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[ en ] tranceway . m . o . d . s. ([personal profile] vitaelamorte) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2018-12-11 09:21 pm

Here we are as in olden days, happy golden days of yore | OPEN

Who: E V E R Y O N E (Including our 4th wall guests!)
Where: Everywhere, one both Mirror and Real Side!
When: December 12th - December 18th (WEEK ONE)
Rating: PG-13, warn if going higher
Summary: This year's Ewaymas celebration rolls out the way it usually does, with intense decorating, a sudden snowfall and...far more arrivals than usual! New faces and old fill the mansion - but why would Wonderland bring so many people at once? And why do some of them remember Wonderland?
The Story:


On the evening before December 12th, the captives of Wonderland might be awoken by a loud commotion. Some of it is typical Ewaymas noise, likely familiar to anyone who has been in Wonderland for more than a year – construction sounds and jingle bells as Wonderland decks its own halls quite literally. Garland and lights race down the walls and down the stairs, and stockings appear on the walls for each and every person in Wonderland, embroidered with their names. There are decorative candles everywhere, and all sorts of decorations for every conceivable winter holiday, even if it does not align perfectly to the dates of Ewaymas. Time isn't real, so there will be menorahs and dreidels and Star of Davids even though Hanukkah ended two days prior. And of course, in the front hall, growing straight out of the floor, is a large decorated tree full of ornaments for everyone. And as always, it will have snowed heavily overnight, bringing all of the snow Wonderland will have between now and spring.

There is a second source of commotion in the night though – the sound of a crowd.

Over the course of the night, dozens of new arrivals will appear in Wonderland. Some for the first time. Some wondering how they managed to return with their memories. Others stumbling in with no recollection of ever having been here. Some might be friends from other timelines, other possibilities, and some might even be doubles of people who are already in Wonderland. It's strange for Wonderland to drag so many people into the mansion at once, but everything seems to indicate that they are supposed to be there. They have their own network devices and even have their own stockings on the wall and their own ornaments on the tree – by all accounts, it seems Wonderland expects that they'll be staying, and is treating them like any other new arrivals. Please, make them feel at home and help them settle in nicely.

The first few days will be for catching up with old friends and enjoying the decorations and settling into Wonderland. However, within a couple of days the decorations will start to glitch, much the way corrupted computer graphics might. Lights might change abruptly from multi-color to blue or white, entire décor styles will abruptly change, candle flames will flicker on and off like broken fluorescent lights, and any singing decorations might loop on a beat or two over and over putting you into an eternal hell. Wonderland doesn't seem to be able to stick to one motif, and it can't stop changing. These glitches are occurring on both the Real Side of Wonderland and the Mirror Side.

By the 15th, these glitches will include entire rooms changing into different holiday scenes. These scenes will all be of characters at various winter holidays in the past, the present (in their world), or a possible future. At this point in the event, characters will still be able to navigate the basic mansion and be able to exit these moments easily. These scenes cannot be interacted with – Wonderland seems to consider them another form of decorating. Unlike previous events of this type, these scenes will not loop at first. They will play once, and then Wonderland will glitch and correct itself to be the room it is supposed to be. The scene might play again, but it will be in a different location if it does.

By this point, Wonderland is having an increasingly difficult time holding itself together in a way that makes geographical sense. You might exit one room, even a room that was not previously playing a scene, and find yourself in the kitchen or on the roof instead of in the hallway. You might open a door that you were sure led to your room only to see a ten foot drop to the grounds outside.

This is the mingle log for WEEK ONE! For more information on this part of the event or any questions, please head over to the plot post, or check out our Fourth Wall Master Post for your other Fourth Wall event needs! Prose or [action brackets] are welcome. Please clearly indicate whether your character is on the Real Side or Mirror Side in your top levels. And of course, have fun! ♥
burntvideocassette: (a defeated jay)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-01-23 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Jay catches Tim's look, just for a moment, before he silently resumes picking at the velcro strips holding the camera grip together.]

[It's not the worst thing in the world. That's the bar.]

[Rrrrip.]


Guess you're right.

[He rubs his thumb against the strip of fabric, letting the hooks dig and scrape at his skin.]

I mean. [A quiet huff of breath--not quite a laugh, but an attempt at irony. An attempt to undercut the way his shoulders tense and his temples ache just trying to piece together the scraps of coherent thought that place allowed him.]

We've both seen what's worse.

[And that's it, isn't it? They both know how it feels to have it burrow its roots into your skull, to feel them wind around each nerve. They both know how it feels to be torn apart so utterly you can't describe it after--not because it's too painful to remember, but because you can't keep the thoughts stitched in order long enough to remember how painful it was. Tim got out (in a sense), and Jay didn't (in a sense), but they still know. To the best of their ability, they still remember.]

[Softly, mumbled towards the table, Jay says something else. With his nails dug into the camera grip, he says something else.]


I missed you.
postictal: (perfecting the art of the side eye)

[personal profile] postictal 2019-01-23 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[There's no mistaking it in the small, startled blink, and the way he stands up a little straighter and looks at him. That caught him off guard. Might've been a...last ditch thing. A one chance thing. He just knows so many people who are hermetically sealed, locked down vaults about this kind of thing that even potential last words don't get that kind of bitter honesty.]

[Not usually, anyway.]

[It's a shame he can't return the sentiment without a little interest.]

[It's a shame he can't really know if it's him, or just - this nebulous idea that he's all right, that he's okay, that Jay missed, because he can no longer tell if the same can be said for who Tim himself was missing.]

[Pretty fucked up, when you think about it. So he doesn't.]


Me, or the guy you knew?
burntvideocassette: (explaining himself)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-01-23 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Jay snorts, the tension wound up his spine jumping at the chance for some kind of outlet.]

[It doesn't help. Instead, it sends a spasm shooting up his neck, ratcheting up the tension across his shoulders even further. He winces.]


Depends on when.

[He picks at the edge of the table, looking for a hole, a splinter, something to give his hands something to do.]

When this place..."sends you home", it wipes...basically everything from here. You can't remember anything. Probably shouldn't remember anything right now, to be honest.

[Nothing. Flawless Wonderland engineering, as always. It probably gets replaced every few days. He starts digging a new divot into the tabletop.]

So back there, I only knew the one.

[He pauses.]

Who might not be either of you. Or...or both of you, I guess, if you're, like...

[He waves, aimlessly. He's not sure how all this works. He's not sure anyone does, even that physicist he talked to once, or that drunk, asshole scientist he tried to have a conversation with over the network. Do all the Tims come back to one central Tim? Is there an infinite number of Tims, all from incrementally different universes? Is there a chance he's going to meet another Tim, near-identical to his own, but with the only difference being that somebody stepped on a butterfly or something back during filming in 2006?]

[Does the same thing apply to him? If he gets sent home, how does he know he got sent back to the same "home" he left? He's been in Wonderland before, but was that the same Jay?]

[God, he needs to stop. Shut it down. Think about it later, or never, whichever makes the most sense.]
hairdont: (024)

[personal profile] hairdont 2019-01-23 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
[A better father than you, that's what.

I honestly can't remember if Erina ever came up in DIU and Joseph lost his mind so let's say no.]


Yeah, it's one of the best parts of Wonderland! It has to make up for everything else somehow, I guess.
postictal: (i have too many "tim is sad" caps tbh)

[personal profile] postictal 2019-01-23 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not him, Jay.

[It's as gentle as he can make it - which isn't much, admittedly.]

I don't think I ever could be. We've already... [Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. You don't get to travel both, though you're maybe allowed the chance to glimpse a little ways ahead.]

[He doesn't dwell much on the woods. Far-reaching, thick with black branches. Yellow and laden with trails. Dark and deep. He's already taken a direction that swerves too far in one direction to course correct. You can't be both.]


I'm not me if I don't remember where I've been.

[He's not Tim, not the right Tim, not the only Tim who's felt like he has something to fight for and someone that he wants to be better for, people that he would fight and die for but, more importantly, wants to live for, if he doesn't have everything that made him who he is.]

[Every memory. Every face.]

[He won't be anything else.]
emojis: (Default)

[personal profile] emojis 2019-01-23 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, that's what she thought.]

Honestly, I'd probably go with monkey.

[Being a statue sucked.]
teamfun: (And I hope that you don't suffer)

[personal profile] teamfun 2019-01-23 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
So she like kidnapped her?

[Yeah, that's pretty damn fucked up.]

I guess that makes sense. It sounds like a fucked up dreamscape, in all honesty.

[At Wirt's question he shrugs, nonplussed.]

Wellll, it's been eight years since the walkers showed up. They're part of the day to day life now. Sure, it was horrifiying as all hell when it started. But now? They're just...there. Like cows. Except cows that will absolutely eat you if they get anywhere near you.
deathlessness: (Default)

[personal profile] deathlessness 2019-01-24 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Freya nods in agreement.]

My thoughts exactly.

[She sighs softly, before shaking her head.]

I should have known that something was wrong sooner.
deathlessness: (Default)

[personal profile] deathlessness 2019-01-24 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if he managed to figure out how to kill Kol.

[That is something she hasn't managed to ask her brother yet, and honestly, she doesn't intend to.]

But Jessica and Fitz, yes.
deathlessness: (Default)

[personal profile] deathlessness 2019-01-24 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
She gives a small shrug in return. "Terrible as she may be, I'd rather have an enemy I know over one I don't. At least with her, you knew what to expect."
deathlessness: (Default)

[personal profile] deathlessness 2019-01-24 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
... I think calling it "death" might be wishful thinking. But Wonderland did swallow her whole, so ...

[She shrugs. It could go either way, but with no body, it's hard to really say.]

For now, she's no longer in control of the Mirror Side, at least.
normandysbest: (« [Somber] those you cannot save)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-01-24 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Despite the fact that she would advise exactly no one to do exactly what she's about to do, she moves to get closer to him. It's mostly a matter of trust- he has no reason to attack her and even if he did, she doesn't assume it would be personal, meaning it's largely inoffensive. The rest of it is that she's pretty damn used to being shot and stabbed, so she could probably take him. He doesn't seem like the type to use poison. Maybe. That's not the point right now.]

Just a minute, alright? You're safe here. Trust me when I say, it's-- it's not here.

[Does she tell him? Is it worse if he knows? Probably shouldn't focus on that for now.]

C'mon. One more time, for me?

[And she holds out her hand, if he wants it. In, out. Seemingly simple stuff.]
normandysbest: (« [Grin] happier times happier lives)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-01-24 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Uh.

[She can get that bit of tone, that surprise of her reaction. Is she? She's considered herself as much, to be sure, but most humans don't have steel in their bones and airplane technology in their spine. Most humans don't have laser-based eyes that have (thankfully) healed over. Does she count? Is she allowed to count.

She expresses this with a wobbly hand gesture.]


For the most part, yeah. I wouldn't worry about it.
rosswood: but my lust for blood is (ghosts aren't real)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-01-24 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
It's -

[He can't remember. Does she know? She shouldn't. She shouldn't know. He's certain, he's certain that she shouldn't know but she's just - moving closer and she's holding out her hand and he can't look at her he doesn't want to look at her because she's going to look at him with that expression resembling fucking pity and he can't deal with that he can't stand pity he fucking he really fucking can't he ]

[He looks at her, fighting the horrified revelation that threatens to overwhelm the cracked whisper:]


You don't know that.
testcase: (don't believe in fear)

[personal profile] testcase 2019-01-24 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, maybe not always. But a lot of the time, sure. I can't really turn my brain off, y'know? And it's always thinking of something super despair inducing.

[But not always something with malice behind it. Things can be super despair inducing without being all death and destruction all the time. But then again, that's a great way to get those feelings, so sometimes that's what works.]
gonerkid: (❤ he likes it in his ass)

[personal profile] gonerkid 2019-01-24 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
The most part.

[It's the less part that interests them, actually, the question evident in the low, curious emphasis. The...the part that isn't human. The part that is - they know more about that part, maybe, possibly. They don't really know her.]

[They know that she acts kind. She ACTs...kind. Kinder, maybe, than she should.]

[They can't say.]
burntvideocassette: (a defeated jay)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-01-24 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He's not the one Jay missed, but he used to be. He's not the one Jay misses, but he could have been, if things had gone differently. He won't be now, though. Too much time, too many memories, too many little differences.]

[That's probably why Jay was able to say anything at all, if he's honest.]


Guess I'm not really...

[Is Tim thinking the same thing? Are his eyes catching on all the differences, the places where things are just slightly off? Jay wouldn't notice, doesn't notice unless he winds back the footage far enough, but maybe somebody else would.]

[Or maybe they wouldn't. Nobody's supposed to notice the cameraman.]


...the same guy you remember, either.

[I'm not me if I don't remember where I've been. Who are they, now, with so many pieces missing? Who will Jay be, once Wonderland reaches into his skull and scrapes the new memories out? Jay Merrick, factory reset, tossed back "home".]

[His voice catches, bitterness layered over fear.]


Maybe I will be, though. If this place gets what it wants.

[He remembers how it was when he first arrived, terrified and vicious, tearing Tim open to make him talk, because he has to know.]

[That's not him. That's not supposed to be him. Excise it, throw it away. That man died, bled out in Benedict Hall. He's gone now.]

[That man brandished a knife at Tim and Clementine. He pushed Tim for answers when he was incapable of keeping secrets, magically compelled to answer; he pushed Sans for explanations when his memories were too far gone to remember why he hadn't shared them before. He lunged for a box of matches as echoing metal voices screamed in his skull. That man admitted to his own sickness to a burnt corpse dissolving in a bathhouse. That man sobbed into the front of Tim's shirt, one arm hooked around Clem's neck. That man took a job as an intern for a local paper, brought sodas from the kitchen and reorganized files and took B-roll. That man had a cat named Archie.]

[That man doesn't want to forget.]
postictal: (binch jump)

[personal profile] postictal 2019-01-24 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
That guy was different. They're all different.

[He lets his shoulders lift in an incremental shrug. The lump of a locket is a weight around his neck, the chain of a promise twined into the strands of his beacon-red soul. Maybe it's more like an anchor, tying him back to where he wants to be. Where he wishes he could be, or maybe just thinks he needs to be.]

[Maybe they don't need him, really, anymore. They never really did.]

[Maybe that was a lie, too, in its own way.]

[Two fingers go to the lump just beneath his shirt, where the locket in question dwells.]


That's not a bad thing.
bloodmagics: (pic#9736039)

[personal profile] bloodmagics 2019-01-24 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
No, it isn't. But another chance to see you is something I can't be too angry at it for, even if it turns out to be temporary.

[They were both here last time Wonderland did something like this; they know how it works.]

Not that I've seen. Thedas wasn't a popular choice this time, it seems. [Just a few, key people. He doesn't know whether to be happy or sad that his family remains out of Wonderland's reach.] There's no use dwelling on it when those who did show up have been sorely missed.

[Should he... He kind of wants to meddle. He'll see how it goes.]

Nathaniel will be happy to see you, if he hasn't already.
madehervows: (pic#7124727)

[personal profile] madehervows 2019-01-24 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
It's Wonderland. The only time it's changed is when we got a lake.

[It's comforting in a way, given how often they get cursed.]

But speaking of home, how much do you remember? Hyperion Heights? ...Kelly?
eatsyourscience: (for every stoplight I didn't make)

[personal profile] eatsyourscience 2019-01-24 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Souji smiles. He likes listening to people talk about things that make them happy.]

You'll get better the more you practice. It helps to have a goal in mind, too.

[He doesn't say this like he's lecturing Wirt.]
beatupgrass: (✘ oh that finally came full circle)

[personal profile] beatupgrass 2019-01-25 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, probably should've led with that one.

[Good job, Rocket.] It was crazy. The Queen of Hearts declared war and we built that up for months and then it turned out to be a chess game between her and the Red Queen and when she lost... Wonderland ate her.
secrettechnique: (Did you really think that would work?)

[personal profile] secrettechnique 2019-01-25 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[I don't think she did either But it's been a while.]

What's everything else?

[He hasn't seen anything too bad yet.]
Edited 2019-01-25 03:12 (UTC)
hairdont: (018)

[personal profile] hairdont 2019-01-25 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
Wonderland likes to try to kill us all the time. [Shrug.] Something'll probably go wrong during... all of this.
hairdont: (038)

[personal profile] hairdont 2019-01-25 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh.

Oh no.

The awkward silence that follows before Josuke can figure out what to say probably gives something away.]


Uh.

[Hm.]

It's been a lot longer than a day.