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All the fun of the fair ... except not

Jan 14, 2009 19:58

Characters: Jak shadesofeco, Daxter does-everything, Kage shenghuanzhe, Karis teethofneedles (closed after they enter, if you want in, make it quick!)
Location: Deck 04, Carnival
Date: Present
Rating: R for violence and death

( Let's go to the carnival yaaaaaaaay! )

daxter, karis needleteeth, jak, camp carnival, kage

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teethofneedles January 15 2009, 04:01:36 UTC

Karis trotted up to Jak, armor clanking. She was wearing most of her plate (minus the backplate, which was still being fixed). A helmet was under one arm, while in her other hand she clutched what looked like a miner's pick crossed with a blacksmith hammer. She gave it an experimental swing or two and then grinned, "Heya, Jackie."

elegante_masks January 15 2009, 05:56:46 UTC

Somewhere in the trees, a bear roars in pain.

shadesofeco January 15 2009, 05:59:40 UTC

Jak let out a silent sigh of relief, then internally chided himself. The idea of going back to Xamira's cabin sent a shiver up his spine, though he doubted that the rest of the Carnival would be any less disturbing.

"Just stick close, we--"

His head whipped around at the agonized baying and his eyes darted between the trees. "What the hell ...?"

shenghuanzhe January 15 2009, 06:03:14 UTC

"Zeshat ch'mala'trodalit'uk," hisses Kage, chambering a round into his rifle and ignoring the sound of the bear roaring. Instead he turned his head this way and that. If something was killing the bears, that meant that something was up and out for blood.

"Watch yourselves," he said, voice and eyes hard, a grin starting to tug at his lips. This was just the barest taste of what he wanted, and the First Mate felt a knot of tension unwind in his chest. Finally, a chance to kill. "Something ain't happy we're here. C'mon."

He continued down the ramp, towards the hellish carousel.

teethofneedles January 15 2009, 06:07:21 UTC

Karis grinned under her helmet, starting to laugh quietly. This was living, really. Closest she ever felt to being alive again was in combat or right before. Rend, tear, kill, let the blood flow, bathe in it, drink it down... Let all of the rage and hate out in one glorious slaughter.

She hefted the hammer, glancing from side to side. Stay alert.

You don't it want to be you who dies.

does_everything January 15 2009, 06:21:03 UTC

These people are fucking nuts.

"Jak," Daxter hisses, more insistently. "Jak, c'mon- Didn't you hear that?! We shouldn't be here, we should go right now-!"

shadesofeco January 15 2009, 06:27:56 UTC

Swallowing, Jak grinned tensely, shifting his shoulder slightly. "Just a little ways in, Dax. We'll get out if things get bad. I've been in here once, remember?"

The carousel ... well that was new. His stomach tightened and his grin turned into a grimace as he saw the moaning horses scraping their hooves at the group, eyes rolling and heads twisting in agony.

"Who the hell made this place?"

shenghuanzhe January 15 2009, 06:34:45 UTC

"Y'know, you're the first person t'ask that, kiddo," said Kage as he approached the moaning, mewling horses. He paused a moment and then approached them and hopped up onto the moving platform that spun them around and around slowly. The horse hung on a giant fishhook through its back rolled tortured eyes as Kage stroked one hand down under its jaw, his fingers becoming coated in sticky blood and oozing fluids.

"Hey," he said quietly to the beast and it whickered, futilely pressing its skinned, anguish-torn face into the only kind touch it had received in possibly decades of never-ending torment. Kage traced his finger down between the thing's eyes as the carousel spun him around, his eyes distant. "Hey, pretty girl," he whispered, and one watery eye fixed on his face. Kage reached up, his fingers slick with blood, and traced a path from the horse's eye down, down over its cheek in an imitation of a tear trail.

He smiled faintly, then wiped his hand on his pantleg and hopped down off the carousel.

teethofneedles January 15 2009, 06:49:09 UTC

Karis turned away from Kage and the macabre carousel. Her attention was turned outwards, looking for threats. If something - anything - came for them, she was going to bash its skull in. She was going to live again. She'd done it before, she could do it again.

She just kept wishing the horses would shut up. At the very least, they could kill the damn things, couldn't they? She hissed at the other two... no, three, if you counted the rat, "Can't we just kill the damn things?"

does_everything January 15 2009, 06:52:52 UTC

Dax had long since hunched down to cover his ears, hands clamped tightly down on them, turned away from the carousel and refusing to look or listen. This place wasn't right, and it smelled horrible and there were terrible, terrible things here.

Why would Jak want to come to a place like this? Why did he always want to go to horrible places? This was even before the dark eco, this traced all the way back to Misty Island (which, by the way, had nothing on this freak show).

It didn't matter. Jak was stubborn, and when he wanted to do something he did it. Dax would just have to deal and hope for the best. After all, it's not like they'd die down here, right? Right. Jak was unkillable.

Dax's fur prickled.

elegante_masks January 15 2009, 06:54:34 UTC

Another bear roars in pain before its cry of anguish is abruptly halted.

shadesofeco January 15 2009, 07:08:51 UTC

Swallowing back his nausea, Jak turned his back to the carousel and glanced at Daxter. Maybe it wasn't such a great idea to talk him into coming here, he hadn't seen him this scared in ... hell, he'd never seen him this scared. Not when they faced Gol and Maia, not going up against the Metal Head leader, not even backed up against a wall with three Dark Satellites bearing down on them.

"Maybe we should. It'd be better tha--"

The heavy silence was worse than any screams of pain, and Jak felt his blood run cold. Whatever was killing the bears was moving in.

shenghuanzhe January 15 2009, 07:12:28 UTC

"It's getting closer!" called Kage, his eyes darting here and there. There were a few likely suspects in the Carnival for who would take down a bear, and he didn't really care to face any of them.

Kage glanced at Jak. "Keep the rat safe. I think it's the Counsellor."

He lifted the rifle up, dropped to one knee, and waited.

Come on, motherfucker.

Come on.

teethofneedles January 15 2009, 07:16:28 UTC

"I really hope it's not the bastard who spits acid." She backed up, tightening their little group up, weapon at the ready. Her glance darted from Jak, to Kage, then out.

"Maybe the rat is right. Maybe we should bail."

Still. She felt alive and she couldn't help the grin that spread across her face.

elegante_masks January 15 2009, 07:18:17 UTC

Oh, but is is the motherfucker who spits acid!

The Counsellor strolls with his hands in his pockets from behind a tree, covered in gore from head to toe. He's whistling a cheery tune and he turns his head to the side, then to the back and then a-a-a-a-all the way around and spits out a bear's tooth.

He grins.

"Hey, campers."

does_everything January 15 2009, 07:23:09 UTC

This is Dax's cue to lay almost completely flat against Jak's shoulder; he's so terrified he can't even shiver anymore, every muscle in his body taut and every sense hypersensitive. He can hear the bones cricking inside of the Counsellor's neck as he turns his head.

Fuck.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck shit damn cocksucking fuck. All the words that Daxter wanted to say, even though they just lacked finesse, but hell if he could get his mouth open he'd have screamed by now.

Don't hurt me, don't hurt Jak, please just go away, go away go away-

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