welcome to mayfield: day 4

[mayfield_mods]

[This carnival seems to be getting less and less maintained by the day. Your nerves aren't the only thing fallen apart: what were previously holes in the sky have expanded to cracks. What parts of the sky that haven't fallen into that strange, warping nothingness are full of brown smog-like clouds.

The carnival itself has become filthy, with trash and grease spots littered everywhere. The walls of the tents, wooden stands, and houses seem to be slightly melted, for lack of a better term. The holes of corrupted nothingness aren't confined to the sky anymore: pockets of nothing litter the carnival, shifting tears in the fabric of reality that hurt your eyes to look at.

A faint buzzing noise fills the air, making it difficult to concentrate. If you listen long enough, it starts to sound like voices. For your own sake, it's probably best not to listen to what they have to say.

You're also not alone here anymore, for those of you operating under the assumption that you ever really were. If you've been missing the friendly drones of Mayfield, fear no more, because scattered throughout the carnival are a few drone families seeing the sights, riding the rides and playing the games. Curiously, unlike the drones back home, these ones don't seem to notice you at all, acting as if you're not even there.

Also curiously: their features are warped nearly beyond recognition. Some are missing limbs or facial features; others appear to have had those features scrambled by Picasso's paintbrush, with mouths on their scalps or teeth on their fingers. Still other drones appear to be fused together at the wrist, or waist, or face. None of them seem to be any more aware of their deformity than they are of you.

...and yet, somehow, you can't shake the feeling that when you're not looking at them, they're looking at you.

New here? That's alright; your missing friends have had plenty of time to get acquainted, and they'll be happy to show you around. Just watch your step, because some of these old rides need some maintenance...]

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

Comments

[waiting_for_the_worms]

I wonder why...

[answerer_sword]

Maybe they want to keep this Church around for a special purpose.

[waiting_for_the_worms]

But why would they need it? They're already in control of everything that happens here.

[answerer_sword]

Are they? What about the cracks in reality? What about the imperfect drones? What about the things that flicker in and out? Everything seems to point to a limited power supply being completely used up as they try to create this town "perfectly". Perhaps at this point, the Church is the only thing that they have complete control over. Why this location was chosen, however, I do not know.

[waiting_for_the_worms]

It's got to be important to them somehow.

[answerer_sword]

And I do not think it is because they are religious or have any respect for hallowed grounds.

[waiting_for_the_worms]

If that were the reason, I'd be pretty surprised.

[answerer_sword]

We would all probably be killed by the fissures in reality no matter where we are in this town, so it also make no sense to keep this place standing in order to gather us into one place. As far as I can tell, this place includes no trap doors to release monstrosities like the funhouse does.

[waiting_for_the_worms]

Maybe they're trying to take us all out at once by luring us here and then destroying this place last.

[answerer_sword]

That is possible, but why not seed the entire place with cracks if they only mean to kill us? Why keep any one area pristine?

[waiting_for_the_worms]

I don't know. There's got to be a reason.

[answerer_sword]

Or maybe...this place is meant to benefit us somehow? Some sort of refuge for us even as reality rips asunder?

[waiting_for_the_worms]

Why would they give us that, though?

[answerer_sword]

...It only works if we consider this to be some pocket dimension of Mayfield. Through all of the torture...Zemekis has never tried to completely kill us. I have not yet experienced any 100% casualty events.