Carnival PG-13

[Chilord]

A split some how occured in reality, and people found themselves in a different bit of reality. Finding themselves once more alone and staring at one another, Nathan and Makoto were standing in a room of three mirrors.

OOC: Well, here goes the new thread

[thepanda]

OOC:Librarian intro

IC:The sun beat down relentlessly on the road, drying up what little water ran this far along the road. The grass was brown with lack of hindrance. To either side of the road, large bookshelves towered menacingly. Their wood was warped from the constant heat. The books that normally inhabited that section of the Way had abandoned the area for greener fields. There were a few yellowed books that perched precariously on the shelves. Their pages were too old to make the flight, and the sun had dried their leather coverings until they were brittle. Occasionally a page would fall like a withered leaf from a tree. To the Librarian it was a pitiful sight.

The Librarian shook his head sadly. It was such a waste, really. He reached down to pick up a fallen book, but it disintegrated the moment his fingers touched its cover. Something caught his ear.

He looked and blinked as the road he had been traveling was suddenly shrouded in fog. From its depths he heard a sound that was almost universal, carnival music. Thinking this to be one of the nodes that allowed access to 'normal' library space, he stepped into the fog without a second look back.

[Chilord]

There, standing amid a pile of ruins, a woman stood next to a broken archway, her silve hair lifted softly into the wind as golden eyes shimmered softly.

[thepanda]

"Yo, lady!" the Librarian called out as he aproached her. "Could you tell me where I am?"

[Chilord]

"Why, ya be at the entrance to da carnival lad!"

[Shukuen]

Makoto blinked, glancing at the mirror to his right. "Well, let's just find the exit and go."

[DY]

Nathan just nodded his head in agreement and turned to look at the mirror that was to his left.

[thepanda]

"I knew it, Another node!" The Librarian quickly snatched a pen a notepad from his backpack. Jotting down a few notes, he asked her the three most important questions he had come to know.

"Is the air breathable? With the food kill me? Will the natives try to kill me?"

[Chilord]

Makoto saw himself with the lower body of a horse while Nathan saw himself with the head of an ass.

[Chilord]

The old woman blinked at the Librarian then shook her head, "Do ya nay know what a Carnival is lad?"

[Shukuen]

Makoto sweatdropped and glanced at the center mirror.

[thepanda]

"Lady, I've been been places where the food is more likely to eat you than the other way around, the locals are hostile, and worse yet, there are places that burn books! Can you believe that?"

The Librarian shook his head sadly for a moment, but soon cheared up.

"So I take the place is safe then? Well that's good. How much to get in?"

[DY]

Shaking his head, Nathan turned away from the reflection to take a look at the mirror behind him.

[Chilord]

"The price to enter is only the risk of never escaping should you fail to earn the prize."

[thepanda]

Prize?" The Librarian asked curiously.