Satan and Suns

Open carnival exploration

I accompanied Ryn again and we went to the carnival. It is not midnight, and it has returned its normally jovial festivity. I'm busy looking around and someone waves me into the fortune teller's tent. She is seated at her table and bids me to sit. She deals out the cards to me, her voice quiet as she speaks. The first card is the doll with a porcelain painted face. She says that this is me now. The doll is subjected to outside energies. The doll in the image is cracked. She tells me that I am growing, and discovering more, unlocking more and this will eventually lead to decay and discarding of the old. To not be afraid to leave it behind. She takes out a lantern and hands to be inside. Inside is a giant moth but this one is strange as it is luminous, its wings sparkling as they flutter. She says that this is important for me, so I take it and leave her tent. We walk around. There is a large pole with many swings attached to it. I have always loved the wing ride, so I climb onto it and the swings draw up high off the ground. They whirl faster and faster and I feel like I'm speeding through the air, free as I'm whipped around and around. I feel like a child, swinging in the air, until it lowers me once more to the ground.

I walk some more with Ryn, enjoying the shadows of the carnival, it's music bringing a smile to my face.

Whee!

So for my explore on your own, I did the Carousel again.

I went with my companion C and Ysziro, and hopped on the ride. Ysziro wanted the weird golden looking zebra. C hopped in one of the little kid style animals and got stuck.

We ended up at my inner carnival again. It seemed a lot brighter this time, but still... Empty? Missing stuff? Like everything wasn't up yet. I saw a chained lion, but he was being a ham and not actually chained and stuck. Although I don't remember him. It was fun looking around, seeing everyone and everything. (And no cats launched out of cannons!)

We end up at my tent, and it weirdly starts to shift on me. Like it wanted me to practice a show? Just have fun. Play on the tight ropes. Have fun with big balls! It felt like I just needed to remember how to have fun, and I still wowed the random crowd. I kept seeing the vision Madam Orna showed me, which was just have fun. Love the performance and everyone in it.

So for this activity, I decided to go through the Finale of the Nightmare Carnival and explore.

My companion C decided to take me to go play games! And oh boy were they nightmares lol.

The first game he took me to, he played darts... Which you needed to throw darts and pop the screaming undead zombie clowns' noses. And yes, they screamed no matter where you hit them. And they moved and shifted around. He won me a weird doll that bites and a stuffed monster that looks like the nightmare form of Agnes's fluffy unicorn. He won my little bunny companion a shrunken head! It also bites.

He then took me to a ring toss. And the poles looked... Inappropriate (Sluttery for me ). I felt very drawn to a doll that seems to manipulate reality around it. Very freaky but she's cute! He also won me a voodoo looking doll (and another one for another companion). And he got a piece of "candy"... He feed it to one of the cat beasts, who ate it. We had no clue what it was. And it's for the best we didn't.

The mini shrines on the carnival altar I made this carnival for Ryn (my ringmaster) and Ro (my jester)