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Originally posted by Lindley:
^That's great. I've tried to include a few "quirky planets", but something like that is just the ticket, I think.

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Originally posted by Ankhagogo:

If you're still wanting quirk, how about a planet o circus/carnie people? You know, like whatever town that is in Florida where the circus winters?

Me, I'd call it Barnum. :) The main city, Bailey, is about part permanent buildings, part-trailers or busted ships, and part tents of all shapes, sizes, colours, and stages of repair, along with various rides that look a little rickety.

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Originally posted by Ankhagogo:

If you're still wanting quirk, how about a planet o circus/carnie people? You know, like whatever town that is in Florida where the circus winters?

Me, I'd call it Barnum. :) The main city, Bailey, is about part permanent buildings, part-trailers or busted ships, and part tents of all shapes, sizes, colours, and stages of repair, along with various rides that look a little rickety.

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You know, you could actually do a lot with this one - missions could include escorting a carnival carivan to random planets around the verse, running some replacement equipment and supplies to carnivals out on the road. There could be mention of the cow fetus from The Message to make it truly feel like it belongs. Oh, and these are musts - The bar serves Deep Fried Curly Carrots (from Dead or Alive script) and Ice-Planets (from The Message). And . . . JUGGLING GEESE!! and shadow puppets!

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The Bailey Carnivale Association, after which this planet is named, has a long-running feud with the neighboring Barnum Carnivale Association. No one knows the specific origins of the feud; only that, despite being based in the same system, the two groups cannot stand each other. You're either a Barnum planet or a Bailey planet---after one group has performed somewhere, the other will not go near that world for months, if ever. Scattered everywhere around town are indications of an successful entertainment troupe: Relatively good housing, clean roads, and perhaps most telling, permanent rehersal areas rather than quick-fold tents.

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Barnum's main city has a core of permanent buildings, but a large portion of the metropolis is composed of trailers, busted ships, tents of all shapes, sizes, colours, and stages of repair. Take a walk on the edge of the city, and you'll see all sorts of animals that may or may not be what the sign says they are. It is, in short, the headquarters of the Barnum Carnivale Association----not to be mistaken for the talentless group of hacks based on neighboring Bailey. There is always work for someone with some sort of weird/amazing/stomach-churning physical abnormality. It's not as rife with crime as you might think, but it's the the adorable lil ragamuffins you wanna watch out for. There are many, many different languages spoken, including a nearly unintelligible "circus-speak."

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You're either a Barnum planet or a Bailey planet---after one group has performed somewhere, the other will not go near that world for months, if ever.

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Scattered everywhere around town are indications of an successful entertainment troupe: Relatively good housing, clean roads, and perhaps most telling, permanent rehersal areas rather than quick-fold tents.

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Take a walk on the edge of the city, and you'll see all sorts of animals that may or may not be what the sign says they are.

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