+ 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

[testcase]

[No such luck, as the Super High School Level Naruto Cosplayer spots Josuke and immediately asks....]

What is your involvement in this case?

[hairdont]

[FUCK OFF, DUDE. Josuke is immediately on the defensive.]

Ryoko said I could look around.

[testcase]

[This is Ryoko's palace, so in theory, getting permission from its ruler to look around should work. But in case Josuke hasn't noticed, things are kind of a mess.]

That girl said...

[He trails off, actually growling somewhat. Apparently he doesn't approve of Ryoko telling people they can look around.]

You need to leave.

[hairdont]

Sorry, that's not happening.

[You wanna go you fuckin' Naruto reject?]

[testcase]

[Apparently he fucking does as he's going to try and grab Josuke with his freakishly long Digimon villainesque arms (or CLAMPesque if you'd prefer that reference instead).]

[hairdont]

[CRAZY DIAMOND GO

PUNCH THAT FUCKER INTO THE WALL.]

[testcase]

[Into the wall he goes and he's not going to be getting up for a while.

Joke's on you though Josuke as two more of them appear to have uh...well, appeared at the end of the hall. Somehow. It just works. Don't think too much about it.]

[hairdont]

[The joke is that he has to fucking deal with this loser in the first place.]

Oh come on!!

[That's the way he needs to go, so he cracks his knuckles.]

Alright, let's go!

[testcase]

[There's going to be eight of them in total if you count the wallflower over there. Don't ask Ryoko why there's eight, she doesn't know and hasn't gotten far enough in her own story to even know that yet. But they really shouldn't be a probably for Josuke. And if there are, he's letting down the Joestar line or something.

OOC: tl;dr feel free to Crazy Diamond them all off panel or something, you know I suck at writing one person fighting, don't expect me to write eight at once.]

[hairdont]

[And so Crazy Diamond beats them all down and we cut to Josuke running back to the main room where Ryoko and NPCsuda is.]

[testcase]

[Like 95% of canon, there's no sign of Matsuda. But Ryoko's here, no longer hooked up to the weird machine. And she greets him in her usual way.]

I'm sorry, do I know you?

[hairdont]

[GOD DAMN IT RYOKO.]

It's Josuke. You said I could look around? Hopefully you wrote it down somewhere.

[testcase]

I don't think I wrote it down, but I don't know why anyone would lie about something like that, so I probably said it.

[hairdont]

Okay, good.

[He's really glad she's trusting him because he doesn't want to go through all that again.]

Did you happen to write down anything we talked about? Your treatment and how it's going?

[testcase]

..um.

[She looks around and delivers an unsurprising answer.]

I don't remember if I did or not, but if I did, I don't see it anywhere.

[Once again the palace is poorly programmed. Maybe someday someone will patch her brain.]

[hairdont]

[Okay well this is going nowhere so...]

Well, I found a couple things you might want to take a look at?

[Just kinda shoves the notes in her direction.]

[testcase]

[ROCK THROWING INTENSIFIES

Because I definitely didn't forget about it with the last couple Ryoko tags

Also wow, those must be some good windows.]

My notebooks?! I must've lost these! Oh my god, thank you! I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have my notes.

[hairdont]

[Plot Armor Glass: For All Your Conveniently Timed Interruption Needs.]

No problem, Ryoko. But you might wanna take a look inside?

[testcase]

Um...okay.

[So she does! And just frowns, holding one up so Josuke can see the torn out pages.]

...did you do this?

[Because she doesn't think she did.]

[hairdont]

No, they were like that when I found them.

[Which is weird.]

I know how much you need them, so I'd never do something like that.

[testcase]

Who would do this then?

[If only enough information existed in Wonderland at this time to solve the mystery.]

[hairdont]

[If only.]

Is there anybody else here?

[testcase]

Um...there's me. You. Matsuda-kun must've gone somewhere.

[She looks through her notebook searching in vain for answers.]

There's Madarai-kun? ..but I don't think he'd rip out the pages of my notes. And there's the people outside, but they don't really count.

[They're reserves. They aren't important.]

I don't think there's anyone else?

[That she knows of.]

[hairdont]

[Josuke wisely refrains from mentioning that he beat Madarai into a pulp... and that there were a lot of him.]

...Are the people outside the ones throwing things at the window?

[Because he hears it now, and it sounds like it's getting worse.]

[testcase]

[She really doesn't care, go punch him in the face some more, Ryoko doesn't give a shit.]

Um...yes, but like I said, they don't count, so it probably wasn't them.

[There's a sharp cracking noise as another rock impacts the window and sure enough, actual cracks are forming now. That's not good.]