+ It's good that we can't see what isn't there +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: EVERYONE
Where: Wonderland and adjacent dimensions!
When: Friday, April 21st to Monday, April 24th
Rating: PG-13, warn if higher!
Summary: A place to list your tears throughout the event, and describe the worlds that can be seen or accessed through them. Event Post.
The Story:

While invisible zombies ravage Wonderland, tears are popping up everywhere! Through them characters can see versions of themselves from alternate universes. Some of them show a different version of Wonderland, some a different version of their home. Some are as benign as a character drinking coffee instead of tea, others are as drastic as somebody's entire personality changed completely.

On day one tears are so small as to barely even be recognisable. Faint voices and melodies can be heard through the tiny cracks if you step really close, but these brief and indistinct glimpses are barely even worth describing.

On day two tears have opened up wide enough to recognise them for what they really are. Yesterday's melodies will sound clearer, and the voices will become decidedly familiar, belonging to people characters know, sounding perhaps even like the characters themselves. Look through the tears and they may catch sight of home, or something that merely looks like another part of Wonderland. The tears are yet narrow and instable though, and the field of vision is correspondingly poor.

On day three the tears have grown a great deal. The worlds beyond them can be seen and heard, though most cannot be interacted with at all. Only the biggest ones are already stable enough for characters to stick their hand inside, and pulls through any objects within reach.

On the fourth and last day some tears have finally become large and stable enough for characters to pass through whole. Not all tears will reach this stage, but those who have can be visited, and the world beyond them explored... at each character's own peril.

Comments

[shorthair]

"Maybe I should poll Wonderland every couple of months," Clementine says, folding her arms across her chest with a frown.

She glances back into the tear and bites down on her lip. "Do you have zombies, and if so, what freaky sort of shit do they do?"

Like turn invisible.

[choosetruth]

Georgia nods approval. "It's not a bad idea. But remember they also might not call them zombies. That's where things get complicated. What defines a zombie? How far do we go before the scope becomes too big and we lose the usefulness?"

[shorthair]

Clementine huffs out a breath. "I don't know. My instinct's to learn about as many dangerous things from other worlds as I can in order to stay alive," she says, but that's not always possible. There's no way she can remember everything. "Maybe it'd be more useful to just teach people the best way to stay alive."

Teach them some of the stuff Lee and Christa taught her.

[choosetruth]

"It's a good instinct. Knowledge is always a good weapon. But it is, perhaps, not a practical approach to Wonderland." They'll never know everything. No matter how much they want to. "Do you mean general self defense? Or more practical skills, like hunting and fire building? Around here, that could become necessary."

[shorthair]

"There's a training center where you can learn self defense, but yeah, I was thinking practical," Clementine says quietly "Hunting, fire building, first aid... all that stuff. How sometimes it's better to run or hide than to fight."

How to know when to do which.

[choosetruth]

"Stuff I'm not very familiar with." She grimaces. "I know first aid, of course, but the rest of it's never been necessary."

Once again, she's reminded that she's lucky, if such a thing is possible, in how much civilization has remained in her world.

[shorthair]

"Hopefully it won't be necessary here either. Even if it is, people won't have to survive too long that way." It means they're more likely to survive with or without a guide. "I'll write something up... y'know, after the Event."

Damn invisible zombies and tears.

[choosetruth]

Georgia nods. "Good. Make sure you keep yourself alive long enough to do that."