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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! ♥
normandysbest: (« [Salute] to the brass)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-02-25 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
[She knows she has to be gentle when he's in this state, in pain and injured and fucked up beyond where he should have gone. It's the moments like this that keep her fighting. Moments like this that made her a soldier in the first place. If she can lift some pain, if she can take the fall instead of someone else, if she can protect the lives of kids who stumble onto something way bigger than them-- it'll all be worth it.

She pushes his shoulder towards her so she can wrap her arms around him, let his head rest on her shoulder, place one hand on the back of his head and hold him like a child.]


Yeah. We're still here.

[Shepard keeps her chest as still as she can, not to crash into his jaw or break him further, but this is the only thing she knows how to do.]

We're gonna keep going.
hairdont: (021)

[personal profile] hairdont 2019-02-25 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[He is fully prepared to DORARARARARARA Joseph if he continued that sentence.]

Not as crazy as this! You were an old man when I met you the first time!
eatsyourscience: (mama didn't raise no fool)

[personal profile] eatsyourscience 2019-02-26 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't necessarily know your life story.

[And who could, when Crowley's lived as long as he has?]

But we had a bond. A partial one. We have one now, too.

[ ☆ Social links ☆ ]
normandysbest: (« [Explain] you are mother fucker?)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-02-26 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
What did I just fucking say, Alex.

[It's probably pointless to ask if he's even listening, because chances are the answer is no.]

I'm trying to talk to you. I'm trying to make you listen to me, because it's fucking important. Dying is the easy way out and I'm not gonna be responsible for that. In fact, I'm sitting here doing the really difficult thing of trying to goddamn reason with you while you're trying to speedrun your own death.

[She still hasn't let him go, intent on trying to make him listen.]

Can you just trust me? For once in your life stop running into things with your fists up?
normandysbest: (« [Proud] you did good kid)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-02-26 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[If they say no, she asks them things until she finds a yes. But Kris doesn't know that, and-- Shepard needs to get them out of here, in any way possible. Hopefully, they can forgive her.

She gestures with her wrist for them to follow.]


C'mon. You can tell the dining room anything you want and it'll make it for you. I won't even stop you from eating thirteen pixie sticks at once and throwing up on the ground.

[She's helping.]
rosswood: but my lust for blood is (ghosts aren't real)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-02-26 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
You have no idea what I'm dealing with. None.

[No - no, she does now. God damn it, Jay.]

If you do know, then you know I can't let It spread. I can't let It spread. I can't just sit down and do nothing while It gets Its fingers in everyone else. The last time I took my eyes off things, someone stuck every little thing on the Internet!

[Not that he didn't manage to do some of that too, while he was stuck here.]

I need to fix this - while there's still time.
gonerkid: (❤ east in his ass)

[personal profile] gonerkid 2019-02-26 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Ha.]

[That coaxes the tiniest of smiles out of them, for half a minute, despite the closed-off impassivity of their default expression. They think, because they can't help thinking, of fogged-up windows and red polyester booths and burned tongues and the taste of hot chocolate - Asriel's warm fuzzy paw obliterating the shape their fingers left on the breath-warmed glass, a wobbly quartet of letters that sent him giggling, "You can't write 'fart' on the windows!"]

[Their throat goes tight for a moment.]

[And then eases.]


Chocolate?
burntvideocassette: (don't go anywhere)

cw: violence, eye horror, restraint

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-02-26 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Disgusting. His eye's watering, he's got gel smeared across his chin, unclipped stitches hanging out of otherwise healed skin, a gaping eye socket, and now his nose is running.]

[He isn't going to drip mucus on Shepard. That'd be awful. He sniffs it back, and the noise is somehow worse.]

[Like some kind of kid.]

[She's holding his shoulder, comforting him, like he's some kind of stupid kid who can't hold it together.]

[And then she pulls him in, lets him rest his disgusting face on her shoulder. The sensation's unfamiliar, restrictive, and his heart rate shoots up.]

[Pull it together.]

[Her arms are wrapped around him, while his hang loose at his sides. He tries not to think about an ache between his shoulder blades, carpet burns across his chin and the sting of plastic zipties wearing open the skin of his wrists, of his ankles. Let me go. Let me go. Let me out, get OFF--!]

[He bites the inside of his cheek and doesn't make a sound. He waits for the taste of iron.]

[It's Shepard. It's fine. It's Shepard. He's not tied up. She's just holding onto him.]

[He's safe. She's safe.]

[They're gonna keep going.]

[He breathes, nose half-crushed by the way his face presses against her shoulder.]


What about everybody else?

[His tone's flattened out. There's too much going on to make it do anything else, to mimic the rise and fall of 'natural conversation.']

Alex, I-- [His good eye screws shut.] I mean, I was just trying to get away, but I still...

[The sickening crack it made when the camera collided with the side of his head, the strangled, animal noise that tore out of Alex as the glass dug into the flesh of his face, the way his eyes dripped red from behind closed lids.]

[You did this, Jay Merrick. You did this to him.]
bloodmagics: (pic#8016741)

[personal profile] bloodmagics 2019-02-26 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[He knows what this is and he is not amused, Cullen.

...Okay, he is. He raises an eyebrow.]


Plans, huh?

[He's intrigued. But not enough to start helping.]

That's delightfully vague, especially considering what we could be doing instead of cleaning.
powerofmabel: (☆ would never be the same)

[personal profile] powerofmabel 2019-02-26 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mabel pats Stan on the arm. It's okay, Stan. She saw everything. And she will remember this.]

What's up, Grunks? ...Y'know, aside from Ford being here- which is amazing- and Wonderland being broken.
morework: (45)

[personal profile] morework 2019-02-27 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You could find out. You've got help now, it would barely take any effort at all.

[ Two more bottles dumped by Cullen - one by Dog, who has caught on to the mission at hand. Cullen scratches his pup's head, pleased. ]

See? Good boy. Show Garrett how it's done.
krmvgivv: (before i let it go)

[personal profile] krmvgivv 2019-03-01 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Dipper shrugs.] Heck if I know. She doesn’t seem to be doing much to fix it, anyway. If she wanted to make the White Queen look bad, this would probably do it.
singloversing: Into the Unknown (theme song) - Over the Garden Wall OST (Beckons through the leaves)

[personal profile] singloversing 2019-03-01 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god. That's super messed up. I'm--

[He struggles to word it. Nothing feels like enough, so he just goes with his knee-jerk instinct.]

...I'm really sorry that happened.
krmvgivv: (js)

[personal profile] krmvgivv 2019-03-01 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's pretty big news already.

[But Dipper looks interested too. Whatever Ford thinks is important is bound to be at least interesting.]
normandysbest: (« [Angry] say that again motherfucker)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-03-01 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Will you hear me out for one goddamn minute?

[Her voice sounds strained, a painful edge she can no longer control.]

You have no fucking idea the shit I've dealt with. I've handled a hundred thousand of these mind control motherfuckers across a hundred planets with a bounty on my head. They killed me, Alex, and I had to get back up. They murdered everyone I dared to love, I got fucking possessed and shot the man I considered my goddamn father!

[She jabs a finger into his chest, breathing heavier than she means to be.]

I get it, alright! And now I've been fried by your goddamn whatever the hell at least once and I'm still, still here to tell you you need to slow the hell down before you martyr yourself without a goddamn cause. Stop, alright? For a few minutes just stop.

[It's a struggle not to grab him by the collar and she only catches herself just before she does, hand fisted in front of his collar.]
normandysbest: (« [Pleased] pop the heat sink)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-03-01 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[She bites back the urge to say a different name, at that suggestion. A kid who threw cupcakes with her onto the ceiling, who died too many times, who made faces at tequila and hoarded candy from their mother. Good kids. They were all good kids.

She realizes she'll lose the memory of them all soon. It hurts worse than anything else has.

But externally, Shepard nods.]


Any kind you want. You ever had chocolate lava cake? It's like three kinds of chocolate.

[She takes a step, bidding them to follow.]
normandysbest: (« [Sad] i'm not mad i'm just disappointe)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-03-01 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[He could get out if he wanted to- she'd let him out if he desired, but the fear is a lot and she doesn't know. All she can think to do right now is just to hold him, try and fix this any way she can.]

He took out your goddamn eye. Isn't there a saying about that?

[Not that she's seen Alex since he did this fuckery, but that's just gonna come later.]

Don't worry about it right now, alright? I'll take care of Alex and his... everything. Just breathe, okay? Five in, five out. Cry if you need to.

[Shepard swallows, trying to just think of the right words.]

You're not alone.
rosswood: (someone needs to learn white balance)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-03-01 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Possession.]

[It's not mind control it's not possession it's not that simple it is not that fucking simple because he's never been possessed it's always been him and he's always been the one in control and doing everything he could to keep it under control. That's who he is. That's who he is, and he's trying not to panic and swallows back the taste of his own terror in the back of his throat but it's hard.]

[He's felt this way before, like he has to track the presence of another person in the room so that he's aware of her presence like he's aware of a loaded gun.]


It's not like that. It's not mind control, or possession, It's - It's worse. There's only one way that any of it stops, and you have to let me do this.

[If he dies trying, what the hell else is new?]

Death doesn't last here anyway. So we'll die and keep getting the fuck back up - what's it matter?
gonerkid: (❤ he likes it in his ass)

[personal profile] gonerkid 2019-03-01 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[A shake of their head, no. That sounds like something out of a magazine, some kind of glamorous cooking show, some kind of fancy food that's meant to be marveled at but never really eaten.]

[But doing things they're not supposed to - that's something they can do, isn't it?]


Okay.

[It's the pressure of a barrier they know still exists, that resistance that makes the density of the air feel heavier than it is usually.]

[It feels like it should be with more fanfare, when they step forward - the sound of snapping glass, or a breaking tether. But there isn't.]

[They step forward, and they follow her.]
teamfun: (We'll love we'll bend)

[personal profile] teamfun 2019-03-01 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Louis sighs, catching himself, reigning it all back in. He offers a smile, more wan than before.]

It's super messed up. We're gonna go get them back, though. Clem's gonna figure out some badass plan and we'll get them back. I mean, shit, they got on her bad side now- that's a place no one ever needs to be.
saunteredvaguelydownwards: (050)

[personal profile] saunteredvaguelydownwards 2019-03-02 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That way lies madness.

[He says it wryly, but there's something serious about it. Crowley could sit all week giving his actual life story.]

Ah, do you think so?

['Bond', hm?]
burntvideocassette: (thoughtful)

cw: violence

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-03-03 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Five in, five out.]

[Five in, five out.]

[Five in--]

[Experimentally, Jay lifts his arms, tries wrapping them across Shepard's back. It helps, oddly enough. Feels less restrictive if he's holding on, too.]

[He doesn't want to forget her again. He doesn't want her to go.]

[You're not alone, she says, and Jay snorts. His face is still pressed against her shoulder, though he's eased off slightly. The bruises were starting to sting again.]


If you said that to me a couple years back, I'd... [Another snort, a jerk of the head. It's at his own expense.] I'd probably take it as a threat.

[His voice is still flat.]

[One, two, three, four, five.]


When you say you're gonna 'take care' of Alex, you don't mean...?

[She doesn't. He doesn't think she does. Four years in hell, three on the road, two hunting down Alex, and he still never figured out what he was supposed to do if he found him. He thought maybe finding him would be enough. Stopping him, maybe, but he didn't want to think any further than that, didn't like the feeling that coiled in his gut when he did.]

[Even after Alex Kralie put a bullet in his side, he didn't want to think any further than that. Didn't want to think about how it'd feel to yank the gun out of his hands, press the barrel to Alex Kralie's forehead and assert some control for once in his goddamn--]

[Isn't there a saying about that?]

[Jay mumbles into her shirt:]
I already got his eye.
Edited 2019-03-03 20:01 (UTC)
burntvideocassette: (sitting down in woods)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-03-03 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Jay's eyebrows raise.]

Good point. All she'd have to do is watch.

[Another ornament glitches and disappears. Jay kneads at his forehead.]

Not that I'd really recommend anybody go talk to the Mirrors, but has anybody heard...anything from them? Like, are they...not happy with this?

[One way to overthrow a ruler: Get her subjects to do it for you. Granted, Jay hasn't got much experience with politics, much less revolution.]
bloodmagics: (pic#8016658)

[personal profile] bloodmagics 2019-03-03 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dog joins in and Garrett groans.]

Really, Dog? Really?

[But he finally breaks and starts cleaning up the mess. Occasionally he glances at Cullen, as if to make sure he's real, before he finally asks.]

... You're disappointed, aren't you.
singloversing: Get Home - Bastille (At the end of the night)

[personal profile] singloversing 2019-03-03 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I can see that, yeah. I for sure wouldn't want to be on her bad side.

[She's said to him before that she doesn't do anything because she has to, and Wirt figures that might apply to things other than just her being nice because she wants to. She probably wouldn't hold back.]

I hope it works though, and that you guys get them all back safe.