The geeks and freaks converged on the annual raw chicken-eating contest with the fervor of those attending a family reunion that came with a million-dollar-lottery ticket. Some of them were geeks from family tradition, some had just always been that kid in the lunchroom that would eat anything for a bet, and some sad cases were actually medically ill and found that this was the only way to gain any sort of acceptance as being "among their kind." The days when circuses and carnivals needed or even accepted geeks were gone, but the geeks remained. True geeks, not--


Inspiration: Watching Carnivale earlier, and just now had discussion with Phil about "freaks and geeks."
Story Potential: Low, because this isn't a story idea.
Notes: But I like the idea of this being a character. Where else but eating contests would geeks (circus geeks) go?

The carnival was already in town when he strolled in and selected his victim,. That was what he was counting on; the ability to be able to just pick and choose without worrying about the fancied rules regarding newcomers. A carnival in town meant that anything that happened involving an outsider would be automatically laid at their doorstep, and that was why he tried to find recent spectacles and follow them around. They provided such excellent scapegoats and camouflage. Of course, he had no way of knowing that the small town the carnival had stopped in had not even existed yesterday, nor of knowing that they'd observed the strange tragic coincidences that had been following around the carnivals and traveling shows lately and realized, quite more clearly than the townsfolk--

Inspiration: "Dissolution" - Torrent Vaccine Mix - Torrent Vaccine by Nocturne
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: What else is there to say? Silly notes section.