open } hiding wolves in wicked skins their darkest sides preserved

[krmvgivv]

Who: YOU
Where: Wonderland
When: 11/11 - 11/13
Rating: Will vary a lot depending on the thread
Summary: Catch-all log for anyone who wants to do stuff post-challenges but still during the event.
The Story:

[Congratulations, you solved all three challenges! Now you get to hang out and wait for your friends to also finish. Plus, you still get to turn into neat animals. Have fun!]

Comments

Dipper } ota

[krmvgivv]

[Wow, that was weird. Dipper has never been so glad to be back in Wonderland and have everything back to normal. Dipper heads outside into the chilly November weather, tucking his journal into his vest pocket. Those were not the kinds of puzzles he prefers. Seriously, what kind of neat obstacle course doesn't even have secret codes?

Well, at least it's over. Weird challenge or not, Dipper outsmarted it and made it home. He smirks, feeling exceptionally clever.

And then he starts feeling exceptionally like a crow. He flaps his wings and looks down at the ground and caws.

What?]

[singloversing]

[At some point while he's outside, Dipper might catch sight of something sort of weird for mid-November. There's a chameleon hanging out on a low branch of a nearby tree. He managed to scurry up that far at least, but he's very far from the mansion (for a tiny chameleon, that is) and very, very cold. Right now, most of his energy is going into just keeping his brown color and not moving so maybe he can stay warm until he figures out how to back on purpose.

This is it. He survived the three challenges and now he's going to die of frostbite as a lizard. That sure seems like the kind of stupid thing that would happen to Wirt.]

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper is enjoying his newfound crow life when he lands on a branch that... has a chameleon on it. Which is weird enough that he turns back into a human and has to clamber a lot to catch the branch and not fall on his face.]

What the heck?

[singloversing]

[Wirt is stunned still from all of the commotion, but then he cautiously flicks one eye over to his new tree companion. Wait, that's--!

It's Dipper. Oh thank god.

Gradually (very, very gradually) he allows his colors to shift. He looks like he's supposed to mostly be blue (except for the triangular point on his head, which is more red), but all of his colors go much darker from the cold. Then, slowly, he starts moving along the branch towards Dipper, trembling with every step.]

[krmvgivv]

Wirt?

[It's a good thing Dipper's smart. People are turning into animals and this one has Wirt's coloring and also Wirt seems dumb enough to get stuck as a reptile in the cold. Really, it's the only thing that makes sense.

He tries to pry Wirt off the tree. This is the part where if it's not Wirt, it'll probably try to flee, but honestly he's not even sure if it's capable. It looks like it's in pretty bad shape.]

[wickedwest]

[Don't mind the green mule over here, Dipper. She's glad to be out of the challenges too, just sort of giving the crow a look over here because what exactly are you going on about there, buddy? The worst part of things is over now, things are basically back to...Wonderland normal. Except with more animal transformations. So not normal, but close enough to it.

And that's another reason for the judging look too. Part of the event seems to be over, can the rest of it go too? Zelena's never really been a fan of these things and that's not going to change any time soon or...ever, really.]

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper is even smaller than usual, but no less fearless, so he flies over and lands on the green mule's head. He's never seen an animal of that color before. It's fascinating.]

[wickedwest]

[Great, now she's a green mule with a bird on her head. So much for things being mostly normal.

...oh wait, she hates everything about this, so that basically is normal. Anyways, she's going to start shaking her head to try and get the bird off before it pecks her or builds a nest or something.]

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper squawks and flaps his wings to try and keep his balance before remembering that he actually has hands and once he remembers he's suddenly a person again and finds himself on the green mule's back clinging anxiously to his neck and how does he get down?]

Oh my god I miss having wings.

Georgia } ota

[choosetruth]

[Georgia has never been so happy to wake up and find herself blissfully in the dark of her own room with her sunglasses on the bedside table. She slams a pair onto her face, sticks another in her pocket just in case and storms out of the room angrily.

She taps the cuff on her ear.]

Shaun, you'd better pick up...

[Later, along the grounds, you might see a black fox streaking by, or come up on her wandering more slowly around the edge of the woods. She bares her teeth if you get too close, but with enough patience, she may turn into a person again.]

[adaptiveimmunities]

[Shaun wakes up to George's voice in his ear, and he has never been happier to hear her sound so pissed off, because it means she's okay, and most likely somewhere that he can find her.

He taps his ear cuff.]

What are you going to do if I don't?

[choosetruth]

[She wants to collapse against the wall in relief when she hears his voice, but she manages to contain herself to just a slim smile. She's never been happier to hear him being obnoxious.]

Lucky for you, you'll never have to find out. Where are you?

[adaptiveimmunities]

How about we play Marco Polo to find out? You come to the maze and start yelling "Marco," and I'll yell "Polo" when I start to hear you.

[Yes, he is being an ass. But he's relieved enough to hear her that he doesn't care that she will almost certainly beat him up when she actually finds him.

After all, she has to find him first. Then she can beat him up.]

Pidge } ota

[reverseengineer]

[Pidge bursts out of her as a lioness, furious at the loops Wonderland has made her jump through. Sure, she may have made it through her challenges, but she's pissed she had to at all.

...literally as a lioness. There's an angry lioness stalking the halls of the mansions for a little while.

Once she calms down, she manages to turn back into herself, and she can be found sulking on the roof, looking up at the sky.]

Dorian; OTA

[theothermrgray]

[It's over.]

[The torment is finally over.]

[Sadly, Dorian was rather shaken by his last challenge, and he desperately needed to calm down. The opium was not an option this time (due to the insane dream he had under its influence) and his favorite yellow book would only remind him of his ordeal. The next best thing he could think of was to crawl onto the bed, curl up, and purr as he attempted to sleep...]

[Wait a minute, he can still turn into a cat?]

[Actually, this seems like the perfect way to spend the rest of the day. It's not every day you get to see the world from a cat's perspective. A rare opportunity that will surely get his mind off things.]

[And so, after he figured out how to remain human long enough to open his door and leave his room, he could be founds wandering about the mansion as a black cat, letting instinct take over for the most part. He could be seen napping on the chairs, jumping onto furniture, and generally enjoying the cat life while he can.]

gently pets the kitty

[mandrakes]

[Generally, animals don't like him. The scent of the herbs he carries in a pouch attached to the leather strap across his chest is usually enough to calm a reasonably stupid horse, but cats and dogs aren't so easily fooled. They know he isn't human and they hiss or bark at him while their masters apologise to the man who, to them, looks to be little more than a perfectly ordinary man.

So, when a small black cat hops up onto the chair beside him as he sits in the library, and curls up with an apparent intention to fall asleep, he is.. surprised.

Surprised enough to reach over and give the creature a gentle little scratch on the head with the tips of his fingernails before he returns to his book. He assumes magic, but doesn't think much more of it.

The downside of animals not liking him is that they certainly won't get close enough for that. A shame, really, because he has nothing against animals in the slightest.]

PET ME

[theothermrgray]

[The brief moment when his head was scratched was infinitely pleasurable. The very sensation was wonderful, almost like being massaged by small, gentle nubs. He wished this would go on forever... When it stopped.]

[Dorian looked up to see an elderly gentleman reading next to him, dressed in such a way that could imply he was from an older era. Not that it really mattered at the moment; The important thing was this man was willing to pet a cat.]

[So he jumps onto the man's lap and glances up expectantly.]

[mandrakes]

Ah-- hm.

[Stranger and stranger. Cats don't like him. They don't get this close and they certainly don't jump on his lap. Regis reaches carefully for a bookmark, marks his place and sets his book down, observing the cat for a few moments.]

What an odd little creature. [He muses aloud, rubbing the top of the animal's head, down its neck to the dip between the fragile shoulder blades.] Though I certainly know enough about cats to know I'm going to get no more reading done.

[A cat gets in your lap, you pay attention to it. That's the rule, right?]

But, hmm.. where did you come from?

Tim Wright | ota, will match any format

[postictal]

[Tim spends most of his time pretending no one else is there. None of the challenges exactly treated him nicely, and he's still trembling from the combined physical and mental strain of them. Occasionally he'll run fingers through his hair, murmuring a quiet litany of phrases to affirm his existence to himself.

And then sometimes, he's a crow. After adjusting to the initial oddness of it, the sensation of having wings instead of hands and talons instead of feet and hollow bones and just generally being a whole lot smaller than he's meant to be, he mostly takes the opportunity to propel himself skyward with a hoarse caark.

It'll be the closest thing to free that he'll ever get.]

[choosetruth]

[George is coming outside when she sees Tim turn into a crow and she raises her eyebrows behind her sunglasses. She waits until he swoops closer before she says anything.]

Why didn't you pull out that trick when we were stuck in that damn pit?

[postictal]

[It takes a bit of mental gruntwork to get himself to change back, seeing as there isn't really a manual here, but he manages it after a moment, stumbling as he readjusts to the feeling of having feet and arms.

He does his damnedest not to look sheepish.]

Didn't know I could. I only figured it out when everyone else started doing it.

[choosetruth]

[Her face is, as ever, hard to read, but she doesn't really look... any angrier than usual. She can turn into a fox now. She didn't know either.]

Since I doubt you could've taken me with you, I suppose it's just as well.

Muahahaha

[theothermrgray]

[There was a fuzzy black cat resting in the garden, blissfully ignoring the world around it and enjoying the peace.]

[Or, it was enjoying the peace, until a passing blackbird flew by. A mix of curiosity and instinct came over the cat, and soon it was stalking the bird, ready to pounce.]

:T

[postictal]

[Always being watched, it seems, even as a corvid rather than someone with two legs and a set of faulty lungs. The sensation of being observed is acute as always, and if he had hair on the back of his neck, it'd doubtless be standing on end.

Sufficiently unnerved, he takes flight with a beat of his wings.]

:3

[theothermrgray]

[The crow flies off; The cat starts running after it.]

[That's how a hunt works.]

[However, at the moment, the ability to fly means that the crow has the advantage. But that's ok. The bird's gotta tire out sometime.]