Cain Hargreaves (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
misterblackbird) wrote2008-07-17 10:29 am
misterblackbird) wrote2008-07-17 10:29 am
Entry 185; Day 441
[Filtered from DELILAH || Unhackable]
So there's word on the Network that there's a festival, a carnival of sorts in Xanadu. From the top floors here, I think I can almost see the flags and tents over the tops of the trees. And scaffolding too, unless it's a Russian Mountain or a roller coaster--I can't tell from here. And there's a great wheel too, with carriages on the spokes.
We already have the carousel--that was the first part I ever saw of the City. I suppose it makes sense to have the rest of it. And it's not unheard of for there to be festivals and carnivals in the City. I wonder if there's a second carousel in the carnival? What would that do to the City's explanation of itself? There probably is another carousel. It would hardly be a carnival without one. And games too, of course, though I wonder what kinds.
How would a carnival like that appear, literally overnight, and none of us see it being constructed? That leaves no doubt in my mind that it's from a curse. And knowing the things this place has done, I don't intend to go and have a closer look. I can imagine the horrors a place like a carnival might have in it. Consider how much unhappiness the carousel in Misery Square has brought us all, for example.
Riff, you know as well as I do how these things go. We will not be taking Merry to the carnival.I can almost hear her arguing against that already-- Merry, I know you'll claim that those other times the City has had festivals, nothing bad happened, but those were undeniably exceptions to the way curses work. I am sorry, Merry. We can't be certain what this carnival is. Until we know that people are, to put it bluntly, coming out alive on the other side, we shall not be going.
But that wheel with the carriages on it--I've never seen the like of that before. It's immense. How does it keep from collapsing on itself? How does it move? I wouldn't trust it, not after that ship sank, not after everything that has seemed all right has gone wrong during curses.
~C.
[ooc: Going to work soon, but will tag as much and as long as possible. Suspicious Cain is more suspicious of carnivals after, lol, canon events, but it's your fault too, City! >( Also, seeing as Ferris wheels weren't around until 1893, he's not seen one before. Roller coasters have been around since 1885, though. Bother your brother, Merry, and see if he won't cave and take you to the carnival XD His curiosity will win out by afternoon and he'll want to go take a look.]
So there's word on the Network that there's a festival, a carnival of sorts in Xanadu. From the top floors here, I think I can almost see the flags and tents over the tops of the trees. And scaffolding too, unless it's a Russian Mountain or a roller coaster--I can't tell from here. And there's a great wheel too, with carriages on the spokes.
We already have the carousel--that was the first part I ever saw of the City. I suppose it makes sense to have the rest of it. And it's not unheard of for there to be festivals and carnivals in the City. I wonder if there's a second carousel in the carnival? What would that do to the City's explanation of itself? There probably is another carousel. It would hardly be a carnival without one. And games too, of course, though I wonder what kinds.
How would a carnival like that appear, literally overnight, and none of us see it being constructed? That leaves no doubt in my mind that it's from a curse. And knowing the things this place has done, I don't intend to go and have a closer look. I can imagine the horrors a place like a carnival might have in it. Consider how much unhappiness the carousel in Misery Square has brought us all, for example.
Riff, you know as well as I do how these things go. We will not be taking Merry to the carnival.
But that wheel with the carriages on it--I've never seen the like of that before. It's immense. How does it keep from collapsing on itself? How does it move? I wouldn't trust it, not after that ship sank, not after everything that has seemed all right has gone wrong during curses.
~C.
[ooc: Going to work soon, but will tag as much and as long as possible. Suspicious Cain is more suspicious of carnivals after, lol, canon events, but it's your fault too, City! >( Also, seeing as Ferris wheels weren't around until 1893, he's not seen one before. Roller coasters have been around since 1885, though. Bother your brother, Merry, and see if he won't cave and take you to the carnival XD His curiosity will win out by afternoon and he'll want to go take a look.]
no subject
no subject
no subject
Cain, then.
no subject
Thank you.
So why ought we to go see this carnival?
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
If nothing else, could we perhaps meet you there? She does want very much to go.
no subject
How old is she, your sister?
no subject
Ten--no, she's eleven now.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
Merry is quite excited about the carnival. Where ought we to meet you?
no subject
North entrance?
no subject
no subject
... So I'm told.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject