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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.
dontpokethat: me i say things that make sense (some say love is a river)

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2018-06-08 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
HELL yes, ginko would love to talk about plants and also mushi. all that good shit
exaomori: (🐍 17)

[personal profile] exaomori 2018-06-08 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"help Strange loosen up a bit and have fun" means drinking right??
kingsroads: (smirky asshole)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-06-08 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
hello new favorite person, let's get HAMMERED
exaomori: (🐍 19)

[personal profile] exaomori 2018-06-08 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Strange can probably even get Shura to stick fight if he tries hard enough. and is willing to listen to her complain a bit
worldlyafflictions: (ch040pg17p5)

[personal profile] worldlyafflictions 2018-06-08 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
casually spends the entire time hugging a bug-repelling candle.
spaghettimonster: arrt-jim-lad (I THE GREAT PONTIFICATOR)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-06-08 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Papyrus is on egg duty, there's not a whole lot of tagging to be done with an egg but... Papyrus will probably encourage people to arts and crafts all over Strange's shell, so he can find out about that after hatching. In his defense, Sans hatched pretty quickly, and the common theory is that maybe the party or maybe the decorations or maybe just being out and about helped with that.
spaghettimonster: (THIS WAS A TRIUMPH)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-06-08 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
That all scans. Papyrus is nervously enthusiastic for a good cause! Face his fears about that stuff in a controlled way with a friendly person, and also help! Good stuff!

He's gonna be a little louder and more intent on advertising his willingness for all this to (try to) cover up he's actually nervous and unsure about it.
kingsroads: (maybe we can talk about other things?)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-06-08 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
It's your job to stop all his shit friends from writing graffiti on the egg, Pap. You can do this.

I'm planning on having Strange hatch early on day 67, so we can definitely have a comedy of errors hatch thread or something silly like that. Especially since Strange is getting fire hair which can definitely have some "oh no, the egg is super hot, Jesus Christ what is happening" sort of dumb
kingsroads: (small cheeky little smile)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-06-08 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Lmao she'd kick his ass at stick fight. Just give him beer and let him do magic

But yes, so much complaining. That's what you do when you're stuck in the woods and people are dumb
spaghettimonster: (BEHOLD...! MY SPECIAL ATTACK!)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-06-08 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Stop them? No way, he's egging them on. It'll help! Somehow! And if it doesn't, at least Strange can see later how much they care with their shitty graffiti.

Man, that'll cause a little panic - they're supposed to let egged people hatch on their own, but on the other hand, please don't boil or bake in there, Strange.
kingsroads: (well why don't we do this?)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-06-08 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
He's fiiiiine. Just ignore the fact that the egg is worryingly hot to the touch
spaghettimonster: (SWEAT)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-06-09 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
He's gonna consult Gon and Sans about this, eggs probably shouldn't run fevers
spaghettimonster: (I WOULD NEVER KID)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-06-09 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
Is everyone's favorite violent tree back at the Carnival while RM cleans up, or along for the camping trip?
starseedling: (a known gay)

[personal profile] starseedling 2018-06-09 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god... the assumption was that Coco would be at the carnival, but if you had some use for them being along for the trip we could say she wanted them to have some vacay time.
spaghettimonster: (CATBLASTER THE ASSHOLE)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-06-10 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, all I have in mind so far is shenanigans of Coco bullying some bigfoots. I can take it or leave it!
whattaprick: (there's an idea)

[personal profile] whattaprick 2018-06-10 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Lambert's still in recovery, so he'll be spending his time mostly napping in the tent he's sharing with Childermass, which they're being 0% subtle about this round (though any athletic couples' activities are firmly on hold, so don't worry about being scandalized, neighbors). Feel free to bug him. Pig and Butcher, his horse Pokemon, will be around and frolicking, but he needs people to exercise them because he sure can't ride right now.

When he feels a little bit better, he'll probably venture out for fishing trips, and by fishing what I actually mean is get on a boat and chuck bombs into the water, which is surely going to end well in this location ... please, someone save this man from RM actually having to revive him.

Otherwise, he'll be infected with the mushi as a dreamwalker. I haven't decided what I want him to be dreaming of yet, so he'll mostly be sliding into people's dreams, but if someone missed out on Athenaeum witcher action and wants some G-rated nice version of it (I guess Lambert's happy dreams could about killing monsters and Childermass in dresses to welcome him home???) I can probably provide.
Edited 2018-06-10 16:39 (UTC)
periphrasing: (WOW THAT'S HILARIOUS)

[personal profile] periphrasing 2018-06-10 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I would love to do some dream share stuff, I do not yet know what kind of dreams Peridot will be having tho? I still gotta read the event details lmao

NOT SUPER HELPFUL I KNOW SORRY this is mainly just to express interest, weep
whattaprick: (standalone)

[personal profile] whattaprick 2018-06-10 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
IT'S TOTALLY FINE since she got exposure to Lambert's canon last time I admit I'm biased to seeing something that gives him a bit more context for gems even if its just Peridot's megalomaniacal fantasies!!! Since it's a NO NIGHTMARES ALLOWED zone, it'll be a chance to have something positive.
periphrasing: (OH SHIT ITS A LION)

[personal profile] periphrasing 2018-06-10 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
HECK YEAH I'd love to do something with that. Maybe she can be wrecking a kindergarten or something lmao. It'll probably involve tearing down the establishment or something.
prazerbutterfly: (now now)

[personal profile] prazerbutterfly 2018-06-10 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
As I said before, Tyki will gladly take out Butcher for some exercise, and Pig by proxy if no one has. He's sure how well Pig will take to him but thanks to Lambert he can at least groom them properly.
whattaprick: (i'll drink to that)

[personal profile] whattaprick 2018-06-10 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
LETS DO IT if lambert is bored enough and tyki is willing he might even teach tyki how to plait horse manes in funky/interesting ways
prazerbutterfly: (a little too fun)

[personal profile] prazerbutterfly 2018-06-10 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Seeing as Tyki is a hands on person and usually aims to please, he wouldn't mind learning something new about horses.
atouts: (008; la justice)

[personal profile] atouts 2018-06-11 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Childermass in dresses

even in his sleep he will be judging
whattaprick: (a simple witcher)

[personal profile] whattaprick 2018-06-11 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
LOOK ... look ... ok he doesn't really have a defense here

but since they're sharing a tent and all their dreamworlds could probably merge and some such nonsense
atouts: (039; five of pentacles)

[personal profile] atouts 2018-06-11 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
his dream beach vacation is ruined by suddenly being in a dress......

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