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

[beathollow]

Will it?

( ... she's pretty sure ena would yell at her for that, actually. but... )

... I used to tell myself that. And the more I did... the more bits of myself I let fall away because I thought time would fix it. But it didn't.

I won't tell you to act a way you don't like. But... I don't think that's something you have to worry about. Clamor-san is here. And... I don't want to let you do that to yourself either.

[starsmoothie]

I... uh...

[He scratches the back of his head, looking more agitated now, somehow. It helps to have someone tell him it's okay. Even if he doesn't really want to think about it.]

...I have this thing. From Harque. It's a moonstone, and it's enchanted so that... if I were to die, ever, the timeline would rewind and I'd be alive again. [This tag will not touch on how Harque was a little unhinged.] It... worked, but it didn't take me back far enough. It just rewound time by a few seconds, and I was still underwater, and it didn't... uh.

...it didn't... rewind time again. So. I guess I'm a little freaked out by drowning twice in a row. Technically. And the fact that the moonstone didn't work.

[beathollow]

( that's a normal and rational thing to give to your little brother, yeah. makes perfect sense to her.

but... she absolutely can see why that'd be so rattling. drowning once is bad enough, she's sure- but twice?

... how many times has noah died, and known it...? )

I won't say I understand, because I don't. I can't. ... But I can see why you would feel that way.

( mafuyu pauses, visibly trying to work through what she wants to say- this is hard. she's already bad at feelings, she doesn't know how to comfort others... but what can be said about this sort of thing? )

... I'm sorry.

[starsmoothie]

[Technically his death count is only like... 4 in his lifetime so far. Until I do what I did to him in Yogen and then—]

It's... ["Okay", but it's not, and she'd probably be mad at him if he said it was. Noah awkwardly casts his gaze skyward, then down at the ground, at the tips of his shoes. Pristine and showing no signs of hands having dragged him under, no water damage, nothing. It's like he didn't even die at all.] ...I'm used to dying. Kind of. So don't worry about me.

[beathollow]

... No one should be used to that.

( even she knows that.

she's... glad he's alive with them. that he's come back enough times for her to meet him, even if she hates where. but hearing that hurts. )

[starsmoothie]

I mean, without the second chances Harque granted me, I would've died at fifteen and never gotten to see the world, or meet Clamor, or... even be here, really.

[Which is not entirely the point, but Noah's deflecting. Of course he is.]

At least I still get somewhat of a second chance here. I don't know what brought me back, but it wasn't the moonstone.

[beathollow]

It's not that I'm not grateful that you're here. ... That's the opposite, I think. But I don't like that you had to hurt like that.

( the two can coexist. but... she's not used to being able to clearly tell she does or doesn't like something. or... gratefulness. that's new, too. or at least unfamiliar. but... hm. )

... I hope we don't have to find out what the hard way.

[starsmoothie]

Hope not.

[But knowing Noah's track record, it'll happen anyway.]

But... hey. We know we come back when we die now, but that always happens to me. You, though, and everyone else? Don't you dare go dying. Okay? I'll be mad if you do.

[beathollow]

... Okay. I won't.

( or she'll try, anyways.

not a promise she thought she'd ever make, honestly. but for kanade and noah... )

[starsmoothie]

Thanks. Let's... let's try to make it out of here in one piece. Or, if we have to, live the rest of our lives here in peace? ...I'd kind of prefer to go home, though.

[beathollow]

As would I. But I like that you're here. Shiemi too.