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ringleaders) wrote2016-07-16 03:02 am
ringleaders) wrote2016-07-16 03:02 am
GAME PREMISE (OLD)
| THE PREMISE↴ You didn’t exactly intend to run away and join the circus, but that’s where you’ve found yourself, none the less. The carnival showed itself to you in the moment where you most wanted to run from the life you had, or in the moment where you felt so lost that you weren’t sure you had anything at all. You wouldn’t know it then, but it reaches out to souls like yours: those that are afraid, or confused, or in need of change. Or maybe it just sensed your craving for wonder and discovery and decided to answer your desires, whether you liked it or not.  On the other side of a door that once led somewhere else, beyond an unknown crest of trees, or down a darkened alleyway, you see it - the carnival that belongs to every world, and no world. The night sky of an alien world stretches overhead, and the beckoning lights and sounds of the fair feel as familiar as they do foreign. Whether you venture forward or not, you’ll soon find that you’ve lost track of the way to get back to where you came from. For a lack of other options, or out of genuine curiosity, you push forward. And this is where you screw up. You earned yourself a debt. There are a lot of ways to do it. Maybe you played a game of chance without paying, and then lost. Maybe you watched part of a show through the curtains of the big top without a ticket. Or maybe you’re one of the rare few to seek out the Ringmaster by choice, to see what this strange new world has to offer. Either way, you end up with a job with which to pay the carnival back, and a contract. For a year and a day, you’ll travel with the carnival, given work to match your skills. You’ll see the multiverse and help to bring wonder to its various inhabitants. You’ll meet new people, discover new passions, and change in ways both physical and emotional. And after that... the Ringmaster vows to return you to the precise place and moment you left. If, of course, that is what you still want. Sounds like a good deal, right? Well, either way, it doesn’t really matter what you think of it at the moment. The Ringmaster has decided to give this opportunity, and you had better make the best of it. As you’ll soon learn, sometimes what goes on backstage is more complicated than it seems, and a carnival that can travel through worlds can also earn itself some powerful enemies. The game has entered its second year and its second IC season - stakes are higher than ever as characters are forced to fight for their freedom and potentially for the fate of the entire multiverse. There is a more serious and dramatic metaplot arc concerning the Faerie Courts mixed in with more lighthearted visits to various worlds and tour locations. The path the carnival takes is very much in your hands. |
GAME PREMISE (NEW)
Do you ever think about running away? The carnival was the perfect place to do it – run by an eccentric and otherworldly fae called the Ringmaster, it travelled across the multiverse with little more in mind than simply entertaining the beings of different worlds and exploring what each universe had to offer. Some signed on by choice, while others became accidentally drafted into service after gaining a debt to the Ringmaster. Some of both wound up staying for multiple years, settling into the carnival as a home away from home.
As imperfect and strange as its travels can be, its paid employees receive powerful faerie boons – favours from the Ringmaster that can be used to change your world or yourself as you see fit. While working there, it’s possible to learn magic, learn new skills, and discover parts of yourself you never knew existed. It’s also possible that you might grow some fantastical new physical features from the presence of the Ringmaster’s faerie magic, though the reviews of that particular service are mixed.
In the carnival you could become a new you, live a new life, and return home without ever having missed a thing. It used to be so easy.
But now the same faerie powers that enable the carnival’s journeys have returned to seek vengeance for actions of the ancient past. With long forgotten ties to both the Summer and Winter Courts of Arcadia, the Ringmaster has taken the carnival on the run, fighting to elude the enemies and allies she abandoned for a life among mortals eons ago – and all the while, those that follow her have been dragged into a battle between multiversal powers they never knew existed.
The Faerie Courts' hold on the multiverse is growing. How far will you run?
The game has entered its second year and its second IC season - stakes are higher than ever as characters are forced to fight for their freedom and potentially for the fate of the entire multiverse. There is a more serious and dramatic metaplot arc concerning the Faerie Courts mixed in with more lighthearted visits to various worlds and tour locations. The path the carnival takes is very much in your hands.
TEST DRIVE MEME IS OPEN HERE.
APPLICATIONS AND RESERVES ARE OPEN.
FOLLOW
GAME PREMISE (NEWEST)
A lot has changed in the last year. An interdimensional tour has become an interdimensional manhunt, and the more that is learned about the past of the Faerie Courts and the Ringmaster's role within them, the further things seem from peaceful existence the carnival once knew. Now it's a race to find the Queen's Miracles - a set of three artifacts crafted at the beginning of time. With all of them, the carnival just might be able to throw off their pursuers for good.
Yet, all is not well in the multiverse. With the Fae of Arcadia rapidly expanding their hold on reality as we know it, even with the Miracles, there may be nowhere left to turn to. What's worse is that, even now, countless mortals suffer under the tyrannical rule of the Faerie Courts, suffering in unimaginable ways.
Where does this story end? Will you focus on the safety of you and your own, or will you fight for the fate of the multiverse? Only time will tell.
APPLICATION CHANGES↴
Lost Carnival is not the game it once was. While it used to focus on interdimensional tourism and monster of the week style plots, over the past two years it has developed a heavy, player directed metaplot - and in the next eight or so months, that plot will be drawing towards a conclusion. The plot of Lost Carnival has come to demand investment and heavy player interaction, and if that's something you are interested in, you are welcome to join us for the most action packed leg of the journey yet.
New characters will be brought in as captives of the Court Fae and other tyrannical interdimensional forces, and rescued as part of various in-game plots. Each application scenario will be unique, and will be indicated in the Test Drive Memes dedicated to that application round. You'll also have some leeway to invent short-term backstories of your character being enslaved in whatever setting they are being rescued from. There will also be some limited opportunities for characters to sign on and aid the carnival of their own volition, recruited directly from their homeworld, but these will be relatively uncommon.
Left marked by a conflict that will make it too dangerous for them to return home, new arrivals will be encouraged to go along with the carnival and their efforts to change things for the better - or, at the very least, to win their own freedom from pursuit.
The Faerie Courts do not give up easily.
FOLLOW