+ Your imagination can't hurt you! +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: YOU!
Where: The Mindscape
When: starting November 11th
Rating: may be up to R for character deaths
Summary: Navigate challenges to learn valuable lessons about nonviolence, cooperation, and self-sacrifice! Release your inner animal! Read more about the event here, and on the bulletin board.
The Story:




"If you know yourself, you have nothing to fear."
"Working together is the only way."
"Deaths are a necessary part of life, but not all deaths are necessary."
"The needs of the many outweigh the life of just one."

Comments

[easily]

Considering everything I've heard here, I suppose meeting the actual Devil isn't the strangest thing to happen.

[A little weird though, definitely, if only because she's never been particularly religious one way or another herself. If there's a Devil does that mean there's a God as well?

Something to think about another time.]

[walkingheroin]

I'm rather convinced that Wonderland itself is the strangest thing to ever happen to anyone.

[He looks back around the room, growing visibly irritated as the moments pass without seemingly any progress before he kicks his foot against the nearby wall.]

I have half a mind to try those stairs again myself. This is bloody annoying.

[easily]

I am too. Which is saying something, considering some of the things that have happened to me.

[Annoying is putting it lightly. The situation is downright infuriating.]

Maybe if we try to go up them together, we'll have different results. Maybe they're waiting for some sort of team work.

[walkingheroin]

Wouldn't that be contrived of the place.

[He sighs, gesturing toward the stairs.]

Very well. It can't make things worse, I suppose.

[easily]

One can hope.

[She makes her way to the stairs and sure enough, when she tries going up them this time she seems to have better luck than when she went up by herself]

[walkingheroin]

Well, wonderful, it's trying to get us to be all buddy-buddy with strangers.

[He continues to climb the stairs beside her.]

It's like Wonderland is trying to convince us to submit to some kind of bizarre Stockholm Syndrome.

[easily]

It must be the whole misery is company theory at work -- they figure suffering will bring us all together or some other bullshit like that.

[She's not entirely sure she buys it.]

[walkingheroin]

I've seen the worst suffering there is. Believe me, it doesn't bring anyone together.

[He says it with more bitterness than he should as he trudges up the stairs. At least doing this doesn't hurt his legs.]

[easily]

I thought you were supposed to like suffering -- or is that one of the things we've gotten wrong over the years?

[she imagines there's a lot. perhaps some of it might be intentional, like how niklaus had created the sun and moon curse for his own devices.]

[walkingheroin]

I enjoy punishing those who deserve it. Not quite the same thing, in my opinion.

[His opinion is very important, tyvm.]

[easily]

It's always more fun when they enjoy it, I can't argue with you on that one.

[She may not be Satan or anything but she's more than punished a few people in her time.]

[walkingheroin]

Ah, but when I'm involved, I make sure they don't enjoy it in the slightest. It's punishment they deserve. Not pleasure.

[He really shouldn't sound so pleased about it.]

[easily]

Fair enough. That can be fun too, depending on who you're punishing.

[walkingheroin]

Now you've got it.

[He glances around, growing frustrated with the fact that they're still here, however.]

It seems Wonderland enjoys dishing out its own punishment as well if the current event is any indication.

[easily]

So it would seem. There has to be some sort of way to get out. Some trick we aren't seeing.

[walkingheroin]

Yes, of course. But what is it?

[He moves to lean against a wall.]

Do let me know when you've figured it out, will you?

[easily]

Oh, is it my job to figure it out then? That hardly seems fair.

[walkingheroin]

Well, of course. I've already done one of these and my patience for it has decidedly left me.

[easily]

Yes well, I'm not thrilled about doing another one myself and yet here we are.

[walkingheroin]

At least the scenery isn't as dreadful, I suppose. Which isn't saying much.

[easily]

I'm not drowning this time, that's always a plus.

[walkingheroin]

I was literally sent to Hell. Again. So I think I have you beat there.

[easily]

I didn't realize we were competing.