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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

[krmvgivv]

Yeah, I mean, I don't think there was anything you could have done. Even if there had been any warning signs.

[And there were some, but they were nothing Alice wouldn't have already noticed. Then all of a sudden... this.]

We're okay. Worried about Wonderland being seriously broken, but okay.

[curiousher]

Thank goodness. I'd hate to hear someone was hurt because of all of this...

[The hug and the huddling helps though. Maybe this really isn't entirely and completely her fault? It still feels like it might be, but at least there's two people who don't think it is.]

Sometimes Wonderland breaks apart when too much magic is being used. It's a mistake I made when I was Queen, so I tried to warn her Majesty! She told me she was working on a way to fix it though, so she sent me to be a lookout and I let it go. Every time I've seen it broken, it's started to rip at invisible seams and make tears right through the air. This is...well, it's never done something like this before. I'm not even sure where we are!

[powerofmabel]

I think it might be the inside of one of the closets. Look!

[She holds out her hands and a grappling hook drops into them.] See? It works just like the closets do... So that's not so bad.

[krmvgivv]

I don't think it's "one of." [Dipper glances around and draws a little closer to Mabel as the void threatens to overwhelm him.] It's like… all of them combined into one big… nothing.

[curiousher]

The closets...that makes perfect sense and no sense at all, so knowing Wonderland that's got to be right. We're in all the closets at once! Or, all of the closets are everywhere? Instead of a nothing it's an everything!

[It's frightening, but also sort of exciting. At the very least, it's somewhere to start.]

Maybe we could use it to put Wonderland back together? Let's see...there was a vase over there-- [She imagines a vase that was in the halls at one point...and it falls through the void almost immediately.] Oh, oops! I suppose it needs a table first.

[So she imagines a table! ...That also falls down through the void. This is a bad, bad idea.]

[powerofmabel]

Wait... Wait. This is like that Quarrycraft game back home. You have to make a floor first.

[And a series of hardwood floor panels fall into oblivion. Mabel makes a face.] Ugh! I thought that would work. You lied to me, Quarrycraft!

[krmvgivv]

[Normally Dipper, who absolutely has lost entire days to Quarrycraft when they were home in Piedmont, would have some commentary on that, but right now he's too busy being distracted by improbable Wonderland physics.]

...why are they falling but we aren't? Or are we falling but they're falling faster? Or are we falling up? Or is that direction up? Does up have any meaning anymore?

[curiousher]

Maybe everywhere is up! Or nowhere!

[Alice has no idea, but coming up with possibilities is a fun distraction from everything that's happening.]

I mean, if there's no ground and no sky then maybe up and down don't exist anymore either.

[powerofmabel]

This is seriously the Bottomless Pit all over again. Whelp. Guess we gotta tell stories to pass the time again.

[Don't be so chipper about this Mabel. She claps her hands together.] Who wants to go first? Aliiiice, I know you've got some stories, girlfriend.

[krmvgivv]

It's not exactly Bottomless Pit.

[Dipper's just being pedantic, don't mind him.]

[curiousher]

[This is a good distraction from everything that's going on. Story time is much better than acknowledging that the world is collapsing around you!]

Oh, I have so many stories. I don't even know where to begin!

[That's what happens when you have one hundred and fifty years worth of stories to tell.]

[powerofmabel]

Pick your favorite. Ooh! Tell us about an old event that was really great to make up for how much this one sucks.

[Is this even an event? Well, it's an Event, but not necessarily an event. And boy does she need some joy. ...Yeah, they were supposed to find Alice to glean information, but let's be real here, this is what Mabel really wanted.]

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper is about to interrupt, but he sees Mabel's face and... gosh darn it. He knows what she's doing. He grumbles and rolls his eyes.]

Okay, but I get to make the next request.

[Which probably won't be as fun.]

[curiousher]

Hm...an old event...

[It takes her a moment to think of that she enjoyed, but also hasn't been redone in the last decade or so.]

Oh! There was this one where everyone drove these little carts around and had a big race, all across Wonderland! You could either participate or watch from the stands and...well, I suppose it wouldn't have been fun for anyone who was forced to participate when they didn't want to, but I'd never driven a car before! I thought the whole thing was a lot of fun. I painted cats all over mine and while I didn't win I'm fairly sure they helped me go faster.

[powerofmabel]

And if your car ever turned over, it probably landed right back on its wheels! [Why don't they get events like that? Wonderland really needs to vet people for better events.] Events from the past sound so much less crazy than these ones.

[krmvgivv]

This obviously isn't a normal event.

[Hers does sound more fun.]

Have you ever experienced any event like it? Like, ever?