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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! ♥
rosswood: (help me autotune jesus)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-04-09 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
I hope you understand how fucking backwards that sounds!

[He's not armed. No gun. No knife. He can't do anything but fight her for every step of the way. Fight for what? What is he trying to accomplish here? He's lost all reason in the adrenaline rush.]

[(He lost all reason a long time ago.)]


Let me go! You've got to let fucking go!
normandysbest: (« [Angry] say that again motherfucker)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-04-11 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
A suplex isn't a gun to your head, so I'm picking it as a net positive.

[This has gone so fucking south, but she can't stop now, so there's more things they have in common. She's got one hand over his middle, and is trying to use the other to stop him from kicking, but it's not like he's literally a child and she's only so good at carrying heavy things on her own.]

I'll let you go when you promise not to die at top speed. Until then, we're gonna go find someplace to hang out.

[where??? She doesn't have a fucking clue.]
rosswood: (it's so david lynchian)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-04-11 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't matter. None of it fucking matters.

[He tries to twist in her grip, tries to wrench himself around so he can sink his teeth into the nearest bit of skin he can find. It's fucking pointless, makes him feel stupid and like something feral but that's what he is that's what he's been reduced to, living out of cars and skipping from place to place, always on the hunt.]

[He can't stop.]
krmvgivv: (but i meant well)

[personal profile] krmvgivv 2019-04-13 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you probably heal from concussions. Cause everything else heals?

But... yeah. Brains don't age either.

[Something he tries not to think about most of the time. He's mentally 15 and mentally 13 all at once and it never stops being weird and confusing.]
normandysbest: (« [Pain] Work Through It)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-04-16 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
You matter.

[Her voice is finally, finally starting to sound tired. It's not even her words it feels like that she's parroting at him, something exhausted but knowing, a voice she almost doesn't think is her own.

Ugh, she's become her father figure. That's gonna be some baggage to unpack eventually, she's sure.]


You matter to me. So call it selfish, but I'm keeping you here.

[It's kinda hard to transport him like this though, so she's mostly just here trying to wrestle with keeping him in her arms, and unable to do much else.]
rosswood: (YOUTUBE IS NOT A JOB)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-04-16 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck you. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, I didn't do anything worth this!

[He knows what he is and what he's done. He knows he's going to burn for it - why wouldn't he? He's killed people and he's been killed and all he ever does it make things worse and in this case making things worse is the only way to make things better.]

This isn't fucking up to you, Shepard!
burntvideocassette: (camera in mirror)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-04-17 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Jay deflates a bit, the relief offset by the guilt. So his brain's fine--ha--but Dipper's is stuck. So's Alice's.]

[So's he, technically, but getting stuck at 28's a hell of a lot better than the twelve-to-fifteen range Dipper's in.]


That's...not good.

[He tilts his head, and the camera follows suit.]

Does it, uh...feel like you're older?

[Would Dipper even know what older feels like? Does it feel like anything, really, besides the crushing weight of responsibilities nobody prepared you for?]
normandysbest: (« [Interested] oh do go on)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-04-19 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Guess it ain't.

[Goddamnit why is he so fucking wiggly. She kind of leans him against the wall to use the leverage to get him onto her shoulder and get his ankles with her other arm. Now to hope he doesn't start strangling her or something.]

But if it's my job to keep the goddamn universe running I get to make a few calls.
rosswood: (it's so david lynchian)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-04-19 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Let go of me!

[He feels like a toddler throwing a tantrum. It's not his fault that he's just a weedy Alabaman hipster who's been living on the lam for the better part of a few years and she's a fucking military tank of a person. It's just really fucking inconvenient right about now.]

What makes your calls so much more important than mine?
normandysbest: (« [Hurt] no im fine why do you ask)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-04-24 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
God damnit Alex you are such a wiggly motherfucker.

[Look, he could be making it easier. She feels like she's pit wrestling a horse that's about to kick her in the chest. This is why she's a goddamn sniper.]

And it's because your call right now is to fucking die which doesn't help anyone, except for maybe the people you keep trying to murder, and if you keep this up I'm going to knock you out, I swear.
rosswood: (help me autotune jesus)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-04-24 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It's my business! It's my problem and I'm going to deal with it how I need to. All you're doing is getting - in - my - way.

[He punctuates each final word with a hard kick, aiming for any part of her he can reach.]

You're not the hero in this story, Shepard!

[Oh, Alex.]

[Neither are you.]
krmvgivv: (dipper027)

[personal profile] krmvgivv 2019-04-25 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Dipper shrugs. It's complicated, especially because he's always felt older than he is. On top of that, he never really feels older, day to day, even when he really ages. It's not a question with an answer, so he just gives a question in response.]

Do you?
burntvideocassette: (i screwed up)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-04-25 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Jay's head rocks back, brow furrowed. Probably should've seen this coming, and yet, the kid caught him off guard.]

[Does he?]


I mean, I...

[He squints, attempting to think back, attempting to figure out if he's ever really considered it before. Sure, he's aware he's almost thirty, but he hasn't really stopped to consider what that feels like. It seems like the kind of thing that's supposed to feel like something, but he's got enough constant, crushing dread on his plate without factoring the onward march of time into it.]

[Shit, wait.]

[Almost?]

[He died right after his twenty-eighth, celebrated his twenty-ninth the following November in Wonderland, got sent back home, and now it's December.]

[He's lost time in there somewhere. Might've made it up somewhere else, though.]

[He looks up from the viewfinder screen, eyes wide.]


I'm thirty years old.
normandysbest: (« [Sass] here's a thought: wtf)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-04-27 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[She coughs as the kicks swing into her, finally losing her footing as she falls to her knees. He could probably get his feet on the floor if he wanted, but she's still got her arms around his stomach, face pressed into his side.]

It's not all about you! If I'm not the hero we're both the losers!

[He's got more leverage, but she won't let him go.]

Why won't you just accept some goddamn help! Why won't you just-- just stop for one goddamn minute!
rosswood: (what'd you shoot this with a potato)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-04-27 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He braces his feet against the ground, tries to use them as leverage to pull himself away from her. Without a solid grip, it's hard to really claw himself away from her.]

Why won't you just quit while you're ahead?

[Unstoppable force meets..."immovable" object would be the wrong word for it, because Alex Kralie is very much movable.]

Why can't you just mind your own business?
normandysbest: (« [What] really????? REALLY)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-05-01 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, immovable as in very, very difficult to do so without hurting him, of course- which she's becoming less concerned about the more he tries to slam into her.]

Because I'm famously bad at it and despite this--

[She twists under his grasp and lets him fall to the ground to just. Sit on his back.]

I still want you not to die. And if we gotta do this here, I guess we gotta.
rosswood: (there's razors in your apple)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-05-01 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[There's no real chance against her, he knows. And, eventually, even his drive loses against the weight of an entire soldier on his back. He starts panting, his struggles growing weaker and less adrenalized.]

You don't have to do any of this. You just want to.
normandysbest: (« [Joking] oh come on dont be a dick)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-05-04 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Maybe I don't.

[Does she have to do anything anymore, now that the universe isn't at stake? Probably not. But there are things she wants, still.]

You're not gonna convince me. I'm gonna sit here and be a stubborn ass until you decide to stop dying and if you wanna talk, we talk. This is my choice. You get that?

[She does look down towards him, an eyebrow cocked, curiosity and a bit of hope with a raised eyebrow in her features.]
rosswood: (what'd you shoot this with a potato)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-05-04 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Noticing that your choices seem to matter a whole lot more than mine, asshole. Just like everyone else's, these days.

[He's got your fucking number, now, or he's decided that he has.]

But hey. At least I knew that already.

Thanks for proving me right.

[Which means he doesn't have to feel bad when he spits at her face, the last real capacity for spite that he has. His sanity is a sponge sucking away every capacity for any other emotion he has.]
krmvgivv: (wish i could follow them somehow)

[personal profile] krmvgivv 2019-05-06 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
....okay?

[Dipper may be aging, sort of, but physically he hasn't changed and neither has anyone else. That means everyone over twenty but under grunkle age is in the nebulous "adult" age bracket. Dipper blinks.]

How old were you before?
burntvideocassette: (sarcastic)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-05-06 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
Twenty-eight.

[This revelation doesn't quite seem to have the effect Jay anticipated. Right. He's a kid. Sort of. Twenty-eight probably sounds old as shit, too.]

I mean, like, it's not that much different, I guess, but it's still...like, thirty just sounds...

[Jay gestures with his free hand. You know. Maybe Dipper doesn't know. Maybe Jay's freaking out over nothing. Maybe Jay didn't really expect to make it to thirty.]

[Maybe he didn't, really.]
normandysbest: (« [Exhausted] @ god fuckin why)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-05-09 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[She just sighs. Of course he'd do this. Of course it would be like this. See where doing something for herself gets her.

But Shepard won't argue with him anymore. She'll just stay firmly planted until he either falls asleep, passes out, or agrees not to murder himself.

It'll be a long way to go. But if this is all she can do... it's all she can do.]
krmvgivv: (dipper07)

[personal profile] krmvgivv 2019-05-12 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Old?

[Dipper kind of gets it, but at the same time....

He slumps forward, wrapping his arms around his knees.]


But you were already an adult when you got here. I'm old enough to learn to drive and my feet still don't reach the pedals.
burntvideocassette: (suspicious)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-05-13 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Jay...deflates. It's tough to keep wallowing in self-pity about being marginally older when the kid in front of him can't even get himself around.]

[He hisses softly through his teeth.]


That's...not great.

[Jay glances off to the side, toward one of the rooms. The camera lens follows.]

Not that we've really got a parking lot to practice in, but... [He winces, already seeing the holes in his idea.] I wonder if Wonderland'd give you, like...a modified car. Or, like, something to extend the pedals. Not sure you can really fit an SUV in a closet, but...

[It's December, right? Jay sure as hell never got a car for Christmas, and he's never known anybody else who has, but he's seen commercials. It seems possible.]

[...Is Jay seriously considering teaching an age-locked thirteen-year-old how to drive? Is that what this is?]
krmvgivv: (dipper09)

[personal profile] krmvgivv 2019-05-21 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't need to mollify me. It's not about learning to drive. It's... everything.

[He wants to date and people his physical age are too young and his mental age see him as too young and this will just get worse the longer he's here. Is he destined to be alone forever? Romantically speaking, at least.

But he doesn't want to say so in front of Jay because it's embarrassing to have feelings.]