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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! ♥
curiousher: (How curious!)

[personal profile] curiousher 2019-01-19 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's really nice! I wanted to help since I've made royal mistakes before, and she seems to trust me anyway. It's why she's got me looking out for any signs of damage!
curiousher: (Forehead)

[personal profile] curiousher 2019-01-19 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
That's a fantastic idea! I don't know why Fernando wouldn't just join the drums with his guitar, but I suppose that's his own choice. Maybe he's a bit of an introvert and needs his just-guitar space...

[That's not much of a story though, so she thinks for a moment.]

Or maybe there's something out there in the woods!
curiousher: (Run)

[personal profile] curiousher 2019-01-19 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Alice sincerely hasn't been thinking about that possibility.]

Well...she seems nice to me? And she's kind to her Mirrors.

[That's all she's got, really.]
thevulnerability: can use please credit (✥ slipping in my faith until i fall)

[personal profile] thevulnerability 2019-01-19 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
There are caves and I really recommend not going in them. There's some weird stuff down there, and not cool weird. More like, deeply disturbing and might try to kill you weird.

[ Which is all of Wonderland, to be fair. ]

I know this is going to sound completely crazy, but I've been here for almost two years. Maze showed up about six months ago and Lucifer-- [ She pauses, her expression dropping for a moment before she shrugs. ] He was here for a while, but he's gone now.
curiousher: (Teasing)

[personal profile] curiousher 2019-01-19 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Alice beams, and despite the fact that she looks like she waltzed out of Victorian England, fist bumps her right back.

...Instead of pulling back though, she pops her fingers out of her fist and wiggles them.
]

It's an octopus!

[Or, well. It is if both of them do it.]
normandysbest: (« [Explain] you are mother fucker?)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-01-19 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Alex, I need you to come back before I'm gonna keep going with this.

[She crosses her arms, more stern than she has been.]

Take some breaths. Remember what's up. Don't get caught up in this plan. I need you to be you, alright? Come on. Come back.
normandysbest: (« [Thoughtful] well i'm out of ideas)

[personal profile] normandysbest 2019-01-19 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[She shrugs, in the way you give a small shrug when you don't know but still have a purpose, like a movement equivalent of the word 'uhm'.]

I mean, met a lot of people in the galaxy. Almost all of them have a story to tell or an experience to share. Some just need a ride. But I think life's more interesting for having 'em there.

[Because she's been the weird kid who's parents were okay but didn't understand her, who didn't have a family or friends or a life, who was rescued by a kind hand. That simple.]

You were alone. Thought you didn't have to be, if you didn't want to.
rosswood: (someone needs to learn white balance)

[personal profile] rosswood 2019-01-19 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Be me.

[He wishes he could laugh. God, he wishes he could laugh at that. He jerks on the spot, as though he's about to bury his face in his hands, only for the motion to turn into something strangled and aborted.]

[How much of him is still him in here, anyway?]

[The words crack, nearing an asymptote he cannot cross and does not want to cross and because it's Shepard, because it's the one person here who still gives him a chance even when she shouldn't when she really shouldn't when he does nothing to deserve it and has done nothing he can just up and fucking say it - ]


I don't know how to do that anymore.
gonerkid: (❥ in his ass til his butthole goes numb)

[personal profile] gonerkid 2019-01-19 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[It just doesn't make any sense.]

[It doesn't make any sense that they would be something that draws anyone's attention. They never have. Particularly not another human's. They're Kris. They're ephemeral, displaced, a little strange, a little off-putting. Loved, but secondary. Quiet and odd and not quite on the same wavelength as everyone else.]

[No one approaches them out of nowhere like this. Not to just...strike up idle conversation, and offer to help.]


You're human.

[It's a question buried in an accusation - are you?]
freckilled: (adorable surprise)

[personal profile] freckilled 2019-01-19 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
"What, really?" Marco boggles a little, and then proceeds, without a hint of subtlety, to check Jean out, his eyes roving up and down the length of his frame. "You look exactly the same!"

And once that sandwich is done, he's totally reaching for it, and inhaling with the same gusto as the first time. Maybe it's for the best no one changes here, or Jean would have gotten fat on this diet.
entreats: (we're going for a drive)

[personal profile] entreats 2019-01-19 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
That might be the kind of problem you have to see a doctor for.

[ Deadpan, though, since she doesn't seem seriously weirded out. If anything, she should be seeing a doctor too for hallucinating a whole group of best friends back home then, so she can't be hypocritical about it. ]

Do they talk to you? I'd imagine that would get real noisy if all 120 of them doing it at the same time.
poppycock: (#11396953)

[personal profile] poppycock 2019-01-19 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
( she missed him. klaus' lips part after she's said so; as difficult as it is for her to admit so, it's just as novel and difficult for him to hear it. it strikes him in his heart. it startles him and means more than he can say. he wants to say it back; he means it back, but perhaps it's easier, in the moments after, to answer her question.

klaus pulls in a breath and looks down.
) I didn't go home. I woke up, and a year had past. ( tears prick his eyes. a watery smile touches his lips. it's not quite sadness, but a bittersweetness. that pride he had communicated. ) Longer, with you.
teamfun: (All your joy)

[personal profile] teamfun 2019-01-19 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the song was actually about some kind of war? But I like your idea better.

[It sounds like it has a better ending. He gives a theatrical gasp.]

Gosh! Maybe there is!
angewiesen: (18)

[personal profile] angewiesen 2019-01-19 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Jean gave a short bark of laughter as Marco obviously gave him the up-and-down-- it was just another one of those impossible things about Wonderland.

"Yeah. People don't age here. It sucks when I was hoping to grow a little bit more, but them's the breaks."

Hey, Jean knew that he'd grow gluttonous if he let himself go. That's why, despite his richer diet, he kept up with all of his daily exercises, and his 3DMG training. Who knew when Titans might how up from his memories? He had to stay on top of his game.

He wasn't going to tell Marco that could happen though. He was freaking out enough about it already when he has just arrived.
burntvideocassette: (i screwed up)

[personal profile] burntvideocassette 2019-01-19 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Of course.]

[He doesn't just stumble on things by accident, save for maybe that hole in the ground. He doesn't just have good luck, and if it seems that way, there's probably someone watching, making sure everything goes according to plan.]

[He sees the carrot. Now, where's the stick?]


If it wants me to be spreading anything, it's not exactly doing a great job. Like I said, there's just...nobody.

[He stares at the table, shoulders hunched. He mumbles his next words. Maybe he's got distance, maybe Tim's saying he'll forget whatever Jay says anyway, maybe he's supposed to be getting things off his chest, but maybe he's just gonna embarrass himself.]

[Again, at least the camera's not running.]


Didn't think it was possible to get, like, lonely after all this.

[The word sticks in his throat. Lonely, like his friends went out to some bullshit college party without him. Lonely, like some asshole whining about the fact that his girlfriend broke up with him two weeks ago. He's been working alone for years. Alex was a fluke, and one he didn't remember. Tim was a fluke. Jessica was only a few days, and then she was gone.]

[But even then, there was the person at the front desk, the person behind the counter, the anonymous masses online. Even on the days he was terrified, the days he checked the corners of his hotel room for hidden lenses, watched the staff's body language for tension, for violence, for a knife hidden in a pocket or a gun tucked in the waistband, there was some reassurance in the knowledge that he wasn't entirely alone.]

[Too bad he didn't notice until it was taken away.]

[The next words are bitter, spat through a tense jaw.]


Guess you learn something new every day.

[He went directly to the Masons, upon showing up. He went looking for Clem, and Sans, and Shepard, and the Tim he remembers. He needed to see they still exist. He needed to know.]

Wait.

[If it wants me to be spreading anything...]

Wait, shit.
eatsyourscience: (hook up your seatbelt)

[personal profile] eatsyourscience 2019-01-19 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
They do talk to me. Sort of. Luckily, I could only carry around twelve at a time at home. The others were kind of stored somewhere else. But even then, twelve different parts of me commenting on the same thing can get....confusing.
postictal: (are you ready to mcfucking die)

[personal profile] postictal 2019-01-19 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
You went looking.

[It's not hard to figure out what his distress might be keyed from, why that realization might have been like some sort of subconscious blow. The creeping wirework of something outside of yourself, beyond your perception, beyond your control, becomes so inlaid and thorough and inescapable that you stop mapping out the boundaries of it, coming to assume that there simply aren't any.]

[Tim glances away.]

[There's not much he can do about that.]

You can't know. Not really.

[You can't know, for certain, that it's your fault, your doing. But it's easier. It's so, so much easier to assume as such. It boils it all down to one specific origin, that central fucking etiology, like the tumor that you'd need to excise.]

[He didn't need the benefit of hindsight. In the tracing of the steps he took, Tim understood with perfect clarity why Alex Kralie did any of it.]


You can never really know.
boldsimplicity: (Raise your hand if you murdered someone)

[personal profile] boldsimplicity 2019-01-20 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He mostly expected that sort of response. Junko wouldn't be Junko otherwise...

Nonetheless, Ishimaru looks far from defeated despite the wariness and almost tired look in his eyes. He definitely has a job to do now, not just as a classmate and a Future Foundation member, but as a friend. And part of being a friend is keeping your friends in line!!]


I see... you're always trying to keep me on my toes! But be aware that I know when you start doing something really sketchy!

[...Actually, he's always been kinda slow catching her on that, but he's determined to pick on her 'cues' before anything goes bad here!]
persevere: (caroline012)

[personal profile] persevere 2019-01-20 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[She could stay in that moment, lips pressed softly against his, bliss filling every inch of her body, her heart feeling like it was ready to burst. It ends, of course, paused by the sound of her name, before his lips meet hers again.]

I'm here. [She slips words in between kisses.] I'm here.

[A reassurance, for herself as much as for him, because it almost doesn't feel real after that stretch of time where she wasn't, where they weren't, where she thought she might be alone.]
persevere: (008)

[personal profile] persevere 2019-01-20 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, that does it. There's a pit in her stomach, knowing that Elena is gone, but she tries to look on the bright side.

Wonderland did Elena no favors, either. She shouldn't have to deal with this.

(She doesn't want to admit that she'll kind of miss Damon, too.)]


That's horrible. [She sighs.] It likes to do that to people, though. It's so messed up. It can't possibly be all chance.
persevere: (caroline093)

[personal profile] persevere 2019-01-20 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. There was this whole thing where I shut off my humanity and I was basically a class A bitch for way too long.

[Her mouth falls open at that, but she then she breaks out into complete laughter, shaking her head.]

Oh, come on! I thought we were going to make a club or something. Rude!
persevere: (tvd501--0649)

[personal profile] persevere 2019-01-20 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I wouldn't want to get thrown through a window, so I'll be sure to be more careful.

[She's pretty sure she can avoid it, now that she knows to be on the lookout for a rather cute unicorn.]

So...I'm Caroline. What's your name?
persevere: (caroline017)

[personal profile] persevere 2019-01-20 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[She crouches down because she hates not being able to talk to him eye-to-eye. It just seems rude to look down that far or something.

She's probably overthinking it.]


Yeah, except I don't remember ever going home. It was just like....nothingness. If there hadn't been decorations, I wouldn't have even known any time had passed. [A beat.] Which is even more messed up now that I've said it out loud.
thisismadfreaky: (Watching ~ worried)

[personal profile] thisismadfreaky 2019-01-20 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't rush her or push her while she takes it in and processes it; it's a lot, especially if you aren't from a world where things that sound like they're straight out of Hollywood happen on the reg. But he's one part pleased, and another part curious at her question.

"Uh- you know, I really don't know," He frowns a little. "I know Earth-2 had basically a parallel event to our Earth's, that created metas... and metas exist on other Earth's, too... but I don't know." he folds his arms across his chest. "Huh... Too bad you're not around in Central City." He thinks Team Flash could probably use someone like her around.
poppycock: (#10259190)

[personal profile] poppycock 2019-01-20 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
( neither does he know if this is real or not, so shaken is he with joy and hope and a terror that shakes down to the hands that grasp her. he needs her words, her arms, her kiss. he holds her closer, meets her lips with his in an ebb and flow of crushing need and softening tenderness.

his eyes are wet and a smile touches his lips when they pause for breath. his hand cards through her hair, his eyes alight in their happiness. the soft rumble of laughter that escapes him is short, drowned in his exhale.
) I don't suppose we should ever leave each other's sides again? ( an entirely unrealistic proposition, but a fitting one in jest, he believes, at the moment. )