entrancelogs | + The Time Has Come, the Time Is Now +

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:

Have fun!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

My duty isn't to let someone die no matter the person.

[ She decides to get very candid, not sure that she would have said this otherwise. ]

Before I arrived here, a man tried to...assault me. I pushed him away and he fell, cracked open his skull. I tried to save his life. It wasn't about what he did to me, it's about what I swore to do as a healer.

[Minato thought that over too, thinking about what he would've done if he were in her shoes or similar. He frowned slightly since he was hearing a lot about her and she had gone through so much. Too much.]

It's something that I'll have to learn for myself.

[Like sticking to one's guns the whole time. Moral obligation, like she mentioned.]

I haven't had a lot of experience with it, being faced with something like that, so I might act like you would or run. But it's something I have to remember and think about, so that helps.

Plenty of people run. It doesn't make them bad people.

[ Hell, she's told people to run. It's only the ones who maliciously hurt or don't care at all that she has a problem with. ]

[Minato nodded, thinking that over.]

When we talk about good or bad and about being good or bad people, how can I tell if I'm a good person? It's the same as me doing good things?

Terrible people are capable of doing good things and vice versa.

[ This one's having quite the existential crisis, isn't he? ]

I can't tell you whether or not you're a good person. My experience with you here and now has been fine, but it won't be enough time to make any sort of judgment. I have spent time with your real counterpart and can say that without having seen him make any grand sort of sacrifices, he is a good person. He's concerned with how others are, with being sure people are all right. As long as I've known him, he's never maliciously hurt someone. Perhaps you can use the same metrics.

[All of the existential crises ever. The part that he worried about was what she said before about terrible people. That made life so much more complicated. He was grateful to hear about his Real though since he had no objections to him. They were just different people that just happened to look the same.]

I will since that's as good of a starting point as anything else. Thanks. Can I use you too for this metric?

If terrible people do good things and good people do terrible things, then I feel like I'll never learn to trust anyone unless I take a leap of faith. But I might have already for you.

[Minato did listen to her and it was nice to listen to someone who could explain things to him without dismissing him if he had a question.]

[ Claire stops everything she's doing to look at him fully. ]

There are certainly times you won't know, but usually, in my experience, if I've gotten a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, I trust it. It's never been wrong. And besides that, you shouldn't throw all your trust at someone right away. Build it, give it time. It happens naturally. When I first met my husband we didn't trust each other probably as far as we could have thrown one another. But the trust came and grew.

[ And from there, love, but that's a different existential crisis. ]

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<small>[ Claire stops everything she's doing to look at him fully. ]</small>

There are certainly times you won't know, but usually, in my experience, if I've gotten a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, I trust it. It's never been wrong. And besides that, you shouldn't throw all your trust at someone right away. Build it, give it time. It happens naturally. When I first met my husband we didn't trust each other probably as far as we could have thrown one another. But the trust came and grew.

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Trust is earned by actions.

[Actions. Stuff people did. Minato had to think back and see if he had done anything to make anyone trust him, which might've been why he had trouble seeing if he should trust anyone else.]

So something like... I have to trust myself too. And do things in moderation or don't force things.

[Minato swallowed hard. He furrowed his eyebrows.]

I like living. But sometimes living is really hard.

[And sometimes very unhappy too.]

It wasn't meant to be easy. If you never knew heartache or grief or experienced sadness, you would never know what the good parts were. Nothing would flood you with joy because everything would be the same across the board. Even. Which isn't a life, it's just...things happening to you.

[Minato tilted his head a little and considered if this life were really a life at all, but that idea was too frightening to doubt, so he shoved it aside and concluded that yes, he was living a life worth living.]

That's kind of sad too, but it's for the best even if it hurts. It makes the good things better.

[That's what she said, but he repeated it to help him remember.]

I know you set up this area for anyone who's hurt, so I think it's working. I should let you get to other people too since it's important.

[Or more important.]

Thank you. But do come back if you need anything.

I'd like to. Thank you.

[He bowed his head quickly and then took off. He wouldn't get the chance to come back though since the game was going to be over and he'd have to be ferried off back home.]

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