Faithful friends who are dear to us gather near to us no more | OPEN

[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

[screwedontight]

Trust me, not on my top ten list either. I hate the ones where we're not ourselves the most. They entirely change who you are and you forget who you truly are.

[teamfun]

Exactly. It's fucking rude. Like 'hey this is what your life could have been, surprise, it's awful too, like everything in your shitty-ass world'! I mean, no shit sherlock, I wasn't expecting sunshine and roses. Don't need to see all the different ways my life can suck.

[screwedontight]

And worse is when it's better. So you know what the right turn over the left would mean, and it still sucks.

I'd rather deal with zombies. No offense.

[teamfun]

Pretty much. The dice are sometimes always loaded no matter what.

[He gives a soft scoff.]

Dude, the walkers are the easy part to deal with. You always know how walkers are gonna react- it's the living who are the vicious fuckers.

[screwedontight]

Not here. Everyone here helps everyone else. It's weird to me.

Back home, it was the culebra, and they are mostly monsters.

[teamfun]

I guess I'm lucky. The kids in my school have always looked out for one another. We're family, y'know? Looking out for one another is important.

[He squints.]

Never heard of those. Are they literal monsters or metaphorical ones?

[screwedontight]

That's how me and Richie were most of our lives. We're all one another had.

[He sighs, face screwing up.]

Literal monsters. Snakelike vampires, basically. I mean, there's more to it than that but that's the easiest way to explain it.

[teamfun]

Uhuh, when everyone else has ditched you, that kinda shit's important.

[He grimaces.]

Oh boy, those sound like super duper fun.

[screwedontight]

Right until they ditch you too.

Richie got to join the super duper fun party. Not much choice in it but still.

[An intentional gut shot will do that to you.]

But that's back home and not this place and he's been gone from here for a while.

[teamfun]

...Yeah.

[He's quiet, for a moment, lost in his own thoughts. Just a moment, though, then the smile's back on, a little more gentle now.]

Sorry, all the same. It sucks to lose someone important to you, regardless if they ditch you or not.

[screwedontight]

[Biting back a sigh, Seth realizes in that moment that he's not gotten to much better places about his brother, or the culebra, but he's better than he's been.]

You're right. All we can do is focus on here and now though. Figure it all out later.

[teamfun]

Hmm.

[On that much, Louis wholeheartedly agrees.]

All we got is the here and now. Today, this moment. Tomorrow doesn't exist. We could be gone, or dead, or worse. Life's too short to be worried about what might happen.

[He's not so good with ignoring the past, no matter how much he pretends otherwise.]