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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! ♥
silvertongueddevil: (Charm)

[personal profile] silvertongueddevil 2018-12-27 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Everyone... then how do you have brains to ea... Right. No one eats. They're mindless and kill everything, or die. Right. Got it." And he does. It's a cold image, and one he's seen in enough movies to recognize.

"We have to be scratched, and so far those that can are selective. Either avoiding it at all costs, or only doing so to those can afford to pay their extortion," he admits.

"Living people don't know. We're secretive and hidden," he admits. "Like I said, I only knew the two, and one of them made me."
noble_son: (23)

[personal profile] noble_son 2018-12-27 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Safe enough.

[Maker, his chest aches with this already. Safe? Yes, as safe as one might be while they're here. Happy..? That one is arguable. He has been content, satisfied, but those things are not happiness. No, what he feels now is more like happiness.

But she's right. This is all unusual, and can they trust that anyone who flooded back in with this influx will stay? Nathaniel isn't sure what to make of it, but he brushes Robyn's hair back with a warm smile and the slightest shake of his head.
]

It sounds like you've had an interesting time already. A woman eating dirt, you said?
keephersafe: (12)

[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-12-27 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm... not usually.

[R slides into a seat, quietly fumbling with the packet of cookies with still half-numb fingers, an expression of disproportionate concentration on his face.]

Sometimes Wonderland... messes with us. Makes things go wrong.
poppycock: (#10514129)

[personal profile] poppycock 2018-12-28 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
( it is quite the question, with many interpretations to pick and choose and answer. a tease of amusement filters back into klaus' expression. the corner of his lips quirks with the ghost of a smile. ) What suffering have you endured, pray tell? Besides the closet space. ( and whatever freya is intent on extracting from him, but klaus sees no reason to limit answers. )
hypoxic: (there's no need to speak)

[personal profile] hypoxic 2018-12-28 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
I'd imagined the worst of it would be infiltrating the organization currently trying to take over my world. The vampire maulings were an unpleasant surprise.

[He takes a beat to breathe.] But you haven't been told about any of that, have you? Your sister doesn't know you're here.
poppycock: (#11517543)

[personal profile] poppycock 2018-12-28 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
( no, they do not.

their worlds are beyond difficult; by all accounts, hers is worse. to have the chance, here and now, to see her sitting before him, alive, nearly grown: that's a fortune he cannot begin to grasp but with the most exquisite and bitter gratitude. he retrieves their hot chocolate as she settles in (with a dash of cinnamon and extra marshmallows) and places her mug in front of her as he sits.

he can believe the impossible, because he's lived a thousand years of doing so. even if he leaves when all this is done, perhaps this moment will give her comfort as it does him. it's all he can hope for.

his tone is wry.
) Considering I have little choice in the matter — neither of us do — ( he pauses, the moment thick, as is the emotion stoppering his throat. ) I'm glad too.

Even if I did.
uncoils: (You cry you learn)

[personal profile] uncoils 2018-12-28 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
[She'll start with the easier explanation. It's still painful, but not the most painful part.]

Don't know if you saw the whole thing, but there was a guy in a white hat. If that girl's me, if that's my friends, then he can't be there.

[There's not really a good way to say this, so just give her a second.]

He's dead. When I said that priest killed two of my friends, he was one of them.
Edited 2018-12-28 02:15 (UTC)
poppycock: (#11101226)

[personal profile] poppycock 2018-12-28 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
( klaus is still and quiet for a moment. a short, excruciating moment where the facts are laid at his feet. caroline is gone. she isn't here, and despite the damnable hope rising in him at the thought that she might, could return— he can't afford that hope. neither can he afford the feeling of loss of both elena and damon, no matter how fraught their unlikely alliance once was.

inconsequential, he decides. and caroline: he'll deal with that later.

at least she needn't suffer any longer.

his eyes fall, because he doesn't desire freya to see his own. a moment of hesitation, and then he circumvents her to keep on their course.
) Anything else of note?
poppycock: (#11396939)

[personal profile] poppycock 2018-12-28 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
( ah. so kol, he'd wager.

klaus doesn't miss a beat.
) Well, she's hardly my keeper. Unlike one of us here.
hypoxic: framework (while on a detour)

[personal profile] hypoxic 2018-12-28 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
And you're in the habit of violating her privacy? It's no wonder that she hasn't mentioned you.

[There's another angle at play here. He's positive this has to lead to a means of escape. Too many players spoil everything.]
poppycock: (#12341412)

[personal profile] poppycock 2018-12-28 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
( yes, quite frankly, and of course she hasn't.

klaus reveals his palms in mock supplication and leans forward in his seat, devil-may-care.
) I tend to interfere where I don't belong.
hypoxic: (you're stronger now)

[personal profile] hypoxic 2018-12-28 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[The doctor doesn't budge as Klaus shifts, visibly unmoved.]

All of which leads me back to my initial question. What are you?
angewiesen: (6)

[personal profile] angewiesen 2018-12-28 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not going anywhere," Jean reassured him, and sat down on said couch to prove it. He even put his feet up on it. The stars could start falling outside and he still wouldn't leave Marco. There wasn't anything more important than being here right now.
poppycock: (#12341398)

[personal profile] poppycock 2018-12-28 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
( he's not playing that game.

klaus lifts a finger to stop him, to halt the supposition that he will answer, not because he believes it will come as such an illuminating surprise, but just the opposite.

he's intimately familiar with what this leopold fitz is.
)

Let me guess what you are, seeing as the signs are so glaringly inevitable, truly a poor and unoriginal fashioning of a erudite fascist with a — ah, yes — a yearning for daddy's approval high on his list of priorities right under the exploitation and extermination of a race far more powerful and resourceful than you. Am I close?
Edited 2018-12-28 02:55 (UTC)
waitin: (042)

[personal profile] waitin 2018-12-28 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
( Clementine lifts an eyebrow when he catches himself. ...if he only knew how many curse words she spouts out on the regular though. What he says, it strikes right through to the core though. )

I'm sorry too. I.. loved him back.

( A lot. It aches her heart that he is thinking of her when he's the one who- )

I've found new people. I've spent time alone too, but I'm okay. I have people now.
beatupgrass: (✘ i liked the parts with me in them)

[personal profile] beatupgrass 2018-12-28 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Havin' manners? [he pauses.] Yeah, that's fair. I've never known a place where things go better for you if you're polite.

[The Sovereign........................?]
masukukunai: (get me out of this fucking garbage can)

[personal profile] masukukunai 2018-12-28 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, that bar is so low you could step over it. As long as you don't use a puppet, or sexually harass anyone...

But there're people here that could use a high school teacher?
waitin: (042)

[personal profile] waitin 2018-12-28 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
( Clementine stares at him for a long moment in the aftermath of what he says with the expression on his face (the one she can't quite place, but she isn't sure she's meant to). Her arms fold further in on herself as she bites down on her lower lip. )

Do you want to forget?

( That is the ultimate question after all. )
waitin: (047)

[personal profile] waitin 2018-12-28 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
...how does it work in the shows? Even if it's not the same, it could be fun to laugh at it.

( laugh at how inaccurately it describes and shows what it is actually like to go through this shit. Otherwise, maybe it has valuable information. It's not like she has any to go on when it comes to all this.

She lifts an eyebrow at the way he puts it. )


...are you really... glad to be here?

( If he's not, he's not. She gets this whole place is complicated as fuck. )
mourning_ghost: (reading)

[personal profile] mourning_ghost 2018-12-28 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
I won't hurt anyone, cause them to be hurt indirectly, or let someone be hurt. And I won't give you anything that isn't mine to give.

[It's not that Nageki is suspicious, but he does has previous experience with seemingly harmless offers turning out to be deadly. That, combined with the fact that such offers hardly ever turn out well in stories, makes him feel the need to lay out some conditions.]
hypoxic: framework (lies are a good tactic)

[personal profile] hypoxic 2018-12-28 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[The comments about fathers cut deep, but not enough to crack the emotionless mask that passes for his face.This Klaus is fishing for new ways to harm him. There's no reason to pay it any mind.]

You've got quite a specific archetype in mind after the smallest bit of conversation. It sounds a bit like you might be projecting.
battlefront: (//Dusk//)

[personal profile] battlefront 2018-12-28 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
[...he honestly can't say he knows where Tim's actually from.

Probably shouldn't have asked that to begin with, but he was expecting something about Wonderland being inbetween one of those places. Any of them. Whoever this Tim is, apparently he gets around.

And this Tim isn't his friend. Not the one he'd known, at least. Something else is going on here, but he feels that terrible gut feeling he'd had the moment he saw the man looking even more haggard than usual.

'I'm not him.']


Never heard of Earth or Alabama.

[Both sound even more unpleasant than Wonderland itself.]

Are all of these just-- are they different worlds?

[How is any of that possible?]

What... happened to the Tim I knew?
ateherdirt: (9)

[personal profile] ateherdirt 2018-12-28 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Does she? There's the glimmer of a grin as she shrugs.]

Dunno. You gonna take that risk?
wickedwest: (Fooled them all)

[personal profile] wickedwest 2018-12-28 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Funnily enough, she knows what the struggle of trying to be better is like. Having been here when she was green and angry and trying to time travel and also being here later and trying to not be the same person she was then means she's got a fair amount of experience with that.]

For quite some time. Went home a few times, but always seemed to end up right back here. Until I left for good, of course. Or thought I did.

[Still not sure how she feels about that.]

Now that I'm here again, not really sure if that counts.
waitin: (068)

[personal profile] waitin 2018-12-28 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Wonderland will take care of that," Clementine reassures with a tiny smile. It's weird but true.

It cleans up after itself, rights anything that has been wronged, fixes anything that has been broken.