+ The Time Has Come, the Time Is Now +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone in Wonderland!
Where: The chessboard hills
When: Monday, June 11, all day starting at 10:00 AM
Rating: R for (sometimes excessive) violence
Summary: The Queen of Hearts has declared war and the time for battle has come.
The Story:
♥ ICly, the Real Things who will act as pieces volunteered and are led by the Red Queen. The Mirrors were chosen by the Queen of Hearts without being given a choice. The Queen of Hearts announced her choices to her Mirrors very directly, with an order to show up at 10:00 AM on the chessboard, ready to fight. The Red Queen announced her choices more politely, but just as firmly, with a text message sent out over the network listing her pieces and requesting their assistance to protect their fellow Real Things. Characters were not ICly able to respond to this message.

♥ Those pieces who choose to obey the summons will have time to gather any items or weapons they might want to have with them, within reason. Those who don't heed the summons will find themselves suddenly and instantly transported to their square on the chessboard when 10:00 AM rolls around. They will arrive with anything that was on their person at the time, as well as one weapon (whatever it would be normal for them to use). Likewise, any spectators who are not in or around the stands by 10:00 AM will find themselves transported there.

♥ Each player sports an armband, white for the Real Things and Black for the Mirrors, with the shape of their assigned chess piece embroidered in the opposite color. Royalty pieces wear crowns indicative of their status. Should a pawn be promoted to queen, a crown will appear on their head.

♥ Pieces will find that they can't leave their assigned spots until they're told what square to move to by either the Queen of Hearts or the Red Queen. And if they refuse to move, after a couple of moments, an unseen force will scoot them along to their new space.

♥ When threading moves on the board, please find the appropriate top-level under which to comment! It might be helpful to label your thread with which move/encounter you're playing out.

♥ Players on the board can not communicate with those in the stands and vice versa (other than by jumping around and flailing, I guess). However, players on the board can communicate directly with those in squares adjacent to them or with any challenger whose square they share. Since some pieces have a lot of down time, feel free to have them chat with others on the board while they're waiting around.

♥ Directions from the Queens can be assumed. Go ahead and play out moves without waiting for a comment to officially announce them.

♥ The plotting and info post for this log is here.

♥ For your convenience, here are links to the thread headers:

The Donation Box
Pre-Game
The Game - Moves 1-20
The Game - Moves 21-40
The Game - Moves 41-60
The Game - Moves 61-80
The Game - Moves 81-100
The Game - Moves 101-117
The Holding Area
The Stands

Have fun!

Comments

Jolyne Kujo

[uncoils]

[Well, that was fucked up, but at least she's not...]

Oh man, what if I'm dead and this is like that place from Beetlejuice?

[Except there's no line, and she's not being given a Handbook for the Recently Deceased, so she's probably not dead. But she was dead, so that's...something she'll worry about later. First she needs to talk to Josuke, maybe he's here too.

And man, that Beetlejuice joke did not lighten the situation or make things suck less like she hoped it would. Damn it.]

[A, Private to Josuke]

[And once she's found him, really all she can do is ask a stupid question.]

Hey, uh, you okay?

[She's guessing he's about as okay with dying on the chessboard as she was, but starting a postmortem conversation is definitely not something she has experience doing.]

[B, after all that, ota!]

[When she's done talking to Josuke, she'll grab a drink and honestly, try not to watch the game, but it's hard not to. But she'll mostly try to keep to herself while doing that. It's not like she doesn't want to talk, she definitely will if she's approached, it's just that she's not really sure what to say at this point? “I hope we win?” “Here's hoping no one else dies in some fucked up manner and ends up in here?” Not really good ways to start a conversation. So she'll mostly keep quiet and let someone else figure out what to say.]

[hairdont]

[In the end, he'd been taken down by a talking raccoon with a gun. If it hadn't ended the way it did, it might be a funny story but... even knowing he'd come back, and having come back immediately in the holding area doesn't make it any better. It feels wrong, like he's making a mockery of Reimi's fate.

He'd tried to avoid watching the rest of the game, tried to focus on getting through the rest of it but when it was Jolyne's turn to fight he couldn't look away. He really wishes he could have. She finds him before he can find her, and he looks miserable, his pompadour flagging and being left in that state.]

I, uh. [He doesn't know what to say.] I don't think so. You?

[uncoils]

Fuck no.

[Gonna be a while before she gets over it.]

Though I'm impressed. Not every queen would ask how her pawns were doing.

[This is definitely her avoiding talking about how much death sucks.]

[hairdont]

[Josuke has no idea what to say next, but fortunately Jolyne salvages the situation. In her... own... unique way. With a groan, Josuke looks away, only to look back at Jolyne when his eyes catch the in-progress chess game on the walls.]

You're never gonna let me live that down, are you? 'Cause you're jealous.

[uncoils]

Well yeah, we all can't pull off that crown like you can.

[She's kidding.

Mostly.]

[hairdont]

Right? I looked amazing.

[uncoils]

Careful, careful. Get too much of an ego and the peasants'll revolt.

[And then Josuke'll get overthrown.]

[hairdont]

What, you don't think I'd be a just and fair ruler?

[You're a teenage boy, dude.]

[uncoils]

[She'll think about it, shake her head and...]

You'd be about as just and fair ruler as I'd be.

[hairdont]

[Hey, wait a second.]

I'd be a way better ruler than you!

[uncoils]

...gimmie a break.

[Or good grief, or whatever Wonderland translates that as.]

You'd probably abandon your duties the second you got a new video game from the closets.

[hairdont]

[All Josuke hears is yare yare dawa.]

Hey, what kind of ruler doesn't have a council in place for when they're busy?

[Notice he is not denying it.]

[uncoils]

Your pet bear isn't a council!

[Because that was honestly her first thought.]

[jivitadana]

[Another thirty moves or so, and now here Jolyne was. He had hoped that no one else had to be capture so brutally, but, well, as he thought, here they both were. And most everyone else here. For his part though, he hadn't killed anyone. But that didn't make it any better either.

So Minato grabbed a drink for himself, just a bottle of water, and went over to sit with her.]

Welcome back.

[It's a greeting, as if she were coming back home or something like it, or coming back from the dead. It was half a joke too, if just to lighten the mood a bit, but he was more than aware of the gravity of the situation too.]

[uncoils]

Yeah. Thanks.

[Her tone's a little flat, but she's still kind of glad to see him. It's incredibly screwed up given everything, but it makes things...well not better, but not that much worse either. It's a mess, it really is.]

How are you holding up after...

[Being killed by a gun wielding raccoon? Also god, Mirror Rocket, stop killing all her friends, it's a pain in the ass.]

...all that?

[There's the better way to put it.]

[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded, letting out a breath or so like he had been holding it in all of this time. He really did bring like practically nothing to a gunfight. Even if he had his sword with him, it still wouldn't have done any good.]

I'm okay. What about you? You put up a good fight.

[Even without her Stand for a while. Pretty awesome. If he got into a fistfight with her, he'd definitely lose, he thought. She was a good two inches taller than him too.]

[uncoils]

I'm out of practice. Totally would've kicked her ass if I wasn't.

[Except...she's not so sure. Maybe if she'd gone straight for the kill with her Stand or something, but she's just not that kind of person.]

[jivitadana]

Did you want to do more training?

[Minato thought he needed to do the same. He hadn't done all that well in his fight either and needed to work on his fighting techniques.]

[uncoils]

I probably should, I don't want to end up like that again.

[Ever.]

[jivitadana]

I don't either. The hedge maze is out there, just waiting to get destroyed.

[That sounded like a plan.]

[uncoils]

Never liked the place to be honest. Reminds me too much of the one from the Shining.

[Not really, but it's a good way to practice and blow off some steam by wrecking something that no one cares about.]

[jivitadana]

[The Shining reference goes over Minato's head, being a Japanese teenager and not quite up on his American horror movies, but he got that she didn't like the place.]

I just feel bad destroying the garden and the forest is too big to set on fire.

[That's dangerous.]

[uncoils]

Just don't set me on fire, all right? Been there, done that, would like to go the rest of my life without it happening again.

[jivitadana]

If not fire, I have ice, electricity, wind, darkness, light, and almighty, which is something like cosmos, I guess.

[uncoils]

...have I mentioned I'm glad you're not evil?

[Because that is way too many powers, wow.]

Stands usually have one power and physical attacks. And even though some of the powers are really weird, I don't think there's one that can hit people with the cosmos.