+ Let's go for a dreamwalk! + [OPEN PLOT CATCH-ALL]

[mviw]

Who: Everyone who wants to participate!
Where: The Mindscape (and elsewhere in reality, if specified)
When: September 6th through September 8th
Rating: PG-13 to R for potentially disturbing, violent, or dark subjects.
Summary: Thanks to an explosion on the third floor, every time a person falls asleep, they enter the Mindscape...

The Story:
Plot information is here!

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[mviw]

... Guess I can't entirely blame him for that...

[He read the addition to the journal Dipper made after dealing with the Shapeshifter. He shudders to think what would happen if it was set loose in Wonderland.

Ford would rather Fiddleford not relive anything terrible, so he shuts that door and decides to head down the Wonderland hall. He's suspicious about the blue flames there anyway, though what he'll say when they talk next is another matter.

HEY FIDDLEFORD I WAS WANDERING AROUND YOUR MOST INTIMATE THOUGHTS...]

[mcgucket]

[Yeah I'm sure that conversation is going to go down just fine...

The Wonderland hallway is more clear, perhaps even a little more organized in comparison to the hallway depicting Gravity Falls. One of the first doors that has those flames crawling up it's sides here even has a word etched into it as a label: "NEVERLAND"]

[mviw]

[He stops at that particular door, furrowing his brow.] You've got to be kidding...

[It doesn't take a rocket scientist (ha) to figure out what's going on here. Blue flames consuming doors and items in the hall from home, blue flames on doors and items here in Wonderland...

Ford moves onto explore more of Fiddleford's Wonderland memories despite the sinking feeling in his stomach.

What does he think he's doing?

He tries another door at random, one with the crossed-out eye--he'll kick it down if he has to, and he does when it doesn't seem to budge.]

[mcgucket]

[Oh, Ford.

When the door is forced open, he'll be allowed entry into the room to see that, while it does not contain the name of the Society of the Blind Eye, nor the words "IT IS UNSEEN" like one might expect, there are many drawings of the crossed out eye on the walls here.

Dead ahead on the opposite wall, should Ford approach closer, he will find what appears to be a chalkboard of some kind. There are pictures taped at the corners of what look like mental snapshots of the other Wonderland from that event that took place around Christmas time, and what little he saw of the Mirror Side recently when his mirror switched places to steal his things.

And, as if being written by a ghost, is a piece of chalk floating in the air in front of the board that appears to be in the middle of writing something:

"--but if it will prevent the occurrence of more events, then it must be considered. The effect of the experiment would have to be able to reach everyone in Wonderland, preferably simultaneously so as to--

And then it suddenly stops as if sensing Ford's presence... and then the words quickly erase themselves as the chalk starts slowly writing out...?]

HGZMULIQ KRMVH

[Before the chalk then drops and falls back into the tray.]

[mviw]

[He does approach closer and eyes the images, recognizing both Other!Wonderland and the Mirror Side. It's the chalk that catches his attention though, of course, and the words it's writing make his blood run cold.

Ford takes a step back and the words erase, and are replaced by something in code. His brain immediately goes to work switching the letters out and to his horror, he realizes that is his name.

He immediately turns back for the door into the hall, fists clenched and heart pounding. It's one thing to be a genius exploring the average person's mind, but Fiddleford is just as brilliant as he (and in this moment it's a little terrifying).]

[mcgucket]

[Since it looks like you're doing the wise thing of not sticking around, you'll be allowed to leave the room, though the moment you do, the doors suddenly begin to shuffle around, with some switching places with one another, or some doors disappearing entirely, including the one that you just came out of.

Now that Fiddleford's mind is aware on some subconscious level of Stanford's presence, it's possible that it's trying to hide things somewhere to prevent further access.

Though, interestingly enough, the fire doors are still there. Including the "NEVERLAND" one you passed by earlier, there's also at least four others with their own labels, and a few of the normal doors that also have labels of their own too, should Stanford decide to look at them...]

[mviw]

[Ford is, unfortunately for the both of them, more determined than ever to see what's behind those doors. because apparently he's still 12???

Despite the shell game, Ford braves the haziness of the flames to work one of the fire doors open. He doesn't know what he's going to find, and at the moment he doesn't really care...]

cw: death by suffocation

[mcgucket]

[The one you got open is labeled "WATER", which is probably ironic considering that Fiddleford has never actually drowned.

He did, however, suffocate to death during that event when the mansion was flooded in it's hallways and time was running out on oxygen left in some of the rooms. And while Ford had originally only found him after he had already died... now you get to actually watch him dying this time from where he's on the floor here and making the ugliest wheezing sounds from lack of oxygen right now, surrounded by those eerie blue flames that are consuming the room he's in...]

OH GOD FIDDLEFORD

[mviw]

[Ford instantly recoils from that room, slamming the door shut. There's a twinge of pain in his chest and he grabs at it, trying to catch his breath and slow his heart rate.

The guilt is almost overwhelming. He wishes he'd gotten to him sooner... He's so sorry.]

[mcgucket]

[... Perhaps Fiddleford's mindscape is taking pity on you here, because that door, along with one or two other fire doors, appears to melt back into the ground after Ford has slammed this one back shut again.

The other doors mentioned before are still around, though, if you want to risk it?]

[mviw]

[... He risks it, but this time opens another regular, unaffected door.

Ford doesn't know what's driving him; be it stubbornness, morbid curiosity, or both.

What does he find behind this one...?]

[mcgucket]

[This door was labeled "RESIDENTS", which... reveals itself to be a different set up than the others that played specific memories. This room has the chair that Fiddleford likes to sit in sometimes when playing banjo, next to a singular bookcase and a fireplace, which displays normal red flames rather than the unnatural blue from before.

Instead of proper books on said shelf, it appears to be... photo albums? The name of every resident he's met in Wonderland is etched into the spine, and in the event he doesn't know their names yet, a description about them instead. (Example: "That crazy guy with the scythe??")]