+ Want to tear it right down and start all over! +

[vitaelamorte]

Good morning, Wonderland Storybrooke!

Bill has announced his latest building project, and now it's time to take everyone on an exciting journey to a whole new world! The bulletin board has the prelude, and this post will give you all the information you need about the two-for-one curse/event deal your characters will unhappily be suffering from between October 24 and October 28!

Day 0: October 23

At 8:14 PM a magical curse is cast, and thick purple fog will roll over Wonderland. There's no stopping it, and it will cover every last inch of the place. It lasts for exactly one minute, and everybody in Wonderland will fall asleep under its power.

Welcome to Storybrooke

The next day all of Wonderland has become a small town in Maine, governed by their not entirely trusty mayor, Regina Mills. Nobody knows how she came to power, or just how long she's had her job. It's just the way things have been, just like how the town's clock tower has always been stuck at 8:15.

The inhabitants of Wonderland have had their memories and abilities (be they magic or otherwise) ripped away from them. Names may be changed, and people who weren't quite human will find themselves human for the duration of the event. In short, everybody has been given an entirely new life: A job, a home; all the important details necessary to keep a small town running.

And while a character's new life may have echoes of their old one, nobody actually remembers Wonderland, let alone their existence before it. As far as they're concerned, they were born in Storybrooke, and will spend their entire lives here. Nobody new ever arrives, nobody old ever leaves; any attempt to go over the town line will end badly, so best not to try at all.

Day 1: October 24

Quaint as the small town may look at first glance, life in Storybrooke is a far cry from idyllic. In fact, it almost seems as if everybody's personality or circumstances have been adjusted a little to prevent them from getting their happy endings (Whatever that might mean to each individual character). A few particularly unlucky individuals might even spend their days locked away in the Storybrooke Asylum beneath the hospital.

Yet on the night of the first day, after living out what seems to be the latest in a line of unhappy days that never change, the clock tower will strike 8:16. Have the rusted old innards worked themselves out, or is something else happening?

Day 2-3: October 25-26

Over the next days, things will suddenly improve. After having been stuck in a rut for so long, people will now find themselves with new confidence, and will finally be able to make a change in their lives.

In addition any passive abilities (enhanced senses, fighting skills, etc) of their forgotten lives will begin to return, though the knowledge necessary to use them to their full extent won't.

Day 4-5: October 27-28

At 8:15 PM on the fourth day, a pulse of energy will eminate from seemingly nowhere. It will continue to spread until it reaches the boundaries of the town. The curse has been broken, and everybody's memories of Wonderland and their true homes have been restored.

There is still a catch, however: All those years in Storybrooke won't fade easily, and characters will be stuck with two sets of memories. So who are they really? Snow White, or Mary Margaret? Their Storybrooke self, or whoever came before? Or are they both?

Aftermath: October 29

By October 29 Storybrooke has turned back into Wonderland. Any fake memories implanted by the curse will lose their prominence. They will be like every other memory of an event, and no longer cause confusion.

Annnd that's it, that's the schedule! You'll find a comment for further questions below, as always. Please also consider adding your character to the TOWN REGISTRY for the sake of a better overview.

That is all, have fun ruining your characters' happiness in new and refreshing ways, and enjoy your day!

~Mouette

Comments

[wordvomit]

→ Ned (Frederick Kuchenbäcker*) is your average, friendly-but-slightly-downtrodden fellow, who would prefer to be called 'Fred.' He runs the local home cookin' eatery down off Main Street and his pies are the best in the county (not that you'd know the difference, since no one leaves this place). For ease his restaurant will be called The Pie Hole, a restaurant he inherited from his mother after she died, though it serves more than just dessert.

He employs a few of the local young folk as servers and feels generally unfulfilled because his love life is in shambles and he tends to drive away prospective girlfriends simply because he is incapable of opening up to people. Also, he has a weird fascination with dead things and practices taxidermy in his spare time the next Norman Bates???. What's that about.

1st Day: Business as usual. Morose and mopey. Stuffing a dead bird or two, you know. That old chestnut.
2nd-3rd Days: 'Fred' grows oddly uncomfortable with his hobby and ventures out into the social scene to try flirting with women. Where will that lead him? Nobody knows...
4th-5th Days: Neurotic tendencies come to a head and he has an emotional meltdown about meat, his preoccupation with both dead things and pie, and his crippling loneliness. Probably tears the diner kitchen apart looking for answers that aren't there.



*Literally Fred the Pie Baker I'm trash

[lightgunhustler]

Well hey boss. /cheekhands

Pretty sure Beth and Tori will both fuss all over him for being so damn mopey all the time.

[wordvomit]

hey kid

MAYBE HE LIKES BEING MOPEY DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT no he doesn't, he hates it

[lightgunhustler]

If you think either one of them is buying that line for a second, you are super dumb.

[lost_labonair]

So would Ned like another waitress who is in desperate need of a paycheck and terrible at customer service? >.>

[wordvomit]

why do none of his employees have any work ethic

YEAH SURE WHY NOT
he's a bleeding heart, he can't turn anyone away
and what a good time for us to get CR y e s

[lost_labonair]

SHE HAS WORK ETHIC, it's just not all that good. Also apologies ahead of time when she dumps food in irritable customer laps oops?

IT IS yesss I will just toss all my girls at Ned, this is the best plan.

[wordvomit]

YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO CUSTOMERS OH MY GOSH

obvsly always toss ladies at the pie maker

[lost_labonair]

TO BE FAIR, she's doing it to Klaus and he deserved it. >.>

I will do this. Although I bet Simon could make him stutter just as much lmao.

[goodwoofjames]

i request awkward flirting with george

[wordvomit]

as long as you're okay with it being legitimately the worst flirting job in the history of flirting

he'll never get anywhere with anyone nO HAPPY ENDING SOB

[goodwoofjames]

it's okay she's mostly going to be vaguely annoyed/confused by people paying attention to her so it'll be horrible all around :>

[sparkplugs]

Freeeeed. Would you like to hire a recently graduated high school student who needs a job so she can stop mooching off the local pastor and eventually get her own place?

Cy/Millie probably would be interested in his taxidermy too. Weirdos unite!