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--- gameplay:lore:projectsquat:tales_from_the_hole:carnival_i [2025/08/15 22:03] – hairy_mary
+++ gameplay:lore:projectsquat:tales_from_the_hole:carnival_i [2025/10/11 22:22] (current) – hairy_mary
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 Big Su Skronky would have a stock, five fingered answer to that anyway, and such critics wouldn't be complaining about it for very much longer.
-Big Su Skronky lets the relevant squats know that today is the day of the carnival, and the word soon spreads. Chlamydia from Booz sets up a stall in Squat Hole town square selling Mudwiseacre and Wanker at specially inflated prices.
+Big Su Skronky lets the relevant Squats know that today is the day of the carnival, and the word soon spreads. Chlamydia from Booz sets up a stall in Squat Hole town square selling Mudwiseacre and Wanker at specially inflated prices.
-Impudencia Skronky from Kebabs 'N' Shite does something similar. That's the basics sorted. Other squats set up stages for various acts to perform from. These consist of old barrels with planks laid across them.
+Impudencia Skronky from Kebabs 'N' Shite does something for food. That's the basics sorted. Other Squats set up stages for various acts to perform from. These consist of old barrels with planks laid across them.
-Sewage Skronky waits till night falls and then the Carnival is started off in the same way as most other special events. Patriotic songs by Veruca Lynn. Then the events start in earnest.
+Sewage Skronky waits till night fall and then the Carnival is started off in the same way as most other special events. Patriotic songs by Veruca Lynn. Then the events start in earnest.
 Cantankerous Biggs is in the crowd drinking Wanker and listening to Outhouse O'Leary, the famous farthorn player, playing some cool browns music. Outhouse has been training all day, eating a prodigious amount of old brussel sprouts.
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 Danny Skronky is on the other side of the square watching Team Awesome go through it's paces. The range and amount of entertainment on offer doesn't stop there. Stunt budget horse riders leap over the central bonfire, punch ups by the score, it's all here.
-Dogend Skronky brings out an effigy half way through the evening. It's a huge thing, six feet high, with a stolen top hat on it's head. It represents the despised jokers who think that they're so much cleverer and better than squats.
+Dogend Skronky brings out an effigy half way through the evening. It's a huge thing, six feet high, with a stolen top hat on it's head. It represents the despised Jokers who think that they're so much cleverer and better than Squats.
-Dogend Skronky throws the effigy on the bonfire to the cheers and jeers of the surrounding throng of merry making squats. Everybody is enjoying themselves. The celebrations are going well.
+Dogend Skronky throws the effigy on the bonfire to the cheers and jeers of the surrounding throng of merry making Squats. Everybody is enjoying themselves. The celebrations are going well.
 Dogend Skronky notices that the effigy isn't burning very well. Perhaps using stones to fill the sack forming the main body wasn't such a good idea? Maybe the fire's burning a bit low? Never mind, he can sort that out.
-Dogend Skronky brings out more fuel for the bonfire. Plenty of old barrels “kindly donated” by various incarnations of Robert Catesby. Some folk might have thought it wise to empty the barrels of their original contents first.
+Dogend Skronky brings out more fuel for the bonfire. Plenty of old barrels “kindly donated” by various incarnations of Robert Catesby. Some namby pamby Willy Wetlegs might have thought it wise to empty the barrels of their original contents first.
-Dogend Skronky does not however think of this. The barrels are made of thick oak, and the first is just burning through by the time that the last one is thrown on.
+Dogend Skronky is an active Squat who gets things done and does not do this. The barrels are made of thick oak, and the first is just burning through by the time that the last one is thrown on.
     B B B O O O O O O M M M ! ! !
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 ===In Ace High===
-A dull rumble can be heard coming from somewhere to the south. Some jokers are intrigued! There's no thunder around! It must be some sort of Improbability! How exciting! How wrong they are.
+A dull rumble can be heard coming from somewhere to the south. Some Jokers are intrigued! There's no thunder around! It must be some sort of Improbability! How exciting! How wrong they are.
 ===In Pleasantville===
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 Failors arrive. The leader radios back to the failboat for extra workers as the rest start picking up pieces of squat. They soon give up on that idea and just shovel the top two or three inches of everything into bags instead.
-George, who recently commented that he quite liked jigsaws is given the task of putting the squats back together. George will never make that mistake again.
+George, who recently commented that he quite liked jigsaws is given the task of putting the Squats back together. George will never make that mistake again.
 ====A little while later====
-Time passes…The witching hour arrives. Failors arrive with a cargo even larger than the already large one they usually have for Squat Hole. The squats are kicked out into the place where the town square once stood and the failors are off.
+Time passes...The witching hour arrives. Failors arrive with a cargo even larger than the already large one they usually have for Squat Hole. The Squats are kicked out into the place where the town square once stood and the failors are off.
-Big Su Skronky is one of the first off the failors cart. She is still a little groggy, and looks round bleary eyed but happy. There was a good knees up. Everybody ended up on the failboat - always a good sign. Something isn't quite right however. Something is missing. Everything is missing! “Ere! Sum fackers gan un fackin fieved thu fackin Ole! Ooz stulen Squat Hole?”
+Big Su Skronky is one of the first off the failors cart. She is still a little groggy, and looks round bleary eyed but happy. There was a good knees up. Everybody ended up on the failboat - always a good sign. Something isn't quite right however. Something is missing. Everything is missing! "'Ere! Some fookers gone an fookin' thieved the foockin 'Ole! Ooz stolen Squat Hole?"
-Big Su Skronky is not a happy squat. “Ur citeez bin stulun! Wot tha fack! Oi bet it wuz thum jukurs! Thuv alwuyz bin jealous uv Squat Hole, uvrywun nows it!” The more she thinks about it, the more it makes sense.
+Big Su Skronky is not a happy Squat. "Our city's been stolen! Wot the fack! Oi bet it wuz thum Jokers! They've always been jealous of Squat Hole, everywun knows it!" The more she thinks about it, the more it makes sense.
-Big Su Skronky remembers everybody having a good time. Dogend was just loading up the bonfire with the barrels from that Robert Catesby geezer, then suddenly, a huge explosion! A sure sign of joker involvement.
+Big Su Skronky remembers everybody having a good time. Dogend was just loading up the bonfire with the barrels from that Robert Catesby geezer, then suddenly, a huge explosion! A sure sign of Joker involvement.
-Big Su Skronky would be hard pressed to remember ever seeing such a joker induced explosion herself, but feels sure that that's the sort of thing that jokers do. Everybody knows it.
+Big Su Skronky would be hard pressed to remember ever seeing such a Joker induced explosion herself, but feels sure that that's the sort of thing that Jokers do. Everybody knows it.
-Big Su Skronky “Thus time thuy've gun too fur! Squat Hole's, backbone of thu Oiland, uvrybudy uls just takes thu piss. Thutz wut appuns. Yu try ard tu be elpful und gut un wiv uvrybudy, und thuy jus takes udvuntage uv yur gud nature!”
+Big Su Skronky "This time they've gone too far! Squat Hole's, backbone of the Oiland, everybody else just takes the piss. That's wot 'appens. You try 'ard to be 'elpful and get on wiv everybody, and they just takes advantage of your good nature!"
-Big Su Skronky “Wull Oiv ud enuff! Nu mur Miss Nice squat. Uf thum jukurz thunk thut they cun jus waltz in ere und make uff wiv our city jus cus all thuy've gut is sum poxy little outpost wiv no churac… no churuct…no smell, thun thuy've gut unuver fink cumin!”
+Big Su Skronky "Well Oi've 'ad enuff! No more Miss Nice Squat. If them Jokers fink that they can just waltz in 'ere and make off wiv our city just cos all they've got is some poxy little outpost wiv no charac… no charact…no smell, then they've got anover fink comin'!"
-Big Su Skronky is also a pragmatic business squat however. The gangs of squats are corralled into rebuilding the outpost under Dogend Skronky's watchful eye, deal with the important things first. K&S, the Massage Parlour, the shed for the Skronky Pot, and of course Booz.
+Big Su Skronky is also a pragmatic business Squat however. The gangs of squats are corralled into rebuilding the outpost under Dogend Skronky's watchful eye, deal with the important things first. K&S, the Massage Parlour, the shed for the Skronky Pot, and of course Booz.
-Once Booz has been rebuilt the work slows down considerably, the squats feeling that they need to give Booz a test run, just to make sure that it's working well. A really thorough test run.
+Once Booz has been rebuilt the work slows down considerably, the Squats feeling that they need to give Booz a test run, just to make sure that it's working well. A really thorough test run.
 Big Su Skronky then goes off to make plans. AceHigh has got interesting times ahead.
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 For more stories from Squat Hole, see [[gameplay:lore:projectsquat:tales_from_the_hole|here]].
+For an overview of information resources on the Squats and Squat Hole see [[gameplay:lore:projectsquat:squatholeproject|The Squat Hole Project]].