Mingle Event

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The County Fair has come to Itinere! It just magically appeared overnight. Such fun, right? Absolutely. Here, you'll find every rickety ride you can think of from ferris wheels, water rides, pendulum rides and roller coasters to the horrifying Drop Tower ride, a reverse bungee experience and tilt-a-whirl. Pretty much if you can dream an amusement ride, it's here. Don't even think about going hungry. They fry everything at this event. And of course there are the old staples of any Fair, funnel cakes, corn dogs and shaved ice in every flavor. Careful, you just might get pulled into a massive tent to judge anything from pies to barbecue to pickles to jams. Oh, but it isn't all food. You might get pulled into a tent to judge livestock. Sheep, cattle, pigs and llamas are the name of the game. Who has the best of the best? Did anyone say horse races? Feel free to bet at the makeshift track where horses will be racing all day! The promenade has several live bands cycling through on and off all day. Grab someone and dance before you, yourself get pulled into a two-step.

Everything isn't entirely on the up and up though. Did that sheep just whisper to you? What is it telling you to do? Is that paint on that clowns face or is that just his face? No smile should be naturally that large. In the hall of mirrors, you might not see yourself looking back at you. One of the mirrors might even be empty. Anyone who goes through the tunnel of love will feel compelled to kiss no matter who they're with. The acrobats do death defying acts that seem far too unreal. And the animals in their cages, the lions and the panthers... they look at you with a sentient, knowing eye that would give anyone the heebie-jeebies. The music in the promenade might force you to dance, with or without a partner. The fortune tellers know far too much about you and your life past, present and future.

But hey! It's a Fair! Everyone loves a Fair, don't they? Have fun while the fun lasts!


ooc: This is a very stereotypical fair. Feel free to create your own adventures, good or bad. Want to play with some of the not quite right stuff in the Fair? Have at it! Basically, create your own muses storyline here, let your imagination run wild, mingle, and have fun! Want to plot with others? Comment to THIS post!

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[adamparrish]

Adam stood there eyeing Ronan in the seat of the roller-coaster car and then to the metal bar that was pretty much the opposite of 'safe as houses'. "Most houses I've been in haven't been that safe." He mutters as he finally slides in. The bar comes down over their laps and Adam grips it tightly with both hands so that his knuckles are white. All around him people are getting onto the ride with them and all Adam can think is that he's about to die. These rides always looked so fun from afar. Now that he was up close, he was silent and still, obviously worried as he looked over the edge to try to work out all the variables, all the risks, try to make out how this should work.

[fictor]

"Then you'll feel right at home," Ronan smirks, watching Adam as he slides into the coaster seat. He didn't miss the white of Adam's knuckles or the way his entire body went still.

As the roller coaster jerked to life, Ronan reached over and put one hand over the top of Adam's. Once they started up the first hill, he twisted, leaning forward and capturing Adam's mouth in a sloppy kiss that perfectly matched the chug and jerk of the roller coaster, teeth occasionally clicking, lips colliding almost too hard every now and then.

[adamparrish]

When the roller-coaster started, Adam could feel his heart leap up into his throat and pound in his ears. How in the hell he had let Ronan talk him into this, he didn't know. Even though logically he knew it was his own mind over-thinking the anticipation of falling to his death rather than the actuality of the roller-coaster itself. It was still terrifying.

They climbed higher and higher, the cars clicking their way up the incline and Adam felt Ronan's hand on his. He felt it first because he had been looking over the edge of the car at the ground getting further and further away. He looked over to Ronan, his eyes one of a deer in headlights, wide and uncertain. Then Ronan's lips were on his, the kiss jerky and sloppy with the cranking of the cars up the incline. At first, Adam wanted to pull away if just to look back over the edge. But as Ronan tried so hard with the kiss, Adam found himself trying to help him.

They were kissing on a roller coaster.

At least, they were kissing until Adam felt that weightlessness that comes with the car going over the first edge. "Oh my god!" He screamed against Ronan's lips before watching ahead of them as they sped down the descent of the rails only to quickly start rising again for the next one.

[fictor]

If it made Agam feel better, Ronan really hadn't given him any choice. He'd just made it look like Adam's choice. They weren't going to fall to their death. Ronan was reasonably certain about that.

Ronan knew how uncertain Adam was about going on the roller coaster; that was part of why Ronan had reached over to touch his hand. Of course, the other part was the kissing. He'd promised to kiss him on the roller coaster and Adam's uncertainty that it could be done had made Ronan more determined to do it. It hadn't been the smoothest kiss, the most comfortable or best kiss, but it had been a kiss.

He'd said they would.

Yeah. That happened. Ronan had expected it, but he'd succeeded in taking both of their minds off of it: him so that he could enough that surprise of weightlessness and Adam so that he wouldn't worry about it. While Adam screamed, Ronan tilted his head back and laughed. If he could be on a roller coaster constantly, or in a car going mind numbing speeds (with Adam at his side) he would.