HALLOWEENIES '13 PART ONE

[mansionstaff]

Who: YOU
What: A FALL CARNIVAL
When: Friday, October 25th - October 30th.
Where: The fairgrounds
Warnings: General shenanigans.

There's a chill in the air on the morning of the 25th. Students awaken to find that some kind of festival has sprung up on the fairgrounds overnight. How exciting!



The general theme of this mysterious carnival seems to be fall, with a corn maze, pumpkin picking, haunted house, and similar-themed food, rides and games. However...there's something a little weird about it, and not just the fact that it sprung up overnight, out of nowhere. It's fun, sure, but in walking the fairgrounds you can't help but notice a strange energy from the whole place, a chill in the air that isn't from the cold weather. Everything seems normal, but every so often you might feel a presence. A quick glimpse of a shadowy figure out of the corner of your eye, a gentle touch on your shoulder while you're decidedly alone…it's clear there's something weird about the event.

But only time will tell.


((Hello Smashies! This is a catch-all log for all CARNIVAL shenanigans. No fourth wall shenanigans in this log, please! We'll post a separate entry for the spooky ghost part of the event in a day or two. Feel free to go wild--the sky's the limit for what's actually at the carnival. Here's the event post if you need a refresher, and feel free to contact a mod if you have any questions!))

Comments

[forgetbeam]

Oh good he definitely missed yet another opportunity to be a regular human being. It was more than a little embarrassing to look back on just how many things he had brushed aside due to the mistaken belief that they weren't all that important, and it was getting him worked up like most things did.

"Frivolous things like that were always beyond our budget! Besides that, I was always too focused on my studies to waste time at amusement parks..." He totally heard a classmate in elementary school bragging about going to Tokyo Disney though, did that count. "But the time to make up for it is now!!" He took a breath and pointed to the tallest ride he could see. "Let's start with that one!"

The Drop of Doom? Perfect entry-level ride.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

"That one?" It almost sounded like he was going to disapprove of his pick, but then... "...Right on! I knew you'd make a gutsy first choice! C'mon, let's go!" And then they were off, leaving Kiyotaka plenty of time to second-guess himself.

"I still can't believe you've never been on a single ride, not even as a kid. What else did you miss out on?" The answer was probably anything he could imagine. "It's kinda sad."

[forgetbeam]

"I didn't miss out on any necessities or anything!! I simply..." He was kicking himself for admitting to it in the first place. "...did not indulge in a wide variety of things as my peers did. But I certainly watched and heard about a lot of it!! So I wasn't completely lacking!"

Only mostly.

Also, wow, the closer they got the higher that drop looked. But it was perfectly safe, as evidenced by the fact that it was still running, so it wasn't like it was anything to worry about. Those were definitely screams of pure thrill.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

"Watching and hearing people have fun ain't the same as having it, idiot," he said, bopping him on the back of the head (lightly, for Mondo). "Damn, you're repressed as hell. No wonder you didn't have any friends."

[forgetbeam]

OW. HARSH. SO HARSH. Both that fact and his head may have been a bit of a sore spot for him.

"No, you're... perfectly right!! I was a truly ignorant child! I didn't think such things were important!! It wasn't until very recently that I realized just how wrong I was, now that there is nothing I can do!"

Good job Mondo you set him off.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Not like he even realized just how much of a butt rash he had over it. So as a result, his overreaction was a bit jarring, and he looked at him in a sort of confused scrutiny. Considering how his face looked and his voice rose in such a panic, it was easy to see that Kiyotaka was embarrassed with himself.

"Whoa, get ahold of yourself. It's not the end of the world. Besides, you got time to make up for some of it, right?" Time that could have certainly not been available to him, had the events at Hope's Peak managed to affect them the way they were apparently supposed to. Weird to think about...

[forgetbeam]

"Right!"

As wounded as his pride was, he could help it recover. There was nothing to be done about the past but learn from it, anyway, and as long as he was able to do that it wasn't all for waste.

(It still stung a little to know that there had always been such simple solutions to his childhood loneliness that he just never thought of.)

"It's decided, then! We'll ride everything... how many times does the average person go on rides by the time they are nineteen?"

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Mondo gave him A Look that read something along the lines of Are You Seriously Asking Me This?

"Beats me. Does it matter? I say screw the average. Let's just focus on enjoying ourselves." They reached the line, which wasn't too long, thankfully, and Mondo offered Kiyotaka some tickets. He raised his head to watch as the people dangling precariously from what must be a skyscraper's height plunged abruptly to their doom. The high-pitched screams streaked the entire way down, growing ever louder to their ears.

They'll be next.