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and says "Got any job openings?"
"What do you do?" asks the impresario.
"Bird imitations," says the man.
"Do me a favour!" explodes the impresario. "Bird imitations went out in the 1970s!"
"Fair enough," says the man
...and flies out of the window.
I apologize if I've asked about this before and I realize there are probably a million stories that fit this description. This story is set in the late 1800s and it's told from the POV of an employee of the carnival. The head of the carnival is a cocky, grandiose PT Barnum type. They are passing through a small town and hear a rumor of a "freak" child living in the town, so they go try to recruit him to join their show.
They go to visit the child's parents, who are very poor and very exhausted from looking after their child. They keep him either chained or caged in squalid conditions. The child is described as having extreme deformities that wouldn't be medically possible in real life and there may have been a parasitic twin and/or an intersex condition involved. The showman persuades the parents to let the child travel with them and their show, but it turns out he's super strong and also super violent, which is why the parents kept him confined in the first place.
The child is never given a name, he's just called "the child" or possibly something like "the beast". The story ends with the child escaping from the show and running into the woods.
As I said there are a million freak show horror stories but this one stood out because there was a lot of attention to period details.
I can say for certain it was NOT on r/nosleep or Nightmare Magazine. I'm pretty sure it was on an author's own website.
There's two new NPCs located at the Impresario's tent; a Khajiit named Zalun and a Redguard named Nadyashana. Both have odd skin. Can't talk to either of them. Yet. Wonder what they're for..
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“Balthazar, Impresario” is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard, and the wonderfully perplexing final chord has a lot to do with that. It’s an absolutely gorgeous chord that I’d like to incorporate into some of my own work, but I haven’t been able to transcribe it for the life of me.
Frank usually ends the song on a G or Gm when it’s played live, and I can’t seem to find any footage of him playing the chord that appears in the studio version. I think that’s because there’s a mandolin adding some extra notes in the studio version. Has anybody with a better ear than me been able to figure it out?
What am I supposed to do with my tickets now?
Edit: Seems to still be around in some cities, just found her next to Solitude.
