OCTOBER EVENT + TDM 02

[ride_technicians]

↞NAVIGATION

event | ƨγɒbiloʜ γqqɒʜ

Curfew lifts on 10/06 as thunder booms overhead, the dark clouds writhing as they roil and twist with unshed waters. Over the past few days, no rain has fallen from the turbid skies, but the threat of downpour remains ever present.

It’s on such a dark and stormy day that the doors to the Gift Shop are propped open by two wooden crates, full to the brim with pumpkins of all shapes and sizes. Inside the shop itself, a stack of pumpkin carving kits sits on the checkout counter, alongside a row of colored candles. The masked individual that works as the shopkeeper is as silent as ever, though through the act of gesticulation it manages to convey that the carving kits and the candles are complimentary, and are given for free alongside the purchase of a pumpkin from the bin outside.

You could definitely try to steal one, sure. But the signs above the bin state that each pumpkin is only priced at one Park Token, so it’s not too much of a net loss overall.

Characters will find that after they’ve made their choice of one (1) pumpkin and one (1) of the colored candles, they are not permitted to try and return for another one of either. If more grand theft pumpkin is attempted, no matter how strong the character is they will be unable to lift the second choice up from the bin, almost as if it carries the weight of the whole world within that orange rind. You are only allowed one pumpkin, so be sure that you consider your options carefully.

Of the candles themselves, the following colors are available to choose from: red, blue, white, black, purple, green, and yellow. Each candle will cause a different event to happen, but the side effects of lighting each candle are not advertised anywhere in the shop. Please note which candle your character chooses in the mod comment below, so that you can be informed of what your character has inadvertently unleashed upon the park.

Strangely enough, despite not being provided with a lighter or a match of any kind, the candles flare to life regardless the moment they are placed within one of the carved pumpkins.

You are free to do whatever you deem fit with the pumpkin innards. Go ham.

event | wolɘd

It starts as a glimmer, a flicker of illumination that can be briefly spotted below the surface of the lake. It's quick, something that could easily be excused away as your eyes playing tricks on you, nothing more. That would be the case, at least... If it didn't keep happening. And if the lights didn't get brighter with time.

The flashes are almost rhythmic, a pattern without explanation. Gold and white, brightly shimmering beneath the waters before going dark once more. Over and over again, almost as if controlled by something sentient. Almost as if the lake is beckoning you in to investigate it. Should you give in to the urge, however... Well. Whether you attempt to find the source by either swimming in or renting one of the swan boats, the end result is the same; blackened hands grab at your limbs, clawing at your ankles and dragging you down below the surface. Down... down... down... Until fighting your way back up to the open air would be challenging. Difficult, but not impossible. Then the hands retreat, and you're left alone.

Down here, there are no lights. It's impossibly dark, and something is moving.

tdm intro prompt | !woʜƨ ɘʜT oT ɘmoɔlɘw

You open your eyes to the burn of salt in your lungs, panic clawing up the sides of your throat and settling in your pulse. There is black water all around you, frigid in a way that cuts like a blade and seeps into your very bones. It’s then that you become aware of a minimum of two things:

You’re floating suspended within what could either be a lake or an ocean, roughly twenty or so feet below the surface.

There’s something moving in the blackness beneath you.

You can’t see the bottom, and you can’t see whatever is down there, but you can feel its presence as it disturbs the water below you. Whatever it is, it’s big. And it’s coming closer. You can practically hear it now, a quiet hum that rumbles and resonates at such a frequency that it seems to rattle your teeth in your skull. Silent, yet at the same time somehow impossibly loud. It builds and builds, until you can't seem to focus on anything other than the noise. It crowds your senses, dulling your reactions and dimming the drive to flee.

Suddenly, the hum stops. Several feet away, a massive amber eye blinks closed; you can't remember ever seeing it open in the first place. The water around you shifts, displaced as the thing begins to move away.

Might be a good idea to start swimming for the surface.

Crawling your way to the shore of a lake only to find an amusement park waiting for you isn’t the strangest thing to happen to you after all, is it?

ooc

Feel free to have your character wander about the various park attractions as you see fit! Everywhere listed on the locations page is currently available, with the difference being that the temporal displacement within It'z Quite The Large World has been soothed, causing the ride itself to function in entirely normal ways with no spooky secrets hidden anywhere. TDMers may also participate in the carving of pumpkins.

Comments

Clamor | Elsword | OTA!

[celresonance]

[A - Meet & Greet (guest starring Noah)]

[The good news: turns out manifesting a spirit form is still possible, even with most of Clamor's "real" "body" missing. It doesn't do much to abate the throbbing pain that permeates his existence, but at least he has hands...

Hand. Just one hand, which is firmly and solidly gripped in Noah's, but he'll take what he can get. The other is... not exactly gone, but flickering like a dying light, parting like smoke and glass when he tries to touch anything. Much of his body is the same—broken, missing, strained. He looks like a ghost, dim and faded as he is, but he can be solid if he has to be. As long as it's not too much at once, anyway.

There's no one-to-one between sword parts and body parts, just spiritual essence stretched thin across a form too large and complex to be sustained by its materials. Still, there are some consistencies... namely, that his upper torso keeps separating from the bottom half (really need to find a way to fuse the blade back to the hilt), and his face is uh. Well, his eye is missing, so it's probably not a big deal if his head disappears half the time. He can't see anyway, so how would he know? Don't worry about it.

Anyway, Noah is here to show him around, which is... also kind of pointless if he can't see anything... but he can still say hello!! Please don't freak out or assume Noah is being haunted and needs an exorcism. Clamor is very nice, really.]

[B - Plant Jail for Vegan Crimes]

[You're probably minding your own business, going about the park as normal... when suddenly a ghostly, glowing hand emerges from the nearby hedge, branches clinging to its wrist. The hand waves frantically, or perhaps tries to politely tap your shoulder, whatever works.]

Excuse me! Sorry! If you're not too busy— pthhk! [someone is spitting out leaves from inside the hedge... it's fine, he's fine.] I'm a little, ah, stuck. If you'd be so kind...

[... and the branches already seem to be encroaching on the hand again, trying to pull him back in, so. soon, preferably.]

[C - Plant Jail 2: The Revenge]

[okay, so, imagine prompt B again, but instead of a hand reaching out of the bushes its six inches of a broken golden sword stabbing out of it without warning

pros: a lot easier to escape vicious plants this way! he can just cut right through.
cons: you cannot hear his voice trying to warn passersby to stand clear unless you are actively being stabbed by a surprise hedge-knife.

roll for dexterity, he's sorry, good luck]

[D - Wildcard]

((hello friends pls hit me up on the discord or at BlueFlewFedUQueen if you wanna do something else))

B. Jailbreak time

[lunarstasis]

[To say that he was taken aback by the voice and the glowing hand was an understatement. Luckily, this was definitely not the strangest thing that Amizeth had seen in his lifetime.]

Ah, hold on —

[He reaches out, taking the hand firmly in his and yanked it back towards him. Perhaps a little more forceful than intended, seeing as he was expecting a full grown man and not… ya know.]

[celresonance]

[Clamor is a full grown man!! He's just... missing a couple parts, temporarily.

so anyway Amizeth yanks on the hand and a torso with half a head pops out. please maybe don't look inside the part where the upper half of the head is supposed to be, it's not gory but it still looks weird and he'd feel bad about it...

he's still a bit tangled up, but he clasps his other hand onto Amizeth's now that he's (mostly) free. after coughing up a whole goddamn flower off to the side—]

Ugh, thank you... truly, I had no idea the plants here could be so stubborn. I was starting to get worried I'd be stuck there all night!

a! wolfie lavvy come to me

[beathollow]

( you know, mafuyu's been having a dilly of a day. and she has been, for like, 11 whole days already. but she's gotta be honest, her new friend walking around with a slowly-shifting golden ghost on his shoulder is not what she expected to see today.

...

yesod's gonna flip.

but noah is also... he's reckless and selfless and self-sacrificing, but he's not stupid.

just the other three.

so she's going to not freak out and instead sit up properly and clear her throat a little- even now her throat hurts just a bit. )

Noah. Who's that with you?

[starsmoothie]

This is Clamor! This is my friend from back home.

[Noah insistently tugs Clamor closer to her.]

He's a little messed up right now, but we're working on it. [noah's working on it.] He doesn't normally look like he's flickering in and out of existence like that.

Clamor, this is Mafuyu! She's the one I told you about. ["Our parents are similar" is what he had said, but Noah's not about to say that in front of her.]

C! I rolled a 12,

[aiyatsbus]

[Hey are you ever just sitting down on a bench thinking to yourself, how the fuck did I get here, where the fuck is this, what the fuck is happening — and then a BUSH throws a KNIFE at you? And it lands in your LEG?

It's very lucky that Yesod is actually a robot, or a sharp, pointy object might've caused some real damage!

He reaches into his leg where there is currently like, 1/4th of Clamor buried in it and, with an irritated grunt, pulls the blade out.]

Where did this come from?

[Still holding the blade, he turns to look into the bush. This fucking place is going to be the death of him.]

[celresonance]

Oh! Oh, gods, I am so sorry— I didn't hit you, did I? Are you okay? Aghh, I knew going out like this was a bad idea...!

[he can't cry but he might be crying on the inside... maybe he should've just stayed in the bushes until Noah came looking for him.

speaking of the bushes, his hilt is still partially sticking out of them, what with it not being properly attached to the blade yet. also, the bushes might be trying to reach all the way out to Yesod now, how dare u take away their cool sword.]

Are you bleeding at all? I wouldn't call it my specialty, but I can do a bit of healing magic... it's the least I could do to apologize.

1/2

[aiyatsbus]

[OH FUCK NO THE KNIFE IS TALKING, PUTS IT DOWN IMMEDIATELY]

2/2

[aiyatsbus]

[...

After about a minute and a half, Yesod picks the blade back up before the bushes can grab it again, figuring this is the lesser of the two Abnormalities to deal with. Bushes with knives could hurt someone else, and he spends a moment swatting a particularly bothersome branch away before he notices the hilt just sitting there.

He doesn't reach for it yet.]

My chassis is unharmed. [He waterlogged it on his arrival, so... it can't get much worse.] I don't require your "healing magic", Abnormality. Try not to embed yourself into anyone else.

B

[songsearching]

[ Fortunately (?) for Clamor, the person that he manages to find is a small girl who - while she has some self-awareness of the situation and knows that the more optimal solution would be to perhaps grab someone else who has more strength, that's not keeping in mind that there's limited time here.

...

So, Kanade, in spite of logic, runs towards him and puts her arms out. ]

Can you grab on?

[ At the very least, she can be some sort of leverage. Or so she's hoping. ]

[celresonance]

[this would be an easier task if he could see, but grasping around blindly... he catches the edge of her sleeve. a lucky break!]

Yes! I think so! Do you think you could pull me out? If I could even just grab something solid that isn't a tree...

[now, being 1/4 of his normal amount of cool magic sword, Clamor is currently quite light... but Kanade isn't just trying to pull a broken sword from a bush. she is also fighting the bush itself, which is both weirdly strong for a plant and also steadily creeping up Clamor's arm onto her own. can she win this game of tug-o-war? or will she become the next victim...?]

[songsearching]

I can try--

[ "Try" being the key word here. Because Kanade has absolutely no muscles. Which means that she'll get absolutely get pulled in... at least an attempt was made... ]