Grimaldis World O Freaks

Story so far

Grimaldi's World O' Freaks is the sideshow heart of Grimaldi's Traveling Circus — a fortified encampment of three massive big-top tents, wagons, and cages, ringed by a five-foot battlement of rock, wood, and bones. A faded sign ('Admission One Gold Coin. No children or those with weak constitutions allowed') advertises attractions like the Over City's Strongest Citizen, the Over City's Fattest Woman, Garth the Two-Headed Troglodyte, Tiny the fire-breathing Gnoll, and the defaced traitor poster of Tsarina Signet.

Watching from a ruined building, Carl and Princess Donut saw the circus fortifying for battle — draping animal skins, laying barbed-wire trench defenses, wheeling out beast cages, and setting up robed cauldron-casters who fire whistling magical mortars. At nightfall the sentries withdrew, the camp lit up like a holiday display, and the cages were thrown open.

Appearance

Three glowing big-top tents amid smaller tents, wagons, and painted red-and-yellow beast cages, ringed by a five-foot battlement of rock, wood, and bones and barbed-wire trenches; by night, ablaze with fires and searchlights.

Role

The circus stronghold and the objective of Carl's quest; the source of the mortar siege.

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