Geek
A dark moonlit night.
Charley confronts the Ring Master with his army of midgets behind him. The Ring Master has Atlas, and his usual allies, the Freaks are hanging in the darkness ready to strike if necessary. Most of the Normals though are nowhere to be seen. You hope Madam Orbec did her job, because even without Ajax, Charley still has a numerical superiority and a pissed off midget can do a lot of damage.
"Your time has come Ring Master! No longer will you exploit us! I'm taking over!"
"So you can exploit your own people of course. Charley, I've put up with your delusions of grandeur long enough, it ends tonight. I have allies of my own, and you might find they are much more dedicated to me than yours are."
"It won't work Ringy, I got more in common with my people than you ever will! Blood is thicker, and yours is going to run everywhere if you don't peaceably leave I'm giving you this one chance you pale she-male."
"Not likely."
At this point all of the freaks come out of hiding, and then Randal and most of the Normals appear as well. Pervus also shows up with his clown crew, and that's when you see Ajax, or what's left of him. He's dressed in a weird leather getup and has a chain around his neck which one of the clowns is holding. There's also a black leather mask covering his face now and some sort of ball gag he looks completely docile and broken.
Suddenly Charley seems to get a little less hostile, the rest of the midgets also look less than willing to fight now, though he's still not backing down completely.
" so that's what happened to Ajax (Sigh) alright Ringy you win. I can see I can't beat you I'll leave. BUT! I'm taking my people with me!"
"No you won't, they work for me."
"The fuck I can't! They're still fuckin' free people! You don't fuckin' OWN them Ringy! They ain't your slaves!"
"Oh and I suppose they're YOUR slaves eh?"
"Fuck it, let's settle this." Charley turns around to his fellow midgets. "Hey, do you want to work for me and make some serious money doing something a lot less menial? Or do ya wanna work for this hypocritical slave driving bitch bastard who claims everyone is free to do what they want and has his protection, but in reality she doesn't do shit for anyone but herself and just expects everyone to obey him?"
The midgets talk to each other for a moment and then reply with a uniformed answer that they want to stay with Charley. The Ring Master actually looks surprised, she even gets mad claiming all of what he'd done for them, but it doesn't work. Charley was right they have more in common with him than they do the Ring Master. Charley leaves with his midget gang. The Ring Master looks like he's going to order an attack, but decides against it. Instead he just assigns some Normals to do the job of the midgets and orders the rest to seek out new recruits in the next town.
Everyone disperses leaving just the Ring Master, Atlas and you alone. The Ring Master for once looks a bit despondent. Not knowing what else to do, you attempt to lighten the situation.
"Well you won, I'm just glad I didn't mess things up for you."
"Yes, for now, but there will only be problems in the future. What happened to tonight was just a temporary patch for the situation I suppose you did your best within your capabilities Geek. No more could be expected of you. The Carnival will survive, just like it always has though return to your cell, we have a big show to do tomorrow and significantly less help."
And you do exactly that and continue on as usual
Time passes and while nothing really changes for you, things do change
Without the midgets around to do most of the manual labor of setting things up, some of the less talented Normals like game barkers and such have to double as laborers. This causes some bad feelings initially until the Ring Master orders the Freaks to start helping as well. The Freaks seem to dislike the fact that the Ring Master isn't "favoring" them as much anymore, but she's just trying to keep things fair so his Carnival stays together. The criminal activity goes down quite a bit. (Though someone's always still making hooch so happily you still have a steady supply of booze to grab)
With Ajax out of the way Sasha grows closer to Randal who returns these feelings. This new relationship makes him a little less "uptight" and more willing to take chances and less likely to go running to Madam Orbec before he does anything. His "threats" of taking over start becoming more likely. Another rift in the Carnival is expected to occur and finally does, starting with the fiery death of Pervus and his clowns.
Since the Ring Master was always looking for more help, Pervus and his clown crew took it upon themselves to start "recruiting" unsuspecting townies and rubes to come work for the Carnival, this causes them to start engaging in debauchery on a bigger scale than before, to an extent that they become a liability and more obvious. Randal, still having a great sense of ethics and morality could not stand by and let it go on any longer. He and several other Normals set fire to the entire tent in the middle of the night killing them all. (And putting the "Gimpjax" out of his misery.)
The Ring Master was furious that Randal would take such a liberty. Another battle comes close to occurring, but fortunately for the Ring Master,(Who would've been greatly outnumbered) Randal doesn't want to fight over the Carnival, instead he convinces his followers to leave while they started their OWN Carnival. One that was more family friendly and without Freaks all over the place. He leaves with Sasha and most of the other Normals in tow.
The Carnival becomes much smaller and is little more than a traveling Freak show as they are practically the only ones still left. The Ring Master doesn't seem to mind though, as he said, the Carnival would survive, maybe not in the same way, but its still around.
And you still remain the GEEK.
Charley confronts the Ring Master with his army of midgets behind him. The Ring Master has Atlas, and his usual allies, the Freaks are hanging in the darkness ready to strike if necessary. Most of the Normals though are nowhere to be seen. You hope Madam Orbec did her job, because even without Ajax, Charley still has a numerical superiority and a pissed off midget can do a lot of damage.
"Your time has come Ring Master! No longer will you exploit us! I'm taking over!"
"So you can exploit your own people of course. Charley, I've put up with your delusions of grandeur long enough, it ends tonight. I have allies of my own, and you might find they are much more dedicated to me than yours are."
"It won't work Ringy, I got more in common with my people than you ever will! Blood is thicker, and yours is going to run everywhere if you don't peaceably leave I'm giving you this one chance you pale she-male."
"Not likely."
At this point all of the freaks come out of hiding, and then Randal and most of the Normals appear as well. Pervus also shows up with his clown crew, and that's when you see Ajax, or what's left of him. He's dressed in a weird leather getup and has a chain around his neck which one of the clowns is holding. There's also a black leather mask covering his face now and some sort of ball gag he looks completely docile and broken.
Suddenly Charley seems to get a little less hostile, the rest of the midgets also look less than willing to fight now, though he's still not backing down completely.
" so that's what happened to Ajax (Sigh) alright Ringy you win. I can see I can't beat you I'll leave. BUT! I'm taking my people with me!"
"No you won't, they work for me."
"The fuck I can't! They're still fuckin' free people! You don't fuckin' OWN them Ringy! They ain't your slaves!"
"Oh and I suppose they're YOUR slaves eh?"
"Fuck it, let's settle this." Charley turns around to his fellow midgets. "Hey, do you want to work for me and make some serious money doing something a lot less menial? Or do ya wanna work for this hypocritical slave driving bitch bastard who claims everyone is free to do what they want and has his protection, but in reality she doesn't do shit for anyone but herself and just expects everyone to obey him?"
The midgets talk to each other for a moment and then reply with a uniformed answer that they want to stay with Charley. The Ring Master actually looks surprised, she even gets mad claiming all of what he'd done for them, but it doesn't work. Charley was right they have more in common with him than they do the Ring Master. Charley leaves with his midget gang. The Ring Master looks like he's going to order an attack, but decides against it. Instead he just assigns some Normals to do the job of the midgets and orders the rest to seek out new recruits in the next town.
Everyone disperses leaving just the Ring Master, Atlas and you alone. The Ring Master for once looks a bit despondent. Not knowing what else to do, you attempt to lighten the situation.
"Well you won, I'm just glad I didn't mess things up for you."
"Yes, for now, but there will only be problems in the future. What happened to tonight was just a temporary patch for the situation I suppose you did your best within your capabilities Geek. No more could be expected of you. The Carnival will survive, just like it always has though return to your cell, we have a big show to do tomorrow and significantly less help."
And you do exactly that and continue on as usual
Time passes and while nothing really changes for you, things do change
Without the midgets around to do most of the manual labor of setting things up, some of the less talented Normals like game barkers and such have to double as laborers. This causes some bad feelings initially until the Ring Master orders the Freaks to start helping as well. The Freaks seem to dislike the fact that the Ring Master isn't "favoring" them as much anymore, but she's just trying to keep things fair so his Carnival stays together. The criminal activity goes down quite a bit. (Though someone's always still making hooch so happily you still have a steady supply of booze to grab)
With Ajax out of the way Sasha grows closer to Randal who returns these feelings. This new relationship makes him a little less "uptight" and more willing to take chances and less likely to go running to Madam Orbec before he does anything. His "threats" of taking over start becoming more likely. Another rift in the Carnival is expected to occur and finally does, starting with the fiery death of Pervus and his clowns.
Since the Ring Master was always looking for more help, Pervus and his clown crew took it upon themselves to start "recruiting" unsuspecting townies and rubes to come work for the Carnival, this causes them to start engaging in debauchery on a bigger scale than before, to an extent that they become a liability and more obvious. Randal, still having a great sense of ethics and morality could not stand by and let it go on any longer. He and several other Normals set fire to the entire tent in the middle of the night killing them all. (And putting the "Gimpjax" out of his misery.)
The Ring Master was furious that Randal would take such a liberty. Another battle comes close to occurring, but fortunately for the Ring Master,(Who would've been greatly outnumbered) Randal doesn't want to fight over the Carnival, instead he convinces his followers to leave while they started their OWN Carnival. One that was more family friendly and without Freaks all over the place. He leaves with Sasha and most of the other Normals in tow.
The Carnival becomes much smaller and is little more than a traveling Freak show as they are practically the only ones still left. The Ring Master doesn't seem to mind though, as he said, the Carnival would survive, maybe not in the same way, but its still around.
And you still remain the GEEK.
