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[vitaelamorte]

Who: E V E R Y O N E (Including our 4th wall guests!)
Where: Everywhere, one both Mirror and Real Side!
When: December 19th - December 26th (ICly December 25th) (WEEK TWO)
Rating: PG-13, warn if going higher
Summary: After a particularly intense week of holiday cheer and holiday scenes, Wonderland simply cannot take any more. The form it takes will no longer hold. Wonderland sheds its holiday skin and remains in the barest form of itself.
The Story:

As of the 19th, no one will be able to use the network to make posts. A new error message will appear on all screens, but again, it's probably fine.

This will quickly prove to be a problem though, as Wonderland has completely abandoned any sign of the signature mansion or its grounds. All of a sudden, it cannot hold itself together any more. At this point, Wonderland has become a series of holiday past, present, and future scenes instead of a collection of rooms, and none of them connect together in any sensical, linear way. If you find a friend wandering, you may want to stay with them. It will prove difficult to seek out people on purpose (though very easy to stumble across people by accident).

In between the various scenes, instead of the halls of the mansion, are one of three voids. Gravity does not seem to exist in them, and characters will float, swim, or spin around until they find a new scene to be in. There is no up or down, and no ground to stand on. Scenes are entered suddenly and without warning, going from floating along to suddenly standing in a memory or a vision (unless you have come from the second void). Characters can also find themselves traveling from void to void, but there is no precise place where they overlap, and if they turn around they will not be able to return to the void they were previously in. It is almost as though perhaps, the voids and the scenes are moving around, and that Wonderland no longer has a static form.

Wonderland will remain this way until the end of the event. What happens then? You'll have to wait and see. ♥ For now though, please enjoy the horrible voids that make up all of Wonderland at the moment. If you have any questions, please report to the plot post or check out our Fourth Wall Masterpost for all your other fourth wall needs!

Comments

[adaptiveimmunities]

Yeah, that's kind of what George means, too. Are you guys having some trouble around here because of whatever happened that put us in here? Since we're not supposed to be?

[choosetruth]

And where is here? Are you usually in a place like this? When you're not telling us about events or whatever?

[twixt_dee_n_dum]

We're usually in the ░▒░░▒▒▒.

But we can come here when we wish.

[adaptiveimmunities]

[And again, it's impossible to make out what they're saying, but he guesses he shouldn't be that surprised. No one in Wonderland has ever been really forthcoming with answers.]

Does that happen a lot? Is this like... a change of scenery?

[lol what scenery]

[choosetruth]

Nice to know it at least is an actual place, not just Wonderland 404ing out completely.

[twixt_dee_n_dum]

Oh no, you're not meant to see it.

Not usually, anyway.

It's an in-between sort of place.

Or a behind the scenes one.

[adaptiveimmunities]

So... we're backstage Wonderland, huh? [He shrugs, nodding a little.] I guess that's pretty cool. What else is back here?

[choosetruth]

And why aren't we supposed to be here?

[They can even go see the Core if they're feeling especially moronic. What is it about this place that's so special?

Besides the horrifying whiteness of it all, but her personal issues aren't the point.]

[twixt_dee_n_dum]

Well you aren't like us, are you?

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Shaun blinks innocently at her.] What, twins?

[choosetruth]

[Shaun gets a look for that.]

Are we not supposed to be able to survive being here?

[twixt_dee_n_dum]

What?

[They look a bit alarmed.]

Why, you are surviving, aren't you?

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Shaun looks down at himself, and then over at George.]

I think so?

[choosetruth]

Hard to say for sure. I mean, I realize I'm experienced in that area, but this is hardly normal circumstances.

[twixt_dee_n_dum]

For you, perhaps not. But we ▓░▒▒▒░▓▓.

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Shaun shakes his head and rubs at his ears. This static thing is going to drive him insane.]

So you're saying you're used to this.

[choosetruth]

Or something.

[It's hard enough getting straight answers when they're not glitching.]

[twixt_dee_n_dum]

Well, moreso than either of you.

We're much better suited to having impossible things happen to us.

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Shaun makes a thoughtful noise.]

Well... We've lived here for two and a half years.

[choosetruth]

And a hell of a lot of impossible things have happened in that time.

[Wonderland in and of itself is pretty impossible.]

[twixt_dee_n_dum]

Well, yes, but humans seem made for dull and ordinary.

And not for impossible.

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Shaun shrugs a little.]

I dunno. I sort of feel like we're thriving here. I haven't had this much fun in a long time.

[choosetruth]

[Shaun is, occasionally, extremely unhelpful.]

Not everyone here is human. Are there entities here that can handle this place better?

[twixt_dee_n_dum]

Hm...maybe a few.

But we've yet to meet them.

Every creature has its ordinary.

And we've found very few whose ordinary is extra.

[adaptiveimmunities]

[They're obviously not going to get any real answers out of the trouble twins (when have they ever?), but that's okay. He'll take whatever little bits of information he can get.]

So what else is backstage Wonderland?