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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! ♥
nineteenfortyfive: (INSANITY)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-12 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[And that's not a name she expected to hear, though he's not far from her thoughts with the color of this girl's hair.]

Jamie? You don't mean--Jamie MacTavish?

[That's right. This Claire doesn't even know the man's real name.]

You're not making any sense. None of this is making any sense.

[She turns to leave. Where to? She has no bloody idea. Maybe she just needs to pace.]
givingback: (31.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-12 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Jamie Mac - Jamie Fraser.

[ What the -

...oh. ]


Claire Randall.

[ Bree's skin goes hot, somehow her lips even feel chapped and this time it's her who moves to pace a little. This is somehow worse than anything she thought might happen. ]

Frank. Frank is still your husband.

[ The involuntary tears make her eyes sting. In some life, somewhere, her father is still alive. ]

What year is it?

[ She has to be sure. Right now she thinks something's happened to make her mother revert to a time far in the past, not that this a whole different person. ]
nineteenfortyfive: (FALLEN)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-12 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Fraser?

[She doesn't know any Frasers. Claire stops, watching this redhead with confusion, but so far she's all she's got. Mother strangeness aside. And... name strangeness, apparently.]

Right. Randall. I'm Claire Randall.

[Not Claire Fraser--not yet, anyway. That's still some time off, though she has no way of knowing it.]

Wait, what do you mean still my husband? Have you seen him?

[She she might be avoiding the year thing. Even she's not sure how to answer it.]
givingback: (35.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-12 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's dead.

She doesn't say that of course, and Bree wets her lips, shaking her head. ]


He isn't here. This is...this place. It brings people from different worlds. Different times. My...

[ Her heart feels like it's going to either drop into her stomach or come up out of her through her throat. ]

My name is Bree. Randall.
nineteenfortyfive: (BRUSH)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-12 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
What?

[To all of it. Worlds? Times. Different times. Bree Randall, and she's insisting she's her mother. Christ.

Nothing will ever make sense again, so... why not? Claire pushes her hair back, fingers getting caught in the curls halfway, and so she drops her hands.]


Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ. You're serious.

[Her heart is beginning to pound so fast in her chest she feels lightheaded. Shock, she realizes.]
givingback: (33.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-12 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's that familiar saying, and Bree laughs so she won't cry, then gestures to a tea room. ]

We can sit. We need to sit. I'll explain or...or I'll try to explain. Please.
nineteenfortyfive: (BACK)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-12 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Sitting--sitting sounds good.

[This girl, this Bree Randall, doesn't seem dangerous. No harm in following her and listening to her nonsense.]
givingback: (56.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-12 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Bree goes inside with her and closes the door to the tea room; it's a nice space, comfortable, and she sits heavily, trying to sort out where to even start. How to start. ]

You don't have to...worry about lying. Or maintaining one. I know you went through the stones. I know everything's felt impossible since then, but being here...this isn't that.

[ Way to be clear, Bree. ]

When you leave here, you'll go back to the exact time and place you left. Back to Scotland in 1743.
nineteenfortyfive: (FALLEN)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-13 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[The stones. The year. If she wasn't already sitting, she might be on the floor. Claire's hands grasp each other on her lap, trying to make sense of things that never will.]

I don't understand.
givingback: (56.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-13 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Neither do I.

[ Bree's voice is shaking a little but she looks down, trying to compose herself. ]

You're exactly who I think you are. JUst not...not from the right time yet.
nineteenfortyfive: (DIRE)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-13 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Christ. If she doesn't recognize that struggle to keep it all together. Almost, almost she has the urge to reach out and try to comfort her, but resists.]

Yet. So are you... are you saying that there's two of me in this place?
givingback: (29.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-13 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
That's definitely what I'm saying.

[ Bree looks at her again, and the similarities between them, they're so much more apparent now. Just like when Jamie was only a year older than her, she could see their shared features better. ]

You. My age almost. And you...my mother. In her fifties.

[ She's so glad her mother is still in Wonderland. God, she doesn't know what she would do if all she had was her mother's face and denial. ]
nineteenfortyfive: (BLUE)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-13 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
... how old are you?

[It's the safest question.]

I'm twenty-seven.

[In case she doesn't know. Maybe she does. If what she's saying is true, all the insanity of it, then she must know more about her than she does herself.]
givingback: (58.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-13 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Twenty-four. Just turned.

[ As if that matters. ]

[ Why is her heart beating so fast? It's just her mother. A younger version, but still fundamentally her. ]

You've teased me before, about already being married when you were my age.
nineteenfortyfive: (FORGET)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-13 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Her head is spinning. Twenty-four is likely older than the Jamie she knows.]

Your mother teased you.

[Not her.]
givingback: (25.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-13 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ THe correction makes her mouth go dry. ]

I'm sorry. I didn't...

[ She didn't mean to make the mistake. ]

Do you hate it? The idea of me?
nineteenfortyfive: (WATCH)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-13 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[It wasn't meant to be harsh, but there's really no nice way to say it, is there. Claire feels regret, for a moment, fully prepared to push it down when Bree continues to talk.

She fiddles with her wedding band.]


The general idea? No. I always wanted to have a child.

[It's just everything else that makes this so very complicated and Claire's unsure if she wants to laugh or scream.]
givingback: (58.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-13 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea if this makes things better or worse, but you'll be a really great mom one day.

[ Well. There are rough patches. She doesn't need to know that part. ]

We have the same hands.

[ She holds hers out, palm up, like an offering. Their lines are the same, dashes and forks. A story already written, already fated. ]
nineteenfortyfive: (RESCUE)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-16 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Given the way she feels another way of dizziness wash over her, probably worse, but. This girl is trying. Claire sees that much, and that she's hurting, and so she swallows whatever not-entirely-nice things she might have to say about this whole situation.]

--I'm sorry.
givingback: (34.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-16 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Bree shakes her head, running a hand over her face for a second. ]

Don't. It's okay. This is...I know it's insane. It took me a really long time to accept...

[ All of it, really. ]

...to believe my mother when she told me about the stones. It's overwhelming; I should have stopped when I realized you didn't know about Jamie or I.
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.]
givingback: (36.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-18 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It didn't. But I came around. Mostly when I saw Geillis -

[ Bree pauses. She has no idea when exactly her mother met Geillis. ]

...Geillis Duncan. She went through the stones, too. On purpose, not by accident.
nineteenfortyfive: (FALLEN)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-21 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Record scratch. Claire squints.]

Geillis?

[Geillis, one of her--well, perhaps her only friend. There's something about the woman that is most definitely witchy, but witches aren't real. Eccentric, then.

Claire's mouth hangs open for a long moment.]


She--she went through the stones? Like me? How?

[Actually, that might explain it all. The knowing looks. The curious smiles.]
givingback: (44.)

[personal profile] givingback 2018-12-27 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
On purpose, as it turns out. She did the research and apparently, you need a gemstone to pass through. You said you lost a watch when you went the first time.

[ The first time. Meaning there are enough times to count them. ]

She also murdered her husband but that was...well. I think it's because she was just insane, personally. She wanted to change history. She's a Jacobite.