[OPEN LOG] Turkey Testicle Festival Open Mingle!

[marmoron]

Who: Everyone!
When: Post-Thanksgiving Weekend
Where: Bottoms Up Bar and Tavern
Summary: The annual Turkey Testicle Festival returns to a local Gloucester bar with special events including a turkey testicle eating competition, live music, karaoke … and some unexpected spooks and slaughter themed hallucinations
Warnings: Please put appropriate content warnings in your top levels! General warnings include:
For the festival: Alcohol
For the opt-in aftermath: Slaughterhouses, blood, implied animal cruelty, industrialized slaughter, tactile/auditory/visual hallucinations

Welcome to the Annual Turkey Testicle Festival!

It’s that beloved time of the year, folks! All across the United States, several towns host a much lauded festival called the Turkey Testicle Festival and lucky you, Gloucester just so happens to be one of those special towns that pay tribute to the full glory of the humble turkey. Fliers for the event hosted by the Bottoms Up Bar and Tavern can be seen all around town advertising the momentous occasion. See you there!

Dining & Drinking

Bottoms Up serves up classic American bar foods and offers a wide selection of local beers as well as hard liquors for anyone who wants to get their drink on. Just be sure to provide some kind of ID. Or get someone else to get you a drink -- it’s a party, the bartenders won’t ask so long as you don’t get them in direct trouble. But let’s be real, why are you here eating nachos and chicken wings when you could be eating….

The Balls

Ah yes, the crown jewels of the event, who could forget? Breaded and deep fried to golden brown, crispy perfection these balls are just bursting with flavor! Served with your choice of hot sauce for some spice or creamy white sauce, these delectables are said to taste just like chicken nuggets.

Dare to find out.

Or better yet, join the turkey testicle eating contest! Win glorious prizes such as a twenty dollar gift card to Walmart or a CD signed by Sense of Evan. Please, they have so many CDs nobody seems to want…

Live Music

Looks like a local band is playing for part of the festival. For better or for worse, “Sense of Evan” are a cover and playing all the best meme hits from the likes of Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Nickelback amongst others. Come jam out to the music, make merry with other festival attendees. Or maybe you’ll just be hanging out by the wall wondering how could this happen to me…..

Karaoke

But just because the live band’s done playing, doesn’t mean the music stops. Nope. Bottoms Up staff have dredged up a karaoke machine! Now it’s your turn to show off your singing chops and wow the crowd! Or conversely break a few eardrums. It’s all in good fun, right?

The Aftermath

…Or maybe it wasn’t all just in good fun after all?

For those who attended the festival , they may wake up the next day with some unwanted side effects. It might start out subtle — the odd sound of a conveyor belt moving along, the occasional electric shock by your neck. Weird bodily and auditory sensations that seem to flit in and out from an entirely different place. But as the day progresses, these strange occurrences seem to become stronger, clearer until the hallucinations really kick in.

Visions of yourself trapped in a steel pen, along with so many others all waiting to be pushed onto a conveyor belt. Perhaps you’re sharing the hallucination with others you recognize, perhaps you’re meant to work together to escape the seemingly endless line of slaughter and industrialized death. One way or another, these hallucinations will last a full day before they gradually taper off in intensity.

Notes:

• The after effects are purely opt-in. You do not have to play with any Slaughter themed elements if your character attends the festival.
• For the slaughterhouse hallucinations, feel free to go ham with the set up. Be as horrible to your characters as you like, please just warn with the appropriate content warnings.
• As per the mod’s notes, characters who choose to investigate Bottom’s Up following this incident, they'll find that the grocery store had a mix-up in their meat order and got something that came off of one of Sable's shipments. The grocery store's usual seller came up short and just bought up what they could find on short notice to cover the holiday rush.

Comments

[thatsreallygreat]

"I am probably that one guy from ADI," Caduceus says cheerfully. "I look a little different off the property."

Since apparently having a tail and floppy ears is a big no-go around here. He's still getting used to having the disguise imposed on him rather than doing it himself - he wouldn't mind, really. It'd be easy and at least it'd be under his control.

"I'm Caduceus."

[mistersquirrels]

"Yeah! That's it!" Eric snaps his fingers, though he's far enough gone that he can't quite get the snap to work, and he just sort of waves his hand enthusiastically at him instead. "That's so cool how that disguise thing works."

He raises his glass to him.

"Eric Matthews. Hope you're having a great time here, Caduceus. I've never been to a turkeynut festival before, though...I didn't even know turkeys had nuts..."

[thatsreallygreat]

"It's a little weird," he admits. "But I'm used to it now."

Sometimes he forgets that people aren't seeing him the way he expects to be seen, but for the most part he's adapted. He lifts his glass of cranberry juice in an answering gesture.

"I didn't know they had turkeynut festivals," he says as he glances over the crowd. "Or about the testicles in general. I guess I thought that was just a mammal thing."

[mistersquirrels]

"I bet it is. If I arrived in some weird world and had to be disguised everywhere, I'd be a little annoyed? When I have a face like this," he smushes one of his own cheeks. Yes, he is that vain sometimes but it's also to help with the crushing insecurity? "It'd be a shame to hide it away. But you look really cool either way!"

He takes a long swig of his drink happily.

"I know, right? First I ever heard of it! And for there to be a whole festival out of it?"

[thatsreallygreat]

"Disguising myself isn't... unusual? It's something I could do before coming here, whenever I felt like I needed to. I just... didn't. Not often. And I could decide when it would happen and when it wound stop."

He huffs a laugh as Eric squishes his own face and a dry smile appears. He sips his juice.

"The big harvest gatherings and dinners makes sense to me," he says as he shifts to lean back against the bar while still sitting on his stool. "Though I never saw a turkey before. I think I'm more used to like... pheasants."

[mistersquirrels]

"You mean, like with magic? Because that would be totally awesome." But yeah, he figures it would be weird not to have any control over it.

There's a shrug as he grins, getting comfortable on his stool as well.

"I've seen fall festivals before, they're pretty common from back home. I've never had a pheasant, though." He's...not entirely sure what a pheasant is. "Does that taste anything like a turkey?"

[thatsreallygreat]

"Yeah, with magic. It's one of those little things I think all of us - people like me - can do." He hasn't met a firbolg who couldn't, anyway.

"I wouldn't know," he admits regarding the taste of pheasants and turkeys. "I'm a vegetarian."

Which makes his presence here all the more weird, maybe.

[mistersquirrels]

"That's amazing! Can you just like, look like anyone you want? Or change your hair color? That would save a lot of time and money I think..." Eric sounds almost excited about it, like the sheer concept is beyond fun just to think about.

"Oh! Yeah, well, then I guess we'll never know if pheasants are like turkeys." It will be a mystery that evades him forever. "I hope you got something to eat around here though, maybe someone has a nice salad booth or something?"

[thatsreallygreat]

"Oh yeah," he admits. "But I just kinda try to look the same most of the time."

So that if he has to appear more than once to people who have already met him, it doesn't get weird. But there have been plenty of occasions in which disguising himself has become a necessity.

"It wears off, too. I'd have to keep casting it."

He takes another drink, enjoying the kind of sharp taste.

"Yeah, I cooked at Bonnie's before coming here." He hasn't gotten brave enough to try the menu yet, though he's seen some tempting things passing by on the way to other tables.