Oh Mr. Clown, Oh Mr. Clown

[maskormods]

WHO: YOU.
WHERE: Heropa Greenland Park.
WHEN: Sunday August 17th, from 11AM to 10PM.
WHAT: ImPorts participate in the local carnival, hosting their own attractions, helping with the booths and rides, and/or come looking to have a good time. Details here.
WARNINGS: None anticipated; please let us know if this should be edited.

Even in the daytime, Heropa Greenland Park appears almost dour in appearance and atmosphere. Employees of the park open the creaky gates at a few minutes before 11:00AM to allow imPorts and soldiers who have been ordered as security inside. Preparations have already started, with thick and colorful streamers lining hanging from one rusty looking lamppost another along the park's pathway. The booths look a little worse for wear and the while an effort had been made the night before, the park grounds are still coated in soda spills, popcorn, leftover hot dog bits, and other sticky and grimy messes. Sometimes the lights in the event booths flicker or burst entirely.

Needless to say, this place looks like it can use a makeover. While it fares well among its locals and those from Cape Canaveral, it has not been a place of interest among others in the state for quite some time. Right now? It looks more creepy than wholesome family entertainment.

But that's what imPorts are here for, aren't they? To liven up the place!

At the heart of the park is where employees have made enough room as possible for imPorts to set up their own attractions, booths, and whatnot. There will be small platforms for some imPorts and bigger ones may need to be shared among each other, scheduling their time slots for their own performances. There will be tables should anyone need it for performances that don't require a grand stage.

By noon there the line-up park employees had been expecting turns out even better than they had hoped. There are twice as many locals who've shown up, eager to see imPorts in action up close. By 12:30PM the park is bustling with people of all ages and all appear to be having quite the time, despite the occasional issue with the rides such as the merry-go-round (oops, it slows down more than it should), the carousel (it stops at least once every two hours), and the haunted house's lights go down at some point, though this seems to have worked in its favor.

Kids are screaming in delight everywhere, there are teens trying to do risky things on faster moving rides, and everyone is passing through the center at some point to come and check out what imPorts are going to do next.

Put on your best face and give them a show they'll remember, heroes!

Comments

[alchemicallybonded]

Hello Noi! [He greets her before anything. But now he realizes that he has the attention of the crowd.

Normally this is Ed's area - using alchemy to impress the people. His brother loves the attention and praise some of the time.] Please step back.

[Mostly said for the crowd. When they've done as he asked, Al proceeds to clap his hands together and then put them both against the ground. Blue electricity arcs all around him but doesn't seem to leave any singe marks anywhere. The ground beneath his hands depresses into a perfect circle and in the middle a large statue of a lion begins to form. After a few seconds, its complete - there stands a lion in great detail almost about as tall as Noi.

He stands back up and gestures to it.] Ta-dah!

[Immediately the crowd claps and begins to talk excitedly.]

[bullysandwicher]

[ Noi steps back with the rest of the crowd as she watches him. She has never seen alchemy, but she knows it exists - perhaps a bit different than he demonstrates. However, she claps too, amazed at it. It's always a lot of fun to see what other people can make.

And after, she approaches once again ] that's pretty cool! What sort of things can you build, besides lion statues?

[alchemicallybonded]

[Al leaves people to crowd around his statue. It seems alchemy is different in all worlds. Or maybe it's just their world that's different.

Instead of paying attention to the crowd (though he thanks people when they compliment him), Al gives his attention to Noi.] Almost anything as long as I have the chemicals or supplies I need. Ed once fixed an entire barn because they had the supplies ready.

[bullysandwicher]

So this is alchemy? I think it's a bit different than back in my world.

[ But she still finds it really cool ]

Are there limitations to it? besides the supplies [ BECAUSE. IF HE COULD BUILD HER A MAGIC CARPET. That would be awesome. ]

[alchemicallybonded]

I've been finding that it's different from most people's worlds. Even this one.

[It is really cool.]

Yeah, obviously it can't grow back limbs like you do. And it can't bring people back to life. Otherwise, I guess it would depend on what you wanted.

[bullysandwicher]

This world has alchemy? Or you mean as "superpower"? [ since all non-human abilities seem to be considered "superpowers" here. ]

Is that so? In my world we had flying carpets - they were means of transport, like cars are here.

Could you even build something like that?

[alchemicallybonded]

Well, I've never heard anyone here having it as a brand new superpower. Just the people from my world coming in with it. Mostly I've been researching how they used it in the past.

What makes the carpets fly?

[bullysandwicher]

Magi-

[ she pauses. Oh.

OH.

That's right, the kind of magic that makes carpets fly doesn't exist here. Noi groans, crossing her arms ]

Magic that doesn't exist here. So you can't build it. Nevermind.