+ Something Is Coming +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone! (Plus a special guest.)
Where: In their dreams
When: 9/11-9/13
Rating: Let's go with PG-13
Summary: Something is coming...
The Story:

Starting on the night of September 11 and continuing for the following 2 nights, characters will go to sleep as normal. However, they will find that their dreams are unexpectedly vivid. Even characters who don't normally dream will experience this. Even characters who don't normally sleep will experience it.

Many of Wonderland's guests have dealt with events that distorted their dreams before, but this? This is a little different. Because something is coming in those dreams. Something not altogether friendly.

If you'd like your character to encounter this...something, post their dreams to this log.

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[manxomnivore]

The woman looks up and around, then back at Bill. With a motion of one hand, she sends the glass baubles spinning.

"Just scraps."

[tetractys]

They shatter easily, colliding with each other and simply collapsing when any force is applied, like they're made of spun sugar.

"MIGHT NEED A VERB THERE, PAL. I'M NOT PICKING UP WHAT YOU'RE PUTTING DOWN. WHY DON'T YOU SHOW ME WHAT YOU'RE AFTER?"

[manxomnivore]

She has a hard time with words, but if he wants to be shown, she can do that. A gaping, shark-toothed maw opens beneath them. She, of course, doesn't fall in, hovering above the abyss with ease.

[tetractys]

Bill, likewise, wasn't really standing on anything in the first place, and just peers down at this, twirling his cane thoughtfully.

Bill, here, is what you call an extremely verbal guy. We're gonna have some communication issues.

"ALRIGHT. THE EATING, SURE! I'M LOVING THAT, THAT STUFF IS JUST GREAT."

Bill spreads his arms and a ball of light expands between them until there's a little model of Wonderland as he understands it floating like a chessboard. Bill's representation is eerily accurate; everyone on the Real and Mirror sides is exactly where they're sleeping in real life, and in the border between the Dream and Real is a tiny Bill and tiny White Queen, with an even tinier recursive model. The whole thing is enclosed in a pale grey lattice, like a net - that's Bill's artistic license. A little sun and moon start rotating around it.

"LET'S TRY THIS ONE!"

The mouth in the floor reaches up. It's just an illusion, but it reaches up to swallow the little world, passes through both Bill and the White Queen harmlessly. As the teeth close, all the lights go out, except for the firefly glow from Bill's body.

"YOU GET IT DONE!

THEN WHAT?"

See, this - this is the part that gets you. Bill knows this part very, very well. Then you're alone, with a destroyed world, and your thoughts. Then you have to go look for somewhere else to do the same things. Or wait for life to evolve again. Either one is long, tedious, boring work.

Not that it can be avoided, sometimes. Sometimes they had it coming and you just need to suck up the consequences anyway.

[manxomnivore]

She considers all of this, taking her time to think it through.

"Something is necessary." Her voice is a bit rusty, but the words come more easily than it had before. "To get to this point."

Raising a hand, she creates her own little illusion. A sword and a shield hang above her palm, slowly rotating around each other like a binary star system.

[tetractys]

Aaah, those ones! Bill's eye brightens - okay! Cool! He knows that.

"NOW THAT'S DOABLE! YOU MIND CLUING ME IN ON WHY YA NEED ALL THREE? AREN'T YOUR TEETH PRETTY DEADLY WITHOUT EATING A SWORD?"

Bill pulls the illusion of the sword out and expands it - it's still transparent and ghostly, but he swings it a few times anyway. It looks more like he's getting ready for a golf swing, his grip is atrocious.

[manxomnivore]

She watches with a touch of disdain at the way he holds the sword, but her voice is neutral.

"Teeth can only pierce so much." The sword, on the other hand, can pierce anything.

[tetractys]

"I CAN HELP YOU OUT WITH THAT, SURE! I'M A PRETTY CAPABLE GUY."

The illusion in his hands fizzles out, and he raises a finger.

"BUT YA KNOW IF I HELP YOU, THAT MEANS YOU HELP ME! RIGHT?"

[manxomnivore]

"What do you want from me?"

She takes a step closer to him, expression difficult to read.

"What can I do for you?"

[tetractys]

"I WANT TO KNOW THINGS! YOU KNOW HOW TO MOVE YOUR PHYSICAL FORM BETWEEN THE REAL SIDE AND THE DREAM SIDE - THAT'S WHAT I WANT! SEE, I'M PRETTY STUCK OVER HERE, AND I'M GETTING PRETTY TIRED OF IT!"

Leaning on the ambiguity of the word - that. A third Bill pops up behind the White Queen before she can think about the phrasing too hard.

"AND IF YOU WANTED TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT WONDERLAND WAS LIKE AT THE BEGINNING, WOULDN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT EITHER~"

[manxomnivore]

"Tired of it? I imagine you would be."

She gives him a shrewd look and licks her sharp teeth.

"I'm tired of it, too."

[tetractys]

"EXACTLY! THAT'S WHY I WAS WAITING TO GET AHOLD OF YOU! YOU AND ME TOGETHER CAN CRACK THIS THING BETTER THAN JUST ONE OF US!"

[manxomnivore]

"Why should I trust you to aid me?"

[tetractys]

"HEY, I'M JUST AIDING MYSELF, PAL. I DIDN'T GO THROUGH A WHOLE APOCALYPSE BACK HOME JUST TO LOSE MY PHYSICAL FORM AS SOON AS I SHOW UP IN ANOTHER JAIL. HAH!"

[manxomnivore]

She considers. Sounds legit to her. Holding out one hand, she smiles at him.

"Then we can understand each other."

[tetractys]

Bill's eye bends up at the bottom in a smirky little crescent.

"BESIDES, I THINK YOU COULD USE A FRIEND!"

He shakes her hand. Blue fire sparks from where their palms meet and envelops the connection, not burning but feeling like cold and tingling magic.

[manxomnivore]

"Oh yes. Friends are hard to come by and so valuable."

In their own way.

[tetractys]

Ah. It's going to be one of those gotta-stab-you-before-you-stab-me arrangements, then.

Got it.

"COULDN'T AGREE MORE!"

[manxomnivore]

She releases Bill's hand.

"I have business elsewhere."

There are so many dreams to invade tonight.

[tetractys]

"YEP! HAVE FUN SCARING THOSE MORTALS."

It's one of Bill's favorite hobbies!