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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 (Let me be the one to save you)

[personal profile] charlastan 2018-12-18 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[T́͏̣̜̲̥̱o̴̶̷̬̙͕̺u̸̹̬̯̹̮͈̤r̞̠͙͉̗̕i̗͡s͚̫͕̯̯̖̭͢t̷̼͘ͅͅ. Stan knows the word is coming, and yet when it comes it doesn't stick, and when Ford says it a couple of times Stan makes a face as though he's trying really hard to hear him.

But he can't. The word is gone.
]

Uh. Gonna assume whatever you said is the word I was lookin' for, yeah. Ever since we lost it, it just goes in one ear out the other. But whatever the word is, the point is you lost it the last time you were here too. Spooked you real good at the time too, since it got through that plate in your head.

[He mimes knocking on his head like Ford does sometimes, for emphasis.]

You got it back though! That's pretty good for me and the kids if we can figure out how to get the hell outta here. Plus at least someone's memory is all in one piece around here.
mourning_ghost: (attention)

[personal profile] mourning_ghost 2018-12-18 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
...!

[That's different.]

...You could... change the past?

[There's one thing in his past he'd very much like to change if there's a chance.]
waitin: (049)

sobs same tho

[personal profile] waitin 2018-12-18 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
( her eyes burn immediately- they flood with tears at the tone in his voice (and she curses herself for this too, but she wasn't expecting it. she had not prepared for it). she can't remember the last time someone sounded exactly like that to see her, but he always did have a way of saying things that didn't sound like anybody else (she'd say before he sounded fancy). she made a lot of enemies in her world. only recently did she really start making friends, ...and enemies again. always enemies too, always fighting. tooth and nail, desperate, clawing, refusing to give up. )

You remember me. ( her breath catches in her throat. her tone's tied up in the same emotions: fondness and grief and relief and pain. and over five years of experience. a tightness in her chest makes it difficult to breathe through but she erases the distance between them, wraps her arms around him when she's close enough, and gives him a tight hug. )
mothmansplaining: (yes you can)

[personal profile] mothmansplaining 2018-12-18 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Oh, Stanley, you have no idea how worrying this is. He's not going to leave you and the kids here to become like Alice, with your memory gone and no way to bring it back.]

All right. Once I have an idea of the place, I'll get to work straight away. But first -- you said that I, or a parallel version of me -- used to be here. That I've been here on and off since you arrived. When I left, where did I go? Has anyone else ever escaped?
hadtolose: "Get Free" (God knows we've got them)

[personal profile] hadtolose 2018-12-18 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ She laughs humorlessly. He's not currently a threat to her now, and she definitely doesn't have a weapon. But oh, would she love to hurt him. Maybe it'd be wrong, but it'd feel so right.

Kara closes the distance between them, and the force tightening her fists switches from wariness to anger. ]


It's funny how history always seems to repeat itself when it comes to slavery and money.

[ She's been reset who knows how many times, but those world and American history files are still impeccable, sir. ]

People wake up eventually.
beatupgrass: (✘ the short version is "we're boned.")

[personal profile] beatupgrass 2018-12-18 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, it's true. I am. [This is why he's so glad to have her back.] Man, it's good to have you back. All the people with any d'ast sense keep leaving me with the eternal optimists and the whiners.
uncoils: (Sticking your foot in your mouth anytime)

[personal profile] uncoils 2018-12-18 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
You can get pretty much anything in there. Not just books, but movies, music, whatever. From all sorts of different worlds too, I think. If you're going to be here for a while, you've got a lot of options for entertainment.

[She's watched so many hilariously terrible movies because of this.]
hadtolose: (It runs through me)

[personal profile] hadtolose 2018-12-18 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Again, they're back to the ease of adjusting to Wonderland. To humans. She hates how jealous she feels, even knowing it's wrong. ]

How would you know about how easy it is to adjust?

[ As soon as the words are out, she regrets them. They'd sounded so bitter, like he was still an other.

Her head dips, her gaze locked on Jericho. ]


Sorry, I'm just... [ She lets out a sigh. ] I shouldn't judge. It's not right. It's not like I know what you've been through.
charlastan: Iscariot - Walk the Moon (My brother I'd follow you in)

[personal profile] charlastan 2018-12-18 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Stan's shoulders fall a little.]

No idea. As far as I know, nobody's gotten out on purpose, and you prolly went back to wherever you came from. We, uh. Weren't from the same point in time, so the most specific I've got is "on the ocean somewhere with future-me"? You started off being from around the same point as me and then Wonderland would ship you out and bring you back a few weeks later your time. It just kinda kept doing that until you sailed on in the last time. If you were only gone a week or so you remembered Wonderland when you got back, but if it was longer than that you pretty much started all over.

[He's skirting around one important detail though - when in time he's from.]
licksthirium: (pic#12600807)

[personal profile] licksthirium 2018-12-18 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[He didn't show much reaction. Not enough for any normal human to tell, but Kara probably could. His LED turned yellow for a while, with an expression that showed some surprise before going back to how he was.

She had every right to snap at him, and frankly? It made him think back to how he felt he didn't deserve to be free after everything happened, but he'll shake that off for now.]


I'm sorry. Maybe it was how I was designed, but I get it. I'm not... the best example of how to properly live. I don't blame you for how you feel about me but... I hope in time we can get past the past... Maybe become friends?

[He knows that's a tall order, but he's trying to see things from her side and even fix what he's broken.]
powerofmabel: (☆ you are all i'll ever need)

[personal profile] powerofmabel 2018-12-18 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Zero zero one one zero zero one. Boop. [So says Mabel in her "robotic voice." This one's on you, brother. She's moral support.]
postictal: (barely got a lid on it)

[personal profile] postictal 2018-12-18 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
It's a...long story.

[It's complicated. It's complicated because he was worn down and tired before he was even yanked from one world to another, and he figured that this was just a detour, a bump in the road. It wasn't.]

[Something like two years later, and it still isn't.]


It was a Castle, first. Then...I ended up on an island. Archipelago. So, yeah. There are a lotta different worlds out there. Lotta different versions of the same people.
hypoxic: framework (but it's a memory for tomorrow)

freya's room

[personal profile] hypoxic 2018-12-18 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Klaus has done what he will to push himself back into Freya's life. Afterwards, all that's left is the wandering. As much as Freya has cleaned up her space until it's immaculate, there's no hiding the extra scent in the room. She's had guests over, quite recently. One scent in particular might tickle the edges of Klaus' freshly-returned memories, one that he's stalked and tracked during times of sadness and anger both. And the trail of that scent seems to lead directly into his sister's closet. There's nothing odd about that, is there?

Whenever Klaus finds it appropriate to investigate, he'll find a small prison erected just past the door. There's a cot set up, which a small man is currently using as a means of adding some height to a set of reverse pushups. When the door opens, he looks toward the interruption, his mouth an impassive line.]


Does she know you're in her boudoir? I'd imagine she considers this an invasion.
hadtolose: (I've got a war in my mind)

[personal profile] hadtolose 2018-12-18 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ She almost makes a face at his colorful word choice, considering how much she hated to see Alice get exposed to that sort of talk from her "father." Then again, Louis was a little out of the age range her usual parameters had been set for...

It'd be a learning experience? ]


I think you'd be okay with not seeing it how it was when I left it.

[ There's a slight hesitation, then she asks: ] Have you been okay here by yourself?
nineteenfortyfive: (CLAN)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-18 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure Jamie was thrilled.

[Maybe not on the outside, to be kind to her, but. She knows.]
mollymocked: (⚔ there's a house we can build)

[personal profile] mollymocked 2018-12-18 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, those types. [Molly pulls up a chair next to Facilier's table and plants his feet on the chair opposite him, where his client would be sitting if one were here. When they arrive, he'll move. For now, it's where his feet go. He will be relaxed and enticing and beckon people over with his charming carnie smiles, because surely nothing gets attention like Keith David and the mall kiosk worker from hell.

Molly's just breezing into this like he's found someone willing to give him the time of day at a fortune teller's convention and he's all in for shop talk. And gods does he talk.]


Y'know, the funny thing about those sorts of people is they actually don't need more. They need a lot less. D'you ever get that feeling?
255000255000255: (<3)

[personal profile] 255000255000255 2018-12-18 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Monika quickly shakes her head. ] Don't worry about it. It was better that way.

[ And that's all she says about that. Her time free was precious, even more so now, and she didn't want to taint it too much with pain and regrets.

So, no sadness! Time for smiles! ]


Honestly? It's weird being this way. I'm so used to time limits! [ Wait. No pain. ] Mm, whatever. It's good to see you, too.

[ With a little grin, she gives him a nudge. ] You adjusting to your freedom okay? You better be~
licksthirium: (pic#12653101)

[personal profile] licksthirium 2018-12-18 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Well... I'm attempting to. Wonderland is up to some weird stuff, but it's brought quite a good amount of people from my world here.

[And then a moment...]

Oh uh.. Be careful. There's another me around here. To more specific... Do you remember the event where we changed for a while...?
255000255000255: (Hair down)

[personal profile] 255000255000255 2018-12-18 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ahh, she feels all warm inside. Christmas was great! Well, for now. She knew enough about Wonderland to know the fun wouldn't last forever. ]

I want something Japanese. Like, really Japanese!

[ She wanted to know what the food of her "setting" was really supposed to taste like. All of her experiences here had been very American, if she did bother to eat. ]

Beyond that, it's up to you. Even if it's something simple, it's fine.

[ Her smile softens. ] It'll just be nice to spend some time with you, without having to worry so much.
nineteenfortyfive: (FALLEN)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-18 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
I can't imagine that conversation going well.

[Because she can't imagine having that conversation with anyone, at all.]
255000255000255: (What?)

[personal profile] 255000255000255 2018-12-18 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, Wonderland. Never change.

No, maybe actually change, because wow. ]


Um, yeah. You were kind of a jerk. [ There's a slight pause. ] Well, ahaha, there's no "kind of" about it. You had a major stick up your butt.

[ One of her eyebrows creeps up. ] Is he like Connor 1.0?
nineteenfortyfive: (FORGET)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-18 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[If Claire can manage to feel grateful about anything here, it's seeing that in twenty years she still has nice skin and is trim. Jamie's not fared too badly himself. But it's not polite to stare, and so she averts her eyes after a long moment.]

A few weeks seems like a drop in the pond considering her age.

[A daughter with her future self, that he didn't raise. What a mess. A sad, sad mess. She might not be able to wrap her head around much of this, but she does know that Jamie's the sort of man that would want to be with his children. Raise them and love them and protect them.]
licksthirium: (pic#12653207)

[personal profile] licksthirium 2018-12-18 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[That does make him give out a light chuckle.]

I can't say I was too fond of talking to him myself. [He won't deny that.] He's here. It's... In Detroit, my memories are uploaded to a type of cloud if you will, just in case something were to happen to me. If I were to be destroyed somehow, they'd just send a new RK800 in, upload my memories, and continue the mission. There are some problems with that, though. There is some memory loss involved.

This other RK800 model that's here... It's not like another model came and took my place. It's more like... he's the original, but if I had carried out my mission. Like.... the way I was during the event.

[It felt weird to think about, but he didn't want Monika to run into him and find out the hard way.]
255000255000255: (Okay)

[personal profile] 255000255000255 2018-12-18 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ The look on her face is strange as he explains that. Though she was also of the digital persuasion, android technology was still a wee bit out of her grasp. Throw in Wonderland shenanigans and it got even worse.

Eventually, she gives a few shakes of her head and widens her smile. No pain! No regrets! ]


It's fine. That's not you, and you're not an "RK800" anymore.

[ She boops his nose. ] You're Connor! So don't even worry about it. If I see him, I'll give him a good slap, just for you~
licksthirium: (pic#12653201)

[personal profile] licksthirium 2018-12-18 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Wow. That was... something that seemed pretty universal at this point. People telling him that he wasn't that person anymore and not to worry. None of them were wrong and it wasn't a bad thought, just still a bit foreign for him.]

I mean, I'm technically still an RK800 model, but...

[Oh. Okay. He wasn't expecting the boop, so he took a moment to finish. But her response does make the faint smile show again, chuckling lightly again. He just didn't want her to be confused about it not being the Connor she came to know and her safety.]

Just... be careful, okay? I'm... who I make myself to be.

[His way of saying that he's not the same. His choices may have been seen as errors or a mistake to his counterpart, but he didn't regret his decisions after he'd woken up. If nothing else, he felt more regret of the damage he's caused already and it was too late to fix them.]