Post by The Dark Carnival on Dec 12, 2019 17:11:20 GMT -5
The wind whistles throughout the carnival grounds as the darkness envelops the area. The Dark Carnival members are all about doing as they please like any other day. A severe thunderstorm has been moving in for a while now but hasn't quite hit yet, "The Dark One" Ryan Cullen is still away on business in Calgary as "The PuppetMaster" sits in the big top along with the LXW champion and one-half of the LXW tag team champions Jynn.
They sit there talking about the history of the Dark Carnival and the blood-soaked ground it sits upon, the history of Ryan Cullen and "The PuppetMaster" himself. As they talk Jynnuses his mythical powers along with the powers of "The PuppetMasters" cane to bring to life the images in front of them as if they were watching the story being told on a movie screen...
His veins bulged like subcutaneous tree roots in a grotesque spread across his massive arms, a sheen of sweat picking them out like engraved marble. A giant hammy fist tightened and the rattle-crack of success followed. A wheeze, a shitty smell, and the crowd exploded into brutal euphoria.
It took half a dozen shock sticks to get the brute to his knees, muscles spasming painfully, as he tried vainly to rise. Foolish to get too close even so, helmet cracked like an egg and another roar from the spectators.
A blazing spotlight lit up the stands and a bespectacled fellow threw his arms up to the heavens. "Ladies and gentlemen!" he crooned, consulting the frothing lunatics around him, separated by razor mesh and beefy guards. "Welcome to the Dark Carnival!" A wall-shaking bellow, stamping feet, as the orgiastic atmosphere reached fever pitch. Good, the gas was working. Profits would go through the roof, record sales, provided there weren't any unpleasant side effects. It was the only way in this competitive corporate world!
The first winner of the night was shuttled off back to the under tunnels. Aggressive detox to turn the 500lb beefcake back into his 150lb normal self would follow equally aggressive tranquilizers and a hose down. For the losers, a bulldozer crew to scrape their broken doll bodies into the incinerator pit. And compo denial for the security boys killed 'in the course of their duties'. Zero hour contract suckers.
Once the necessaries were complete, the blood-smeared sand the only testament to the dead, the host ascended from his hedonistic pit of opium wires and scantily clad socialites to take the microphone again.
+"The Dark One" Ryan Cullen+
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As 'The PuppetMaster" continued to relive the stories of old and as he tried to bring back the anger and rage from within the Jynn that posses the mortal body that sits in front of him now. The images begin to fade as Jynn releases the powers and begins to speak as well.
+JYNN+
You speak to me as if I was there as if the Dark Carnival was where I was born or better yet created, do you not understand Puppetmaster I am not a puppet on a string you can move about or one of your Shattered Dolls, you can simply play with. I am an entity millennia-old and with more power than you will ever know. I sit here under this Big top as part of one of the most dangerous stables around The Dark Carnival not because I need to but because I have chosen too.
"The PuppetMaster" stares at the LXW champion as if worried about what's about to happen next.
+JYNN+
I don't need to know your folklore on this unholy battleground, as I have lived through it, the souls of the other members of The Dark Carnival have all been there and lived through it. Why do you think they were all chosen to be a part of this group, why do you think myself and "The Dark One" have joined together and begun to collect new members around the world and around the XHF Network? Think, my old soul, think!
+JYNN+
I will step back into the ring soon at New Year's Eve Winters Games for my LXW World championship and in what a better match than an Ice Coffin match. A way for me to bury the body of my opponent Bugz as I take claim to his soul. Just as I will soon take claim of many other souls around the XHF. Just like The Dark Carnival will take claim to many, many things around the XHF.
The Big Top starts to shake as the storm has arrived and the rain is pounding the tent as the wind beats against it. "The PuppetMaster" sits there listening to "The Ancient One" as he speaks of truths and destinies.
+JYNN+
Bugz a man who will soon know what it means to squashed like a bug, and as I hold, his soul in my hand I will make him watch me destroy his body as I send it through the coffin straight to an Icy burial.
+JYNN+
Now, we need to prepare the rest of The Dark Carnival for what's to come and soon our "Silencer" will be ready to claim his place in the Network as the Alpha there.
The scene fades to black...
