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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! ♥
charlastan: Bulletproof Heart - My Chemical Romance (I got a bulletproof heart)

[personal profile] charlastan 2018-12-16 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[The only thing really keeping the cane in place is gravity, and the fact that Stan's entire body weight is hanging off of it. Aside from that it moves and slips around pretty easily.

Right now, Stan's just holding on for dear life and trying to pull his legs up enough to get them through the window, but it's not really working the way he wants it to, since he has to fight the physics of the the Mystery Room to do it.
]

Quit messin' with that! I'm trying not to die here, no thanks to you!

[Mayeb it's a dumb thing to say to someone actively trying to murder him, but talking in any capacity at all is better than thinking about the drop below him.]
tetractys: (SVIV RG TLVH)

[personal profile] tetractys 2018-12-16 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
WELL, THOSE ARE PRETTY DUMB LAST WORDS.

[Gonna knock the cane off, now. Bye!]
255000255000255: (Soft)

diner; i'm sorry but i needed this, thanks

[personal profile] 255000255000255 2018-12-16 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ When she'd made her request to him for a meal, something that felt like ages ago, she honestly never thought she'd get the chance to do it. Her chances at being human were so rare and short-lived, sometimes the thought of eating seemed like a waste of time.

But not today.

Monika steps up, almost hesitantly, then takes a seat at the counter, waiting until she catches his attention. Hopefully her Santa hat isn't too crooked, because she'd been fussing with it ever since she got inside, trying to make sure it looked perfect. ]


Little busy today, don't you think?
charlastan: Bulletproof Heart - My Chemical Romance (Jenny could you come back home?)

[personal profile] charlastan 2018-12-16 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Those seconds of freefall are some of the worst seconds of Stan's life (which is saying something, since he's had plenty of pretty bad ones.

But, it's only a second or two. He catches his hand on the trap door as he falls (the window frame, on his side) and ultimately only falls about two feet total. Two feet is enough for an entire damn lifetime though, thanks.

With a grunt, he does the world's most stressful pull-up and pushes his arms through the trap door. Once he does that though, it starts to go a lot more smoothly. He's top-heavy, so once his arms are through he has enough leverage to start pulling himself back into the Mystery Room.

Granted, it's not very graceful, especially on the Mystery Room side of things where it's a lot of undignified pulling and wiggling, but it doesn't have to be as long as it saves his life. He's a little stuck once he gets about halfway there since his legs don't have much to push against but hey - it's better than where he was! ...Kind of. He'll figure it out once he looks around and makes sure that guy's not going to immediately try and kick him out the trap door again.
]
tetractys: (ZMW RG'H Z MVD PRMW LU OLEV)

[personal profile] tetractys 2018-12-16 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Haha, no, there will definitely be kicking! Face kicking, specifically, or attempted face-kicking. Die faster.]
alsoagirl: "Tim McGraw" (Oh...)

[personal profile] alsoagirl 2018-12-16 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's...huh.

Jessica's staring. She can't help it. No one's made any wedding announcements lately, so this must be someone who had the shittiest arrival time ever. The face looks vaguely familiar, though, but it's hard to remember why. She thinks of pineapples for some reason.

Huhhh.

Curiosity gets the best of her. Even with the holiday nightmare around them--which, even as fucked up as it was, has been a million times better than any Christmas she's ever had--someone in a wedding dress is too interesting to pass up.

"Lose your husband?"
moraloutrage: (speaking gladly)

[personal profile] moraloutrage 2018-12-16 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[He responds with a mild smile.]

You have raised a good point! There is no point in charging anything in a place without any money. [Though he's sure Hagakure would do it anyway.]

This might not be a profession that I understand or truthfully believe in, but I admire your sense of dedication to it, sir! Ah... I am open to allowing you to see into my future!
shslliar: (It saves me time)

[personal profile] shslliar 2018-12-16 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
... Yep. Only lamer and more random.

[Someone could probably pull a light cycle like thing from the closet, but it isn't the same.]

At least that explains the multiple lives thing.
shslliar: (eeeh?)

[personal profile] shslliar 2018-12-16 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
... Uh, hello? Did you even hear me introduce myself?

[Ya know, if Kris' thoughts could be read, Kokichi would be yelling at them for sounding like a broken record. Since he can't...]

You're supposed to say something in response, stupid.
Edited 2018-12-16 05:41 (UTC)
charlastan: Alone You Breathe - Savatage (You were never one for waiting)

[personal profile] charlastan 2018-12-16 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[OH, GREAT. FANTASTIC.

For the first several kicks, Stan has to just hold on as best as he can and not lose his grip while he pulls himself up into the room. He's definitely going to have a few good face bruises. Once he has enough of himself in the room that he won't immediately fall though, he starts swinging back and trying to punch the guy in the legs.

But then he gets a better, albeit stupider, idea.

Instead of trying to punch the guy away from him, Stan starts trying to actually grab the guy's ankle when he kicks. If he can get a good hold on him, maybe he can use him to pull himself the rest of the way inside. Between the gravity in the room and the gravity outside he's awkwardly bent at about a forty-five degree angle and just needs something to pull himself the rest of the way. Might as well be the guy trying to kill him!

And if not? Well, at least it'll probably piss him off and that's almost as good.
]
Edited 2018-12-16 05:42 (UTC)
tetractys: (KRXGFIV LU BLFI MVD NZHGVI)

[personal profile] tetractys 2018-12-16 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Bill laughs and laughs - but as usual, he's cocky and easy to take by surprise. He windmills his arms when eh gets grabbed, and yelps - ]

HEY!

[And then he's twisting around to try to kick again, and falls over backwards.]
hadtolose: (That comes from energies combined)

[personal profile] hadtolose 2018-12-16 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kara doesn't say anything immediately, just observes. She notes how much Connor seems to keep checking on Jericho's whereabouts, almost like a parent with a child. She can't help but be intrigued.

And at least now she knows he's not lying.

She relaxes some more. He can probably sense her stress levels dip a tad. ]


You seem like you've adjusted okay. [ Her smile's a little wry. ] But I can imagine you're good at that.

[ Did that sound bitter? That might've sounded bitter. ]

Can you...tell me more?

[ Maybe Alice will come. She'll want to know everything, too. ]
moraloutrage: (bowing)

[personal profile] moraloutrage 2018-12-16 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Outside, she'll find a familiar someone already hard at work playing in the snow. Specifically, he is dutifully assembling some type of snowman. He's set a small blanket down on the snow near his feet, containing clothing and accessories to put on the snowman once it is complete. He seems pretty absorbed by his task! But a bit lonely, too.]
hadtolose: (My past is rough)

just gonna get past the whole OMG WONDERLAND! spiel here 👍

[personal profile] hadtolose 2018-12-16 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ His comment pulls a smile out of her. ] She's the best thing that's ever happened to me.

[ After a moment, she nods. ] Yeah. Any help would be great.

[ A while later, after a fruitless search, Kara sinks down into a chair in the entrance hall. She'd been doing scans everywhere as they walked, trying to find any hint of Alice.

She's torn. Maybe it's for the best, considering what she's been told. But it's hard to imagine life without her, even in a place like this. ]


It's funny. [ She laughs, but it's weak. ] I'm not sure if this is better or worse than Detroit right now.
gonerkid: (❤ north in his ass)

[personal profile] gonerkid 2018-12-16 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[They simply look at him.]

[No response, at first. He wants them to speak, so...they speak. As always, struggling to find something else to say. Too many barriers thrown up over time, and someone who doesn't seem to want them to be quiet, but their tongue is not their own.]


Okay.

[Say something.]

I heard you.
hadtolose: (Green is the planet)

[personal profile] hadtolose 2018-12-16 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ That deepens her frown, narrows her eyes. He probably needed to get chucked into the fire with the stocking. He probably wouldn't mind it, though...

She wonders if this how she was before waking up. ]


I won't. I've had enough on my mind lately. You had plenty to do with that.

[ Yeah yeah, not the same Connor, not the same circumstances. But it's nice to gently release some pent-up anger on the version who wouldn't care. ]
hadtolose: (Something close to like a sugar rush)

[personal profile] hadtolose 2018-12-16 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her gaze falls away, focusing on a glitching decoration. It's hard to keep looking at him. His look is so penetrating, she swears he might be reading her thought processes somehow. ]

Y-Yes. Of course it matters.

[ A silence stretches on for a moment as she debates on what she wants to say next, if she wants to say it. ]

The person who chose it for me means a lot to me.

[ Still, she wonders...is she missing something? ]
spiritofgoodness: (➳ 1)

[personal profile] spiritofgoodness 2018-12-16 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's been hoping. She's been hoping so hard for this, never giving up on the idea that if Wonderland is broken, David will find a way in.

Snow sees him from across the foyer of the mansion and her heart swells, the way it always does when she sees him and he's not quite aware of her presence yet. She's a few yards away from him and just calls out, smiling, waiting for him to finally spot her. ]


Aren't you a real Prince Charming!
255000255000255: (Gentle)

[personal profile] 255000255000255 2018-12-16 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ She almost can't believe her eyes. For her, she'd been away for nearly a year, but she knew time didn't work super normally in Wonderland. Still, to see him here...

Monika crunches through the snow, stopping a few feet away. There's a soft laugh as she takes a moment to watch him work, diligent as ever, even for something as simple as a snowman. ]


Want some help?
burntvideocassette: (distorted)

cw: body horror, violence

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2018-12-16 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
[For all his talk of the truth, of how vital it is to spread information, Jay would have been bled dry like the rest of them. Blue-purple rosemary blossoms from his chest, dogbane sprouting from his throat, sycamore saplings twisting around his spine, throttling the nerves within.]

[But he's talking now. Maybe it's the easy way Tim's holding himself, the way he offers up comforting sentiments as easily as his Tim would ask for a stick of beef jerky and another pack of cigarettes at the next rest stop.]


That's the thing, though. I did. At the time, I--I did.

[His eyes dart side to side, scanning the kitchen without meeting Tim's gaze.]

Like, I remember... [He winces, kneading at his forehead.] God. I wanted...

[He wanted Tim's hands tied behind his back, a knife to his throat, a camera on the tripod. He wanted his goddamn answers, Tim, no matter what it took.]

[He wanted to prove the others were real, not just images on tape, wanted to run the blade across their skin and see it split, see the red underneath, pin them down like insects so they'll just stop and fucking listen to him--]


Not anymore. [It's quiet, but vehement, his voice cracking at the edges.] I don't...not for a while.
burntvideocassette: (a bit sad and a bit scared)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2018-12-16 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
[The door slams open, hard enough to damage the wall behind, hard enough to bruise Jay's arm as he stumbles back.]

Alex--

[It's nearly inaudible, swallowed by the way Alex's voice splits.]

[That's not the right word for it. Distorts isn't either; this isn't a corrupt video file, isn't a tape marred with magnetic interference. It doesn't sound exactly like any of it, doesn't line up with anything he's heard before. He's not sure he's hearing it now, not all of it. All Jay knows is that it's wrong; it's completely wrong.]

[And he's trapped.]

[It's not a plan; it's barely anything. He's not thinking. He just--reaches over to one of the flimsy racks of equipment (media players from an infinite multiverse, machines he'd like to preserve if he weren't about to be murdered) and, with all of his panicked strength, yanks on it. Maybe, if he's lucky, he'll slow Alex down.]

[1D20 => 18]

[[Disclaimer: I started to suspect the roller I was using would default to 11, since I kept getting 11s, so I tried another one. We can treat this roll as an 11 or an 18.]]
awhilelonger: (pic#12770697)

[personal profile] awhilelonger 2018-12-16 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Markus detects the joke and offers Hank a small smile at it. He stretches his hand out then to the police officer. ]

And I'm guessing you already know who I am. It's nice to meet another friend of Connor's.
fuckingpassw0rd: (23)

[personal profile] fuckingpassw0rd 2018-12-16 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I don't have to wonder. I know. Dogs are fucking chatty once they realize you understand them. I voted for a representative who put his dog up as the front-runner and she told me she was doing it because she was promised bacon.

[It's not much of a joke, but Hank will just go with it. And this is the story of how Hank had ended up with a bunch of strays in his house.

His expression goes right back to being a little more concerned just as quickly.]


Well...in that world at least it turned them human.

[And there are a lot of implications with that.]
awhilelonger: ♗ <lj user="avali">. (pic#12778291)

[personal profile] awhilelonger 2018-12-16 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ wow EXCUSE YOU KID. ]

Except you are. We all are.
awhilelonger: (pic#12380172)

yes, come all robo sibbos to the hugs!!

[personal profile] awhilelonger 2018-12-16 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Markus pauses at that, watching her reaction. A hand comes up to rest on her own, squeezing it lightly. Something didn't go right--or as planned. He just doesn't know how to bring it up without potentially causing her more pain than she already is in. ]

Our people are free.. or at least freer than they were before. But, I get the feeling that's not what happened for you.