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?

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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

★ The Hierophant, Reversed

[mooninthewater]

[ Mizuki does notice the guts flying his way. His reaction time is pretty above average, and it would be so, so easy to just step out of the way, or reach his hand up to cup some of it to just toss right back at Noah. Instead, though, he just kind of lets this happen… and the moment the guts plop against his face, he dramatically falls to the ground.

Congrats, Noah, you've murdered a jellyfish. This is now a crime scene. ]

[starsmoothie]

[Noah, for his part, just starts fucking laughing. Unless Mizuki has an instantly-fatal pumpkin allergy, he doubts anything happened to his goldfish-munching friend here, so!

Noah runs over to see Mizuki's "corpse", but he's all for theatrics, and so he dramatically lets out a cry and falls to his knees.]

My friend! Woe is me! I have committed the cardinal sin of manslaughter! Whatever will I do now?

[Noah Ebalon is a theatre kid.]

[mooninthewater]

[ The second Noah is on his knees is the moment that Mizuki goes back into motion. The guts are being scooped from his face and spattered quickly onto Noah’s instead. Sorry if any of it got in his mouth?

Except he’s not actually sorry. Welcome to the war zone. ]

[starsmoothie]

[He lets out a loud, enthused laugh at the action and reaches to scoop some of the pumpkin guts out of his hair with one hand, while his free hand — the one that had been aiming earlier, before Mizuki became boneless — tries to smoosh more pumpkin guts into Mizuki's face in kind.

They're nice and slimy and cold. :) And full of flavourless seeds that are absolutely awful when they aren't cooked in this essay I w—]

[mooninthewater]

[ Said as if Mizuki weren't used to slimy and cold things! Wait until Noah gets a slapped with tentacles, then we'll see who's laughing.

Well, Mizuki's still laughing even now, to be fair. Just because he's in a weird theme park around people he doesn't know and has zero idea what's going on doesn't mean he's not allowed to have a good time. In fact, Mizuki's happy to kick his legs in a bit of protest and laughter before he's trying plop some of the guts into Noah's hair instead. Seems he managed to get his hands on some more, somehow? Weird, it's almost like he's got really long appendages or something. ]

[starsmoothie]

[Weird! Noah won't question it, but this is also inadvertently giving him more ammo, since he snort-laughs and pulls said guts out of his hair to plap them onto Mizuki's head instead.

Noah is very emotionally mature.]

Hmm...

[Grabs Mizuki's shirt

sticks pumpkin guts under it]

[mooninthewater]

[ Uh— whoa. Okay. Maybe getting a bit too friendly there, Noah!! He might have given you a goldfish, but that does not mean you have Shirt Rights. He plops a hand against Noah's face and shoves him away. ]

Th— that's cheating! [ Were there rules to this? Apparently, according to Mizuki. ] I call timeout!

[starsmoothie]

Okay, okay!

[Noah wiggles away from Mizuki, keeping his pumpkin-y hands to himself. He also didn't know there were rules.]

...what are the rules, anyhow? If I'm cheating and all that.

[mooninthewater]

No tugging on clothes!!! [ There's probably sexual harassment rules in the park somewhere, surely— ] Also, the rules are that I automatically win, so…

[starsmoothie]

I dunno about that last one! That seems a bit stacked in your favour, don't you think?

[Noah beams.]

I want to propose a new rule.

[mooninthewater]

Well, it's already been approved by the rules council, so I dunno… I guess I can pass along your suggestion, though…

[starsmoothie]

Who's the rules council? You? Corax?

[The rules council sucks!]

I think we could come up with a fairer rule! We can decide who gets to win with a roll of the dice and leave it up to Fate!

[.................Noah,]

[mooninthewater]

… isn’t that gambling?

[ Like his gacha waifus— ]

Sure, we could do that.

[starsmoothie]

There's nothing wrong with gambling if it's in good faith!

[Is that how it works? Regardless, Noah pulls out a single dice out of his pocket — a little, orange d6 — and hands it to Mizuki.]

Whoever rolls higher wins! Both the dice roll and the battle, I guess.