+ FOURTH WALL EVENT: BEACH PARTY +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: E V E R Y O N E
Where: The Beach!
When: Sept 5th to Sept 10th
Rating: G to PG-13 (please label higher ratings, thank you!)
Summary: Are the other parties a little too crowded and chaotic for you? Come and chill by the water! And don't forget to have a look at the Fourth Wall Master Post for event rules, puzzle clues, and more places to mingle!
The Story:

Beginning on September 5th, much of the shoreline will be taken over by a massive beach party! As with all good Wonderland parties, it will be run day and night, always mysteriously tidy and always with food that replenishes itself.

At various points along the beach, there will be wheel barrels full of candy and treats, and torches for people to claim as their own. There are also volleyball nets, and when darkness falls they will light up like Christmas trees for those who want to play well into the night.

There are many places set up to sit - some with tables, some with pillows and blankets, many with shade, and some even dug out in the sand. There is music playing, but the source is unclear.

However, there's one thing that the curious may find - a message in a bottle. It will regenerate within five minutes if taken, allowing as many curious truth-seekers to investigate as possible.

Comments

i'm so sorry

[iwouldjustweighudown]

[they see the good doctor playing in the sand. Of course she would be. They don't know Doctor alphys well, but they know she's not afraid of getting her hands dirty, sometimes even literally.

For the first time in a week, they shift to corporeality. they float over to the castle and topple over a tower on the corner. ]


....

........

............oops.

rubs hands together

[sciencelizard]

[She looks up just in time to see them collide a bit, but she takes it in stride. She assumes, of course, that this is the real Napstablook, and therefore doesn't mean her any malicious intent.]

Oh, it's o-okay! Accidents happen.

[She starts working on stopping the rest from crumbling.]

Are you, uh, h-having fun?

[iwouldjustweighudown]

[oh. this is the wrong alphys. they should have known. they stare at the sand castle. oh god, it even has buttresses. oh well.]

oh..... you're that Alphys.....

[they don't bother to pretend to be their real, and they poke a buttress and watch it send a wall toppling down]

......sand is kind of like monster dust, right?

....you would know.....

[sciencelizard]

[Oh. Oh..]

Y-You must be... N-Napstablook's mirror, then.

[She tries not to let their sentence bother her, digging her hands back into the sand. But it does, and she feels the need to respond.]

I w-wouldn't, know. I've never f-felt monster dust.

[The Amalgamates weren't dust, after all, even if sometimes she wished they were.]

[iwouldjustweighudown]

...oh?

i always imagined you had to touch at least some while prepping it for the.... what was it called.... determination?

of course, when we were evacuating, you didn't really have time to explain, they were just....

there...

[sciencelizard]

[She grimaces a little. They're obviously here to heckle her. Great.]

Do you... w-want, something? Or, are you just here to, uh, s-say mean things and try to make me feel bad about myself?

[iwouldjustweighudown]

i mean... i don't really need to do much to do that, do i....?

[they take the tone of their real, but there a tinge of mockery in their words]
i was just.... curious about your work, Dr. Alphys.....

[sciencelizard]

[She shifts her fingers around in the sand a little more. Not as calming as it was. Now it just feels like dust, and she pulls her hands away.]

That's, uhm, kind of a broad t-topic... I've done a lot of w-work, over the years.

(my self-insert oc named fern yelling I'M SORRY in the background)

[iwouldjustweighudown]

you know....
for the royal scientist, i would expect you to be better at reading context clues....

oh, wait.... you think i care about hapstablook's body....
that's.... hilarious....

[they aren't smiling. another tower crumbles, but the ghost didn't seem to touch it at all.]

IT'S FINE. EVERYTHING'S F I N E

[sciencelizard]

[She grimaces. Doesn't want to talk about this. Any of this.]

Well, then, for a ghost, I think you'd be b-better at, k-knowing when someone doesn't w-wanna be so transparent.

[Ok, it's not her best work. Let her live.]

oh yes, it's a-ok, hunky dory, peachy, in fact

[iwouldjustweighudown]

fine... if you don't want to talk about the past.... let's talk about hypotheticals....

let's talk about DETERMINATION....

SCREA MS

[sciencelizard]

[She shrinks in more on herself, hunching her shoulders and bringing her hands out of the sand. Feels too much like the Amalgamates now, always shifting, never solid. She doesn't want to touch it anymore.]

Why are you doing this? What, w-what do you want with me?

[iwouldjustweighudown]

[god, she's easier to crumble than her stupid sandcastle, isn't she? maybe they shouldn't have pushed so hard, she might be even less helpful than her mirror like this]

calm down, doctor, i just want information... hypotheses, even....

do you.... think the closets here.... could generate DETERMINATION?

....and how would you administer it to an incorporeal being?

...hypothetically, of course...

[sciencelizard]

[She feels sick. Like her SOUL is going to break apart just from the words. Every time she thinks she's past this, she's never as past it as she wants to be.]

I'm n-not doing that. I'm not doing that t-to anyone. Especially you.