+ 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

[townwithoutme]

Do you want their attention?

[This place is so strange, but she's starting to feel like she's onto something here. Is this a dream? Is this...has he felt lonely lately?]

[modore]

Of course! It's my mom and Kayo!

[He looks kind of shocked at the fact that she had to ask that at all.]

[townwithoutme]

Why wouldn't your mom pay attention to you? She's your mom.

[And not, you know. Her mom. She doesn't bring up the fake Kayo, but it's fine. She's paying plenty of attention to him right now.]

[modore]

[He falters and frowns.]

I guess...because I'm not supposed to be here anymore.

[Even as the ruler of this Palace, he knows what happened to him in the river. That's why he's all but invisible--this is a town without him.]

[townwithoutme]

...Where are you supposed to be?

[She has a few ideas, but she wants to let him say it.]

[modore]

I...

[He balks at saying what comes to mind and it's a minute before he finishes.]

I don't know. Nowhere, maybe.

[townwithoutme]

...Are you stupid? Everyone belongs somewhere, especially you.

[Kayo can't imagine a world where he didn't belong somewhere, not when he's been so instrumental in changing her world.]

[modore]

[He frowns, not sure what to say. He scuffs his foot on the ground, smearing some pencil lines.]

Well I guess I don't belong here. But...it's where I am.

[townwithoutme]

You don't have to stay here, you know.

[It's a very strange conversation, because she feels like this should be obvious, but...she can tell it isn't for Satoru.]

[modore]

Where else would I go?

[Or more important, where else is there?]

[townwithoutme]

...You could come with me.

[If he wanted to, that is.]

[modore]

[...Going with Fake Kayo seems like a bad idea, and he looks at her warily.]

Go where with you?

[townwithoutme]

Where I came from. ...It's where you're supposed to be, even if you don't remember it now.

[It might not be the best tactic to take, but...they promised to be honest with each other. She's not going to break that promise just because he doesn't remember her.]

[modore]

What....happens? If we go there?

[townwithoutme]

I'm not sure. But...it's through a door. So if you don't like the other side of it, you could always come back.

[Probably. She doesn't know for sure, but she doesn't have reason to believe the door would disappear.]

[modore]

[He looks obviously torn. She isn't the real Kayo, he knows that. But...being here isn't working when it comes to actually finding and talking to the real Kayo. So maybe...maybe going with her is the better idea. If doing the same thing over and over isn't working, it's time to try doing something different.]

...Where's the door?

[townwithoutme]

[Kayo looks behind her. The door is literally within sight.]

...You can't see it?

[modore]

[Satoru looks past her in the direction she's looking. But he sees nothing.]

No...?