+ 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

[eatsyourscience]

The Queen of Hearts won, and ended up with the Vorpal Shield.

[mrsarcastic003]

[And going by his apparent calm, it seems like none of the pieces--i.e. them--were permanently harmed. It's Wonderland, and they can't necessarily expect things to play out in a similar way, but the fact that there's a precedent is helpful.]

A lot of fuss and bother over something that turned out to be not that serious.

[Typical Wonderland.]

[eatsyourscience]

To us, anyway.

[Clearly they don't get any input on what isn't and isn't serious business around here.]

The violence is pretty serious for us, though.

[mrsarcastic003]

[He winces, watching the other matches.]

Yeah. That seems... a lot more concerning than the rest of this.

[eatsyourscience]

It's pretty strange the way it works out. If a person enters your square, you're going to be captured, no matter who that person is.

I keep wondering if it's even possible to beat that person in the first place or if there's some magic that prevents it.

[mrsarcastic003]

...As in you'd trip and fall over your own feet if you tried to mount a real defense, maybe? Like the Invisible Hand of Fate? That's an interesting thought.

[eatsyourscience]

Or like some kind of slapstick routine. But I can't think of any other way some people might win their fights.

[mrsarcastic003]

[He's not wrong. Some of the matches are going to be extremely mismatched, just judging from the composition of the two sides. And yet some of the underdogs will surely have matches to win.]

Did it happen like that before?

[eatsyourscience]

Yeah. There were a couple of fights I really shouldn't have been able to win. And one that I should have been able to, but didn't.