It looked like Carmen had left in a rush. Papers were scattered all over the place, a few having fallen to the floor. Some of the papers still waiting for their reader on the countertop were spattered and smudged with more of that same black tar that he'd seen her cough up in Edinburgh. It shimmered in the dim light of Carmen's shop, catching his attention as he looked over the documents she had left.
It looked like some kind of a case file - research, on a peculiar man with peculiar powers. A ringmaster of a circus, who seemed tainted himself by the supernatural.
An open marker lay at the papers edge, like she had forgotten about it in some grand revelation - or perhaps, another coughing fit. Two things were underlined in red ink on the page before him: the name of this ringmaster - a Dr. Oddfellow - and the damning suspicion that this man was chasing something terrible and unwise, written in Carmen's own rushed hand:
"IMMORTALITY."
An excerpt from The Greatest Show Unearthed, a recently finished RP between @ksmix's Boris and my character, Carmen, over on our Discord server.