Prologue
If you went into the woods around here, you might see a circus hidden behind the trees. It's a very mysterious circus, to say the least. No one knows how it got there, and what goes on behind the scenes. No one knows why the performers act the way they do…especially since we're talking about a circus! Usually, when you think of a circus, you think clowns, balloons, laughing children, and good 'ol family fun. Right?
Well, then.
Like all circuses, this one has performers, an audience, and a ringmaster. But is it a normal circus? In "normal" circuses, do the performers hope that they'll fall asleep and never wake up? In "normal" circuses, would the foul smell of acid and corpses be present?
This is nowhere near a "normal" circus, and you should know that before you enter.
Had you entered, you would've seen the performers. Children, all with bright smiles on their faces, performing happily for an audience.
Lies.
Because, if they had not acted like that, they would've gotten an unbearable punishment.
You wonder why their faces are like that. What happened to them? Were they just born like that?
Of course not.
In the far past, all these children were innocent passerby's who just wanted to go to the circus. Little did they know they were about to join it.
They were captured, and mutilated. Their families never saw them again. They just think they're "lost". And even if they were to return, they probably wouldn't even recognize their own child. Their child isn't the one with all the scars and the strange deformities. But yet, it is. And they say "a mother never forgets".
"Why does a circus like this even exist?! Why are people being so cruel to their own kind?!"
Welcome to the world.
Enter the Dark Woods Circus…if you dare.