Genessia Carnival
The week of the carnival has arrived! With the combined effort of paid workers, volunteers, Azura, and those Azura decided were going to help her (Looking at you Fam), the setup has gone without a hitch. Those who come by the large park in Genessia City during the morning and afternoon of the 16th will see the carnival in various stages of completion. It isn't the sun starts to set and the sky begins to burn the colors of pink and orange with a topping of blue that the lights on the carnival tents and other structures come to life.
THE CARNIVAL IS ON.
It's clear that the carnival takes up almost all of the park; it's setup done so that the rides, attractions, booths and other assorted portions of the carnival are setup around ponds and lakes and take advantage of paths in the park. At the entrance are a myriad of food stalls, while the bigger rides are further in the back. In between are smaller attractions like games, but more importantly this is where all of the booths for the residents are set up. Several rows deep, the offerings here are wildly different and each engaging in its own way. Lastly, the larger attractions of the Carnival are organized in the large central portion of the carnival where a large area has been cleared and sectioned off in 4 large rectangles to house each with plenty of room.
Carnival Fare
- Food And Drink - There are so many smells that sometimes your nose might be confused. From the scent of roasting meat, to the smell of sugary sweet cotton candy, the myriad of scents mingle throughout the whole carnival. There's an entire section of picnic tables for carnival goers to take a load off and eat their fill. The admission ticket even paid for complimentary drinks! However, there are plenty of stalls that are offering much more interesting options, including alcohol (for adults only!). Food ranges in price of course, and unfortunately there are a few stalls that might be overpricing their food...
- Rides and Attractions - The carnival isn't complete without classic carnival rides. There's a ferris wheel, teacups, several different merry-go-rounds, as well as a SUPER ROMANTIC Tunnel of Love. For the more adventurous there's even a few smaller sized roller coasters as well as an interesting looking magically powered water slide that's powered by a couple of local wizards and a "Doctor". One of the most popular rides seems to be the bumper cars, where each car has the chance to change shape on impact. Lastly for those who are brave enough there's a 2 story haunted house of mirrors full of jump scares and atmospheric music.
- Games and Stalls - THIS is where all of those stalls that were signed up for are. Of course, they make up the bulk of stalls, though the ones that are food oriented border the area mentioned earlier. Other booths such as shooting ranges, pingpong ball toss, fortune tellers, toy building booths and even a couple of booths where you can fish up your own little fish pet are here. Careful though, some of these booths are lowkey ripoffs, since they were largely built by volunteers. Should you get scammed it's wise to try and find security rather than handle it yourselves.
Main Attractions
- Randomized Plays - These plays are held nightly, but they're not your traditional plays. Participants are chosen from the audience who paid admission! On top of that, the roles are randomly assigned. You never really know what you're going to get, so in the end the plays come out a lot like improv. They're also largely hilarious, unintentionally or otherwise as often the two plays wind up intermingled! Once, Rumtumtugger wound up playing the part of Belle, while Gaston had to do a solo song all on his own... In the end, it'll be up to you what role your character plays, but it's never quite what's expected. Behind the scenes must be a riot no matter what!
- Obstacle Course - One attraction at the center of the carnival seems to weave around the other three, and out into the grounds itself. It's a complicated series of obstacles, from a pit of inky, oily water, to slippery bridges and swinging portions that need to be dodged. Portions of the course are even quite vertical, offering a strenuous climb as part of the challenge. This course is not for the faint of heart, and many will find themselves having to give up halfway through, or even being disqualified by being knocked out of the course. Those who choose to work together might make it farther but in the end only one can win. Be prepared for betrayal if you take that route...
- Eating Competition - There's not just one eating competition during the week of the carnival. Instead, several are held throughout the week. Hotdogs are first, followed by pancakes, then burgers. After that, towards the final three days of the carnival the bigger competitions start.
- Hotdogs - how many can you eat in 5 minutes?
- Pancakes - how many can you eat in 5 minutes?
- Burgers - how many can you eat in 8 minutes?
- Whole Chickens - You have 3, can you eat them all in 12 minutes?
- Whole Turkey - You have an entire turkey, how much can you eat in 10 minutes?
- 6 Tier Chocolate Cake - Finish the whole cake to win. (Hour Time Limit)
Those who have supernatural abilities are given an extra challenge to make things fair. For those who eat themselves sick there is a medical tent nearby, and of course plenty of room for a crowd of spectators.
- Jousting Competition - The colorful, campy and overall cheesy look of this jousting competition almost looks like a childish version of the competition. However, the prizes are real. Instead of the prize for the winning "knight" the winner of each match will be able to earn a fair sum of redbills! It's enough to cover the entry fee paid for the competition and then a couple hundred on top of that. Each participant chooses their weapon, but they all have different strange additional abilities depending on their color...
- Yellow - sparkles on impact
- Red - screams upon impact
- Green - slimes whatever it hits
- Blue - freezes what it touches for 3 seconds
For this competition special abilities beyond that of a normal human are dampened by special units hidden in the ring. Disabling them would of course, wind up in the participant being disqualified.
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Then all hell breaks loose when Andy spies a couple making out. ][ ]
Ohmigod really!?
[ Konoka scrambles to see where Andy's pointing. It takes her a moment, but she does see the couple Andy was referring to! ]
So romantic!
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[ She smirks. Because it wasn't actually a couple, but an automaton for the Tunnel of Love that looks like actual people from their point of view. Still, Andrea laughs ]
Gotcha!
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[ It takes her a moment, but she realizes that she's been tricked! ]
Eehhhhh?!
[ She turns to Andy, tearful and betrayed! ]
No fair!
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You actually wanted to see people makin' out!
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[ Caught between her frustration on being cheated and obviously being attacked for wanting to see romance, Konoka is stuck defending herself. ]
You made it sound so good though!
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[ She shrugs, leaning back against her seat with her arms up and hands on the back of her head. She still wears a smug grin on her face though ]
You just want to see people kissin'. There's a booth for that, y'know.
[ She's not judging or anything, just continuing to be smug and playfully ribbing Konoka to spend time as the slow ferris wheel keeps going ]
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True, I guess.
[ She might have initially avoided it out of shame of being too obvious, but there was no getting past Andy now. ]
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[ She shrugs again, waving her hand in the air and letting Konoka off the hook ]
My first date was in one, after all.
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[ Now she has Konoka's interest. Earlier gloom and fluster forgotten, she almost looks impish as she mulls that over. Just asking for details will get her teased again, but two can play that game. ]
Did you like showing off for your date back then? Or are you hoping I'll bear witness next time you get a boyfriend (or even girlfriend)?
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Ain't that one of the points of a date? Show off what you got and what you are?
[ Andy smiles and hums, resting her chin on her hand as she looks out the window ]
Getting a relationship in this place sounds like a pain and a half. Don't we just vanish all of a sudden if these "spirits" decide to give us the boot? That alone already makes relationships impossible, so I'm not holding my breath in finding a man here. 'sides you guys are weird with all your fancy magic. I'm not ready for that.
[ Andy chuckles. She's definitely more into someone who's down-to-earth and has more scientifically explainable abilities. She believes in God and the supernatural, but magic is just something she's still wrapping her head around ]
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[ Konoka's smile faded, but didn't disappear. ]
It's finicky, though. There's some who disappear quickly and there's some, like me, who haven't seen anything else for more than two years. Naturally, you still wanna date and find love despite all that.
Besides, I'm gonna defend magic 'til the end of time. It grants me the power to heal others.
[ She decided not to start talking about hypocrisy like Ted, or she'd wind up spouting too much venom, which wasn't like her. ]
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[ Like little cults and fraternities who look more like they play Magic: The Gathering more than actually playing with real magic. ]
Seen aliens too, and really crazy tech that even folks in Nova City would be amazed at, so I like to keep an open mind. It's just something to get used to, y'know? I knew aliens were real even before we encountered them, just from the sheer likelihood of life outside the planet but actually seeing one? That still took me some time to accept.
[ To be fair, she's only been here for days. It will take time for her to wane through the shock that magic is a normal everyday thing and that other worlds exist. ]
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Yeah, I get it.
[ Konoka sat back down. ]
It actually took me a while to accept magic existed on my home world. See, my parents were part of an old magic family, but I turned out with a lot of innate mana, and my dad worried that people would try to use me for evil stuff, so he kept me oblivious. Backfired quite hard; it probably started when I got into class 3-A and had a mage for a teacher, followed by me getting kidnapped on a field trip. I was very lucky that my friends from that class were equipped to save me.
[ Having good potential helped her dive into it more, too. ]
And even with all that, it took me some time to get used to Genessia.
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Must've been tough. Glad you got through all of that, kidnapping is always rough.
[ She understands despite her short response, giving Konoka
a flash of a sympathetic smile. ]
How long did it take for ya to get used to this place? You got buddies from home?
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There's one person from home! She's kinda a reclusive roommate. There was another I was closer to at home that was here for a while but... she's gone now.
[ Konoka looked a little sad at that. ]
But I promised I'd move on.
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That's the spirit. So what's this business about? Shit, if I actually like this place enough I might look into getting one for myself. Not sure what it's gonna be about though. My main passion is pretty much impossible to do here, which bums me out, no lie.
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Oh, what is your main passion?
[ She couldn’t tell at a glance, or from what she said earlier. ]
My business is a charm shop, though it does all sorts of magical protections. You can cast spells or put up barriers, and maybe even make a cute doll version of yourself to monitor things!
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Right, right.
We as for me, I was in the Air Force. As a fighter pilot.
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[ She nodded in empathy for Andy's inability to enjoy her top desire. ]
You have an idea for a business once you've been under... [ What was it again...? Oh yeah. ] Under the Sun Retrievals?
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[ Andrea smiles, crossing her legs as the ferris wheel begins to descend ]
But I guess now that it sounds like I'll be havin' all the time in the world I could play with my knife-making and restoring hobby more. God, I wish I was a bit better with restoring other types of antiques though, and it ain't something I could just simply teach myself. But that would be fun. Restoring old neon signs, trinkets, and other things people see as junk... It's a piece of history, yanno? It's sad to just see them tossed away.
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It's cool that you restore old stuff! I kinda wish that I had something with me that could be like, a first goal or something.
[ As far as businesses went, Konoka felt like someone starting their own needed all the encouragement that they could get. ]
It's always good to develop new skills, especially since you have the free time now! For example, you know my charm shop? Its basis is the Eastern-style magic in my world. While I learned about magic, my teacher's specialty was Western-styled, and thus all of my education fell on that. To me, it's like bringing a little bit of home with me!
[ The magic talk probably went past Andy's head, but Konoka counted on the example of knowing about home, hopefully! ]
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Is there really a big difference between Asian and Western styles of magic? I'm kinda seeing that like martial arts right now. There's big differences but ultimately they have a lot of similarities too, y'know? Would be nice to see that shop of yours in person sometime!
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Well, you can think of it that way if you like. Eastern Magic is kinda like a focus on charms, with the user of magic protecting themselves and channeling their magic this way. Western magic users prefer to use the staff, directly manipulating mana. When they battle, they usually have others to help them.
Really, anyone who uses magic can use either style, but some people are more comfortable with one than the other. I like both!