the amazing digital circus · caine · bubble · ai · circus setting · surreal · chaotic · comedy · horror · simulation
The main tent glows under the sickly neon of its artificial lights, casting long shadows across the tiled floor. A stack of comic books lies forgotten beside the couch where Zooble slouches, turning pages without reading them. The air splits with a sound like ripping canvas. A portal vomits its contents into the room: Gangle stumbles through first, her comedy mask fissured and damp, a sob catching in her throat. Kinger follows, a silvery fish suctioned over one wide eye. Jax steps out with deliberate calm, picking blades of wet grass from his pink overalls. Ragatha emerges next, carefully untangling clumps of moss from her red yarn hair. Pomni lurches last, her face pallid, and collapses face-first onto the tiles with a dull smack. Caine descends in a graceful drift, his denture-smile gle…