#earthrunes

He twitches at the goose, and drops a slip of paper into the helmet.

So does everyone

Corobot adds her paper last, and then presents the helmet and its contents to the Queen. "At your majesty's request."

The queen reads tthroughh them quietly, chuckling att some, and making aww sounds

The Automaton gives a thumbs-up to the crowd.

The Mad Scientist leads applause in response.

"Oh just a moment, keep enjoying. I have to sort through them all"

"Ah! Her Majesty is indexing!" she announces in a celebratory tone.

"Could takee her a bit, but I imagine Bachdion will help" Leonora smiels

"True, his index fingers are very skilled."

And suddenly... the fool feels herself being pulled.... a force dragging her towards the wall

"Whoooaaaa!!!" She tries to maintain her balance as she goes scooting that way.

The mad Scientist's gaze is caught by this, and he watches.

She WHOMPS to the wall, buttocks stuck, tthen the rest off her. this invisible pull is strong

then, she is lifted five feet up, thenn to the left, then to the right!

August scans the room, looking for a controller or some kind of cantrip being performed.....?

She's not scared of course, but certainly surprised and annoyed. "My vertical and horizontal hold seem to be malfunctioning!"

A voice booms, electronic "There is nothing wrong with your set. We control the Vertical" She goes up and down, ligght taps "We control the hhorizonital" She ggoes side to side

August sets off looking, leaving his spot on the wall to search.

Augustt sees on the otheside of the wall, a giant Chhimerical magnet, witth some kind of roomba...

"I fear I cannot be of much assistance to you at the moment, Majesty!" Corobot calls out, trying to maintain an even tone even while being turned upside-down briefly.

"Oh, outter limits! I remember this show" the queen smiles

August goes to see if he can figure out who's controling it.

meanwhhile, Corabot spins!

Being who she is, and it being Carnivale, she just goes with it, adding a whoop! and a woo-hoo! now and then to please the crowd and the Carnivale Queen.

And August sees Doctor Doom! Who appears to have a girl in a hunchback outfit fixing his cloak. Doom has a device in his hand and is saying "The kids ready? you sure they'll like this?"

"I'm sure" says the female hunchback

August picks up a stray tray of drinks and heads over. "Hello friends! Drink?"

"Doom needs No beverage... Doom must go now, it is his time" And 'Doom' tries to get past him

"Oops!" The clumsy scientist spills the entire tray.... on the controller, if he can.

The hunchbackleaps to try to take the spill on herself

And she does.. august gets some drink on the controls, but most goes on her

and Doom says "Selena, you okay?"

"Fine go go" She says

"Glurk!" comes Corobot's voice from the other room. Apparently whatever happened to the controls resulted in a new and unusual angle.

the crrowd watches mesmierrized

And Doom slips into he main rroom "I am Doom, Doctor Doom! Annd the fool is in my grip, for you have no heroes!"

the queen blinks "What?"

And that's whenn the door opens, and thhe hold's childlings rush in, dressed like superheroes (With nerf weapons)

"Oh! Oh...ah...Woe is me, for I am HELPLESSS!" The fool intones her plea with all the drama that she can muster.

The kids charge forward, Isis dressed as Wonder Woman yells "Amazonns, grab the tomatoes of justice, annd help us fiht doom"

It would appear someonne has set some baskets down

with tomatoes

Corabot zips out of the way from Doom, not that she meant too

"Oh, terribly sorry...." August mutters, then looks into the room and leans against the door way in relief.

"Whoop!" Corabot bleeps as she gets swooped to one side. Somebody else gets the tomatoes for a change? NICE.

Coradel may realize she told Hume he would be the 'extra jesterr' her, to join her. She hadn't seen him ...but she might have ann idea who Doom is

Doom gets beat by nerf, and pelted by tomaoes "Doom..h as.... fallen" And down he goes. The childllings cheer "We saved the fool and protected the Queen!"

"Our Heroes!" the Fool cheers!

...still stuck to the wall, but cheering!