Post #2548703 in The Midnight Carnival, a roleplay on RPG

Yesterday's profits were good, at least for a Friday. Saturdays always offered the biggest payouts because nearly every child in town was out of school and would drag their parents there for the day. Today was no different. There were lines for every ride, the food stands were churning out treats every minute and the overall mood was pretty good. Although this was all good and well, Jade was feeling more stressed out than usual today. For the past few weeks, Ric had been bugging her about finding two new acts for the midnight show. He had perfected two pills, allowing their users to possess the power to become invisible and the other to shape shift into nearly any animal. They would be good additions to the show, but the trouble was finding two people who would fit the roles. It wasn't like she could make a post on Craigslist advertising the job openings. Someone had to seek them out and luckily for Jade, two kids had done just that the night before.

One was a seventeen-year-old boy named Gracen. He was quiet and timid but had no family that would come looking for him and desperately needed a way to survive. The other was an eighteen-year-old girl who decided to go by the name of Jace. Unlike the boy, she appeared to be much bolder and more courageous, but she was also living away from home. After describing both of them to Ric, he agreed that they would be good matches for their new openings and Jade offered them the jobs. She instructed them to return to the carnival this morning if they wanted to join, and both showed up. Once greeting them, she welcomed them into her trailer and had them sign some paperwork.

She explained that when they were signing on the dotted lines, they were just confirming that they weren't convicted felons, were US citizens, had no physical disabilities, and that type of stuff. One of the pages did include a small note that they were agreeing to work for the carnival until they died, but she didn't verbalize that and quickly had them sign the pages before slipping them back into a folder. After that was done, she handed each of them two pills and after explained that it was simply a new version of a drug test- after the pills dissolved in their mouths, their saliva would be tested to see if it showed a negative or positive result for any illegal drugs. This wasn't true, of course. The round blue pills would make them immortal, the orange pill would give Jace the ability to shape shift and the white one would give Gracen the power of invisibility. She didn't have to explain that to them yet though, because since it was their first time taking the drugs, they passed out almost immediately.

It was around six now, nearly eight hours after they had taken the pills, so Jade knew that the pair would be waking up soon. She did one last inspection of the carnival, making sure that everything was running smoothly before returning to the motor home. A few hours prior, she had spoken to Alexa and Ryder and explained that she had found two new performers for the show. She informed them about the new powers that the pair would be given and how they needed to explain to the newcomers that they were not only permanently bound to the carnival, but they had also been given supernatural powers. It was a lot of information to give to Gracen and Jace, and especially because it wasn't good news, Jade didn't want to be the one to have to spell it out for them. It wasn't that she didn't want them to dislike her, because that would soon come, but she didn't want to deal with any emotions that might come with their reactions. It would make her feel too guilty. Besides, she had given Alexa and Ryder the same job when Brooke, Ark and Lucas came along and they had handled it well enough then.

"Rise and shine," Jade said cheerfully, approaching the bunk beds that she had left the two laying on. She gave their bodies a gentle shake and waited until they became conscious before continuing. "Mr. Aefric and I would like to welcome you to our family. You're now officially Midnight Carnival performers. I'm sure that you have questions and I'd love to chat, but I have things to take care of, so I've instructed two of your fellow performers to give you a tour of how everything works around here. Gracen, Ryder will be helping you out, and Jace, Alexa will be able to assist you. I just saw Ryder heading over to the girl's bus and I'm sure Alexa will be somewhere over there, so you can head over there now. It's the bus over there," she said, pointing out the window at it. She turned, heading towards the back bedroom before looking back at the two. "You may feel a little different right now, but don't worry about it. They'll explain it all to you." With a smile, she continued walking back to her room. Once she heard the bus door shut, signaling that the pair had left, she sighed and laid back on the bed. Ric had left the carnival grounds, claiming that he needed to get a few things before tonight's performance, but Jade was glad that he was gone. She loved him immensely but she couldn't help but to feel guilty, knowing that she had lied to those kids and that their lives were now in Ric's hands permanently.

Snippet #2548703

located in United States of America, a part of The Midnight Carnival, one of the many universes on RPG.

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