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Lost Carnival Mods ([personal profile] ringleaders) wrote in [community profile] livinglot2018-09-30 11:11 pm

⇨ New Location: POLARIS

PREPARATION
With the Ringmaster defeated and claimed by the Huntsman, the ownership of everyone she has contracts with will have defaulted to the Huntsman himself - which means he is capable of forbidding everyone the use of their magic and powers. He does, of course, but it turns out he has little interest in keeping any of the Ringmaster's left over belongings. Soon after taking her egg, he passes off ownership of everyone else to an assembly of Winter fae that have been patiently lying in wait.

The leader of the fae in question? The Mother of Invention, a notoriously unorthodox magical scientist and researcher. While the Ringmaster is carted off to places unknown, the rest of the carnival is being whisked away to a place called Polaris for the indefinite future.

NOTE: If your character contracted with Ignatius, special rules will imply regarding their ability to use their powers. Right at the start, they will still mostly lose their ability to use powers, but as time goes on, their contract will conflict with the Mother's ownership of them, allowing minor uses of their abilities on a case by case basis.


SETTING

Polaris is a magical laboratory complex in Arcadia, floating just above cloud level. It belongs to the Mother of Invention, and is used by her and her technicians to study and develop magical theory. While stealing away mortals to this complex is a common practice, those taken from the Ringmaster's care are here under special circumstances.

All items, pets, and clothing will be confiscated on entry and locked away, followed by everyone having to go through a 'decontamination' process that mostly involves all the things you'd expect it to. You get scanned by various things and then sprayed with magical water vapor that feels very cold but apparently cleanses. Then, you are given new clothes - that are applied magically rather than being something you physically put on - and taken away to be individually interviewed. Please fill out this form as each of your characters, following the rules as explained. This interview will determine some things about how your character is treated during the event.

The new 'clothes' are actually just weird bodysuits in a shade of charcoal grey, with a texture somewhere between leather and silicon. It's flush to the skin and flexible enough to stay that way, but thankfully the material is thick enough that it isn't unduly revealing. You will mysterious find yourself not needing to eat or produce waste while wearing it. It's also basically impossible to take off on your own. If you are weirdly shaped, or have a lot of fur, feathers, or foliage that would get in the way of this, then the suits are custom applied and can be modded to accommodate such things. The design will endeavor to cover as much as possible while not being completely impractical. They generally won't cover things like tails or wings.

Characters will be locked up in compact cells during the night, either alone or in pairs. If your character is big they will be put in a somewhat bigger cell to accommodate their size, but there will still not be much leg room. The layouts are approximately like this, so if you have a roommate, things will be pretty intimate for your stay with them. Housing is functionally random and may change daily, irregularly, or not at all. Who you room with is your OOC choice, but in game characters are being assigned by the technicians.


PATRONS

► TECHNICIANS: There are large number of 'technicians' working in Polaris, who are essentially just the Mother's collection of changelings. Most of them look pretty similar, with common themes of white hair and visors or goggles that cover their eyes, obscuring unique facial features. There are men and women, but none of them act very different from each other. All of them use classification numbers to describe themselves and each other, and don't sound very upset about it. Most of the time, anyway.

The general vibe from them is either neutral ambivalence or deep, deep repression. They are more intelligent than average, and some of them seem to be genuinely interested in the science of what the Mother does. They are not cruel, but they often come off as unfeeling and detached from the lives of test subjects. Internally, for some, there is more conflict - but nothing they will admit to at prompting. Technicians are the ones that will take care of day to day affairs, like escorting prisoners from place to place, or doing tests. Some of them are suited up to act as guards.

DANGERS

► THE MOTHER OF INVENTION: The threat is pretty straight forward. You're trapped here, you don't want to be here, and while you are here, by the laws of magic, you are technically the Mother's property. This means that she can theoretically control you in all the same ways that the Ringmaster could, but largely never did. This new role as a lab rat is not a flattering one, and everyone from the carnival will have to consider their priorities in the face of a potential lifetime of captivity. This time the Ringmaster isn't around to bail anyone out.

REWARDS
It's possible to earn 'rewards' from the Mother of Invention for 'good behaviour', but do you really want to try? The choice is yours.


CHANGES
This location presents the unique opportunity to end up with magitek implants, additions, or limb replacements. This isn't something that will happen to everyone, and receiving one will probably be unpleasant - however, you have the automatic option to wind up with the equivalent of a Common or Uncommon change in the form of robot parts. If you take one, though, you'll have to tell me what kind of change you'd like while I fill in the details. You can specify a general area, but the specifics will be mod chosen. Rare changes made of Polaris magitek may also occur, but only if it comes up for plot reasons. These magitek additions may also not be as cooperative or comfortable as regular magical changes.

Rare magitek alterations may also come up later on, for various reasons, but at not an guaranteed assumption. These will only occur through gameplay cues.



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 should be up to date.
bananaspeedrider: (Default)

[personal profile] bananaspeedrider 2018-10-01 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Would a certain pair of dice that Yugo nicked from the Count of Crows be recognized?
kingsroads: (GIVE IT UP FOR MAGIC)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-10-01 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Will any items stored in magical storage be confiscated as well or will they simply remain inaccessible? For example, items stored in magical hammerspaces, pocket dimensions, or anything that Strange stores in his weird body mirrors.
bananaspeedrider: (cheer)

[personal profile] bananaspeedrider 2018-10-01 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
What I meant was would it be known it was previously Winter Court property. But if nobody cares, that's cool.
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[personal profile] chronosynthesis 2018-10-01 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Since the cells are marked for "during the night" does that mean they actually have pretty free reign of the facility otherwise, or will they be kept in more compact group arrangements day to day?
kingsroads: (I AM KING OF BILLIARDS)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-10-01 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
obviously this is all loosey goosey depending on how the log shakes out, but here's some tentative plotting for my two...

Hanamaru is so technologically inept, she never used the internet until about a year ago, despite the fact that Love Live Sunshine is set in the present day. In all likelihood, she'll be throwing herself headfirst into this technology stuff to try and distract herself from the fact that she got super murdered last event and doesn't know how to cope with that! As a note, I haven't decided what her murder change is going to be yet, but it'll probably be uncommon.

Strange is going to initially hate this due to the power nerf + poor Ignatius getting his ass kicked seven ways til Sunday. He knows some information on the Mother of Invention thanks to Shimmer (his drunkard changeling caravan buddy) and will gladly be Mr. Exposition for anybody who wants to catch up on who tf this lady is. I don't mind threading that out or if you just want to handwave an infodump, comment here and we can sort that shit out. finally, considering that strategy A (magic) isn't applicable, there's a good chance that Strange will fall back on strategy B (gossip) in an attempt to either get the hell out of here or learn how fire bae's doing.
Edited 2018-10-01 04:45 (UTC)
spaghettimonster: (A BURDEN SHARED IS A BURDEN HALVED!)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-10-01 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Papyrus will recombine within a couple nights (after a lot of late hours of talking to himself, sorry in advance to any neighboring sleepytime cells). After that point he's going to have some apologies to give and more people to check up on. And a little more freaking out to do, because RM is dead/an egg and they're all kidnapped without powers, but, but! They've managed to survive all sorts of things! They'll figure something out or get lucky somehow, probably!!!

Anyway, depending on how terrible the things they're instructed to do are, he'll be trying to ingratiate himself for advantages and knowledge to share around. Maybe if he's friendly enough he'll win over some of the technicians! It's worth a try!! And he'll be encouraging people to try doing things that he knows they're skilled or knowledgeable with, so catch him around for that.
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[personal profile] impatientdefense 2018-10-01 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Beauregard is kind of disappointed, kinda pissed, ngl. It's almost enough to make a monk stop getting in drinking contests, that this went SO WRONG. How'd she go from one creepy imprisoned testing facility to a carnival to another creepy imprisoned testing facility?? How many places like this are there?

So Beau will be complaining and moping, exercising even more than usual, and interrogating everybody who seems to know about these things what the deal is. And when the tests and challenges and whatever come up, she'll pour herself into them for the sake of something to do, some competitive spirit, and maybe - given the questions in that initial survey - the chance to hurt people while going "oh well, i just had to do it for the test"

eta: roomies are open! come for the night chatter, don't mind the snores
Edited 2018-10-02 16:01 (UTC)
impatientdefense: (wanna fight)

[personal profile] impatientdefense 2018-10-01 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Sign Beau up for the exposition train because WTF happened there
impatientdefense: (hey)

[personal profile] impatientdefense 2018-10-01 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
will anyone be getting lit on fire
kingsroads: (well why don't we do this?)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-10-01 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
he's got your back Broregard, time to exposit some info that Strange obtained via drinking.
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[personal profile] sunflowerfields 2018-10-01 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
TIME TO THINK WITH PORTALS

Hinawa is really gonna be in a Mood. She is SO CLOSE to being done with her contract and NOW THIS? Also, technology is scary and thomas edison was a witch so this is the worst possible place to be trapped for what could possibly be the rest of her life. She's going to try her hardest to put on a brave face for others but cellmates and neighbors will definitely hear her crying at night. :')

Alphys meanwhile is... also terrified out of her mind but kind of curious at the same time? There's so much SCIENCE here and she wants to touch it!! But it's also horrific, unethical science and she's probably going to be on the receiving end of it! She's going to be on her best behavior to try and avoid the worst punishments, but I really really want to get Alphys some magitek changes so we'll see how it goes.
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[personal profile] atouts 2018-10-01 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Sup, the normally unflappable Childermass will actually be scared out of his goddamn mind since it's only a matter of time before the Mother of Invention realizes what he is and trades him off to his dear old fae dad for a favor. Well, either that or figures out fun new uses for the faeblooded as test subjects. Overall, not having a good time in a Winter realm.

He'll become slightly less useless once he realizes signing on with Ignatius actually did help (some of) them, even if only in a small way, but until then, he gets to be the supervisor in a constant state of panic this time. Anyway, rip, y'all, feel free to try and shake him out of it. I'm also open to random room assignments, etc.
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[personal profile] starseedling 2018-10-01 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Steven is freaked out also, but more in a 'dipping into complacency' kind of way, so I'd love to have them interact during all this.

Also RIP them when the faeblooded shit gets attention like they both know it will.
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[personal profile] exaomori 2018-10-01 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Share the gossip with Shura , pls, she’ll promise him a drink later if they can get out ever
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[personal profile] atouts 2018-10-01 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It'll be a lot of sitting and staring despondently at a wall, tbh.

And he is not looking forward to that revelation at aaaall.
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[personal profile] starseedling 2018-10-01 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow he was not expecting Childermass's brain to just snap in half like this. This is cause for concern.

That will honestly probably make Steven feel more like he has to try to actively do something, considering.
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[personal profile] atouts 2018-10-01 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's like a Winter fae has combined with Matrix bs to him, so it's all around pretty bad. Sorry, Steven.
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[personal profile] starseedling 2018-10-01 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh right GOD DAMN. I so often forget that the Matrix happened because it was so long ago and only like three dudes got messed up but Childermass sure was one of them.

My condolences my dude. But that's entirely fair.

With any luck no hacker computer man will try to burst out of your body this time.
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[personal profile] whattaprick 2018-10-01 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s probably not a good idea to give away personal connections here, so Lambert will try to keep his distance in public areas and try not to obviously seek him out, though he’ll be keeping an eye on him and worrying.

Not many specific ideas for what else I’d like them to do, but put them down for getting thrown together for some mandatory activities at some point maybe?
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[personal profile] kingsroads 2018-10-01 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
you got it, buddy. time for some good ol'fashioned infodumping about how we're all probably fucked.

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