As you enter the fairground, you are swept up in a riotous swirl of colors, like the inside of a kaleidoscope. As the colors begin to stabilize, a clown woman dances into view. Beyond her pale skin, outlandish green hairstyle and gaudy clothes, the thing that stands out the most is the enormous orb that is her belly. Though the way it bounces and sways sometimes appears to throw her off balance as she skips and twirls towards you, she always manages to correct herself and keep from falling. She comes to a stop in front of you in a dramatic pose, winking and quickly sticking out a tongue that, for the moment it is visible, seems absurdly long.

A moment later, the colorful blur surrounding you sharpens into focus, revealing a myriad of bright tents, booths, and signs, all surrounding what is by far the largest tent. The sound of a calliope and the smells of cotton candy and fried food drift through the air. Her grin remaining broad - are her teeth pointed? - the clown says, "Welcome to Cirque du Vorare! I'm Gurgles the Klown, and I'm so glad you're here! We have all sorts of attractions, so be sure to look around."

When she says her name, you notice, to your surprise, that you can, in fact hear a gurgling noise - coming from her massive stomach. You can't help but stare at her enormous belly and for a moment, you could swear it looks like it was moving. Tearing your eyes away from it, you see that several of the carnies selling fair foods or running games also have distended guts, though this seems to be limited to occurring in the women that work here, with the men you see all looking relatively normal. Even a few of the female guests sport their own sizable bellies.

"And, that's the basics of Cirque du Vorare! Have fun!" Gurgles says, and you realize that while looking around, you must have missed some vital information. Before you can ask her to repeat herself, she dances away again, leaving you to wonder what the deal is with this place.

I hope you enjoyed that little vignette! Cirque du Vorare is a new setting of mine, featuring, among other things, Klowns like Gurgles, who are actually members of a distinct species of predatory humanoid that reproduces by laying eggs in people, a freak show tent (including such marvels as a two-headed lady, a live mermaid, and the Extreme Omnivore, Cirque du Vorare's own take on the "geek show"), acrobats, a snake dancer, the Living Puppet Show, and a fortune teller. Most of the female performers are capable of vore, and many even add a vorish twist to their acts. Existing as a sort of pocket dimension that can connect with any number of other universes via "fairground portals", guests of Cirque du Vorare can come from all sorts of realities, meaning some guests will find the events that occur there easier to accept than others.

Generally, a significant number of guests leave the fairgrounds only by portal-potty, the fairground's equivalent of port-a-potties that, rather than collecting waste in a tank, transport it back to another dimension - usually discretely placing it in some sewer system, but it's not uncommon for waste that was formerly a person to get shunted to the fairground on the deceased's native world that they got transported from. Those guests that survive the hazards of Cirque du Vorare are usually transported back to their world of origin with no extra loss of time, but the Cirque makes no guarantees of that, and accidents leading to dimensional stranding or ending up far into the future relative to when they left do happen.

Finally, a bit more about klowns. When referring to the species, the word is always spelled with a "K" instead of a "C". Klowns always display a few key non-human visual traits. Most of their skin is chalk-white, save for some bold markings of color, typically around the face or extremities, and the three-layered "collar" of leathery skin around their neck, which they can flare like a frilled lizard. Additionally, all klowns have a broad mouth full of sharp teeth. Other exotic traits, including the bulbous nose, technicolor hair, and long tongue displayed by Gurgles, but also such features as odd bodily proportions or pointed ears, are common, but not universal. All klowns are biologically female, and about 70% of them also appear feminine by the standards of humans and similar species. Most of the remainder are fairly androgynous, though a rare few appear masculine. They have an enlarged, flexible clitoris that acts as an ovipositor. A klown produces one egg a month, but these are only viable if laid inside a non-predatory humanoid's digestive tract (predatory humanoids are capable of digesting the infant clown before it can start to grow), where it quickly hatches into a klown tadpole that begins to eat the host from the inside, a process that takes about a month before an adolescent klown bursts out of the host's skin.

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