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Closed: Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

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Storyteller
GM, 577 posts
Sun 11 Feb 2018
at 01:35
  • msg #1

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

Shawn clutched the Rabbit's foot in his right hand.

Something about doing that seemed to make his heart beat faster. It was that way every time the possibility of traveling to the Circus came around. This wasn't necessarily fear. That would be too simple to place such a complicated feeling in one category. It was more like the Rabbit's foot reached deep with in him, causing an almost involuntary physical reaction that went deep into his soul and travels somewhere far, far away. The way a shadow can cast itself long and far depending on the light.

In his left hand, Shawn hand his hand place on his pillow. All he had to do was remove it. Remove the pillow and the ticket that Griffix said would get rid of Feddler would be waiting there. It was part of Shawn's prize for helping out the Order. One ticket to go see the Tattooed Lady.

And she would ensure that Feddler would stop.

But did Shawn want to go see the Tattooed Lady? Did he really want to go the Circus? Was Feddler really that much of a problem for him? After all, he hadn't seen the imp in weeks, maybe months.

Shawn's left hand rested on the pillow as he tried to make up his mind.
Shawn Cramer
player, 1377 posts
Sun 11 Feb 2018
at 02:12
  • msg #2

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

Shawn had been hemming and hawing about what to do, but tonight, he'd finally come to his decision. While Feddler had seemingly disappeared, the imp had a way of showing up at the worst times, and now Shawn had a lot to risk. And in theory, with the Order in charge, this was the safest it'd ever be to travel to the Circus... He rummaged around for his prize...
Storyteller
GM, 579 posts
Mon 12 Feb 2018
at 02:38
  • msg #3

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

Shawn picked up the pillow...

Beneath it was a yellowed, frayed ticket. Its corners were cut out in circular patterns. In the center, large, block letters read:

PIT OF CURIOSITIES

COME ONE
COME ALL

ADMIT ONE


Shawn clutched the ticket, and as he did, he felts somewhat dizzy....

OOC: Shawn Rolls Composure + Resolve
Shawn Cramer
player, 1378 posts
Mon 12 Feb 2018
at 05:43
  • msg #4

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

OOC: 00:43, Today: Shawn Cramer failed (no successes) using 5d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 2,5,5,7,3. Composure + Resolve.
Storyteller
GM, 580 posts
Mon 12 Feb 2018
at 10:40
  • msg #5

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

Something was different and Shawn could feel it. Things started to get very, very dark. His knees started to buckle, his arms had pins and needles in them. He had a vague sense before he passed out that he was going to travel to the Circus. It was the way the Rabbit's foot felt in his other hand. But the experience differed from usual journeys there. For some reason this felt....tainted.





....Acrid smoke filled the air. Shawn lifted his head up from the dirt to see that familiar red sky which seemed to characterize the Circus. There was a plume of smoke in the air, thick and black as coal. Shawn's eyes traced the billowing smoke to the Ferris wheel in the distance. It was on fire. Kids with faces that were smudged with grease sat atop swaying ladders. Some had buckets of water. Others were contending with a wild hose, directing its jet of water at the aggressive fire.

Carnies from Sideshow Alley
Shawn's mind seemed to think.

Shawn looked directly in front of him. He was in some kind of alley. A short tent with a peaked top, orange and red canvass was in front of him.

TATTOOS AND PIERCINGS A sign in garish scrawl read. It was next to the tent entrance, which had a large puddle of mud in front of it.
Shawn Cramer
player, 1380 posts
Mon 12 Feb 2018
at 12:39
  • msg #6

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

Shawn dazedly shook his head as he tried to clear it - the ticket was much more unpleasant than the rabbit's foot. He squinted at the fire on the ferris wheel, judging if it looked likely to spread to where he was before heading into the tattoo tent.
Evil Circus - The Tattooed Lady
NPC, 14 posts
Tue 13 Feb 2018
at 03:48
  • msg #7

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

The panic at the top of the Ferris wheel seemed distant and unlikely to spread. Still, the foul smell of acrid smoke seemed to be everywhere, all at once. Shawn lumbered forward and pulled back the tent.

A waft of hot, stuffy air came out that smelled like ammonia and some kind of sterilizing chemical, mixed with acrylic paint. Inside the tent walls were pictures in dark black and gray on old yellowed paper. They looked like examples of tattoos that might be chose by clients, Shawn imagined.

There was a small chair in the middle of the narrow tent which seemed like the kind of old dentist chair. Wires and tubes stuck out of the side. But instead being attached to dental equipment, they led to a series of different, black needles.




"Come on in Darling. I really have been waiting a long time for you."
The Tattooed Lady, who was in the corner of the room washing her hands in a large, wooden buck said, without glancing over to look at Shawn.
Shawn Cramer
player, 1383 posts
Tue 13 Feb 2018
at 03:52
  • msg #8

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

Shawn looked curiously around the tent, never having seen a tattoo place before. “Umm, Griffix gave me this ticket the other day?” He held it out in front of him, like it was a totem that could ward off danger.
Evil Circus - The Tattooed Lady
NPC, 15 posts
Tue 13 Feb 2018
at 10:19
  • msg #9

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....



"mmmmmmmmm." The super tall and somehow imposing figure said. She walked with a strange sense of ghostly grace, gliding across the floor as if she was floating but also somehow shaking her hips as she approached Shawn.

"I see." She said, accepting the ticket.

She moved towards a purple cloth with a reddish hue that was covering something underneath. Removing the cloth, Shawn caught movement and the sound of leathery flapping as if some kind of bird or bat was underneath.

Feddler.

The imp was in a wide glass jar, the walls of its prison stained yellow with age. Its fingernails scratched on the interior of the glass, impish face pressed against it, needle-like teeth exposed.

"Malinda had him captured."
The Tattooed Lady explained.
Shawn Cramer
player, 1385 posts
Tue 13 Feb 2018
at 11:59
  • msg #10

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

“Oh, thank you so much!” Shawn was a little relieved; he was worried that getting rid of Feddler might involve some sort of tattoo.
Evil Circus - The Tattooed Lady
NPC, 16 posts
Wed 14 Feb 2018
at 01:33
  • msg #11

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....



"Oh dear."
The Tattooed Lady said, demurring. "They didn't tell you about the choice, did they?"
Shawn Cramer
player, 1387 posts
Wed 14 Feb 2018
at 03:19
  • msg #12

Shawn: The Ticket Under the Pillow....

Shawn’s heart sank as he realized that he’d been foolish to think there wouldn’t be a catch somewhere in here. “I thought it was a free ticket?”
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