stress so he's going to be itchy and irritable and more willing to get drunk and stuff out of not really having anything else to do.

Herbert only has a very vague idea of how camping be because he has intermittently been a Boy Scout. He will never admit that.
dontpokethat: so as long as i dont look at anything i dont have to believe anything (you have to 'see it to believe it')

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2018-06-05 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
this seems like a great chance to thread more because guess who has So Much camping advice, it's THIS GUY, look herbert theres so much to do out here it's Great
scientificist: (Weird Science Boy)

[personal profile] scientificist 2018-06-06 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[DOUBT]

ok but y, he has been meaning to ask Ginko about mushi for approximately 4000 years so this will be the chance, I think.
dontpokethat: it could have been some other times also. who cares (it was the best of times)

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2018-06-06 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
HELL yeah especially with the mushi miniplot going on

which reminds me, i don't remember if you've decided if herbert can see mushi or not??
scientificist: (Focussing on Reagent)

[personal profile] scientificist 2018-06-06 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
I think I decided he couldn't initially but now that he's been a Harbinger I think I have to revisit it...
dontpokethat: not even gravity or nasa (and no one can stop me)

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2018-06-06 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
YE that might do it! in the end though it's entirely up to you so just lmk what you want to go with o7
dressedtothe: (a high-end model)

[personal profile] dressedtothe 2018-06-06 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I think 9S might ask Papyrus if he's interested, seeing as he was one of the people mind-controlled in Wismuth! And also because Papyrus gave him stuff during moonsmas, so he's less likely to just mind hack him out of the blue :3c
dressedtothe: (these lips don't lie)

[personal profile] dressedtothe 2018-06-06 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
what if he just tried to mindwhammy strange out of the blue would you be down with that
kingsroads: (small cheeky little smile)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-06-06 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Shit yeah I am
atouts: (013; l'arcane sans nom)

[personal profile] atouts 2018-06-07 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Childermass's camping trip will literally just be And Now He's Babysitting This Asshole and Also An Egg. Baker will also be there. Baker being there is probably the best part since Baker is a big fluffy Arcanine and will be barking at all things and occasionally set to guard the food. Large dogs aside, Childermass himself won't be hiding the fact that he's sharing a tent with Lambert this time around, so characters can take away from that what they want.

Anyway, basically keeping an eye on their idiot Nightrider and also Strange's egg, although he's sure he'll have more than enough eyes to help watch Strange that he won't worry too much about that part.

He'll also be seeing how far he can get by wing before needing to turn back to camp, only as his giant monster crow form rather than just the tiny normal crow form. If anyone wants an unexpected encounter of the horrible giant bird kind, I would be more than happy to provide.

Acquistions folks, there is literally nothing to steal here, so just kick back and relax (unless you have other duties, in which case Childermass cannot save u).
Edited 2018-06-07 05:19 (UTC)
reflash: (me: hi do you take walk-ins)

[personal profile] reflash 2018-06-08 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
also yukio will be there sometimes (not as much as usual, because he doesn't need to be there constantly)

he can help herbert with some camping stuff too, but he isn't an expert
reflash: (Default)

[personal profile] reflash 2018-06-08 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
yukio has spent literal months just casually assuming that mushi were weird demons pls let's have these two meet up in the woods while looking at plants or something
scientificist: (Confident)

[personal profile] scientificist 2018-06-08 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, it's unlikely there will be a Severe Camping Accident.

Honestly, the most help he'll need is setup because he's short and weedy.

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