+ Now I've Nothing Left to Give +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone
Where: What's left of Wonderland
When: Beginning on 1/5
Rating: PG-13 to be safe, warn if going higher
Summary: Welcome to end game.
The Story:

Every part of the Mansion is gone except for parts of the first floor and on 1/5, the lights go out. The stairs go nowhere, and everything looks distinctly abandoned and dark. We suggest you find your loved ones, and stay close to them. This might be it. Maybe you’ll really die here.

Later that same day, the first floor begins to crumble away. Gravity is gone, and everyone rises into the void. There are probably tears and goodbyes. Maybe even conversations of when they’ll have to start eating each other to survive.

But then, there is a bright flash of light. A familiar light to anyone who has dealt with the Core before. It washes over everyone and suddenly you are somewhere else. Maybe you’re even someone else.

Everyone will find themselves in dream-like versions of pother worlds; memories from the absolute bottom of Wonderland’s barrel. These are things it has been sitting on for decades that it threw out there so everyone would have a place to land and finally get some food and water. Maybe your character finds themself having a drink at the Cantina from Star Wars with the Cantina Band on repeat until the end of time. Maybe your character is a magical person who traded their soul for the ability to fight witches. Maybe you just really, really wanted a Harry Potter AU one more time. Almost anything is fair game!

These will truly feel like dreams due to the fact that Dream Side is no longer a separate place in Wonderland, meaning that it will be relatively easy for characters to snap out of their respective AUs if needed, though some characters will naturally be better at that than others. There will be weak points in the events where people can slip back out into the black void, where they will see hundreds of little wisps of events in pale rainbow colors. They can travel into any of these to try and recover their friends. Anyone who went missing when the mansion started disappearing can be found here. Sometimes, if no one is in an event, its light will go out. It is unclear how long Wonderland can truly sustain this.

Go forth and break free from events one last time! And it might be a good idea to figure out how the heck you’ll get out of this one alive.

Please post a top level for each event with the relevant details (what you might see on the bulletin board) so that others can come play in the events you've created! We will also put up a top level specific to the void for anyone who wants to thread their characters in between the different event wisps.

Here is the info post for this log, along with it's FAQ and a few event suggestions.

Comments

[ssmisery]

"We've had literal hell before," Lapis mutters. More than once, technically; maybe that does leave room for this one to be Ange's personal hell, actually, but whatever that's not the point. With the hippo still going, Lapis interrupts to address it again, more firmly. "I think that... dog guy or whatever was calling for you, so why don't you go tell him about your plant food."

That does seem to be enough to tip the hippo over into actually intending to leave, although it still requires a bit more nattering to reach the point of putting that intent into action. After a few more thanks and appreciations, it finally begins trundling away, on a note of: "I'll have to keep you in mind the next time I need something!"

Lapis heaves a long sigh.

[entreats]

At least the creature is gone. For now. That last part is pretty vital to that statement, considering it seems they always return after a while. Is it impossible to just be left alone in this weird, weird village?

Thankfully she is at least joined with the person most likely to understand why Ange hates this place so much.

"I think I would prefer literal hell at this point. Or the sweet release of death. What's wrong with these animals?"

[ssmisery]

Lapis attempts to pull a face, which doesn't work super well because she has a tube for a mouth. That's not even where the mouth is on a real octopus, it's a completely different body part. But hey, Ange has a beak.

"They're not very smart, for starters," she says in a tone of severe understatement.

[entreats]

"Rather than just not being smart, it's almost as if they're robots or something! They keep repeating the same stuff at times. And they totally ignore every single social cue!"

Says someone who is clearly an expert in social interactions. Okay, sure, maybe she's not, but Ange likes to think she's at least better at it than these animals.

"I can't take this."

[ssmisery]

"Would you rather be -- out there?" Lapis says with a bit more feeling creeping in, lacking a better off-the-cuff term for the void that was once Wonderland dissolving around everyone. She puts her arms around herself and tries not to be too aware of the fact that they're tentacles. She doesn't particularly want to be in animal land either and doesn't know what's going to happen, but as pocket event worlds go this is mild, and where else is there to go?

[entreats]

Ange glances over to Lapis for a moment before frowning - as well as she can as a bird, anyway - when she looks away into the distance instead.

"I'm actually considering it." It's mostly her defeatist attitude, really. It's easier to just give up than to deal with tough things. Even when said tough thing is just having to deal with overly friendly animals, apparently.

"How long do you think we're going to be stuck like this? It can't be forever, right?"

[ssmisery]

"Who knows. Maybe when Wonderland collapses for good, this'll be all that's left."

Like, that sounds flippant, but Lapis is honestly pretty alarmed about the possibility. She's a bit alarmed about every possibility, which to be fair is how she always is, but still.

[entreats]

Make that two alarmed people then, really. Ange is pretty good at keeping her cool in most situations. Jumping off a skyscraper? Cool. No big deal. Reuniting with her long-dead brother? Also chill.

Being stuck in this place forever? Please, god, no.

"Let's look around for an exit." Somehow this is the most resolved Ange has probably ever sounded in front of Lapis.. She's even already starting to walk bird hop away, apparently just assuming the other will follow.

[ssmisery]

Lapis does follow along a bit helplessly (and walking on the other six tentacles is another thing she has to avoid thinking too hard about). Not that Ange exactly has much of a plan, or that heading off in a random direction will necessarily accomplish much, but Lapis is a lot less sure about it anyway.

"And then what? Where would you even go?"

[entreats]

"Anywhere but here."

Does she sound like a child throwing a tantrum? Absolutely. Then again, Ange may be 18 years old physically, but it's not as if her mind didn't somewhat stop back when she was 6 years old and heard her parents died anyway.. It's just the dumb stuff that brings it out in her rather than her usual front. Like this, apparently.

"I'd take the big black nothing over this."

[ssmisery]

"You know Wonderland can do a lot worse than this. Wonderland can do a lot worse than the void, if it can still do anything at all."

The problem with the whole of Wonderland falling apart, of course, is them being in it while it happens. This little realm is stupid, but it's harmlessly so, and that's hard to gamble with right now.

[entreats]

At least that seems to be enough to make Ange stop angrily hopping stomping like a child walking for a moment and turn around to face the other.

"Does it sound needlessly dramatic if I'd say I would rather die than deal with this?" Yes, Ange. Yes, it would. Especially since Lapis is right - this world is so incredibly harmless, even though it seems to hit just the right irritating notes for Ange.

[ssmisery]

"Yes!" Lapis says emphatically. Come on, she is not going to humor that.

[entreats]

"Well, it's true anyway."

It almost looks a little like Ange is pouting. Although it's really hard to tell, considering the beak and all.. It just makes her facial expression look really weird for the most part.

"You can't tell me this is just going to be our reality now for the rest of eternity."

[ssmisery]

"I don't know if it is! I don't know if things are going to get better or worse than this!" At least Lapis isn't outright convinced that things will definitely get worse, but it's harder to practice optimism when absolutely everything has dissolved so thoroughly into unpredictable chaos. No, she can come short of flying off the handle these days, but even as an informed decision she still knows well: in crisis you decide what's essential and focus on that. "But at least right now this is some kind of safe. Come on, there's even food and stuff, don't you need that?"

[entreats]

It oddly almost feels as if she's getting scolded here. Which is not something Ange is used to at all in this place. So at the very least what Lapis is saying does make her get Ange's attention - she even looks a little surprised for a moment before her birdface goes back to the default.

"I.. didn't know you could be so insistent when it comes to a weird overly cutesy place like this."