+ 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

[noble_son]

It wouldn't be out of the ordinary. [His own seems quite rude, from what he's heard, but hasn't actually tried to kill anyone yet.

Yet.]

But who knows how their queen twists them when she creates them. If this is any example... [He gestures to the Mirrors on the board. So many of them are eager for the conflict.]

[entreats]

[ Yeah, she's noticed as much too. Minato's Mirror seemed kind of mild compared to her expectations of them, but some over there are just.. ]

Do you think she creates them that way to match her? She doesn't exactly seem like a peaceful person, to put it mildly.

[noble_son]

[A conversation he had not long ago comes back to him - a conversation not so much different to this one, where he realised a possibility.]

I think that she makes them with a single vital aspect changed. An event, or a trait. It may be coincidence, after that, that so many of them are violent or simply unpleasant.

[entreats]

[ So kind of making the copies of them negative in some way, huh..

Still, she knows they probably won't be able to do much more than speculate. She lets out a sigh. ]

Well.. Thanks for giving me your insight on it, I guess. It sure is a lot better than watching everything going on over there. [ Because that makes her nervous and she doesn't like it!! ] You seem pretty reasonable. What's your name?

[noble_son]

[Few people would like to think they were the worse version of themselves when it comes to something like the Mirrors. Nathaniel is sure that some of them are good - or, at least, harmless - but the fact of is it is... when they're allowed to cross over, they always bring death.

He's been glad for the distraction too, if he's honest about it.]

Nathaniel. [And that's one of the better compliments he's had in a while.] My pleasure, miss..?

[entreats]

[ Oh no, poor guy.. Don't let that slight compliment be one of the better ones!! ]

It's Ange. Ange Ushiromiya, but just call me Ange. [ It's a lot easier to use her fairly western first name anyway with the people from outside Japan here. ]

[noble_son]

[He's glad of the offer, because he'd much rather not embarrass himself by needing her to repeat her name several times just so he can pronounce it and then promptly forget how to.]

Of course. I try to be as reasonable as I can, as much as that can be sorely pressed here at times.

[entreats]

You'd be surprised how many people don't even try.

[ She's met some people.. And it doesn't help that Ange thinks things are ridiculous more quickly than some others might. But hey, at least it means he ends up getting a compliment here. ]

So it's appreciated when someone does try. I don't even want to imagine what it'd be like, being stuck in this place with only idiots all around.

[noble_son]

Not as surprised as you might think.

[He's been here for a while, and before that? Well, it can't be said that Fereldan nobility is entirely known for its good sense.

But he finds he enjoys this young woman's bluntness.]

It can easily feel like that's the case, in the wrong company. [Like the people who still eat mysterious sweets left out, despite what happened to them the last time.]

[entreats]

Huh.. Yeah, I guess you're right. Maybe that's why I don't really keep much company around here.

[ Which is just her way of trying to sound cool and blunt when it's actually just because she's a huge friendless loser. Sshh. No one has to know, right. ]