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[animusmods]

Characters: Anyone coming to Zo's carnival
Setting: Cafeteria; please specify the date and location in the carnival in your subject header!
Format: Anything
Summary: Zo has set up a carnival for the residents, but it's not meant to last. Anyone wandering after the bombs go off might see things they never wanted to see...
Warnings: Psychological and body horror
Note: Characters entering the carnival from the 27th to the 30th will experience visions! Please refer to the info post for details and reply to this thread if your character enters the carnival during these days.

[The carnival has taken up the entirety of the cafeteria. A large roller coaster and ferris wheel tower over the residents, while a child-sized roller coaster, a merry-go-round, and spinning teacups project much less daunting silhouettes. Stands are set up with standard carnival foods available, from ice cream to cotton candy. These stands do not ask for anything as payment.

On the twenty-seventh, the carnival appearance changes. The machinery all appears rusted and broken down, as if weathered with decades of rain and snow. Plants grow up and around the rides, ruining them, and all the food is rotten.]

Comments

[lethechained]

That's true... but in that situation I'm not sure it's a safe assumption to make.

[terreifying]

[She shrugs.]

I'll wait until we fight again. If we fight again.

[lethechained]

[She nods, but,]

I hope you don't have to fight.

[terreifying]

[She shrugs.]

We aren't fighting right now. Come on, let's go play more games.

[lethechained]

-- Right.

[Whoops, got kind of distracted, there.]

Sorry. We-- have other things to do, don't we.

[terreifying]

Yeah! Come on! Let's play that fishing game!

[lethechained]

Oh, that one...! I think I saw that earlier.

[Now, where...?]

[terreifying]

Hm...

[She looks around.]

I think it might have been this way!

[She points in a random direction.]

[lethechained]

Hm....

Well, I guess we can just go look and see.

[terreifying]

Alright, come on!

[She skips in that direction. There, they don't find a fishing stand, but they do find a game of ring toss.]

[lethechained]

[Naminé... walks normally but perhaps a little more quickly after her, stuffed animal still held in both arms.]

-- Oh. Well... that one looks nice, too, doesn't it?

[terreifying]

Yeah...

[She goes up to the stand and the drone hands her some rings.]

...Really not my specialty, though.

[lethechained]

That's okay. It can be an adventure, right?

[And they're both kind of in the same boat that way.]

[terreifying]

Right. Another adventure.

[She takes a ring and hurls it as hard as she can at the pole. It misses completely and makes a hole in the back of the booth.]

Oops.

[lethechained]

-- !

....

Maybe a little more gently, next time?

[... Not that, when Naminé tries, she's really got it right, either; her throw doesn't even reach the distance of the pole at all.]

[terreifying]

...And you need to throw a little harder. Next time.

[lethechained]

Right. We can figure it out.

[... The next one's... a little better, at least?]

[terreifying]

[She throws her next ring. It crashes into a stand and bowls it over, but still doesn't land on the stand.]

Hey, look. We're both doing better.

[lethechained]

[Naminé winces slightly at the resultant noise, but soon enough she's smiling again.]

Yes, I guess we are! ... One more?

[terreifying]

Why not?

[She throws her ring, much more gently this time. It misses the stand and ends up on the counter next to it.]

[lethechained]

[Why not, indeed.]

[... Hers hits the stand and bounces off. Whoops?]

... Close enough.

[terreifying]

Yep, no regrets.

[And they're both handed a pack of breath mints each.]

[lethechained]

[Well, if ever they find themselves starving....]

Now I get to say I won some, too.

[Or... lost and got some, anyway.]

[terreifying]

[The wonder of consolation prizes.]

What are you gonna do with them now?

[lethechained]

[Shrug!]

Keep them, I suppose. See if I need them some day.