+ 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

[eatsyourscience]

Is this place from your home?

[He's quite curious about the place. Well, he's been curious about every place he's visited, he can't help that, but the big portrait in the hall is very enigmatic.]

[entreats]

[ She nods. ]

Just without the people. [ But then again, most of the places she has seen here have been mostly empty. It just makes it feel more eerie at this point. ]

[eatsyourscience]

[He figures then that she'd know if something felt off here better than he would.]

Should there be a lot of people?

[It's a big place, it would fit a lot of people. And with it empty, it would be easy to imagine someone there just out of sight.]

[entreats]

It depends.. More than there are right now, either way.

[ At the very least some of her family should be living here for most of the year. But however Wonderland - or whatever caused this - manages to conjure this place up, it seems it left out the people entirely. ]

And I can't shake the feeling that the dangers of this place are still around. [ It's a little more candid of an admission than Ange would usually make, but she feels too frayed to care right now. ]

[eatsyourscience]

Was it dangerous to begin with?

[This line of questioning is helping to distract him from his own feeling of being stalked by some kind of predator, so he keeps it up. It's a good opportunity to get to know her better, but that's secondary in his mind.]

[entreats]

Magical creatures killed my family here. [ The truth is a little more nuanced than that, but if this weird cobbled together place goes by Wonderland rules, then it's probably the most messed up version of events that would be summoned here, as far as Ange figures. ]

.. Can you still use your powers?

[ That might give her at least a tiny bit of peace of mind between the feeling of dread. ]

[eatsyourscience]

[He nods slowly.]

I think so. I haven't tried, but I can hear my Personas, anyway, and that usually means I can use them without any trouble.

[entreats]

That's good.

[ Since she's pretty much defenseless, as much as Ange hates admitting that.

It's probably why she looks really hesitant before speaking up again. ] Would you.. mind staying here for a bit?

[ She doesn't like asking for help, hence why she usually never does it, but this constant feeling of dread has worn her down enough to a point where she can't help it. ]

[eatsyourscience]

[He's a little surprised by the request, but he nods. He's not going to make a big deal of it, in order for her to save face.]

It might not be safe to move around too much, anyway.

[entreats]

As long as whatever is out there doesn't already know where we are.

[ Who's to say. Without knowing what the threat is, it could be capable of anything. At least Ange manages to keep most of the anxiety she's feeling out of her voice. ]

[eatsyourscience]

We could try to go somewhere else.

[Moving around might be dangerous, but yeah, if something already knows they're there, then staying might be just as dangerous.]

[entreats]

[ Ange glances at the door, looking slightly uncertain. ]

Do you want to try that?

[eatsyourscience]

It might be better than being cornered here.

[He glances at her, then at the door.]

I should be able to protect us well enough to give us time to run for it.

[entreats]

[ There's another moment of consideration, but then she nods. ]

.. Alright. [ It's not like she has too much of a choice in this situation regardless, considering she's powerless, but she at least trust him enough when he says that. ] I think there's one place here that might be safer than the others. We should run to the second floor for that.

[eatsyourscience]

[He nods and moves to the door, looking out into the hallway.]

You lead the way. I'll be right behind you.

[entreats]

[ Ange assumes him glancing out into the hallway and saying nothing means he didn't spot anything, but just to truly make sure she sneaks in a quick glance as well before looking back at Souji. ]

Let's go then.

[ She has to suck in a deep breath to steel herself, but she manages to shove the constant dread far enough back into her head that she can will herself to start moving-- no, running through the hallway. Then up the stairs in the main hall, then up another set.. Ange glances behind her to make sure he's still there, but then halts next to a big door - a slight bit out of breath, but not too much. ]

In here.

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji follows after Ange, wishing he had a weapon other than his Personas, but ready to summon any time he needs to.

He comes to a stop just behind her at the door, and nods, looking back the way they came to make sure nothing followed them. He reaches to pull the door open.]

What is this room?

[entreats]

My grandfather's room.

[ It seems like a very spacious bedroom and study combination. There's a bed, sure, but there's also big bookcases and a chessboard in the room. ]

The witch supposedly can't enter here, although I'm not sure I believe that. [ But it's better than nothing. ]

[eatsyourscience]

["Better than nothing" is Souji's thought, too. Ange knows more about the mansion than he does, obviously and if she thinks this room is safer than the rest, he'll believe her.]

The witch?

[Ange's mentioned witches before, or at least magical beings, but Souji doesn't have the details.]

[entreats]

Did you see that weird portrait in the main hall? That's the witch. [ Although whether she's really a witch or not is still a Complicated Matter, but this is no time for nuance.

Ange nervously fidgets for a moment before sitting down on a chair next to the chessboard in an attempt to seem a little calmer. ]

She's what killed my family here. Those other creatures were just doing her dirty work. [ She looks away for a moment and sighs. ] Guess being here won't do much though if whatever is after us isn't her.

[ But honestly, what else would make her this instinctively nervous? ]

[eatsyourscience]

[He comes to stand across the chessboard from her.]

And it might not be. Wonderland has a lot of tricks it could pull.

[Hell, it could be zombies, though that probably wouldn't cause this feeling of dread.]

It could be nothing at all.

[entreats]

I'd almost be more annoyed if it was nothing at all at this point. [ Of course she would also be relieved to know they're not being chased by some monstrosity, or the witch, or worse.. but on the other hand, Ange sure isn't appreciating the idea of her emotions being manipulated for no reason. ]

At least it should be over soon, right? [ There's a bit more doubt in her tone than usually, despite her words. ] These things usually are.

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji nods, glancing toward the door.]

They always end eventually.

[He forces his tone to be encouraging. He really should qualify his statement by saying that they always end eventually in his experience, but he doesn't want to make it sound like he isn't confident that things will turn out fine.]

[entreats]

[ It's the same thing Ange has told herself ever since she started feeling so paranoid out of the blue. It always ends eventually. Just a bit more. ]

I talked to a guy here who was super convinced this was different. That it wouldn't just end. [ She didn't put much stock in his words back then since she still felt as calm as ever, but it kind of gnaws at the edges of her consciousness now. ] I have no idea why though. This is just the same as always.

[ Ange manages to keep her voice fairly even, but there's a hint of a tone in it that makes it sound like she's mostly trying to convince herself of that rather than Souji. ]

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji catches that tone and looks over at her quietly for a minute, thinking over what to say. This paranoia is messing with them both and it's clouding his thoughts in a way he doesn't like.]

I can understand how he feels. I worry about it sometimes too. Wonderland breaks sometimes, and it's always possible that this time it won't fix itself.

[Well, that wasn't as encouraging as he'd hoped it would be.]