day 5

[mayfield_mods]

[The fifth day doesn't dawn at all. In fact, the sky simply isn't there anymore; the only thing visible if you look up is pure black nothing. Most of the carnival itself is no longer visible, having been blanketed by thick white fog; any attempt to enter said fog will result in your body rapidly disintegrating. The street at least still seems to be intact, but with no way out and the fog slowly creeping in, who knows how long that'll last?

Luckily, it seems like the cavalry has finally arrived.]

(OOC: This marks the last day of the event! Anyone who has won a prize from Mayfield's carnival will be able to access both Mayfield and this area through the funhouse, and will be able to take one person with them on each trip they make. If your character is not rescued by the end of the day, they will be disintegrated by the fog and will wake up the next morning in Mayfield with the standard revival effects. You are free to comment in this post regardless of whether your character signed up for the event.)

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FUNHOUSE

[mayfield_mods]

[The hall of mirrors has been completely decimated, making it quite easy to access the main area. Anyone who won a prize will be able to see rifts where they'll be able to enter and exit the main area of Mayfield's funhouse with one person who doesn't have a prize.

Better still be on your guard though, because it doesn't seem like the place is empty.]

Re: FUNHOUSE

[theboywiththebook]

[Henry's been standing in the door way of the funhouse looking in. The mirrors were all broken inside, but there wasn't anything inside. Still things were becoming desperate. People needed help. So he was going to try calling to anyone.]

Hello!? Anyone there!?

[adropofjupiter]

[If Patchouli knew Marisa was just wandering into the weird metaphysical holes in reality without telling her... she'd be really angry. But with having lost Remilia at some point and Flandre still unable to be found, Marisa had to go into the creepy places in search of them.

At least she wasn't sick.

So, weird clown doll in hand - a freaky beacon is ever there was one - and broom in the other, the witch stepped through the broken mirrors and ventured into the evil!funhouse.]

Flandre? Remilia?

[Marisa called out in a shaky voice that betrayed that she was actually scared. She had a spell at the ready to blast something if it came at her.]

FUNHOUSE

[eyesofaserpent]

[Crowley looks around, seeing all the broken mirrors.]

Bollocks, is there any way out of here?

[a_gentle_boy]

[Two houses and the funhouse. That was all that was left of this place. The prediction he had made to the stranger outside the Ferris wheel seemed to have come true. ...But he wasn't going to stick around and wait for death if he could help it.

He knew what lived inside the hall of mirrors. But it doesn't stop him from venturing in once again. ...Ten minutes of cautious exploration and a frantic dash home later, a boy mounted atop a galloping tea table smashes back through the other side of the rift and bursts back into the fog covered carnival.

The clip-clopping echoes eerily in the fog as Lucas accosts anyone he can find.]

Get on!

[There's no time to explain. He'll kidnap and drag people through if he has to, and that Strength stat of his is surprisingly high for a teenaged boy.

Hopefully, he doesn't get interrupted at any point during his impromptu shuttle service. He'd rather not fight those children again if he didn't need to.]

[walking_nuke]

[Balin's made his way here, trying to find Caesar. He'd encountered Tachikoma and heard its announcement, so he knows this where he'll have to go if he wants to escape this dissolving Other Mayfield.]

[But he doesn't have a prize with him, and wandering the funhouse, he can't see any visible exit leading out of the place.]

[His sidearm is drawn, and he's highly on edge. Spending a whole day in pitch black nothing, falling the entire time, and then witnessing the way the town is coming apart at the seams over the past few days will do that to you.]

[drank_the_milk]

[Once the doll Yuna had won at the carnival reappeared in her pocket earlier in the day, she knew exactly what she needed to do. And so here she is, back in the funhouse again, transformed into her gunner girl outfit with twin magic pistols at the ready. Friends and family are trapped here, and she's going to get them out if she can help it at all.]

Rin! Garvi! Hakuno! Heather! Where are you guys? It's Yuna! C'mon, let's get the hell out of here!

Re: FUNHOUSE

[truffulacide]

[screw it, between the looming threat of disintegration and the possibility of having his bones eaten by monsters, he'll deal with the monsters. at least he'd be able to fight back; you don't generally get a chance to do much of anything against the former. going poof does not bode well with him, not at all.

he finds his way into the main area easily enough, wide-eyed and skittish. he looks around wildly.]

Aw, man. Did it tear this place up, too?

Re: FUNHOUSE

[strawberryredgrave]

(Well shit, looks like he can go back and forth now...whatever; time for Dante to play hero.)

Yo! You wanna get the hell outta here?! Then come with me!

[all_ofthethings]

[Greed appears in the Funhouse, the head of a mangy looking stuffed bear with real teeth poking out of his pants pocket.]

Well, this thing isn't acting possessed anymore. Anyone there?

Yoshika + Byakuren + OPEN

[jumpsinline]

[ These two ladies are in pretty bad shape. Hijiri Byakuren has sustained multiple injuries, not limited to a missing eye, broken arm, and various other wounds both superficial and not.

With limited mobility thanks to a days-old sprained ankle, twisted neck, and a missing left eye of her own, Yoshika is carrying Hijir in her arms like it's no big deal. Having no comprehension of the pain her body is experiencing, she shuffles toward the source of the commotion.

There is just one problem with her approach to the funhouse:

She has no idea how she's going to get them OUT of here, though she is clinging to the monk as if she was the most precious thing in the world to her. Which, here, is accurate only because Hijiri is precious to Kyouko and Yoshika promised her that she would stay with her!

If she catches your eye — or you even come too close — she'll shout at you? ]

Hello? Helloooo! Is this the way ouuut?!

(( OOC: Hijiri may or may not respond to this, depending on consciousness! ))

Re: FUNHOUSE

[adventurerextraordinaire]

[Cade is looking desperately for a way out, for himself and his loved ones. As he was searching the Fun House, he caught a glimpse of Henry and Lucas in the mirrors, but then they vanished.]

"Hello!? Anyone here?"

FUNHOUSE

[ceasetoexist]

[Stupid stupid stupid. He should have guessed that even if the prize he won was insignificant that it should have meant something. Even if Pokey couldn't have known at first he should have at least taken it into consideration.

Right now he's just darted into the fun house and rifts. He isn't set on saving just anyone; he knows who he needs to get to. As can be seen through his bellowing.]

Ugly! Hey ugly! Where are you?

[Slugger if you aren't here he is going to have a damn heart attack.]

[charming_freckles]

[Sue ran back and forth as Puffy flew alongside her, trying not to panic. She'd gotten to this place through the funhouse, why couldn't she find the way back?!]

I-it'll be okay, Puffy! We'll figure this out!

...uhm...

C-can anyone help me?! How do I get out of here?!

[relic_hunter]

[He had said he would help Heather find a way out... even if her last words sounded... depressing. When he learned the prize he won had connection to the fun house, he acted immediately.

Having tied the small teddy bear to his belt, he went in.

Locke wasn't ready for what he saw...]

Hello?

HOUSE 501

[mayfield_mods]

[Unlike the rest of the carnival that's falling apart, all damage done to this house over the past few days seems to have reset. It looks as completely pristine as the day when people first arrived, the numbers 501 printed clearly on the mailbox.

There's one minor difference, though. The door is now unlocked. Enter?]

[roadroller]

[having run like a bat out of hell from the church and finding most of the carnival destroyed, Rin stops before the houses. They are the only safe-looking things in this town right now, but she doesn't want a repeat of what happened in house 1. So here she is, flinging the door open to 501 with a determined look on her face.]

[extraordinarily]

This place really is weird.

[Not that Haruhi really wants to wonder inside this particular house, but if the whole world is ending, she needs to quickly gather up any information that's in this place that she didn't find out previously.

Which obviously means that she'll be sneaking inside!]

[gezellig]

[Holland, at this point, is feeling pretty awful. He'd had to drink the water - it wasn't as if he could taste it thanks to the hazmat's gas - and it left him feverish and sick for most of the previous day. That combined with the injury on his leg had left him too weak to do much until this morning. Still feeling terrible, he'd simply dragged himself out of the church into what looks like a nightmare, with the mist and the ruined town and carnival around him.

Still, as bad as he felt, he'd really had worse in his long history as a nation.

Frustrated by not being able to explore the funhouse like he'd wanted to before Ciel and Charles stopped him, and at a loss for what to do now, he'll head for the only place he hadn't visited yet - and is surprised to see he can open the door to the house without any trouble.

That doesn't mean his revolver isn't in his hand as he limps inside, though.]

HOUSE 501

[eyesofaserpent]

[His previous explorations revealed nothing, so he's going to try the door. He's surprised to find it unlocked and steps inside.]

Re: HOUSE 501

[suicidoll]

(This house has done too much already. Too much torture, murder...absolutely nothing of value. So the door's open? Anyone can just go right inside?

Perfect.

Kreutzer herself won't go inside; instead, she's sending in one of her last two dolls. And what will this doll be doing, exactly? Simple: detonate her destructive kamikaze bomb. If this was the last day before either escaping or being consumed by the fog, then Kreutzer wanted to go out with a bang. With this doll, Kreutzer is going to try blowing this house up to kingdom come.)

[railtracer]

[Claire wasted enough time here and he's ready to go back to Mayfield. Even if that means going into the place that a few days ago he told Firo that he wasn't crazy enough to go into.

Keeping in character. He made sure to follow behind everyone else.]

HOUSE #1

[mayfield_mods]

[Unlike the other two houses, which have been mostly swallowed by the fog, this one still seems to be somewhat intact. The interior's been completely wrecked, but look around and you may be able to find something anyway.]

[technologic]

[Welp, this sucked.

But at least one of the houses is intact... well, somewhat intact. So April will start having a snoop around here, to see if she can find anything before this place self-implodes or something.]

CHURCH

[mayfield_mods]

[For those of you sleeping in the church, you're in for a rude awakening. There's a loud ripping sound, followed by the roof of the building dissolving into the empty space that's replaced the sky.

Better run fast, because it doesn't show any sign of stopping, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out what'll happen if you stay.]

[extraordinarily]

[... Holy shit.

Thankfully, Haruhi isn't the type of person to sleep through things like this. Which pretty much means that anyone who's around her (if she knows them or not) will be woken up and dragged.

And by waking up, we mean yelled at.]

Hey, you! Wake up already!

ALL OVER WELCOMEFIELD

[genkibot]

[When Tachikoma had learned that people could be taken back to Mayfield, it made the usual choice of making sure it didn't leave the area until everyone here in this place is safely "home."

Which is why it is now combing the streets, the carnival, and all over looking for people, anyone who is too weak or sick to get to the fun house for a possible rescue. It skirts the fog and fissures appearing as best it can, but still goes near them to make sure no one is about to sucked up in them as well.

Every so often it will stop looking to announce a message at full blast to anyone nearby:]

ATTENTION! ATTENTION! THERE'S A WAY BACK TO MAYFIELD! If you can get to the Fun House, someone from Mayfield can bring you back! If you can't make it back to the fun house on your own, please let me know! I can take you there to help! Or if you know someone who needs to be taken and can't ask for help themselves, also let me know where they are, so I can bring them there!

[It will be doing this pretty much for as long as possible, constantly going back and forth from the fun house as long as the fog will let it, in the hopes of trying to get everyone out before the entire place is dissolved...]

[walking_nuke]

[That's a voice he hasn't heard here in this quickly-shrinking foggy town. It sounds like a girl, but—no, that sounds too mechanical, like that one gynoid he met earlier—]

[Balin finally catches sight of the source of the voice—some kind of spider-like Mech? It almost look like one of the Personal Armor Unit designs the AFS had been working on at Edmund Range ...]

Yo! Yo! Over here!

[You now have a guy in a red suit of armor flagging you down.]