+ Your Princess Is in another...Palace +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: All over Wonderland
When: Friday, 8/24 - Monday, 8/27
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Palaces! This log is for Palace Rulers to post descriptions of their palaces, and for unaffected characters to wander in and out of them.
The Story:

Palace rulers: These are the characters who experience the bout of lightheadedness and spontaneously manifest a Palace starting at noon on 8/24. As soon as the palace forms, the character is essentially sucked into their Palace and made to play the part of the ruler.

These characters will forget they were ever in Wonderland or indeed had any other life outside of their Palace. If Character A's Palace took the form of her living her dream as a world-famous surfer where the oceans are made of cotton candy, she would always believe she'd been a surfer and that oceans have always been made of cotton candy. Any characters who entered her Palace would merely seem like visitors or intruders to the beach. Maybe they're surf fans, too?

It is possible to "wake" a Person from their Palace if one were to kill them (easy mode... if a bit violent) or make them see it's merely a mental construct (hard mode). If a person were to die inside their Palace, however, it would count as a mansion death. There are no real ways to "unmake" these Palaces other than to snap the person out of it or wait for them to run their course.

Palaces are tied to locations that characters frequent or find special meaning in. They do not outwardly change the appearance of the mansion--the clinic will still look like the clinic on the outside, but crossing inside takes you into the mental landscape of that affected character, and it may look however that player chooses it to.

Unaffected characters: Congratulations, you get to explore other characters’ inner world by visiting their Palaces! There is also a chance of danger should a character enter into a Palace whose ruler is likely to see them as a threat. Should Character A as described above not want a person there, sharks on legs might rise from the ocean and attempt to chase them off. (Sorry about that.)

However, there will always be a way to escape a Palace should you need to. There will always be a door leading back to the normal mansion, though no one else in the Palace will be able to see it aside from the unaffected character. If you entered the clinic and it's a barren hellscape, the clinic door will take you back out. Yay!

It is also possible for characters to see cognitive clones of themselves inside someone else's Palace if that person has a mental image of them. How these cognitive versions behave is, however, entirely up to the Palace ruler, whether realistic or not.

See the Bulletin Board for details on the event. You can also go to the plotting post to see what everyone else is doing!

Comments

[bibliocorn]

[Once Sunburst became aware of the palaces, he went in search of the people he cared about- if only to try and help them get out of whatever prison their own minds had put them into. He's not utterly surprised to see how Georgia's palace runs. It's very efficient. Very...her.

He casts Shaun in all his corny glory a confused look, before heading over to Georgia herself.]

Wow. So you're...um. Working hard on a story?

[choosetruth]

[Georgia, busy at work, barely looks up. Which is for the best, as a talking pony has no place in a domain as logical and clean as her head.]

I'm very busy. Go away.

[bibliocorn]

[He tries his best not to be offended- if he were in her position, he'd probably be the same. ]

Well, I'd like very much to see you and your um- [he looks at Shaun again ] ...work?

[choosetruth]

[She finally looks up and blinks at Sunburst. Outside her head, she's (more or less) used to the weird and magical denizens of Wonderland. She knows Sunburst. Inside? Her rationality still holds her in a stranglehold.]

The fuck?

[bibliocorn]

[He really should get used to this by now- but when it's someone he knows, it stings just that little bit more. His ears pin back as he lets out a soft snort. ]

Yes, yes. I'm a talking unicorn. Gosh, wow, amazing. Let's suspend our disbelief for a moment and move on, shall we?

[choosetruth]

[She frowns sharply.] I don't suspend disbelief. I investigate until I find the truth.

[You didn't think this was going to be easy, did you, Sunburst?]

[bibliocorn]

[He lets out a soft whinny in frustration. He really, really should have known better. ]

Yes. Okay, that is something you do. Sure, fine. What truths do you want to know about me. The talking unicorn? I can list them.

Againl

[choosetruth]

Why are you here?

[Straight to the point. Georgia knows her own mind well. There aren't ponies in it. Not outside her nightmares.]

[bibliocorn]

To check on you, mostly.

[He feels he should probably try to get her out of here, but Georgia's pretty damn stubborn- he's not convinced he can. ]

[choosetruth]

Why would a horse check up on me? My feelings on Mason's law are well-documented.

[She frowns, looking him up and down.]

Though I suppose you might be under the amplification threshold.

[bibliocorn]

Pony, specifically a unicorn.

[He points a forehoof at his horn. ]

And that's- the zombie thing, right? Pretty sure I'm okay on that one. Probably. Though who knows, with the way Wonderland works.

[choosetruth]

Unicorns don't exist.

[Sorry, Sunburst, she's a little stuck on that.]

Yes, the zombie thing. It wasn't the horse's fault Rebecca Ryman died, but that doesn't mean I feel particularly safe around them.

[bibliocorn]

And yet here I am. Existing.

[R U D E.]

Lucky for you, I'm not a horse. Or infected with anything.

[choosetruth]

Every mammal is infected. Even ones too small to amplify. [She frowns.] Are you not a mammal?

[bibliocorn]

I'm definitely a mammal. But not from your world. Because unicorns don't exist there.

[He considers.]

Unless you actually do have unicorns where you're from and you've been holding out on me all this time.

[choosetruth]

Only on dating apps.

[It's said flatly enough that it could be serious. It's not, of course. She's just that deadpan.]

[bibliocorn]

I...have no idea what those are and I honestly don't even want to ask if they're something to do with dating.

[Why are humans so freaking weird?]

Still, my points stands. I'm from another world.

[choosetruth]

Then my point stands as well: Why are you here?

[The lights, already dim for the protection of Georgia's eyes, darken further, bleeding purple until they're not normal lights at all but black lights. George pulls off her sunglasses and stands up, glaring at Sunburst with flat, black eyes.]

This is my cabin. We don't like intruders from anywhere.

[bibliocorn]

[Well, that's mildly terrifying. Sunburst lets out a nervous laugh, backing up a little.]

Sorry! Sorry. Not um...not meaning to intrude. I should....eerr. Do you want me to leave? I should probably leave.

[A braver pony might have stood their ground and fought, but cowardice is always a vice that gets the better of him, from time to time.]

[choosetruth]

You probably should.

[Sorry, Sunburst. If it helps, she'll feel pretty bad once she's out of here.]

[bibliocorn]

[It does help a little. He casts her one last worried look, before turning and booking it out of there.

Sorry George, he (kinda) tried.]