welcome to mayfield: day 2

[mayfield_mods]

[Day two of whatever this place is dawns bright and cheerful. Not much seems to have changed; the carnival is still standing, the town still empty of drones, the sky still bright blue and --

-- hang on, what was that? Did some sort of crack just appear in that patch of sky?

...oh, it's gone now. Must have just been your imagination. Anyway, there's no time to waste staring aimlessly at the sky, not when there's more friends showing up! Lucky there's more than enough food to go around, eh?]

OOC: If your character damages or affects the carnival or town in a noticeable and normally permanent way, please comment here.

OPEN! If your character was on the list of characters arriving on Day 1 or Day 2, they may comment here. All questions belong here.

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[encored]

[WELP the first mirror he had broken had been an accident, but upon seeing that A) the mirrors do, in fact, break and B) his regeneration is still intact, he'll be leaving a wake of destruction in the form of shattered glass pieces and chunks of mirror frames!

...not that it's getting him much of anywhere, whoops. at least he can follow his trail of blood droplets back once he gets too irritated, but for the time being, feel free to run into him standing with his hands on his hips and appraising the corridor he's in, or punching through another mirror just for stress relief! this? definitely not how he wanted to spend the weekend.]

[godcomplexed]

[JUMPING OUT FROM A CORNER AND GRABBING CHARLES FROM BEHIND.

Why?

Because he's a fucking dick that's why.]

[encored]

[CONGRATS DOCTOR you earn yourself a not at all dignified yelp and a babby bat flailing with the INTENT TO KILL

before he actually manages to crane his neck far enough to see that he knows who this loser is.]

You-- I'm going to throw you to the rats, you absolutely ridiculous overgrown tweed-wearing clumsy numbskull! [a pause] Why are you even here? I told you to stay away from the funhouse!

[godcomplexed]

[Laughs and bounces back from Charles' flailing fists.]

Just couldn't resist having a peek around! And look, I managed to find a friend. Off to a good start already.

[encored]

[he looks like he still wants to punch but lucky for you his fists are still finishing healing, so he just crosses his arms over his chest instead.]

That isn't a good start, and there shouldn't be a start at all. Honestly, have you learned nothing from your stay here? Stop baiting foul luck, you moron.

[godcomplexed]

Dunno. Thought you were superstitious enough not break mirrors. Aren't we learning a lot about each other to day?

[encored]

If that superstition happened to be true, I'd have thousands of years of bad luck piled up by now. [waves a hand!!] Now, have you managed to accomplish anything here yet, or have you just been skulking around the mirrors the entire time?

[godcomplexed]

I broke a swanboat.

Went for a swim in the tunnel of love.

And that's only yesterday! Haven't gotten started today yet.

[encored]

The point is to find ways out, not destroy everything you see and go for a swim afterward. What if the water wasn't safe?

[kinship]

[Oh, great job, Charles... Cain jumps at the sound of glass smashing, whirling around to see what the threat was and instinctively searching for Abel at the same time, before-- oh.]

Charles?!

[encored]

[ohh someone sounds alarmed! he'll just leisurely glance around for the source of the noise because the voice is familiar and he doesn't want to look like a paranoid loser again]

...Ah, I see I'm not the only one unfortunate enough to have taken a wrong step in the funhouse.

[kinship]

[He's doing his best to look as calm and unruffled as possible now, he won't embarrass himself by showing this change in events has bothered him.]

There's quite a lot of us, from what I've seen.

[encored]

[why do they even bother trying to act like the cool kids they're clearly not...

he'll shake glass from his hand before placing it against his hip, looking in the direction he had just punched through.]

Ciel is here, and I've spoken to a few others as well. It seems we aren't as severely limited here as we've been in the past though, so that much is a blessing.

[kinship]

[It's just how they roll, they can't be really cool so they pretend to make themselves feel better.

He's watching Charles' hand heal with a curious expression, he's never seen the weird shotapire's healing ability so close at hand (pun intended).]

We're also stronger from all being here together, we're much more capable when providing a united front.

[encored]

[that's just sad... a sad, sad truth.

he seems pretty focused on the exit so he doesn't catch the stare, but the healing process is a fast one. not really clean like a wound just sealing itself back up, but the cuts are shallow enough that not a lot of bubbling takes place anyway.]

Which will undoubtedly mean that they'll start picking us off one by one until there are only a handful left, and they'll increase the obstacles until even those people begin to drop like flies. [his nose wrinkles] If the previous patterns can be trusted, at least.

[kinship]

[This is one of the times that he really wished Charles were wrong. Unfortunately, he knows that this is the most likely outcome of being here, and it turns his stomach cold. He can't watch Abel die again, not ever.]

Not all of us, they'd never kill us all. I won't let them.

[Believe him, he will find a way to make sure Abel doesn't die.]

[encored]

[if he knew that was a concern of Cain's, he'd probably reassure him by letting him know that he'd likely be the one to die first. lucky for both of them that he doesn't know! but he does give him a rather skeptical look.]

You're aware that it's the only way back into town at times, are you not?

[kinship]

[Weirdly enough, that would be a reassurance of sorts. Not that he ever wants to or plans on dying, but even that would be preferable to living without his twin ever again.]

There are always other ways, you just have to find them.

[encored]

[this is probably about the least impressed look Cain has gotten from Charles to date.]

Don't allow your optimism to turn into stupidity. Death is hardly permanent here one way or another, so it isn't a great tragedy if that happens to be the only door.

[kinship]

You're wrong.

[This is perhaps the easiest that Charles has managed to get Cain to break through his mask to show real emotion, frown at his face and anger in his eyes... with perhaps the slightest hint of fear buried there.]

[encored]

[it's a pretty surprising reaction to see from him of all people, but Charles remains externally unruffled. after a moment of silence he shrugs, turning a little to face the area he had been surveying before Cain showed up.]

You'll come to understand which of us is wrong in due time.

[kinship]

[It's a touchy subject since Thanksgiving of last year, and he won't accept that death can be so cheap as to not matter, even here. Death was... terrible, and there was no guarantee that it wouldn't be final.]

I know. But until then, you shouldn't be so quick to throw your life away.

[encored]

[being stuck in Mayfield for so long can leave a person a little jaded, which is why he'd continue to stand by his opinion even if he knew why Cain was so bothered by it.]

That's an assumption to make. I'm not going out of my way to ensure my bloody demise, you know. I'm simply acknowledging the fact that, based on personal experience, death generally precedes escape whenever we're transported to places outside of the main town.

[kinship]

[He is not going to rise to the bait, he is not going to get sucked into a debate about this again, he is not--]

That is just a roundabout way of saying you've accepted your own death already, which is unacceptable.

[Or not.]

[encored]

[bad life decisions starring cain and charles...

he pinches the bridge of his nose in an exasperated way, but his attention is only half on his loser companion now. he's got mirrors to break things to do, after all!] No, it isn't. You're still viewing it as a true death, which is inexcusable given the amount of time you've been in this city.