event: step right up

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[The carnival's been in town for a week now, but we're sure none of you have gotten tired of it yet! If you're worried about your missing friends, why not play a few games to take your mind off things?

There do appear to be some minor changes here and there, but what do you expect from a place as charmingly old as this?]

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GAMES

[mayfield_mods]

[The best part of the carnival? The games, of course! If you walk down through the park, you'll see rows of different games to play, all with their own prizes! Adorable baby dolls (most with one eye missing), cackling clown toys, dusty old jewelry (maybe for your best gal?), mangy teddy bears, paddleballs, stuffed hazmats, and something strange in a jar.

...hang on, who bled all over the prizes? Thankfully, the stains look quite old, so you don't have to worry about catching anything.

Just look at the sign in the center of the row of games and decide what you'll play.

Games
Balloons Darts ......... 5 ¢
Milk Bottles ........... 5 ¢
Fishin' ................ 5 ¢
Ring Toss .............. 5 ¢
Shooting Gallery ....... 5 ¢

((OOC: To play, have your character reply to the thread with the title of the game and round in the comment. If you're threading something out, please only put the game title in the comment once your character has already tried to play -- mods will only be replying once to tell you whether they won and what they'll receive. If your character ICly tries to play again, put the title of the game and Round 2 in the next comment where try to play.

Rules to the games here))

TAPE RECORDER

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[With the prizes simply flying out of the stalls, the shelves are starting to look a little empty. Pay close attention though and the more keen-eyed of you may catch sight of a corner of a very old tape recorder now revealed under a pile of stuffed hazmats.

Ask the drone running the stall, and he'll claim that the recorder's always been there and allow you to play the one reel of tape inside. The tape seems to be half broken due to age and the sound is very decayed, but there are patches of recognizable dialogue here and there.]

[The first speaker is a woman.]

...at some weird version of the carnival. It's all fixed up and leads to the rest of the town...aren't any drones here...

[There's a few minutes of gibberish and static before a second speaker, this time a man, can be heard, although parts of his speech is obscured by static.]

Sakura...Rin...I'm going to be here for a little while longer. I'm all right, so don't...wait for me.

Balloons Darts | Round #1

[ghostlygames]

[Mindy has a few nickels! She's gonna try this dart thing out. She picks up her first dart, takes aim, and throws as hard as she can. And kind of wild. I hope the drone manning the stall has good reflexes.]

YUKKO AIOI: RING TOSS CHAMP (Round 1)

[selematpagi]

[ Yukko practically skips up to the Ring Toss Booth. ]

I'm baaaack~

[ She slams another nickle on the table and gets her ring on ]

Get ready to lose again, ring toss!

[ And she throowws it! ]

Fishin' - Round One

[aluminumsiren]

[Looking at the plastic fish floating in the water, Siren smiles.] Oh how cute~! I'd like to try.

[She'll pay the one nickel and take her net, scooping up three little fishies out of the pool.]

FOOD

[mayfield_mods]

[Oh dear, it looks like the food stand's been knocked over at some point during the night! Unfortunately for anyone trying to salvage some delicious fried goodness, the side's splintered and all the food's spilled out onto the ground. For the more observant of viewers, there's something strange about it - from the way the wood has rotted and grass has grown through the cracks of the fallen stand, it seems whatever knocked it over must have done it a long, long time ago. But wasn't it perfectly fine just yesterday?]

[thebeastwithout]

Hey!

[Beast Boy will stare in dismay at the wrecked food stand.]

Geez! What kind of jerk would do that? Now what am I gonna have for dinner?

[Says the boy who just spent all of yesterday feeling vaguely nauseous and only able to stomach grass. ...No really all he had was grass.]

[shadowflashkick]

-He had come back to the carnival, looking for clues... and as he crossed the food stand he took a second look to observe the damage.-

What do we have here?

[redwhiteandhero]

[NOT THE FOOD. D:]

Man, who the heck would do something like that!

[thunderace]

[The sudden appearance of the carnival, when nobody had been talking about it prior to its arrival. And now, for the past couple of days, people have been talking about missing friends. This whole thing made the hairs on the back of Fate's neck stand on end, and she couldn't sit by and do nothing anymore. So here she is! She's clad in her Barrier Jacket, but Bardiche remains in his Device form, attached to the back of the glove on her right hand.

She's currently crouched down near the food stand, examining a bit of the rotted wood. Reaching out, she touches it, and talks to what seems like thin air.]

Bardiche, can you tell me how long it took for this deterioration to happen?

[And... a voice talks back to her. A mechanical, monotone, male voice.] Negative, sir. My apologies.

[Fate sighs.] That's alright. It was worth a shot.

Food

[grumpiest_tree]

[Groot originally was planning on staying far away from the carnival. After all, it sounded like a rather elaborate trap to him. But with all the chatter on the phones and talk of people missing, he couldn't help eventually taking a cautious look around to see if he could find some information.

Which is why he is now looking over the ruins of the food stand with a critical eye and muttering aloud to himself...]

Was it always like this? Seems odd like this place would let it remain ruined like this. Or that it would like like it was destroyed ages ago when this carnival has been here only a few days...

FERRIS WHEEL

[mayfield_mods]

[Of course the best part of a carnival are the rides! The old ferris wheel in the center of the carnival is the perfect place to go with a friend, or maybe a steady date! Of course, this thing has seen better days. Once you're on it, they're a strong likelihood you and your partner will find yourself stuck at the top for hours on end.]

TAPE RECORDER

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[Thanks to the Ferris Wheel being even more unstable than usual, a sudden rock of one of the more broken down cars dislodges an old tape recorder that had been tucked away underneath the seat. The tape is very decayed with age and the sound mostly static and warped voices, but there's a few patches where the dialogue is barely understandable.]

[The first batch of dialogue seems to be a conversation between two people.]

...-pid, how does this-!? What's...what's going on?

It will work better if you stop banging on it...a tape recorder....

...thought there was a charm being cast on the Ferris Wheel, but all I found was this inside one of the seats.

[There's a few minutes of gibberish and static before a woman, apparently unrelated to the previous conversation, starts talking.]

...there is nothing to see up there. The fog from yesterday remains, but the thickness has increased as of the morning of my second day here, and it seems to be getting closer. There is only fog as far as the eye can see.

[ra_ra_razputin]

[Raz eyes the ferris wheel. He always thought they were kinda boring, at least if you used them the way they were supposed to be used. If you got creative, on the other hand...]

I bet I could climb that!

Re: FERRIS WHEEL

[wrench_and_ruffles]

[Kaylee looks the ferris wheel over and quickly comes to one conclusion]

I could get that workin' right if they'd just let me at it.

ROLLAR COASTER

[mayfield_mods]

[Roller coasters are fun for everyone, and this is no exception! Ouch, except maybe not that drone whose hand was just chopped off...or everyone in those two cars that just crashed. Let's just say that if you ride this roller coaster you might have fun...or you might be horribly maimed or killed. But isn't the thrill half the fun?]

[of_alderaan]

[She came to look for her father, but is distracted by ...whatever this is.]

Why would anyone get in one of those?

[Especially with the dead bodies...]

[aluminumsiren]

Oh dear.

[Siren hesitantly prods a decapitated head with the heel of her shoe. She'd helped murder billions in her line of work, but it usually wasn't done in such a distasteful way as this rollar coaster was going about it. Much too messy.]

I don't recall the rollar coasters on Earth being so violent. How disappointing.

[nodifferentfate]

[After hearing about all of the disappearances, Padmé had decided to go take a look at this carnival herself.

She pauses in front of the horrible looking contraption, hey, she doesn't know what roller coasters are, her gaze wary.]

FREAK SHOW

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[Towards the back of the carnival is a giant curtain behind which are some sights the world has never before seen! Pay 10¢, and step behind the curtain to walk into the carnival's freak show. Warning: This show is not meant for the kiddies! There may be some blood.

Hanging from the wall are several strange and bizarre images. On tables in the room are several amputated limbs-- a hand, a leg, part of a torso, that look badly burned and damaged. There are some partially dissected corpses of animals that are deformed-- a mutated fetal pig, a sheep missing its face. In the center of the room is rusted, bloody operating table that should be very familiar to many of you from earlier this year, as well as a bloody beet shredder in the corner that may be familiar to those of you who have been here any longer.

And hanging from three meat hooks on the back wall are the decaying corpses of a housewife and a man in a police uniform, as well as a clean, unbloodied tie.

Enjoy the show!]

TAPE RECORDER

[mayfield_mods]

[One of the mutilated and unrecognizable animal corpses has rotted away enough to reveal a bloody and old tape recorder inside. The tape is mostly ruined due to age, but parts of it can be made out.]

[There seems to be only one speaker, with some of her dialogue being garbled by the tape.]

...Location: Tunnel of Love. Time: Unknown. This is day one in this area. I have recently arrived at this place...via the funhouse...rats are large...we may be left here to starve. There is much that remains unknown about this place.

[inthebones]

[Susan stands calmly appraising all of the items in the room. It was a bit hard to notice, but a mark on her cheek shaped vaguely like a... skeletal hand is glowing slightly.

She'll approach the bodies and the tie.]

Now, they warned you, Evan. I'm sure they gave you a fair chance. But I'd say you brought this on yourself, wouldn't you?

[Her gaze falls on the tie.]

I wonder what that's doing here.

[ex_bloomnobly385]

[Yuyuko stands at the back, regarding the corpses with a seriousness that seems unusual for her. Not only is the level of disrespect for the dead some people have absolutely sickening, it doesn't make sense to her given what she knows about the town]

FORTUNE TELLER

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[Tucked away to the side of the freak show is a little mechanical fortune teller booth. Put a nickel into the machine, and you'll receive a piece of paper with your fortune printed on it. Of course, almost anyone gets the same generic fortune: ]

"Beware! Danger is in your future! A great catastrophe approaches!"

[But if you're lucky, you may receive something special.]

Re: FORTUNE TELLER

[pinkscarflady]

This ought to be amusing...

[In goes a nickel.]

FUNHOUSE ENTRANCE

[mayfield_mods]

[The funhouse is still open! There seem to be a lot of glass shards in the Hall of Mirrors where someone broke several mirrors, so watch out.]

[wafels]

[Belgium stands in the busted up hall of mirrors and looks around.]

What happened here? Did the wind knock them over or something?