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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.
textsfromhotland: (no)

[personal profile] textsfromhotland 2018-06-01 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it safe to assume there's no electricity? I need to know just how miserable Alphys is going to be on this trip.
flashover: (177)

Re: ⇨ QUESTIONS

[personal profile] flashover 2018-06-01 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
How's the weather? Also, are they gonna have any cooking stuff available besides open fire? Grills, potbelly stoves, etc?

/puts all the food supplies in a BIG BAG hanging from a tree, suck it mothmen
flashover: (014 Cause we got the fire)

[personal profile] flashover 2018-06-01 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
EXCELLENT we will have delicious camp feasts!

using Hellbats in addition to charcoal and wood
flashover: (225 stay out of my kitchen)

FOOD STUFF!!

[personal profile] flashover 2018-06-01 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
ALRIGHT It's YA BOI RIN THE LINE COOK here to LAY IT ALL ON THE LINE.

As stated above, there will be campfire grills and small charcoal grills available! All the Hellbats will also be evacuating the Carnival ground and will be available to basically be rented out as living campfires and heaters; all they ask for is wood and food scraps to snack on. They're about the same size as a cat and come in ALL COLORS OF THE RAINBOW thanks to the colorful fire matches from the Christmas market. RIn has them pretty well tamed, but they may still give you a nasty bite if they're in the right mood.

Rin will also make sure plenty of supplies make it to the campsite, so don't worry about just eating berries and weird fish! There won't be any cold stuff unless someone wants to volunteer some ice magic, but plenty of canned goods and fruit and veggies that can be kept at room temp will be available! Though keeping their food stores away from curious mothmen and bigfeet could prove to be a challenge.
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Re: FOOD STUFF!!

[personal profile] starseedling 2018-06-01 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Steven is going to be developing ice magic from his terrible Blue Rose experience, so maybe he can use it for the forces of good by freezing some food for peeps.
flashover: (010 play it loud)

[personal profile] flashover 2018-06-01 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
HECK YEAH that means we can have hot dogs and hamburgers too! See Steven, it's not all bad.
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[personal profile] textsfromhotland 2018-06-01 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
(muffled lizard shrieking)
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[personal profile] sunflowerfields 2018-06-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
to add to this: Mom's got a whole bunch of MAGIC SPICES she hasn't used yet that might be making an appearance. It'll be fun stuff like drinks that turn your hair green or food that makes you jump a little higher than normal.
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[personal profile] scientificist 2018-06-01 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Are we gonna get more specific info on like... the types of tent and gear on the actual event post? Also will they get any sort of heads up so Herbert can pack first aid supplies?
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[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-06-01 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Coolbone is going to be. A menace. He's put out over being evicted from the trailers, even if he is bringing his petbed along. So he's gonna look around be like, look at all these cryptids - are they also pokemon? Do they feel like sparring? Hope so, because he's picking fights with jackalopes, and mothmen, aaaand aggressive insects.
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[personal profile] scientificist 2018-06-02 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, I'm just wondering if there's any kind of limitations. Like, I'm assuming the Ringmaster didn't set them up for glamping.
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[personal profile] seniorvicejanitor 2018-06-02 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Rhys is just going to bitch.

BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH. About anything he can. He will bitch about his socks getting wet or some animal eating his shoes.

And probably need to be saved at some point when he gets himself into some shit.

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[personal profile] textsfromhotland 2018-06-02 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
ALPHYS IS GOING TO HATE EVERY MINUTE OF THIS. She's a nerd shut-in this is going to be TORTURE.

Hinawa, meanwhile, is going to love it. She'll be around for cooking duties of course but she'll also be happy to show everyone how to do fun things like washing your clothes in the river!!
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[personal profile] espigeon 2018-06-02 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
I couldn't really do anything in May, including keep up with the plot. But I'd kinda like to jump back in, if I can.

Well, both of mine can survive okay in the woods. Scout has training and can get reasonably Advanced Camping things done, down to shelters and fires and determining the edibility of this and that. She can also teach people these things.

Julien's much more of a dabbler and will be quietly horrified at the lack of like a shower facility, bathrooms, laundry, electric lighting... he's spoiled. Toughen up, Jules. As a big white bird he stands out, but, bonus, he can take someone up in the air if they're not too big and heavy.
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[personal profile] dressedtothe 2018-06-02 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
OK SO.

9S recently got the power of LIFE HACKING, which is basically some mind control and possession that he needs to test on people while they're on break camping. His reasoning is that the Carnival has a real problem with getting mind controlled and one way to solve that problem is maybe mind control them back. That, and it's a way for him to actually be able to defend himself against human characters (and yes, that includes Carnival members), who he normally cannot harm.

The other thing is that when he's using his powers, sometimes he sees glimpses of events that particularly affected a person, or something that's weighing heavily on their mind. So that's a thing, too.

So at first, he'll ask people if they mind helping him test the magic he's obtained from the Ringmaster, but later he may test the powers on without their IC permission (he won't make them do anything really drastic). I'll only do this with your OOC permission of course! Sooo like, if you want your character to be a guinea pig, hmu!
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[personal profile] atouts 2018-06-02 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Baker can probably be convinced to sit by the food and bark at anyone who approaches it at night.
flashover: (Kuro: Nya!)

[personal profile] flashover 2018-06-02 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
lmao heck yeah. Put Baker and Kuro on guard duty
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[personal profile] flashover 2018-06-02 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
MAGIC!
spaghettimonster: (I HAVE ONLY GOOD FEELINGS ABOUT THIS.)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-06-03 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
If Papyrus hears about this, he's going to sign up with a mix of big hope and big discomfort. Finding solutions to mind control is very much of interest to him! He hates mind control! ...And the best way is to volunteer to be controlled again. Yay?

I'd be down for Papyrus being one of 9S' no-warning test subjects too, this is a general interest notice.
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 2018-06-03 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
So camping was basically Ginko's whole life up until recently, so you would think he wouldn't be too pleased about this, except that he. Absolutely is. He loves The Outdoors, you guys.

As such, he is SUPER available for camping help/advice and will probably definitely want to help out anyone, especially the kids, that need it, whether that means starting a fire or figuring out how to go about gutting a furry fish.

He'll also be pretty delighted with the local wildlife and spend a lot of time watching them and making notes on their behavior, or just hiking around and climbing trees and crap, because of course.

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