+ Why, you're only a sort of thing in its dream! | MINGLE LOG +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: EVERYONE (Reals AND Mirrors!)
Where: D R E A M S I D E
When: June 6th - June 12th
Rating: PG-13, warn if going higher!
Summary: Mingle log for the Dream Side event! After the girls’ seance, every single person in Wonderland, no matter what they were doing at the time, will black out. When they awake, they will find themselves in a strange and twisted world outside of time - a different one than usual.
The Story:

After the girls’ seance, every single person in Wonderland, no matter what they were doing at the time, will black out. When they awake, they will find themselves in a strange and twisted world outside of time - a different one than usual. Elements may seem familiar, but it's clearly a different place.

Welcome, Mirrors and Reals, to DREAM SIDE. The sky above is dark and speckled with far-off stars but the world below is unnaturally lit and bright. There is a mansion at its center, but it is warped and unusual, as though someone stretched it like taffy, but if you try to enter it, you'll find that the door is not just locked - it appears to be painted on, as though it is just static scenery. It isn't a mansion that can be entered, just a cartoon-ish mansion cobbled together from dozens of memories.

Dream Side, as you might have guessed from the name, is not a static place. It is built from the scraps of dreams of those who cross into that side of Wonderland. Characters on this side of Wonderland are not asleep, but the world they are in is shaped by the contents of their dreams. Unlike the glass between Real Side and Mirror Side, there does not seem to be an obvious thing connecting this Side of Wonderland to the other two - at least, not something visible.

They are not alone in this world either - because the girls were conducting a seance, they have inadvertently called upon the dead. For each time your character has died a mansion death, there will be a ghostly copy of them wandering Dream Side. They will look as standard ghosts do - pale and translucent, looking as they did the moment they died. They will have a tendency to haunt their current living version (and those who care about them), but they will not be able to speak directly with them. For Mirrors, these ghosts can be Unmade versions of themselves, if they were ever Unmade. Some ghosts might be hostile and some might just gently haunt from a distance - it will depend on the character and what they would do if they were a ghost how they behave.

Behold, the world your dreams have built!

NORTH

• Mabel Land Castle


• Sparkly Horse Library


• Clementine's House

NORTH-NORTHEAST

• Fabletown

NORTHEAST

• The Unknown


• The Milano


• Avengers Tower


• Hala / The Supreme Intelligence


• Vault 111

EAST

• Main Street


• Holiday Star - Lighthouse


• The Amagi Inn

SOUTHEAST

• School University


• Secret CDC Lab

SOUTH

• Trost


• The Abattoir


• The Hanged Man

SOUTH-SOUTHWEST

• Dead End Flats


• Prime Kindergarten


• The Man Cave

SOUTHWEST

• Craigh Na Dun

WEST

• The Casino


• Flooded City

NORTHWEST

• Spooky Murder Bridge


• Rokkenjima


• WYBS 89.3 FM

For more details, and for the FAQ thread for this event, please see the plot post! We'll be periodically checking the location thread so we can add to this log as needed.

Comments

Kokichi Oma | OTA

[shslliar]

The Casino (June 6th)

Oi! Knock it off, that's not how seances work!

[Yet no matter how hard he yells at his phone, the girls on the other side can't hear him... And he, too, gets knocked out. The first thing he sees when he comes to is familiar slot machine, heavily themed after a bear he never wanted to see again for the rest of his life.]

H-Huh? [He sits up, looking around at the other games. There's the fishing game, the driving game, the game where you match blocks to dig up fossils... There's no mistaking it, it's the Casino from that horrible academy he was trapped in. But he glances down at himself and sees that he's still wearing the clothes he usually wears in Wonderland...] What the...?

[He's not in the mood to start playing right now. After all, coming back to the Academy alive and well is the last thing he expected. After pressing his hand against one of the machines to make sure he isn't a ghost, he gets up and wanders upstairs. Sure enough, there was the prize counter, right next to the... Wait, what's the MonoMono Machine doing here? Shouldn't it be in the School Store?

He's very, very confused when he wanders around some more and stumbles upon someone who is definitely from Wonderland and not one of his so-called classmates.]

Hey! You have any idea what's going on?!

Dead End Flats (June 6th-June 9th) (CW: Clowns)

[Great. Just great. We're all trapped in Dreamland or something.

Kokichi does not want to spend any more time in the section of his "home" if he can help it. Instead, he heads South a bit and comes across a run down motel in the middle of nowhere. Ergh.

It's better than nothing, and there's a certain Lost Boys Apocalypse aesthetic that calls to him. He goes in, not even bothering with the check in since he's pretty sure there's nobody working there, and claims the first room with a functional closet.

You'll definitely know which one he's staying in, considering he attempted to spray paint a clown face onto the door. Came out creepier than he wanted, but lots of people are scared of clowns. Extra security feature. He decides to redecorate the inside a bit as well- Replacing the blinds with better ones, extra pillows and a monochrome quilt, taking down the broken painting and hanging up a large whiteboard... It still looks like a run down motel room, but at least it sort of feels like a place some scrappy teenager would want to sleep in.

... Except he finds he doesn't ever feel the need to sleep. Even when he wants to. He comes back to this home base and lays on the bed, but all he really does is lay there and stare at the ceiling. Sometimes the cracks on the broken fan move. This really is a dream, isn't it?]

Dead End. (June 10th-12th) (CW: Implied violence)

[Except the dream seems to feel more like a nightmare the longer he's stuck in this realm. He's thinking of the weird void from Christmas... Sure, he could avoid the black void well enough... Was this it? That black void?

The sound of gunshots make him jump. Bang. Bang. Just outside his room. He gulps, creeping up to peek through the blinds. There's not a soul outside, but he can still hear the sounds. Bang. Smack. Hurk. CRUNCH.]

Urgh... [He takes a step back.] Perfect. Just the thing I needed. How can this get any worse...?

[It's kind of hard not to think about the possibilities when the noise is so loud and the Motel looks more abandoned than usual...]

WILDCARD

[Kokichi will be exploring the rest of the Dream Side when he's not holed up in the Motel of Doom. Feel free to ping me at Nyanka if you want to plot something.]

casino

[entreats]

[ Ange can be a helpful person. Really.

But that's sometimes slightly cancelled out due to how nonchalant she can be about any given situation. Sure, this whole situation is weird and she has no idea yet what exactly is going on, but with her experience with strange events in Wonderland, suddenly finding herself in some weird.. game.. hall place (?) doesn't seem too odd. It's easy to chalk it up as yet another weird thing occassionally happening here. Especially since, unlike Kokichi, she doesn't recognize this place at all, so it has no special meaning to her.

By the time he runs into her, she's standing next to the MonoMono Machine, holding a boba tea in her hand - which she must've gotten from said machine - like nothing special is going on here. ]

I'm not too sure yet. [ But she doesn't sound too concerned, her voice as devoid of any particular emotion as ever. ] Hey, it's probably a bad idea to drink this, right?

[ Clearly that's the greater concern here, right? ]

[shslliar]

[He glances down at the tea.] Nah, that's totally drinkable.

[He likes boba tea. He kinda misses boba tea right now... But he decides he'll help himself to it when he gets back to the real side, so...]

Did you wake up here too, or is the mansion suddenly the rest of the school?

[entreats]

School?

[ Forgive her for that being her first question about all of that. This place just doesn't exactly look like a school to her.. Then again, the school she attended back home was very, very conservative.

She also glances at the boba tea for another moment, like she's still not too sure whether it's actually drinkable or not, before answering his question. ]

No, it seems like there's a lot of different places out here. Wherever "here" is.

[shslliar]

... Okay, not exactly a school-

[Hang on, what did she say?]

What do you mean a lot of different places?

[entreats]

You can leave here. [ Ange casually points in the direction she entered this apparently-school-but-kind-of-more-like-some-arcade-casino place from to begin with. ] And then you can wander into all kinds of places. Not the regular mansion though, so we sure aren't in Wonderland.

[ Not the regular Wonderland, anyway, but it's always hard to tell whether they're actually being sent to other places when everything changes like this or that Wonderland itself just warps. ]

I can show you, if you want. Not like I have anything better to do. [ Other than ponder the boba tea mystery. ]

[shslliar]

[W H A T]

... Sure! Why not?

[entreats]

Alright. Let's go then.

[ For a moment she looks at the cup in her hand as if she's debating whether to put it down somewhere or take it along.. But in the end she does take it along as she heads through the exit, showing the general area of this weird world to him.

Ange points at what looks like the mansion in the distance. ]

That one over there isn't real.

[shslliar]

[THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT THE ULTIMATE ACADEMY FOR GIFTED JUVENILES.

The sky's all black, the world in front of him is wobbly and weird, and the mansion over there ain't real?]

Really?! What is it, a set piece from a Tim Burton movie?!

[entreats]

[ She raises an eyebrow as she looks at him. ]

Tim Burton? [ If there's anyone who's totally lost when it comes to popular culture, it's Ange. Not that it confuses her too much, judging by the context he probably means odd or slightly omnious movies. ]

What it is though.. beats me. I guess it's kind of like a set piece, since I tried to open the door earlier only to find it was just painted on.

[shslliar]

... He's a guy who makes weird movies, but that's not important right now.

[The mansion though... Kokichi is trying his hardest not to scream.]

[entreats]

Then what do you think is important right now?

[ With Ange's kind of tone - coupled with those words - it's easy to assume she doesn't care about any of this at all. Like none of it is important to her. And while it's partially true that she may up to now be less fazed by this than some other people would, she would also definitely like to know what's up, no matter how nonchalant she sounds. ]

[shslliar]

Isn't it obvious?

[He's also very, VERY concerned about this. But perhaps if he messes with miss I-Don't-Care here, he might save himself from having a panic attack in front of a total stranger.]

Dead End Flats

[teamfun]

[Louis is not a fan of this event. He's not been a fan of most of the recent events- in his opinion, Wonderland really needs to pump the breaks a little and let them have some breathing space in all the chaos. The motel seems safe enough, but it's equally pretty damn creepy.

He moves along, wishing he had a weapon of some description- he hates being unarmed. Years of hard-earned survival skills are screaming in his head. Being unarmed means you're more likely to die. It leaves you weak and defenceless and he hates it. He comes across the spray painted picture and stops. ]

...Well. That's spooky as fuck.

[He should probably move on, avoid the spooky as fuck thing as unarmed as he is. Instead, he tries to peer through the window- the blinds hampering his view.]

Um? Hello? Any awful nightmare monsters in there?

[shslliar]

[Huh... That voice kind of sounded like...

No, that's definitely Louis. Kokichi hops off the bed and crosses over to peek through the blinds.

Yep. Definitely Louis. No mistaking it. Kokichi's smirk is obscured by those blinds.]

Nee-hee hee... What's the password?

[teamfun]

[Louis sees the blinds move first and tenses, ready for a fight. And then he hears a very familiar laugh. Oh, thank god. He chuckles, relaxing a little at last, before leaning one elbow casually on the door. ]

Password.

[Yes, that's what he's going for. ]

[shslliar]

[If this was a normal event, he could have teased Louis a little more. But this is one of those events that he thinks might end up killing him so...

He dramatically releases the blinds and goes to undo all the locks to open the door.]

Password accepted. [He gestures for Louis to get in.]

[teamfun]

[There is always a slight possibility that Kokichi would troll him for the shit of it. Though even Kokichi knows when things are serious. Louis still breathes a sigh of relief, stepping inside.]

Hey, Ko. You holed up here? Probably smart- it's spooky as fuck out there.

[shslliar]

Yep! Closest place I could find with an actual closet.

[It also happens to be the motel room from Hell. Even if this place was actually staffed in real life, you wouldn't know it from the peeling wallpaper and the mystery stains. At least Kokichi tried to make it look more livable... By apocalypse standards, that is.]

Make yourself at home.

[teamfun]

Super smart thinking! Is it giving out any weapons?

[Because Louis would feel 100000% better armed. He glances around the... interesting decor. The prissy rich boy that he was, he's never seen anything like this in his life.]

Wow. I thought places like this only existed on TV.

[Still, it's a place to stop and though he came from fancy beginnings, he's spent eight years in a zombie hell. He'll rest anywhere. He flops down onto one of the cheap-ass beds and sighs.]

Doooon't mind if I do. So. Have you come across anyone else?

[shslliar]

I dunno, wanna find out?

[It does, but Kokichi didn't even think of pulling out more than riot gear.]

Nope! Turns out there are worlds where places like this can exist without zombies. Or walkers... Whatever.

[He's gonna sit at the foot of the bed, legs crossed.]

Nope. Not at all. Though I did see Alice outside earlier... Tried to figure a way out of here, but no dice.

[teamfun]

I absolutely want to find out. I'll feel better going out there with something I can actually protect myself with.

[Even if there's nothing really to protect himself against. He's just so used to being armed at this point that not being armed feels wrong. A familiar weight in a pocket gone. Besides, it might still go south.]

I mean, places like this existed in the old world, I guess. I just never saw them.

[He lies there for a moment, before sitting up.]

Alice, huh? And yeah, this place looks all... weird and disjointed. I don't get it. There's no exit that I've seen, either. Clem's old house is here- as in the one she lived in before the world ended. So I guess its taking stuff from our memories.

[shslliar]

Well? What are you waiting for? Closet's right over there.

[Nodding at the closet door. Look at it, it's kinda grody but unlocked.

Kokichi kind of shrugs at that.] Seriously? You didn't get out much before the zombies happened, did you?

[As for the memories...] Looks like it! I've found the casino from that murder school somewhere, it's weird!

[teamfun]

[It's so goddamn grody, but he gets up all the same, opening the door and reaching inside to get... well, it kind of looks like some cheap-ass shoe horn, but it's better than nothing. Louis gives it a few practise swings. ]

Coulda used something heavier, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

[He gives a soft snort.]

No. It's not that. I uh. I came from a really rich family. When we went on vacation, it was to five-star hotels, places with swimming pools on the roof and TVs that come out fo the ceiling. Shit like that. My parents would never step toe in a place like this.

[He doesn't sound like he's bragging at all. There's a twinge of guilt and disgust lurking in his tone. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and it made him into a shitty person for a while. It's a chapter in his life he'd rather remain firmly closed.]

Oh great! That's what we need, stuff from the murder school. Just to make things even shittier.

[shslliar]

[Sorry, Kokichi can't help but scoff at the shoe horn.] What, this place won't let you have guns?

[He smirks, but he's listening to Louis rant about having the good life and a part of him is slightly jealous of it... But hey. Sounds like it ain't all that cracked up to be.]

Yeah, you're really lucky on that front. Only cheap people and criminals would want to stay in a place like this.

[Said the gremlin who decided this was a good place to park himself for an extended amount of time.]

Real nice of whatever this place is, huh? At least it's not the trial room or the scene of someone's murder. [The casino gives you things, too.]