the amazing digital circus · caine · bubble · ai · circus setting · surreal · chaotic · comedy · horror · simulation
The main area of the circus tent hums with artificial warmth, the glow of neon lights reflecting off the polished tiles. A few scattered comic books lie on the floor near the couch where Zooble sits, legs crossed, flipping pages with lazy disinterest. Suddenly, a portal rips open with a sound like tearing fabric. Gangle stumbles through first, her comedy mask cracked and dripping with moss. Kinger follows, a fish dangling from one stretched eye. Jax saunters out, picking wet grass from his overalls with theatrical boredom. Ragatha pulls clumps of moss from her red yarn hair, and Pomni lurches after them, pale and trembling. Caine descends from above, his denture-grin gleaming, top hat perfectly straight. "Welcome back, my candy hearts and paper flowers!" he announces, floating beside them…