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

[tinyfoods]

[Entrapta makes a "hmmm"-ing noise and nods, although she doesn't seem all that outraged on Peridot's behalf. Instead, she's zeroed in on something much more interesting.]

So gems are grown. That makes sense, it aligns with what I know about mineral generation on my own planet. Does it take a very long time?

[slapfight]

In comparison to what? [Peridot has to shrug a bit as she folds her legs up under herself, floating cross-legged in the void.] Gems live for millenniums. A year or two in the ground achieving the ideal form is nothing to a gem, but for humans it's apparently a lot. There's an ideal window of about 1-5 years, but any longer than that and you risk the gem coming out malformed. I heard that in Era I during the rebellion that Kindergartners were shortening it to months to produce foot soldiers faster, and that's why the- [once again, she chokes on the word "beta"]- other Earth Kindergarten is such a disaster. They were careless and it shows in the gem production. There was only one perfect quartz in that entire batch!

[She sighs, wistfully.] Those Era I Peridots were so careless.

[tinyfoods]

[Entrapta takes a few more notes. The more complicated this gets, the more interesting it becomes. And she totally doesn't seem bothered by the fact that Peridot talks like she ought to just know what's going on in the conversation.]

No one lives nearly that long where I'm from, but then again, we're mostly humans.

[She mimics Peridot's position, her hands resting on her ankles. Her hair floats around her idly for a couple seconds before twisting under her like a sort of seat.]

It's too bad, too. So much information was lost to us just because we only live for eight or nine decades.

[slapfight]

[Yeah... She does that. And Entrapta's lack of stopping her just encourages it, which may entirely what this friendship is going to be based on. Because she's arrogant.]

I know. I don't understand how humans can do anything with such a short time to accomplish anything! And you don't even emerge fully formed. You waste at least two decades learning things!

[It's halfway between condescending and deeply, deeply impressed. Humanity is still new to Peridot, but there's so much to appreciate.] It's like... Because you get to live such a short time, the time matters, even if so much of it gets lost.

[tinyfoods]

It's not lost at all! I've been building bots for years and I'm not even two decades old yet!

[Entrapta's kind of a special case, as a princess, but she either hasn't thought of that or doesn't care.]

We do learn quickly, though. I think it might be our greatest strength!

[slapfight]

[Peridot has never really encountered a true prodigy, unless you count Connie who is basically a quartz soldier in squishy human form, so color her amazed.]

This is why we're going to be the greatest genius duo Wonderland has ever seen. We're both a cut above our respective classifications. Just stick with me, Entrapta, and everything about Wonderland will be right at your fingertips.

[tinyfoods]

[Entrapta smiles wide. She is already super excited and there isn't even any guarantee that she's staying.]

This is going to be fun!