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.

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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

[aiyatsbus]

So you do know about the Abnormality, then. I almost took you for an idiot.

[Mizuki is the FIRST PERSON here to not immediately raise all of Yesod's red flags. Way to go!]

I'm unsure of why, but it does seem to have stolen people away. I almost wonder if it's to feed on them much like... [here, he hums, thinking.] Much like the Parasite Tree.

[mooninthewater]

[ Yesod out here living in opposite day land. ]

Maaaaybe? [ Parasite trees probably exist on Terra, there's weirder shit— ] I haven't been here for very long, so someone else might have better answers, but we seem to be rewarded for having fun, I think~?

[aiyatsbus]

It responds to Attachment work, then...

[Yeah, buddy, it sure does. Yesod almost wishes he had a clipboard right now — where's Malkuth when you need her? There's shit to write down since he can't access the A.I. network right now.]

—How do you mean "rewarded"? Don't tell me the Abnormality gave you something.

[Must everyone accept the gifts from the monsters all the time?]

[mooninthewater]

[ Mizuki is basically a certified monster so this is fine. ]

Not yet, [ Sort of just got off his first ride and Yesod was here, so… ] but I’ve seen other people get stuff to pay for those pumpkins. And I reeeally want a pumpkin.

[aiyatsbus]

Pumpkins...

[Somehow, he has conveniently missed the pumpkins. Call it a plot device.]

Show me where they are.

[ARE THE PUMPKINS ABNORMAL???? TELL HIM]

[mooninthewater]

[ Mizuki has a whole moment of “how can you kiss the pumpkins?” and attempting to rationalize why. He’s still on a bit of an adrenaline high from the ride as well, so there’s a lot of extra math equations thrown in that just don’t belong there. It’s due to this very poor rationalization that Mizuki takes “show me” as “take me there” as “my legs don’t work well and I have a hard time getting around.”

Which is why he picks Yesod up like a sack of potatoes— ]

1/2

[aiyatsbus]

[ LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK ]

2/2

[aiyatsbus]

[Yesod squirms in Mizuki's hold like bro literally why he's a heavy-ass robot please put him on the goDDAMN GROUND—

Mizuki will find that after Yesod figures out he can't escape, that there is an adult man (source needed) pouting with his arms crossed, safe in Mizuki's hold.

Put Yesod back of Facility, he wishes to be reset—]

[mooninthewater]

[ It's fine. This is normal. Mizuki, who's a lot stronger than he looks, doesn't appear to struggle with the weight, despite the fact that Yesod is not only taller than him, but probably weighs about three or four times that of Mizuki. (It's the lack of bones. Or squishy bones. Who knows.)

Regardless, he totes Yesod over to the pumpkin stand and gingerly puts him down to dust him off and make little jazz hands in the direction of the gourds. ] Pumpkins! I think they want um… us to carve spooky faces in them for an event or something? It's festive, I think.

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[aiyatsbus]

[Yesod is literally a metal chassis filled with organs, please release him, thank you— oh okay great. Thanks for helping dust him off; he impulsively does the same thing.

Now. The pumpkins. Yesod strides forward to look them over...]

There doesn't appear to be anything odd about them. [But you NEVER KNOW. You just NEVER KNOW.] I'll acquiesce to you carving one, but if it comes to life or tries to harm you, know that I have no choice but to put it down.

[Yesod

bestie

it's a pumpkin.]