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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! ♥
indirectcause: (A self-inflicted murder)

[personal profile] indirectcause 2018-12-14 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[The lady isn't exactly what he's expecting- but then he doesn't know what he's expecting. He's fairly certain this is just some awful afterlife. He offers her a small smile, his shoulders hunched. There's a hunted look to him, like he's expecting something to just leap out at him at any second. ]

I...thanks. I'm still getting used to this whole... everything. I haven't had a whole lot of food for a while.

[And now he has everything. At a wish. He pauses. He doesn't trust strangers that much. People outside of your group are dangerous. But only one of his group is here right now, and she's...complicated.]

Hi. I'm Ben.

[personal profile] dejavoodoo 2018-12-17 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Misty doesn't move much further from the doorway, not yet. Just watching him, knowing that look. She's seen that expression before. Hell, she has it from time to time.]

I'm Misty, and I'm sorry you've been through that. It's a reason I can see others wanting to be here. It does offer more than many have had.

You ever had jambalaya? I can't recommend it enough if you like seafood.
indirectcause: (Comes a time you've gotta face it)

[personal profile] indirectcause 2018-12-17 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't have anything else back home. Like...literally. I- I think I died.

[He's absolutely certain he died. He doesn't have any of the wounds his fall left, nor the bullet wound he knows put him out of his misery. But it still happened. This is it for him.]

I haven't but I'll try just about anything, honestly. I'm not fussy.

Gods me and journals

[personal profile] dejavoodoo 2018-12-21 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Misty is quiet for a long time before moving to take a step closer. ]

I... I know I did. I died before. I was in Hell before they brought me to this place.

You trust me to get you food from the closet?
indirectcause: (Save me from myself)

lol it's all good <3

[personal profile] indirectcause 2018-12-23 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. That's- uh. I don't know if we have- I mean, there's a lot of dead people anyway??? Like...undead??

[It's hard to explain walkers to people outside that, wow.

He hesitates, because people, generally, aren't to be trusted. You trust your group and anyone else is a potential threat. But he is</> literally starving. Besides, it's not like he can be more dead, right?
]

...Um...okay. Sure?

[personal profile] dejavoodoo 2018-12-26 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Undead? [She arches a brow, frowning a bit more heavily at that.] Like undead undead?

[Even as she asks, she moves to the closet. Taking her time, thinking it over like she's been told to do. When she opens it, she hauls out a big pot, steaming, and carrying it to the stove. The scent of spices and meat fill the air as she sets it on the stove.

Reaching up, finding a couple of bowls. Scooping things into one, bringing them over to where he is and setting it down before him.]


I can join you, if you want. I haven't tried to eat since I woke up, but I might be able to. I can touch things, after all.
indirectcause: (A self-inflicted murder)

[personal profile] indirectcause 2018-12-27 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh huh. Walkers. The whole world went to hell, like... a few months ago?

[He knows now that Clem survived, that years on, people are still clinging onto existence. Life goes on. But it's not a world he could have flourished in, even if his life wasn't cut short.

He stares at the food, eye wide.
]

That smells really good. [He doesn't have to worry about starving here, at all. He offers her a tiny smile.] Uh, sure. And you...normally can't?

[She's blatantly a ghost, Ben, come on.]

[personal profile] dejavoodoo 2018-12-29 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
People come in your life and they destroy it, don't they? Ruins everything.

[Not talking zombies, walkers, whatever might be, but knowing it's true. So many things ruining lives before you realize what's happening.]

I would say thank you, but I didn't make it. I don't cook much anymore.

[Settling down across from him, she brings her hand to the table, and then let's it slowly sink into the surface, watching him closely to make sure he doesn't panic.]

I haven't had to eat since I died.
indirectcause: (Wanna bundle up into some big ass lie)

[personal profile] indirectcause 2018-12-30 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
People are dangerous. The rest of my group came across a bunch of cannibals once. They stole one of our group to cook up his legs.

[He's FOREVER glad he stayed in the motel for that horrific mess. He does finally catch on, sitting upright. ]

I- um. You're dead too? [Her hand literally passed through the table, come on Ben.] I mean. I'm not- a ghost? Are...are you a ghost?

[personal profile] dejavoodoo 2019-01-05 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[She winces at that, looking at him with such pain.]

Please tell me you saved them from that happening?

[Because it's horrific but she really hopes there's a happier ending.

She nods though at that.]


Technically? I'm the mirror side of myself who is here, but with all of this I was able to come over and visit. My true self. Real, I think they call you all. She was attempting a magical test and failed. She's been in Hell for years until this place.

I think... I think I'm the side of her that remained in Miss Robichaux's. I'm not the first ghost of the house, and I won't be the last.

How... how did you die? If you want to talk about it.

indirectcause: (Save me from myself)

[personal profile] indirectcause 2019-01-06 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I wasn't there, I was still at camp. He...uh. Didn't make it.

[Mark was a cool guy, but yeah, he absolutely got eaten by cannibals. Or at least his legs did. Lee and the rest dealt with the rest of those lunatics and they sure never ate anyone ever again. ]

I...don't really get all this mirror stuff, honestly. I don't even get the Wonderland stuff. But I'm sorry, about the Hell stuff...if you even went through that?

[It's all far too confusing for him. He's still dealing with the walkers being a thing, Wonderland is far Too Much. He shrugs at her question.]

We were crossing the roofs to get across the city we were in. A balcony I was standing on broke and I feel down...onto it. [His hand goes to his stomach where, hours earlier, a rather nasty piece of metal had been sticking through it.] S-someone in my group stuck behind, made sure I was put out of my suffering before the walkers got me.

[A kindness Kenny absolutely didn't have to afford him. Ben had been the cause of so much suffering on the man's part. He didn't deserve Kenny doing that for him.]

[personal profile] dejavoodoo 2019-01-09 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[She winces at that, looking at him with such pain for what he's been through.]

I'm so sorry. That's... it's horrific, and I'm sorry.

[She shakes her head.]

Technically I never did. Misty did. I'm, best I can tell, I'm made of her memories. So I remember before Hell only, then I was part of the house and didn't go.

[Which still confuses her but she just knows she has a life to live now.

Oh but she flinches at that, covering her mouth with both hands as her eyes sheen with tears that can never fall.]


Oh, you poor, sweet thing. I'm so sorry.
indirectcause: (In this farewell)

[personal profile] indirectcause 2019-01-10 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's not used to sympathy, he honestly believes he doesn't deserve it. He's made the worst kind of mistakes and other people have died because of them. ]

I'm really not.

[He was just a failure and a coward who got people killed- who shouldn't have survived as long as he did in the first place.]

The...uh. Mirror thing sounds kinda weird. It's gotta suck, not being like real real.