+ 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

[oneagainstall]

Gren stills. He does remember Gus. That the name has significance to Shawn.

"Huh. Guess I do."

The smallest of smiles ghosts across his lips. Because it felt right, remembering. He glances at the brunette at the bar, almost introducing her, before thinking better of it.

"Don't worry none about that, Holly's used to it," he says, as Holly (lovingly) flips him the bird.

He turns in his seat, pointing at the guy who nearly axed Shawn to death.

"That's Woody, the Woodsman. He rescued Little Red Riding Hood from Bigby. Slit the wolf open and filled his belly fulla rocks. Fuck had it coming."

The man shrugs, which is about as much of a greeting as Shawn is going to get, before turning back to his drink. Gren looks back at his own, something niggling at the back of his mind. That isn't right, either. Woody is- well there's a lot wrong with him being here.

[soupcansam]

"Wait. Back up. Gonna need you to rewind."

Shawn faces Grendel now, fully. "Please explain to me how you can slit a wolf open, fill his stomach with ROCKS and he's still doing what we call living?"

These fairy tale lands are WILD.

[oneagainstall]

Gren shrugs, as if it's no big deal at all.

"That's how Fables are. We're really fuckin' hard to kill. Unless you behead us or some shit, we just keep ticking," he sits back on his stool a little. "There's a theory that the more popular you are, you know, amongst you mundies, the more resilient a Fable is. So the famous fuckers? They can survive just about anything. Every time a new Disney movie gets made, a Fable walks away a goddamn winner."

[soupcansam]

"So, you're telling me, to this day, that dude still has rocks in his stomach?"

Also, Shawn needs to make a movie for Gren, stat. Maybe a film noir that completely excludes Bigby.

[oneagainstall]

"Nah, I think he hurled them out. Don't think he could make himself look like a human with rocks in his belly. Probably. He don't use a glamour like the rest of us- the bastard can shapeshift."

And then he's the one who tells people they need to update their glamours. The hypocrite. Gren absolutely needs to see a movie like that.

[soupcansam]

"So he's not a werewolf. This is an 'any time is a good time for wolf time' situation not dependent on a full moon?"

Just so that Shawn is clear.

[oneagainstall]

"Basically, yeah. He can switch between wolf and human whenever the fuck he wants- and go inbetween too, which is how the bastard beat me last time. Let some of he wolf out."

Which was rude and breaking the laws he should have been upholding. Sure, Gren had dropped his glamour and gone toe-to-toe as himself first, but that's not the point.

[soupcansam]

"Well, that's enough for me to hate him." Bigby could be nice for all Shawn knows but his alliance is with Grendel and now nothing's ever changing that.

"So, I say we drink until I pass out and you have to carry me home. Sound like a plan?"

Of course, he's hoping the event will end by then because he doesn't want to make Gren leave what feels like home to him.

[oneagainstall]

Gren lets out a soft 'heh' at that comment, before casually raising his glass. He's still not completely sure this is all real, but Shawn has that ease about him that makes him want to believe it is.

"Sure, why not, ya crazy Fuck. You got yourself a deal."