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CAPTAIN WOES
[Circus Polka]
2024-12-13 16:32:30
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The circus was in town, but really, wasn't it always? There's a play called the "Dance of the Carborhunds" going on inside the tent but there was an issue.

None of the group had tickets.
Also a lobster notail just vaporized into the group, they all decide to ignore this oddity.

Trick
2024-12-13 16:33:10
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"Well nobody told me there was gonna be an admission fee."
Red Jasper
2024-12-13 16:34:31
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"Thats odd, most other places let me in for free. Let me see if i have any money on me at the moment."
Emotion
"I dont know why you didn't assume that /=." They huff, Arise held gently in their arms as normal.
Maggie
"…I honestly didn't expect to need tickets either. Normally with circuses you can just… walk right into this kind of stuff."
Trick
"I tend to just have access to these things. Showbiz perks. Maybe I can talk us in like that."
Starlis
"Honestly I had assumed the same, though I guess it's more like..smaller circuses fighting each other for dominance around here."
S-52
".........@%(@.... ffffffff...."
Emotion
"What kind of circuses have you people gone to that theyre free /=." They ask, before nodding along to what Trick said. "I guess that might work /=."
Red Jasper rolls a 20 sided die. A 4 is rolled.
2024-12-13 16:42:04
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Red Jasper's poor.

Red Jasper
2024-12-13 16:42:31
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"Well, must've used up most my cash on food... I'm not used to being this low."
2024-12-13 16:37:58
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Trick looks for the ticket taker.


Captain
2024-12-13 16:43:24
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Trick checks around for the ticket guy.
"Hello, we have amazing uuuugh deals today."
Emotion
2024-12-13 16:44:03
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Emotion decides to also check their pockets, hoping that they didn't... "leave their wallet at home", if you catch my drift. They, of course, gently set down Prism before doing so. "I'll check too =."
Maggie
"Let's hope we have enough to actually buy tickets… if there's any left. Let me check if I have any, I usually carry around a little bit!"
2024-12-13 16:44:33
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Maggie rolls a 20 sided die. An 18 is rolled.
2024-12-13 16:45:00
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Maggie has enough for 2 tickets!

Emotion rolls a 20 sided die. A 12 is rolled.
2024-12-13 16:47:10
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Emotion has enough for 1 ticket!

Emotion
2024-12-13 16:50:18
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They nod approvingly at their pocket change. They could buy them and hopefully Prism's way in. If not, they could probably... hide her in her cloak.... probably. They gently pick back up their Arise, trailing behind where they saw the rabbit go and following behind.
Red Jasper
"HEY WAIT I KNOW YOU, YOU'RE THAT WEIRD DOG I SAW A FEW YEARS AGO"
Captain
"I'm the captain..........nnnnmmmmmmmmmmm....."
Trick
2024-12-13 16:47:55
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"Greetings, sir! I am the Spectacular Magician Trick Tricksy, and I've been making arrangements to perform at venues around here. Would you mind letting us take a tour of the place? I would love to offer my services."
Captain
2024-12-13 16:49:39
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The ticket holder bites his tounge.
Captain
"A konunini?"
Captain
"Lets see some tricks if you're that good."
Starlis
2024-12-13 16:51:44
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Starlis checks to see if she has enough to enter the show along with the others, darn network is spotty.
2024-12-13 17:19:58
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Sadly Starlis can't get a connection to her money.

Trick
"Well, I've always got at least a deck of cards with me for a simple something."
She produces a fresh pack of cards and unsleeves them, fanning them out for the captain.
"Take a pick."
Captain
2024-12-13 17:21:10
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"I'll take this one!"
Trick has a feeling the captain thinks he can keep the card.

Trick
2024-12-13 17:23:08
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Trick can work with this. "Good, good. That's your card now. Keep in your mind what card it is, and take the rest of them and just kinda mix them in there for me, alright? Then just hold the whole deck in the air, away from your face, thank you."
Captain
2024-12-13 17:23:39
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"Hmmmmm like this? What now?"
Trick
"You just stay still and-- LASER!! BLAST IT!"
Trick instructs her creature to fire a laser beam at the cards
Trick rolls a 20 sided die with a modifier of +5. A 10 is rolled.
Captain
The cards are set on fire and vaporized!!!!!
".................................................................."
Captain
"THAT WAS A GOOD TRICK!!!!"
Trick
"I do what I can."
Captain
"Seeing things set on fire....Reminds me of home. You can go through. I'm sure you're part of the crew...."
Captain
"Is the rest of them?......"
S-52
2024-12-13 17:44:15
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Reverse gawks at the burning cards as Lobster claps as well. Fr-FR@e trick!
Emotion
Emotions hands are full of Arise, so instead they are fluttering their wings being rather impressed! They are easily amused
"I have money =."
Maggie
"I have money too! Enough for two tickets, I believe."
Trick
"They're part of my team today, but it seems like we can handle admission for a few of them if such a large group is an issue."
Captain
"Hmmm sure, what's all your job titles. Speak up all of you."
Red Jasper
"Yep, my act is this guy!"

Red picks up the gW3tch
Captain
"Freak show, I see."
Starlis
"I suppose I'd be more....ringmistress?" Starlis says, looking down to the captain.
S-52
"SwwwwwwORDSWA llowiiing. xwwwwxxx"
Maggie
"I work with the animals, mostly! I'm quite good at teaching them tricks. Show them how you can spin, Persimmon!" Maggie turns to her arise.
Maggie rolls a 20 sided die. A 6 is rolled.
2024-12-13 17:57:38
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Maggie's arise refuses to spin.

Emotion
2024-12-13 17:58:11
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They manage to speak without hesitation "I mostly assist with people. Me and her have a whole thing. Our arises are friends." They say, literally not knowing Maggie besides having walked with the group this whole time. Their arises WERE friends.
Emotion would like to have Prism attempt to get Persimmon to spin, or even spin with them.
Trick
"Some of them are still in training."
Maggie
"…Her training is a work in progress."
Captain
"I see...most of them are.....-"
Captain
"Is that..my boss?"
Captain
He points towards Starlis.
"And is that........."
Captain
"No I must be in a dream. Nevermind me."
Captain
"Give me your ticket money on the way in though."
Trick
Trick heads on in ahead, letting the people who have decided to announce they're paying for entry to suffer that fate.
Maggie
Maggie waddles over and has to climb all the way up the ticket booth to hand over the money. Leech climbing embarrassment
Emotion
"Can do =." They are picking back up Prism, for they trust nobody in this circus with their precious little creature. They handed the money before retrieving Prism, though.
Red Jasper
2024-12-13 18:02:22
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Red refrains from paying as they are FUCKING BROKE.
S-52
2024-12-13 18:02:50
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Lobster holds her seizing bird as she enters with Trick. She might not know how to sword swallow, but she sure can improvise!
Starlis
Starlis walks past the captain, though she does place him a slip of paper on him as she moves past.
Captain
"........................................"
There's not many people inside, in fact it seems they have arrived early! That being said, there's quote the bustle, it appears zannis are attempting to stop two creatures from fighting!
2024-12-13 18:05:32
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"oooooooObuugh."

2024-12-13 18:08:54
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"Clackclackclkac!!!!"

Maggie
"Oh dear, that's no good…"
Trick
"Oooooh, lookit that little guy. Fierce lookin'! Let's see what's up here."
Starlis
2024-12-13 18:17:08
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"Hmm those two look tough, you think those zanni can stop them?"
Emotion
"They may need help, yea, those two look pretty big =."

The two creatures seem to be in a fight over who gets to hang with one of the zannis, who they believe to be the cooler owner.

Maggie
"…Should we help break up the fight? Maybe convince them that one of us would be nice to stay with instead- they look like they're fighting over the zanni."
Starlis
"Are they? Well that's a bit silly, they look to be blocking the other from one of the zanni." She tilts her head, before looking around the nearby stands to see if there are any animal crackers around
Trick
"That'd be for the best. It's no good for either of them if they gotta constantly fight over something like that. We'd be doing them a favor, really."
Trick
"And I admit. I've been looking into an act that the caborhund would be amazing for."
Starlis rolls a 20 sided die. A 12 is rolled.
2024-12-13 18:29:59
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Starlis finds a bag of animal crackers on the floor, these clowns suck at cleaning.

Emotion
"Well, go see if you can't impress it. If you need an experiment for the act, I can help, I guess /=." They state, wings shuffling.
2024-12-13 18:39:29
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Trick rolls a 20 sided die with a modifier of +5. A 14 is rolled.
2024-12-13 18:40:34
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A light show is lit up! (and so is someone's shirt, don't worry it's a small fire he's fine!) The carborhund twists around and launches itself towards the lightshow, looks like it's going in for a bite!

2024-12-13 18:41:54
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Carbohund rolls a 20 sided die. A 3 is rolled.

But hunds are just poor shots, he falls into a trash bin!

Jeffery Riot
Two Kratos units enter.
"SCANNING FUN LEVELS."
Christopher Riot
"Checking when the last laughter was."
Jeffrey Riot
2024-12-13 18:52:19
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"FUN CONFIRMED!" The Kratos units leave as the fun levels are "Enough."
Trick
"Well that was weird. Hey, somebody go keep an eye on that ear tooth dog while I make sure the bug is alright."
Maggie
2024-12-13 18:53:16
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…Once the Kratos leave, Maggie lets out a relieved sigh before turning.
"I work much better with smaller animals, but I can try to distract the dentine while you guys work with the caborhund!" Maggie says, before attempting to pspsps the dentine over.

The carborhund sticks itself out of the trash can and spits out a few lines of fire. It's tough! And...Scary!!!! And it wants everyone to know this!

Red Jasper
"That can spit fire??"
Trick
"Oh, you're a cool one alright!"
Starlis
"Oh that carbohund has some bite to it."
Emotion
Emotion nods. "I can help out with the Dentine if things go wrong... uh. You." Emotion is talking to Maggie, they don't know her name so they just point.
S-52
2024-12-13 19:01:14
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"S C A R Y X W X"
She comes close to Emotion to check in the dentine, just in the case anything goes wrong.
Emotion
Emotion holds Prism away from the somewhat inexistent notail, before watching over what happened.
Maggie rolls a 20 sided die with a modifier of -5. A 7 is rolled.
2024-12-13 19:05:58
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The dentine snaps at Maggie as she approaches and turns around to kick sand in Maggie's eyes.

Maggie
"Ack-" Maggie rubbed the sand out of her eyes with her claws. "…Can someone hand me one of those animal crackers we found? That might help calm this dog."

A tentider bumbles in, kicking the dentine away. It seems the others have let it in to scare away the rowdy animals!

Trick
Trick sees the flames being spit by the cool bug, and nudges LASER!! towards throwing some more lasers out to make the fires seem brighter, so she can just kinda like step through towards the bug all cool like

Trick rolls a 20 sided die with a modifier of +5. A 19 is rolled.
2024-12-13 19:10:16
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The light show is amazing, and while the hund can barely see it, it jumps around trying to catch the lights (often knocking into chairs and stumbling over stairs.) It's impressed, and believes whoever must be making the show is the most awesome person in the world!

And that's of course........

LASER!!!!!!

Red Jasper
Red awkwardly stands there, not knowing what to do really. Seems like everything was already taken care of.
Maggie
"…Oh, guess I'm not trying to tame that dog. I liked it, it's ears reminded me of my frills…"

The tentider mistakes Maggie for an animal and attempts a kick!

Tentider rolls a 20 sided die. A 13 is rolled.

Maggie is FLUNG.

Starlis
"Well you all are doing such a great job at this, honestly everything else I've seen has been embarrassing, even on my part." She says, tossing animal crackers in the air for Blackbird
Maggie
"…Ow…."
S-52
2024-12-13 19:25:36
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And then... [Opposite Day] triggers as the Lobster puts Reverse on the ground and asks for her to calm down the Tendinder, the rowdiness been dealt with and it's rude to kick performers!
Trick
"Haha. Nice." Trick seems pretty alright with the caborhund getting all impressed with her creature. Animals getting along makes things easier, after all.
Trick
"You guys alright over there?"
Maggie
Maggie gets up and shakes herself off. "Wouldn't be surprised if that punctured a crop, but I think I'm okay."
Emotion
Emotion shakes their head no, at this point firmly holding their Arise, wings wrapped around them protectively
S-52 rolls a 20 sided die with a modifier of +20. A 29 is rolled.
2024-12-13 19:34:05
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The tentider is impressed, well, as impressed as a blessed tent could be.........

The patterns on this tent reminds Lobster of something.

2024-12-13 19:34:17
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The caborhund spits fire towards Trick's other party members. Trick's cool, but her party? Embrassing. He wants to know if Trick wants to ditch this disgrace of a circus.

Trick
2024-12-13 19:35:28
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Trick looks at the group. Seems like they've got things handled. "Let's blow this pop stand."
She heads out with the caborhund as to avoid unnecessary collateral damage
Emotion
Emotion shoots a glare towards the caborhund for vaguely endangering Prism, but other then that is happy to see it leave.
2024-12-13 19:45:51
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"Hunmmmowo!!"
Trick's new pal decides his going to show her cool underground circuses, now that's where the fun is!

S-52
2024-12-13 19:46:54
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Reverse just searches for popcorn and food left behind and... Leaves there somewhere close to the Tendinder. Looking like a Jester in a planet where Jesters are feared must be rough...
S-52
2024-12-13 19:47:33
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Soon after, Lobster and Reverse leaves with Trick

The tentider walks over to the food.
And just
Stands there.
YOU FOOL

Red Jasper
RED KINDLY GIVES THIS BIG MANS FOOD
Red Jasper rolls a 20 sided die. A 15 is rolled.
2024-12-13 19:50:43
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THANKS
HE'S EATING IT NOW.
That being said he's still not quite tamed. Red feels like they're missing something........

S-52
2024-12-13 19:52:07
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Lobster... Acknowledges its existence.
Tentider rolls a 20 sided die. A 17 is rolled.
2024-12-13 19:55:13
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The tent kicks Lobster in the face!

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2024-12-13 19:55:29
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Lobster ignores the Tentinder but stays close to it, non nonchalantly. That's how the Tendinder works... He thinks he's a evil jester!!
S-52 rolls a 20 sided die with a modifier of +20. A 35 is rolled.
2024-12-13 19:56:28
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The tentider hovers over Losbter content with watching her.

S-52
2024-12-13 19:57:14
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...That's actually been pretty easy! Sure, the kick on the face sucked, but Lobster is generally in a good mood with her... Weird tentider spider following her. Giving a bit of the food that remained to Reverse, she leaves the tent to eat pretzels with Tricky
Red Jasper
Red ALSO ignores the Tentider
Starlis
"I know we came early, but this show is starting to look a bit boring, let's go find something better." Starlis claps her claws and heads off with Blackbird. "Maybe get you a pretzel outside."
Emotion
2024-12-13 19:57:53
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Emotion has decided to gently set Prism down, away from the Tentider "I'm gonna go do something, then I'll be back, alright sweetie <=?" They look at the Arise, before nodding. "I'll be back before you notice." And off they head.
Emotion
They simply sit down beside the Tentider, silently praying this worked.

The tentider hovers over Red, tamed.

As Red leaves the tent, it follows. As Red heads to the hotel, it follows. And when Red runs away, it follows.

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