+ some wonderlands are kind

Hi everyone! It's time for the bi-monthly check-in. If you're still in the game, please respond to this post by Monday, September 30 (I'm a day late, sorry!)

If you don't respond by the 30th, we'll assume you've left the game and your character(s) will be removed from the lists.

So long and farewell to the last of our Queens, and also the Jabberwocky! Here’s a quick recap of what’s been going on.

( Recap! )

This is going to mean some pretty big changes to Wonderland from now until Endgame!

• No More Queens: We’ll tackle the obvious first. The monarchy is completely gone, and will not immediately be replaced. Wonderland is going to attempt to govern itself for a little while! Any Mirrors who die from now on will be remade by Wonderland, with no particular affiliation to any Queen or other Ruler. The midnight curfew will remain in place, but Mirrors are able to come and go as they please, swapping places with their Real counterpart.


• You can keep your Vorpal Items!: The Vorpal Items that were still hidden at the end of the event will vanish, but if you found a Vorpal Item it is your to use from now until Endgame!


• Alice will be played like a player character from now until Endgame: This means that she will be around to comment on people’s posts and make her own, and will get to experience events with everyone else! In exchange she will be losing her NPC powers, meaning she can no longer teleport across the mansion or predict events before they happen. A quick disclaimer that it is literally not possible for Alice to tag literally every post on Real Side, but that I want to do my best to make sure her CR is diverse and varied. If there’s anything in particular that you would really like Alice to respond to, just hit me up!


• THE CORE IS STILL LOOSE: The Core is no longer a stationary location. It is constantly moving around Wonderland, looking for new places to hide and new people to sneak up on and steal memories from. It likes to hide in empty, hollow places like cupboards, rooms, boxes, suits of armor - anything it can hide inside of. You can always tell when the Core is hiding somewhere because the edges where light could escape from will glow brightly. If encountered, the Core will steal a large memory from the character. This will be a constant danger for a while!


• In exchange for that memory, we will add something to Wonderland! If you tell us that you’re going to be having your character forget something, we will add something to the setting that represents that memory in some way (a new location, a new decoration, etc). Encountering the addition will not make characters remember what it means. Currently we have two new additions, courtesy of Nageki and Stan
  
  
  1. In the entranceway, there is now a large fireplace, with a mirror in the frame on top. Mirror Side will also have a reflection of this fireplace with a mirror that corresponds to it, if anyone really wants to climb up there. The fire is always roaring and it always stays lit, day and night.
  
  
  2. A ten minute walk into the woods, there’s now a mysterious, broken-down shack. The entire place is in shambles, seemingly beyond repair. There was once a place for a sign on the roof, but it seems to be conspicuously missing. Once it had two floors, but it’s so broken that the stairs have collapsed (and so has the roof in many spots). It seems almost fitting there, as though the forest will start to take it back any moment.
  
  


Alright! We know that a lot of new information, so we’re going to have a FAQ thread in this post for any questions you might have. We hope you enjoyed this event! Please feel free to backtag it to your heart’s content (especially since we know a few of you were away at the time). We also hope these new changes will be fun going forward, and will put an interesting twist on things going into Endgame.

~ Koji

Well, that didn’t go as planned!

According to the Red Queen’s broadcast, the Vorpal sword was not enough to slay the Jabberwocky. It rose up again, seemingly invincible, and now the Red Queen is nowhere to be found.

So, good luck with that! But don’t worry - Wonderland is going to try to help out.

A few things are going to happen:

• The glass that separates Mirror Side and Real Side will shatter and it will remain shattered through the entire event. This means that Mirrors and Reals will be able to freely cross from one side to the other without switching places. Unfortunately, this also means the Jabberwork will be able to easily cross sides as it pleases. Deaths will count as mansion deaths.


• Weapons will be provided. As you know, ordinary weapons simply don’t stand a chance against the Jabberwocky, but Wonderland has left some rather interesting loot drops for people to find. In a fit of desperation, Wonderland has made copies of the Vorpal Weapons to help people defend themselves and others. Those who can sense magic will be able to tell that they are not ordinary weapons, and that the magic behind them is similar to the magic Wonderland exudes.
  
  1. Vorpal Sword: It is a long sword that is meant to be wielded with two hands. The Vorpal Sword is said to be able to slay any enemy; however it does not seem to be properly slaying the Jabberwock this time. It will cause damage to the Jabberwocky though, and will allow someone to fight against it more effectively than with other weapons.
  
  
  2. Vorpal Shield: It is a large shield shaped like this. It can defend against any attack, and is the only known object to be able to fully withstand a blow from the Jabberwock. Despite looking heavy, anyone who picks it up will be able to use it to defend themselves.
  
  
  3. Vorpal Yarn: This is a small spool of glowing white-ish golden thread with a number of different uses. In combat its primary use is for healing wounds, even those dealt by a frumious beast like the Jabberwocky. Unlike the other items, each spool of yarn is only good for three uses, so make them count!
  
  
• Finally, somewhat less helpful than the other things, the Core of Wonderland is going to leave its room on the fifth floor of Mirror Side. It will be wandering around Wonderland on both sides, hiding in random rooms and other dark enclosed spaces it can claim for itself (tree trunks, boxes, suits of armor - anything hollow and dark). If the Core is hiding somewhere, it will emit a glow from the edges of its hiding place. If you open it, it will steal a LARGE, IMPORTANT memory this time. Something will happen in exchange and the consequences will last beyond the event, so if you decide to do this please contact the mods via PM so we can fill you in.

Please feel free to use this post for plotting, and as always there will be a FAQ thread here for all of your question and answer needs. Expect the next update on Monday, and then the event will run through next weekend!

So go forth and fight!

~ Koji

So as Alice has said there will be an event this weekend! You can find more details over at the bulletin board, but here’s a couple of quick points:

• Much like some of our other AU events, everyone will remember their CR the way they have always known them in Wonderland, unless they are from the same canon - if they’re canonmates, they will remember them the way they are in their own AU of what happened.


• If your character’s happy ending is something that would happen in their future, they can be aged up a point where they would be able to say they’ve experienced it.


• Their happy ending can either be an alternate version of canon events that already happened, or an imagining of what their lives will be like once they get their happy ending. For some characters it might be like a temporary canon update, and for others it might completely change their lives!


• These are canon-based good endings only. Wonderland is still Wonderland and has still brought them all here. They just have even more to get back to at home now!


• There will not be a mingle log for this event - during the event Wonderland itself is not changing, so they will be going about their ordinary Wonderland days until they realize that no one is how they remember them.

And that’s about it! What’s your character’s happy ending? Will it clash with anyone else’s? There will be a FAQ thread for all your Q&A needs, and this post is here for all your plot needs!

~ Koji

Hi everyone! As we announced, we no longer have a formal activity check where you need to prove your activity through the last two months. However, we are requiring you to check in on this post to let us know that you and your character(s) are still in the game.

You have through the 31st to respond to this post. If you haven't responded by the end of the 31st, it will be treated as a drop and your character(s) will be removed from the game.

Thanks, guys! If you have any questions PM the mod account.

Hey guys. We need to talk about some things.

We know it’s becoming obvious that Eway has become smaller and smaller over the last year or two. It hasn’t escaped our notice either, and the game is officially too small to sustain the way it is set up now. Despite our best efforts, the game is not recovering the way we had hoped it would. We’ve discussed our options at length, and we’re making a very difficult decision.

entranceway is officially entering endgame.

This is not happening immediately and not a decision we’ve made lightly, but we wanted to be honest with our players about the direction that the game is going in. We still have plots that we want to do and things that we want to wrap up. We want to be able to end our seemingly unending story on our terms, rather than just closing up shop and leaving loose ends.

Our current plan is to do one more full round of events, so we will still be using the event submissions we’ve been asking for. Between those, we will be running one mod event in September, one more Ewaymas, and then the endgame plot will happen in February. After that, the communities will be left open in sandbox form for reasons that will become apparent as the last of the mod plot unfurls, but the game as it is now will close.

We’ve given it some thought, especially considering that we have heard concerns about players not being able to make AC with the game as small as it currently is. We understand, and we don’t want anyone to be struggling with it just to see the plot through to the end, so effective immediately AC will become a BI-MONTHLY CHECK IN from now until the game closes in February.

What does that mean? It means from now until endgame we are not requiring you to prove your activity but we are requiring you to check in to a bi-monthly AC post to make sure you’re still here, so we can get an accurate headcount. All you’ll have to do is comment and let us know you’re here and with which characters. This will actually start with the Activity Check at the end of this month! The AC post will be changed to reflect this later today.

We’ll also be leaving applications open, particularly for anyone who wants to bring a character back for endgame. With the AC reduced to a check in (and with our recent rule change that lets old characters remember Wonderland when re-apped), we hope it will make it easier for anyone who wants to come back for one last hurrah!

Again, this isn’t a decision we’ve made lightly. As of September, Entranceway will be thirteen years old which is absolutely absurd for a DWRP. So many people have passed through here over the years that most DWRPers at least know someone who was here if they weren’t here themselves. But, we can also see what is ultimately necessary for the game. We want to go out with a bang rather than quietly fading away. There are a lot of interesting things planned, so it is our hope that you will stick around for Endgame and pass it along that we have open apps and no AC for the next few months.

We’ll be saying this a lot over the next several months, but we want to thank everyone so much for allowing Entranceway to last as long as it has. We wouldn’t have gotten here without any of you, past members and present. Thank you so much for everything, and for sticking with us until the end.

Sincerely,
Koji and Kristen
The Entranceway Mod Team