[ToxicTea]

day three !

username + id:toxictea 950870
i've decided to...

Ink is walking around the fair and sees multiple chicoons trying to fix this ride. “Hm? What is going on here?” ink walks up to the ride and investigates. “Dang this thing really is broken.” ink leaves the area then decides to walk around the carnival. “What could fix this?..” ink mumbles to himself. As ink is making his way around the other booths he gets an idea. Ink then runs to the broken ride. “I've got an idea!” ink proceeds to grab some tools and a lubricant for the ball bearings. “I hope this works!” ink tightens some bolts then nuts then sprays the ball bearings and any part of the ride that's supposed to move. After an hour of working, ink decides to take a break and get some cotton candy. “I thought I would have been done with it by now. That needs so much work!” ink contemplates on giving up but then realizes he wants to help the others feel accomplished. Ink turns around and sees a chicoon throw a wrench at the ride. “...did they just-...never mind.” ink proceeds to laugh then gets back to work. Minutes later ink finishes “fingers crossed this works!”

[imabanditø]

day three !

username + id: imabanditø 908562
i've decided to...

covering his face with his wings, lime retreated back to the pendulum ride to avoid coming across ripsaw or eon, who he just now found out the name of. he had no clue on how to make an excuse for why he was crying; he wasn’t sure how much trouble he’d be in for eavesdropping. ‘it wasn’t my fault they were being loud, though,’ he thought to himself. ‘i guess i could say i was at the wrong place at the wrong time, or that i had gotten hurt while trying to fix the ride..’

as lime arrived at the mechanics shack, he decided to spend his time organizing the mess he had made in order to calm himself down — he wasn’t able to focus on even more attempts at repairing the broken ride while his mind was preoccupied with thinking about the conversation he heard. though, at this point maybe it’d be best if he actually researched, but the chicoon wasn’t really sure that there’d be full tutorials for this kind of thing out there or not, and lime didn’t want to waste his time. ‘..don’t you need professional training for this kind of stuff?’ lime wondered why it was him that got in this situation in the first place. [212 words]

[Myskx]

day three !

username + id:Myskx 875503
i've decided to...

At first, Blueberry didn't quite understand that the two chicoons were 'whispering' about him. After he listened in on the conversation until the end, he finally realised that they were talking about him. He felt a heavy feeling in his chest, and he let his paws guide him away from the area as he hung his head down. He found himself at the broken ride once again, and he looked up at it with a saddened expression. " I dissapointed them.. " He stared at the ride as if he was speaking to it, tears welling up in his eyes. " I did my best, I really did.. " He hiccuped, leaning against the side of the ride. The warm metal felt nice on his back, and he let out a shaky sigh. " What do I do now..? "

After a few minutes of pondering, Blueberry stood up and walked over to the electrical area of the ride and started to tweak with the wiring. He'd gotten better with mechanics by the day, and his skills shone as he reconnected wiring and tightened bolts. He had no enthusiasm like he did before, but he worked with his frown anyways. " If I fix it, they won't think I'm useless anymore. " He told himself as he worked the day away.

[EyeOfVoid]

day three !

username + id: EyeOfVoid +1078076
i've decided to...

Charcoal huffed and lowered their wings slightly in disappointment at Ripsaw's words, and looked down at the wrench in their paw. Who were they kidding, they didn't know what they were doing. Why even try? They looked back at the pendulum ride and sighed, giving it a slight kick as if that would suddenly get it to move, but when that (obviously) failed, they sat down with a huff next to it, letting the wrench fall to the ground with a thunk sound.
"What do I even tell them, I'm way too deep into this mess now. I should have just come clean on the first day." They grumbled to themself as they drew arcs in the dirt. Though with the more arcs they drew, the more they could envision the pendulum following the same movement. If they just tried a little harder... They threw their head back and groaned, picking up their wrench and trudging over to the ladder they had previously placed, along with the toolbox next to it. They picked the toolbox up and scaled the ladder, before reaching the entrance of the inner mechanics of the ride. They reluctantly peeked further inside, almost crawling in, and grabbed a flashlight from the box so they could see better.
"Nothing gets done if you don't try..."

[Griff]

day three !

username + id: Griff 254592
i've decided to...

Clementine and Key sit beside each other, watching as the other two chicoons converse. They both tilt thier heads this way and that, one with feathered wings flapping in irritation while the other finds her own feathers floofing a sight. Even the eyebrow ones. "So... what should we do now?" Clementine asked, gesturing over as the pair walked away. "I mean, we could take off now too and nobody would blame us right? Plus there is still a lot of carnival to see here..." Key looked pensive, as she looked at the now empty spot before them.

"You are not wrong," she admitted quietly, humming a slight. "However..."

"However what?"

"Aren't you a little bit curious Clementine?"

"About what?"

"I mean about this ride! What it would be like to be the first ones to ride it once it is repaired! What it would feel like, the success of making it work when nobody else could? The feeling of satisfaction in a job well done or... simply a chance to gloat at the ones who could not fix it!" She winked at her sister, knowing full well how much the latter would appeal to them.

"Alright, you've made your point! Let's try this thing again... wrench!"

[rainbowpanda101]

day three !

username + id: rainbowpanda101 + 116794
i've decided to...

Max figured he'd taken long enough looking at the tools yesterday and decided it might be time to actually try and fix the ride. The Chicoon went to look at the ride he'd been informed wasn't working to try and find out what sort of ride it was. Based on his past experience at carnivals, he knew there were various kinds of rides one might need to repair. Big carriages that riders would sit in and spin round and round. Cars on tracks that would go up and around, and sometimes even upside down. Ferris wheels were popular, too. Thankfully the ride he had been asked to fix wasn't a Ferris wheel. It was a carousel.

The Chicoon stepped up onto the floor of the carousel to admire the various animal seats in silly poses. There was a tiger, its mouth wide open in a silent roar. A horse pulling a fancy carriage. A white swan with a back shaped like a bench. Max was sad to see much of the paint was chipping off on some of the animals. Probably the more popular ones, he thought to himself. It would make sense for the paint to chip from the constant friction caused by children getting on and off the ride. Maybe after he figured out what was wrong with the ride, he could also paint all the animals so they looked brand new again! Yes, that would be nice. [240 words]

[BananaSnake]

day three !

username + id: BananaSnake + 1079492
i've decided to... sit in a corner and call my friend

Banana hears the two chicoons talking and gets slightly stressed out. She goes into a little hidden corner and calls her friend, asking them for help on fixing rides. They don’t know anything either.

[MaroonCookie]

day three !

username + id: MaroonCookie 1014873
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Beebo paces back and forth anxiously after listening in on the conversation between the two Chicoons. They don't want to let down anyone by having no clue how to be a mechanic, but they don't want to make anything else worse with their nonexistent abilities. They decide to try and find someone in the crowd who actually is qualified for this, but as they search they realize that nearly every other Chicoon is in the same situation. They have no clue what to do, but as they turn their sights back to the broken down ride they have the urge to do something. They may not know what to do right now, but if they do some research on how these rides work, then they could actually get something helpful done. Nodding to themself as they construct their plan, they bound off to find information.

[Herald of the Arcane]

day three !

username + id: henry creel 788126
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cosmo snorfus decides to take a break and eat something because consuming nutrients help him thinking about what to do in order to fix this ride

[LittleMaple]

day three !

username + id: LittleMaple 967464
i've decided to...

zone chooses to take a big fat nap on the broken ride