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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! ♥
beautifullies: (ye are вlood oғ мy вlood)

[personal profile] beautifullies 2018-12-13 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
I do. Every day.

[ She extends her hands, showing that there are two rings: one that matches her younger version's, one silver, crudely made but meaning the world. ]

I tried to get back to the stones.

[ That's all she'll say unless asked, shaking her head. ]

Even after getting this ring, I tried. And you know that Brianna took his name. Frank raised her and loved her and knew she wasn't his.
nineteenfortyfive: (ARRANGEMENTS)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-13 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[She's not sure if it's terribly sad or terribly insulting to either man that both rings are worn. Claire swallows, hard, fingers digging into her hair.]

You broke his heart.

[But. That she could break it means she made it back. Just too late, it seems.]
beautifullies: (poυr down ғroм нeaven)

[personal profile] beautifullies 2018-12-13 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Claire looks down, rubbing her thumb over the gold band. She'd loved Frank, thought her love for him was as real and true and forever as love could ever be. She was a teenager, younger than Bree is now when she thought her entire life would be Frank Randall. ]

It isn't what I wanted.

[ Either to break Frank's heart (she did, it's fact, even before it's happened her younger version knows) or to ever go back and face him to break said heart. ]

Frank deserved better than he got. But I did love him. Still do, in a way. Just...a different way.
nineteenfortyfive: (HEAL)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-13 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
My God.

[She's torn between running away as fast as she can--assuming she can feel her legs, with the shock--and asking about every minute detail. What do you talk to yourself about besides yourself?]

I don't know what to say, or... to think. To feel.

[Oh, she can read between the lines well enough.]
beautifullies: (20 yearѕ ago)

[personal profile] beautifullies 2018-12-13 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I'll tell you anything you want to know. Every fault, every sin, everything that brought you here.

[ Well, not here in Wonderland precisely because she has no idea in hell how that happened.

But everything else. ]
nineteenfortyfive: (JUMPER)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-13 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Do I want to know? What's the point, if... if it's all to be forgotten?

[Something in her seizes with fear. Is it the same with the stones? If she goes back, back to Frank, would she forget all she's experienced and all she's met?

Jamie shouldn't come to her mind, but he does.]
beautifullies: (even тнoυgн нe never мeт yoυ)

[personal profile] beautifullies 2018-12-13 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't all terrible.

[ Claire's thumb moves over that silver ring idly as she thinks. ]

I've been here for two years. I know as soon as I leave I'll forget it all. But it's still worth something. Still, if you don't want to know, that's all right too. But for as horrible as you feel now you should know...it stops. It stops feeling that way.
nineteenfortyfive: (DIRE)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-13 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Two years?

[She can't fathom it. Being at castle Leoch for weeks and weeks on end is almost too much. And this place feels far more disorienting.]

How? Not--being here. Just... how the hell am I--are you--married to Jamie?
beautifullies: (тнιnĸιng ѕo loυdly)

[personal profile] beautifullies 2018-12-13 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Claire looks at her sputtering, confused, scared for the future self and is simply honest. ]

Yes. It was an arranged marriage after Johnathan Randall became a threat to my safety.

[ No need to scar herself early. She'll leave out the other attacks by his hand. ]

Under the law, no British officer can compel a Scot away from their clan. So...

[ So she'd become a Scot. ]
nineteenfortyfive: (NERVES)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-15 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Randall. [Well, shit. Claire had hoped to never run into that man again, especially after learning what he'd done to Jamie. How on earth could her sweet, gentle Frank be related to that monster?]

So... what, you suggested marriage to Jamie?

[And he would agree. Even then, back in these early days, Claire knows he felt something. The man's obvious. A gentleman, but the affection is there in his eyes.]
beautifullies: (ѕнe'ѕ goт вonny eyeѕ oғ ιndιgo)

[personal profile] beautifullies 2018-12-16 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Christ, no, I was still trying to figure out a way back to the stones. Even after Jamie and I were married, I tried like hell.

[ She might as well tell the truth of it. She didn't simply give in, she didn't live without conflict and guilt. ]

It was Dougal's idea.
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.]
beautifullies: (ѕнe'ѕ goт wнιтe ѕĸιn.)

[personal profile] beautifullies 2018-12-19 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Claire can't help but duck her head, smiling, unable to help it. Amusing now, but for this younger version of herself? Likely not as much. ]

Honestly, he was very respectful, though you already know by now he would never be anything less.

[ And because this can't hurt anything, she decides to add: ]

He was - is, to you - a virgin. I'm not sure he knew what to expect, exactly.
nineteenfortyfive: (ONCOMING)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-12-22 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

[Is that biggest surprise of all? Well, perhaps not. Jamie Fraser is, above all, a good man. He's probably not the sort to fool around before marriage.]

Christ. So... I'm going to marry this man, and he's not--he's not even going to know what to do?

[... drunk Claire might think it's a terrible idea, but sober Claire? There are worse things, and he'll at least learn from her.]
beautifullies: (мy reтυrn нaѕ вeen ғrυѕтraтιng)

[personal profile] beautifullies 2018-12-25 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Everything he knows now, twenty-four years later, well.

[ Claire smirks a bit. ]

He's quite a competent learner. He's also gentle. Kind. Consent is very important to him. And he loves you now.