arrival

[livemoore]

Who: Liv Moore and you!
Where: Just inside the mansion
When: July 10th
Rating: G-PG?
Summary: Your typical dead girl arrival in Wonderland.
The Story:

[ Being a tabloid cover girl in the most unflattering photo ever isn't fair. It's like when someone judges Britney Spears by her 2008 hair shaving incident even today when she's mostly just judging singing competition shows. One moment of being pissed off in a zombie rage doesn't define Liv or the entire zombie population. But try telling anyone that and you'll probably get a gun waved in your face.

Still, it's a crappy picture and she has to worry about someone recognizing her because of it. Wearing a bathrobe, she leans over in her bedroom to wrap her freshly dyed (a more natural blonde) hair in a towel, only to stand up straight again and come face to face with...

...not her bedroom wall, that's for sure. It's a door, an outside door, because she's standing on the porch of a giant mansion where her apartment building used to be. ]

Uh...

[ She's naked. Well, practically naked, outside, and steps inside quickly, closing the door behind her. Did she fall? Hit her head? Is this some kind of weird, new and enhanced memory that she actually becomes a part of once she eats brains? ]

...Hello?

[ Is she like Scrooge in that one Christmas story where no one else can see or hear her because she's dead? ]

Can anyone hear me? Or see me? Preferably both?

[ There's a brochure, so she picks it up. Wonderland. Wonderland? She has to just. ]

Wonderland???

Comments

[naughty_nurse]

[Being on the first floor, and near the entrance, Mikan hears the sudden shouting. She pokes her head out of the clinic, nervous.]

I... I can hear you.

[livemoore]

Oh. Well, that's a relief, at least.

[ Liv goes in the direction of the voice, waving just a little, giving what she hopes is a friendly smile. ]

Sorry to uh...drop in unannounced. I wasn't really expecting to be here.

[naughty_nurse]

[Her eyes widen, and she walks into the hallway.]

Are you a newcomer...?

[livemoore]

That's me, I guess. I take it this isn't totally weird for you? I mean, you don't seem all that put off by a random girl in a random house just...showing up. Literally out of nowhere.

[ And clearly on her way to or from the shower. ]

[henrydaniel]

[ Henry's coming in just behind this person in a bathrobe and arches an eyebrow, speaking from behind her and beginning to step around. ]

Why wouldn't we be able to see and hear you? Are you normally a ghost?

[livemoore]

Nope, not a ghost.

[ Would that be better or worse than being a zombie? Probably worse, though she can't be sure. ]

I've never blinked and wound up somewhere else, who knows what people can and can't hear or see in this place.

[henrydaniel]

[ If she ever wanted Henry's opinion, he'd go better. No brain eating, for starters. ]

Yeah...good point. But welcome, I guess? My name's Henry. And you can go in any vacant room, open a closet door and get clothes.

[livemoore]

Hey, Henry. I'm Liv.

[ At what he says, she kind of squints a little, tilting her head to the side. ]

There are just...clothes waiting in the closet for me to wear? That's convenient and weird.

[screwedontight]

[Seth was nearly awake and almost sober. It was a good day, apparently. Except that he's heading out to the beach, with a bottle in hand, so it's maybe not going to end as a good day. Who really knew anymore.

Pausing at the voice, standing to one side of the foyer and unable to stop himself from smiling.]

Suddenly arriving in the creepy doll attic isn't so bad. I can definitely see you, and the volume still works as well. Oh shit, tell me you didn't die right before you got here. If so, I'm prepared.

[Said while holding up the bottle of whiskey he's carrying.]

[livemoore]

[ 'Creepy doll attic' is both very visual and discomforting at the same time.

She does answer his question with a question, though. ]

Do people normally die and get banished to the doll attic? Is that what it's all about? We've been really wrong about what might happen after you die, if so.

[screwedontight]

Naw, I didn't die before I got here. Some others have though. They talk about being dead before they end up here.

The attic you're welcome to explore, but I want nothing to do with it again. One, it destroyed the suit I came in. Two, I keep expecting them to be the next event.

[And the thing is, he knows it isn't entirely out of the realm of possibility. Not in Wonderland.]

[livemoore]

[ So, there are dead people here. Doesn't that technically make all of them zombies? So what if she has to eat a brain here and there to get by. ]

'Them?' And...events, I read about those. Weird things that happen in this place or change it that we're supposed to survive? Is this a prison or the Hunger Games?

[ If it didn't all feel so real she'd try to insist she was in some kind of coma. The only problem is, she's positive she isn't. ]

[beautifullies]

[ Claire is heading to the clinic and pauses at the sight of a pale woman in a bathrobe. Of the unusual way people arrive, this must be one of the most unusual she's seen in her short time in Wonderland. ]

I do believe you're quite visible. And audible. Can I help you? Find...clothing perhaps?

[livemoore]

Clothes would be really nice. I was dying my hair and then here I was.

[ Liv pauses, looking around a little, then back at the woman. ]

Did I do something to wind up here?

[ Like die? Again? ]

[beautifullies]

Come, follow me.

[ Claire waits for the new arrival to fall into step with her and begins leading her toward the first floor rooms. ]

The short answer is no, you did nothing. From what's been explained to me all of this is...magic. And that's meant to be taken literally. You'll see what I mean in a moment. My name is Claire, by the way. Claire Fraser.

[livemoore]

[ There's something about this woman that tells Liv she should follow obediently, so she does, looking around as they go and raising her eyebrows at what's said. ]

Magic? As in pull a rabbit from a hat...magic?

[zackthekiller]

... Yeah. Wonderland.

[Said a sketchy looking man who looks like he wandered out of some creepypasta. It's not clear if he's human or not, but the odd eyes and bandages don't help. Look, he even has questionable red stains all over his hoodie.]

[He's kind of staring at the new girl's lack of clothing.]

And here I thought I was dragged here at a bad time.

[livemoore]

You mean practically naked and alone isn't how everyone shows up here?

[ Tightening the belt on her robe, Liv tries to act casual while also visually inspecting her greeter and trying to stay calm. ]

How did I even get here? Obviously, I wasn't prepared for a kidnapping.

[zackthekiller]

Me either. I was taking a nap right before I got here.

[He's not gonna kill you right now...]

Nobody really knows how it happens. One moment, you're minding your own buisness... And then, poof! Now you're in this fucked up place.

[guncocked]

[Wynonna is making her way down to leave the castle for a while, not even she can spend all her time drinking, try as she might sometimes. She's been feeling a little cagey and pent up and thought maybe a walk would cure that itch. Probably not as well as other things could ==

But those aren't options right now.

When she sees a half naked woman, however, who is confused and just arrived, hero mode steps in and Wynonna feels compelled to stop and help her.]

Yeah. Like off with your heads and psychedelic mushrooms and shit -- though I have yet to see either of those. Which doesn't mean they're not here.

[She shrugs off her jacket for now, handing it over to the other woman.]

I'm Wynonna, I went through this like a week ago.

[livemoore]

Liv. And...I would say this is all hard to believe but here I am. I'd question whether or not I died or this was some kind of fever dream, but the literature says no.

[ She holds up the brochure than lets out a breath. ]

At least you can say you're not the newest member of team creepy kidnapping anymore.

[guncocked]

Yeah, i thought maybe I finally lost it but it seems like this is real -- either that or we have one intense shared delusion going on.

[Which she somehow doubts.]

Can't say I'm happy about passing on the mantle but I hear new people cycle in all the time so I'm not surprised.

[geiger]

I can see and hear you.

[ Nora offers a smile that she hopes is friendly and reassuring - she remembers how much she'd panicked when she first ended up here. ]

Yeah, Wonderland. It takes some getting used to.

[livemoore]

[ Well, that's a relief, and Liv pulls the towel out of her hair because it's something to hold onto and distract her hands, at least. ]

Are you sure it's really smart to get used to being kidnapped and taken some place that used to only exist in a Disney movie?

[geiger]

[ It's a good point, and Nora leans against the wall while she considers it, arms folded over her chest. ]

I'd say there's a difference between accepting it and becoming acquainted with it. The latter is definitely helpful.