Carnival
Overview
Year Founded: 2017
Status: Active
The Dark Carnival is band of strange and psychotic clowns just trying to get by and have a good time in the end of days. They are known for busting knees and having wonderful cookouts. For years, the clowns were plagued with a question of simple yet profound significance, why? They believe to each man, that truth is his own to ponder alone in the darkness of the night, surrounded by the stench of rot and the feeling of cold, but they believe that they have found the answer: The condition of man in his natural state is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. It is this truth that holds man back from what it once was, this truth that allows man to commit savagery amongst those of his own kind while the dead walk, and this truth that acts as the foundation of their principles. They view order and society as the downfall of man and seek to rewrite the world using fear and a bit of laughter.
Alignment
The Dark Carnival tends to have no respect for the rules, other people's lives, or anything but their own desires, which are typically selfish and cruel. Since they set a high value on personal freedom, but do not have much regard for the lives or freedom of other people, their alignment is chaotic evil. They do not work well in groups because they resent being given orders and do not usually behave themselves unless there is no alternative.
Appearance
The Dark Carnival wear pink armbands and are dressed in colorful clothing. They wear various face masks, clown wigs, red noses, red and purple balaclavas, and ski masks.
Origins
The Carnival was founded by a man named "Angus Oblong II", who came from a prestigious Polish clown family. Originally, each member of the Carnival was a loner of sorts and each member came to the Carnival seeking refugee from society and many never bothered to interact with the outside world even before the apocalypse. After the infection spread, most of humanity changed to adapt to the new surroundings; they were fighting for whatever they could find, essentially the bottom of the food chain, watching people around be killed and slaughtered in the streets. Angus knew the only way to survive was to keep the Carnival together and he had to make them fearless and strong by any means.
The apocalypse showed the clowns that the world and humanity were more cruel then they had thought and people were changed by what the apocalypse made them do to survive. The Clowns, with a newfound embrace, looked upon Europe and in particular South Zagoria as a place to make refuge and to survive the apocalypse. The Carnival understood that the world now operated on power and fear and they believe if you were weak or too afraid to seek power; you would simply gonna die like the rest. They believe there is no more good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
Territory
- Green Mountain
The Dark Carnival, due to being a traveling circus, are nomadic in nature and can be found venturing the lands of Chernarus. They currently reside at Green Mountain along with the Outrider Caravan Company. They have lived in northeast Chernarus and traveled west to Green Mountain and the "Ovos", which is in the surrounding territory.
