text: You figure Pervus the clown is the only possible candidate to help you in this endeavor. He's immoral enough and doesn't have any allegiances. You don't relish the idea of going anywhere near the clown tent though; everyone knows what terrible things they do to trespassers in there. Fortunately you find Pervus harassing one of the acrobats. She looks terrified, by this scary overbearing clown
  
  "Aw come on, I just wanna get to know ya better. You're so pretty and young with a nice tight ass. What I could do with that for about an hour..."
  
  Suddenly Pervus goes to grab at the acrobat, but she leaps out of the way and runs off in fear.
  
  "Fuckin' cock teasin' bitch...(sniff sniff) I know that smell...smells like a dead dog's asshole after I busted a nut in it...Geek...what the hell do you want?"
  "Uh hello Pervus...I uh, need your help with something."
  "Oh do ya now? What might that be?"
  "I need to get rid of Ajax and I need your help to do it."
  "Whoa, hold on there first of all what makes you think I'd help you without asking for something in return, and second of all, Ajax isn't exactly easy prey if you know what I mean."
  "Well...what would convince you...and NOT THAT!"
  
  Pervus chuckles.
  
  "Feh, maybe some of my boys might like a piece of your filthy ass, but I'm a little more discriminating...actually you got me in a unique mood. I'm willing to help you. Ajax pisses me off every time I go try to get some liquor from Charley. Walkin' around displayin' that perfect physique. He really needs to be taken down a fuckin' peg. In fact he NEEDS to be pegged in the fuckin' ass. Tell ya what, you get Ajax to come over to the clown tent and we'll do the rest. He's had this coming for a long time." Pervus says stroking his crotch.
  "You gonna kill him?"
  "No, but I suggest you not ask what we ARE going to do to him. Trust me though; you'll never see him again."
  "Uh, okay...but how the hell am I supposed to get him to go over to your tent, nobody ever goes over there!"
  "Well I suggest you think of something, if you want our help. See you later and hopefully with a certain Strongman in tow."
  
  Facing Ajax one on one is NOT what you had in mind! You're going to have to do it though. You could attempt to make up a story which may or may not work, or you could go with a much dangerous approach and piss him off so he chases you there. The problem with that approach is you're a dead Geek if he catches you.
  
  > get Ajax to chase you
  He'll see through a lie, and even if he can't he won't want to listen to anything you have to say anyway. There's nothing for it, you have to have him chase you there. He's going to be pissed off anyway.
  
  You look around for Ajax, but he's nowhere around, typical. The one time you WANT to find him you can't. Eventually you do see him entering Sasha's trailer. You take a deep breath and start throwing stones at it, calling him out.
  
  "Hey asshole, stop hiding behind Sasha in there and get out here!"
  
  Plink! Plink! Plink!
  
  "Hey motherfucker I'm talkin' to you! I know you ain't still fuckin' Sasha. Everyone knows you don't last that long!"
  
  Plink! Plink! Plink!
  
  You're actually having so much fun shouting and throwing things, it almost comes to a shock to you when Ajax comes storming out like a mad bull. He is wicked pissed.
  
  You throw the rest of your stones at him and run as fast as you can. You just hope you can make it to the clown tent before he catches you.
  
  Somehow despite Ajax being in better shape than you in every way, you are surprisingly faster than him, maybe its from all that protein from the pig uteruses you've had to consume over the years...or perhaps its just fear. Either way it gets the job done.
  
  You arrive at the clown tent stopping right at the entrance with Ajax not far behind; you see the glinting eyes and hellish grins peering from the unnatural darkness within it. The slurping and hideous laughter makes you REALLY hesitant to actually enter. In your current situation you feel like you're bordering on the edge of madness with fury seeking to drive you into it.
  
  And that's exactly what happens, while you're stopped at the edge of the clown tent. Ajax tackles you hard, where upon the both of you roll into the clown tent.
  
  Its pitch dark in here and you don't know how that's even possible, but it is. You feel Ajax's heavy body suddenly be lifted off of you along with several bottle sounds breaking. You can feel several glass particles fall down onto you.
  
  "AGH FUCK MY HEAD! GODDAMN CLOWN FUCKERS!" Ajax yells.
  
  You begin the crawl on the floor to get to the outside of the tent, but you're not sure where the hell the entrance is anymore, the clowns have closed the flap. Apparently they have no intention on letting either of you escape. The only thing working to your advantage is they're having a hard time subduing Ajax. It's all very frightening to you though when you begin to hear Ajax scream in a high pitched falsetto voice, you never thought you'd ever hear something like that. The other sounds you hear from the clowns you don't even want to think about.
  
  You keep crawling in the darkness hoping to reach the edge of the tent. It seems like forever, but eventually you feel the canvas, you then grab at the bottom and pull up; a beam of daylight enters.
  
  "STOP THAT GEEK!" you hear one of the clowns yell causing you to scramble out of the tent as fast as possible. You feel a hand grab your foot and attempt to pull you back in. You kick several times with your other foot and once again luck shines down and the clown releases you long enough for you to escape.
  
  You run back to Madam Orbec's tent, who glances up at you from her crystal ball.
  
  "Ah, you've returned and from what the spirits have told me, you were successful...good. I will speak to Randal about siding with the Ring Master when the time comes. You may leave."
  
  You're still a little bewildered by her attitude, but you're not going to press the issue, you got what you wanted. Time to report back to the Ring Master.
  
  You tell the Ring Master that he'll have her allies when the time comes when you go back to his trailer though. (After getting Atlas' permission to enter of course) The Ring Master seems confident in you and tells you to get ready for show time.
  
  You spend your remaining time a little on edge, wondering if everything is going to work out. You really wish the Ring Master hadn't put all this pressure on you.
  
  Then show time arrives, everything goes pretty much the same except Charley looks a bit distracted the whole time as Ajax is nowhere to be seen. Pervus and his clowns seem to keep waving at you and making obscene gestures whenever they can.
  
  > But the real show begins afterwards
  A dark moonlit night.
  
  Charley confronts the Ring Master with his army of midgets behind him. The Ring Master has Atlas, and his usual allies, the Freaks are hanging in the darkness ready to strike if necessary. Most of the Normals though are nowhere to be seen. You hope Madam Orbec did her job, because even without Ajax, Charley still has a numerical superiority and a pissed off midget can do a lot of damage.
  
  "Your time has come Ring Master! No longer will you exploit us! I'm taking over!"
  "So you can exploit your own people of course. Charley, I've put up with your delusions of grandeur long enough, it ends tonight. I have allies of my own, and you might find they are much more dedicated to me than yours are."
  "It won't work Ringy, I got more in common with my people than you ever will! Blood is thicker, and yours is going to run everywhere if you don't peaceably leave...I'm giving you this one chance you pale she-male."
  "Not likely."
  
  At this point all of the freaks come out of hiding, and then Randal and most of the Normals appear as well. Pervus also shows up with his clown crew, and that's when you see Ajax, or what's left of him. He's dressed in a weird leather getup and has a chain around his neck which one of the clowns is holding. There's also a black leather mask covering his face now and some sort of ball gag...he looks completely docile and broken.
  
  Suddenly Charley seems to get a little less hostile, the rest of the midgets also look less than willing to fight now, though he's still not backing down completely.
  
  "...so that's what happened to Ajax...(Sigh)...alright Ringy you win. I can see I can't beat you...I'll leave. BUT! I'm taking my people with me!"
  "No you won't, they work for me."
  "The fuck I can't! They're still fuckin' free people! You don't fuckin' OWN them Ringy! They ain't your slaves!"
  "Oh and I suppose they're YOUR slaves eh?"
  "Fuck it, let's settle this." Charley turns around to his fellow midgets. "Hey, do you want to work for me and make some serious money doing something a lot less menial? Or do ya wanna work for this hypocritical slave driving bitch bastard who claims everyone is free to do what they want and has his protection, but in reality she doesn't do shit for anyone but herself and just expects everyone to obey him?"
  
  The midgets talk to each other for a moment and then reply with a uniformed answer that they want to stay with Charley. The Ring Master actually looks surprised, she even gets mad claiming all of what he'd done for them, but it doesn't work. Charley was right they have more in common with him than they do the Ring Master. Charley leaves with his midget gang. The Ring Master looks like he's going to order an attack, but decides against it. Instead he just assigns some Normals to do the job of the midgets and orders the rest to seek out new recruits in the next town.
  
  Everyone disperses leaving just the Ring Master, Atlas and you alone. The Ring Master for once looks a bit despondent. Not knowing what else to do, you attempt to lighten the situation.
  
  "Well you won, I'm just glad I didn't mess things up for you."
  "Yes, for now, but there will only be problems in the future. What happened to tonight was just a temporary patch for the situation...I suppose you did your best within your capabilities Geek. No more could be expected of you. The Carnival will survive, just like it always has though...return to your cell, we have a big show to do tomorrow and significantly less help."
  
  And you do exactly that and continue on as usual
  
  Time passes and while nothing really changes for you, things do change...
  
  Without the midgets around to do most of the manual labor of setting things up, some of the less talented Normals like game barkers and such have to double as laborers. This causes some bad feelings initially until the Ring Master orders the Freaks to start helping as well. The Freaks seem to dislike the fact that the Ring Master isn't "favoring" them as much anymore, but she's just trying to keep things fair so his Carnival stays together. The criminal activity goes down quite a bit. (Though someone's always still making hooch so happily you still have a steady supply of booze to grab)
  
  With Ajax out of the way Sasha grows closer to Randal who returns these feelings. This new relationship makes him a little less "uptight" and more willing to take chances and less likely to go running to Madam Orbec before he does anything. His "threats" of taking over start becoming more likely. Another rift in the Carnival is expected to occur and finally does, starting with the fiery death of Pervus and his clowns.
  
  Since the Ring Master was always looking for more help, Pervus and his clown crew took it upon themselves to start "recruiting" unsuspecting townies and rubes to come work for the Carnival, this causes them to start engaging in debauchery on a bigger scale than before, to an extent that they become a liability and more obvious. Randal, still having a great sense of ethics and morality could not stand by and let it go on any longer. He and several other Normals set fire to the entire tent in the middle of the night killing them all. (And putting the "Gimpjax" out of his misery.)
  
  The Ring Master was furious that Randal would take such a liberty. Another battle comes close to occurring, but fortunately for the Ring Master,(Who would've been greatly outnumbered) Randal doesn't want to fight over the Carnival, instead he convinces his followers to leave while they started their OWN Carnival. One that was more family friendly and without Freaks all over the place. He leaves with Sasha and most of the other Normals in tow.
  
  The Carnival becomes much smaller and is little more than a traveling Freak show as they are practically the only ones still left. The Ring Master doesn't seem to mind though, as he said, the Carnival would survive, maybe not in the same way, but its still around.
  
  And you still remain the GEEK.