+ This is totally not an April Fools joke +

[vitaelamorte]

Hello everyone! On Sunday, April 1, the first phase of a very special mod event will begin. Starting on 4/1 and lasting until the end of the event is announced, the Mansion, its grounds, and the rest of Wonderland will change. Unlike normal events, however, these changes are in ragged patches, a few of which might be familiar to some residents since they're based on old events. Most of them were too long ago for anyone currently residing in the Mansion to remember, though.

The changes will reflect both physical and atmospheric alterations for a given area. Be sure to look over the information behind the cut to see what is going to happen and where. We've tried to make it as comprehensive as possible, so it's a little tl;dr. Just bear with us!

Feel free to do any planning for this part of the event on this post. As always, there will be a Q&A thread for any questions. Other than that, enjoy the changes and look out for another mod post to announce some more developments in a few days! ♥


Below you will find two tables. Each table will give the location of the change and the date(s) of the event(s) that precipitated the change so that you can easily check them out in the Bulletin Board archives if you want.

Here is the exterior map related to the first table.

Wonderland and the Mansion Grounds
Location	Event Date	Description
Grounds: Area 1	2/6/2011	Area 1, where the hedgemaze was, is a carnival complete with rickety rides, games to win prizes from, carnie food, a haunted house, music, and various other typical traveling carnival fare. Everything is run by masked figures, and none of them will speak or respond to the characters aside from doing their job, whether it’s running the ride you’re on or making you a doughboy.
Grounds: Area 2	4/10/2009	Some Mansion residents might recognize Area 2 as a Quidditch field with it's triple goal rings at each end. Sitting at the edge of the field is a case with the four requisite balls and a rack with fourteen brooms. Anyone can use them within the boundary of Area 2, whether or not he or she is a wizard or witch. Outside the Area, though, the brooms are just brooms. Be careful!
Grounds: Area 3	6/18/2009	Area 3 is made up of a portion of a quaint little town, with many white buildings with red roofs. It is an old-fashioned town, almost as if it were the setting of a fairy tale. Once entering this Area, characters may feel somewhat disinterested in leaving again unless given a good reason.
Grounds: Area 4	1/25/2007	Area 4 has become a warzone with phantom sounds of fighting, gunfire and explosions, planes flying low overhead, and troops marching. The landscape is torn by explosives with shrapnel and rubble littering the ground and crisscrossed by trenches.
Grounds: Area 5	11/27/2011	Area 5, making up grounds right around the Mansion, has transformed into a Japanese hotsprings and a small Japanese-style garden.
Grounds: Area 6	2/28/2010	Area 6 is a North African sea of endless sand, scorching hot during the day and freezing cold at night. The sun is blinding and the only relief is a tent city that ends abruptly at one edge of the Area.
Grounds: Area 7	3/19/2011	Area 7, where the dock is located, has turned into the streets of a polluted, dirty city. The permanent night of this Area is lit by garish neon signs covering the buildings, which have windows but no doors. The streets are full of litter and acrid puddles, and there is nothing growing.
Grounds: Area 8	2/10/2007	Where the vendor stalls had been, Area 8, a Japanese festival has been set up. It's lined by rows of stands with cotton candy, candied apples, yakisoba, takoyaki, yakitori, fishing games, shooting games, you name it. The permanent night sky is colored at regular intervals by colorful fireworks.
Grounds: Area 9	11/28/2011	The Chessboard Hills have turned into the rocky, reddened landscape of Mars. Hidden amove the hills is a hole in the ground; stairs lead down into a cave, where any visitor will be faced with something symbolic of a tragedy or trauma the character has suffered in their lives.
Ocean	2/12/2011	A city of stone, coral, and shells has sprouted beneath Wonderland's sea. Anyone who enters the water will find themselves turned into a merman or -maid, able to breath underwater and swim easily until he or she leaves the water again.
Forest	7/1/2007	The trees in the forest have become dark, twisted, and stunted. They secrete a curious fog across a ground of dust and sand. Unsteady desert sunlight pulses through the trees and strange animals that will attack if encountered roam.

Inside the Mansion
Location	Event Date	Description
Basement	10/31/2009	The walls of the basement are made of stone and the floor is buried under a layer of bones so thick it can't be seen. It's pitch black except around the stairway, where large blue crystals provide an ominous glow. Undead ghouls roam the honeycomb halls. Some carry large candles to light the way, but others are vicious and will attack if approached.
First Floor	5/17/2009 8/23/2009 8/31/2009 10/25/2009	The first floor and all of its normal rooms (minus the library) have become part of a castle. Near the grand entrance way, the Mansion is palatial, but as one wanders further it becomes more like the palace of a South American prince; even further and it becomes more primitive and less inviting. Empty rooms are clearly used for storage, all stacked with boxes and chests, which may have Boggarts in them. Open one and you'll be faced with your worst fear manifest, unless you can laugh it away. When entering the first floor, characters will automatically find themselves dressed in the nicest clothes of their world, culture, and era, and will address others by their full names and title, if applicable.
Second Floor	9/27/2007 5/5/2011	The halls of the second floor are lined with the windowed classrooms and meeting rooms of a generic Japanese school building. Some rooms are clearly meant for clubs to meet in, and the mansion's entire library has now been squeezed into a one room high school library.
Third Floor	9/28/2008 9/5/2010 10/4/2010	The massive hospital ward that was the third floor starts out clean, high-tech, and well-supplied, but the further one gets from the stairs the dingier and more run down the place gets. There are rust stains, holes in the walls and ceiling, springs poking out of the beds, and on and on. The lights flicker and there are used surgical tools, ripped records, and blood stains. Cries of pain can be heard in the distance, but no amount of searching will help one find the source.
Fourth Floor	6/27/2008	The fourth floor is flipped upside down. Doors are at least a foot above the floor with light fixtures dotting the "floor"; everything else is on the "ceiling". For anyone entering the floor (including their hair and clothes), gravity works normally. For everything else, gravity is now pulling upward.
Fifth Floor	4/23/2007 7/17/2011	Everything on the fifth floor has become as gritty and hard boiled as anyone would expect from a good (or bad?) film noir, including having everything in grainy black and white. However, the further down the hall one goes, the less real things look. In fact, they look dinstinctly like old, black and white cartoons.
Sixth Floor	12/11/2009 1/9/2011	Inexplicably, the sixth floor is part of a space station. Close to the Mansion's main stairs (where people entering and leaving the floor must pass through an airlock), rooms are small bunk-style apartments with antiseptic spray showers and portholes that show a view of a terrestrial planet outside. Further down the hallways, things get barer and starker until everything is completely white and smooth, with the feel of thick plastic or fiberglass. The view now shows a distant red planet against the stars.
Seventh Floor	3/25/2008 8/15/2010	Everything on the seventh floor is falling apart, crumbling like an old ruin. The closets don't work, and plumbing and electricity are spotty at best. Not only that, but zombie-like monsters roam the floor and will attack if encountered.
Eighth Floor	2/20/2007	The entire eighth floor is iced over at subzero temperatures. Electricity, plumbing, everything is affected by the freeze. The closets still function, but it may be near impossible to get them open.
Ninth Floor	8/19/2011	The ninth floor has turned into a quirky office building, complete with pushy cleaning robots, meeting rooms and cubicles instead of bedrooms, break rooms with stale donuts, a cafeteria, and...a strange acidic substance leaking from the ceiling in places?
Tenth Floor	4/24/2010	The Mansion's roof and attic are gone, and the tenth floor has been replaced with the uppermost part of a giant tree. All walls, floors, and even most furniture is now made from the tree's limbs, branches, leaves and flowers.
All Floors	1/25/2009 3/6/2009 10/3/2009	On all Mansion floors, items (both personal belongings and public use items such as furniture) will occasionally turn into butterflies and flutter away. Some water sources will only give clear alcohol, and there will be no way to tell which is being served without tasting or smelling it.
Exterior	10/3/2009	The Mansion's exterior is decorated with Soviet Russian flags, and sunflowers can be found growing all around its foundations.

Comments

+ Q&A +

[vitaelamorte]

Ask any questions here and I'll get back to you as soon as possible!

Re: + Q&A +

[jivitadana]

Question! ^-^

1 - Mansion deaths work the same way throughout this event?

2 - Can you clarify about what's happening on the Mirrorside during all this too? I think I understand what's going on, but I'm not sure.

Thanks. ^-^

[fryingpanfu]

Oh shit Dave is SO avoiding that eighth floor. Fuck everything.

UM.

WHO WANTS TO PLOT WITH Dave, Rainbow Dash, Mindfang, Ammy, OR Rapunzel?

[aangairnomad]

CAN SHUU TAKE RAPUNZEL TO THE FESTIVAL????? 8D

[itsahotone]

As always, I have no plans or prospects.

shrug.

[akapeanut]

santana and george can hang out since we haven't done that since they reconciled :|a

[aangairnomad]

ASKDLAJDKLAJDKLAJDKLA

Wow, get a hold of yourself I mean, I am really excited for this event!!!!

Anyone who wants to do plotting with Aang or Shuu, let me know!!! :D

[tobendthetide]

Aang and Katara can do all the cute lovebird-y stuff ever. ;P

[not_a_hero]

Sherlock will be wanting to explore everything and might help people if their needs sound interesting enough.

Wanna run into him on his 'mad adventures' or plot something specific, lemme know <3

[was_a_soldier]

You know I'm in~

[0u0]

SOB I RECOGNIZE SOME OF MINE... ;o;

yeah Aradia will continue not to give any fucks about anything, but I guess she'll hang out in the netherworld for awhile because ghosts. If anyone wants her for anything I'm totally down with it??

[has_signed_on]

Sollux and Aradia have some really weird, surreal and almost nonsensical conversation about dead things down in the netherworld y/y?

[akapeanut]

Aaaah okay wow XD

Beiste is okay with being fancy on the first floor for a while, so no problems there! She'll be sure to check everything out and make sure nobody gets stuck anywhere dangerous though.

Tara will wake up as T on the fourth floor and assume she is high. Things will get more serious when she doesn't stop being high, however.

George will leave the sixth floor ASAP. Not sure where she'll go after that.

John might actually. Go and check out the screams on the third floor. And worry that it's someone he cares about. ;;

any ideas beyond this?

[urnewkingbitch]

john
john no stop
remember the buddy system

/chinhands at all your characters
/forever
/and ever

[spacetier]

Jade and Dave are both coming back on Sunday so they will be popping up in area 8 together! Wow they sure are going to be confused. They spend a whole year away and everything changes. Way to go. (They will also be going to the hot springs place. Maybe)

Other than that I don't have anything planned so you should definitely plot with me. You know you want to. Especially if you want to be cool and hang out in a tree house on the 10th floor. (◡‿◡✿)

[urnewkingbitch]

Yessssssss.

OMG

OMG

THEY CALL JOHN

AND HE THINKS THEY'RE ON A DATE

BUT THEY'RE LIKE

NO

JOHN NO

SHUT

STOP
NO
SHUT UP AND LISTEN

[was_a_soldier]

John will likely be spending a majority of this event exploring and deducing things with Sherlock. If anyone thinks they may need a former soldier/doctor throughout this event, with Sherlock or otherwise, feel free to reply here for possible plotting.

Just beware running into him in Area 4, PTSD abound.

[urnewkingbitch]

Rapunzel will probably run into him and Sherlock somewhere. 8|

[thestormcomes]

Holy moly this is a lot of stuff to keep track of. o__o

~open for any and all things unspecified below~

Athos will indulge in The Ocean, because he is a diver and heck yeah merpeople and breathing underwater without a suit. He'll also probably visit Area 3, because it would remind him of home.

Dean will experience the horrors of The 3rd Floor hospital and The 7th Floor zombieland, mos def. And I should be nice to him, so one of those festivals might be lovely.

Evelyn will wander about The 4th Floor because finally, something Alice-in-Wonderland-y. She will also visit Areas 4 & 6, because the latter is similar to Egypt, and the former would remind her of the Great War when she was a little girl.

All three will be open to doing anything else, should anyone want them for something. c:

[aangairnomad]

Would Athos mind if his pupil joins him for a swim? :D

[shiroganefortune]

Okay, no plans as of yet so Naoto and Vriska are both open for plottage.

[no_homo_bro]

NAOTO.

I.

YOU.

ME.

FESTIVAL Y/Y? ////

[sadfreezingbrit]

Apart from Philip avoiding the eighth floor like the plague I have no exciting plans for him, Buckingham or Sawyer, although I may force the former into a butterfly chase spanning all floors and have the latter lounge around in area seven, which is probably as close to nostalgia as she'll get.

[dashboardlite]

hey dude you wanna go to the seventh floor
huh
huh
do ya
do ya
this time you'll have a shotgun
makes it easier

[learnedsomething]

Pinkie Pie will be all over the carnival and festival. That is, when she's not in her room giggling at how gravity has been broken.

Kyle will explore things and maybe hang out on Mars or something.

[aangairnomad]

Aang and Pinkie Pie need to get drunk together and cause some mischief and mayhem, y/y?

also I think Kenny might be accepted by then, possibly, sooooo Kyle can greet him?

[no_homo_bro]

omg there are so places to be *-*

I have no set plans for Kanji, Izaya, Sollux, Kurosawa Rei, or Ky so...Anything? |D;

[no_homo_bro]

oh look, i meant 'so many'.

in all my excitement, typos ahoy orz

[tobendthetide]

So, aside from Aang and Katara having cute times together at the Japanese festival, I don't have any particular plans for my characters.

Anyone want to plot with me? XD

[hamburellakind]

i kind of want beiste and puck to shoot zombies together

um.

so yeah.

[40410]

Hey guys I regained the internet literally five minutes ago what's going onOH MY GOD

Alex will be delighted to wake up in a random Japanese room because absolutely nothing embarrassing happened last time he woke up in a Japanese-style mansion. Nothing. At all.

Oh my god I am looking forward to this PLOT WITH ME I'LL EXIST THIS TIME

[sadfreezingbrit]

/mhhhhh hot spriOH GOD YOU AGAIN
/MORTIFIED
/TURNS INTO FURNITURE

[sarcasmbend]

Holy shit, that's a lot of stuff. This is going to be ama~zing! <3

Sokka will be fanboying over the robots on his floor for a moment before having his ass dragged to the hotsprings. Pretty much, I have nothing else planned.

Anybody want to plot things?

[son_espoir]

So. Kanji and Sokka GO TO SPACE? :D

[eatsyourscience]

At least one of my characters (probably Souji) will be going on an epic butterfly hunt. Otherwise, my only real (tentative) plan so far is to have Souji and the rest of the IT have the most awkward hotsprings visit ever. I have no plans for Yuu or Rei yet, and I'm open for plots with all three.

[jivitadana]

I kind of want their Velvet Keys to turn into butterflies~ If that's okay. ^-^

Then there's the festival stuff. ^-^ We can work on that.

[masukukunai]

MARCELINE will be having fun in grounds 1 and 2, and in the forest (creepy!) and in mansion, the basement, and the 4th, 7th, and 10th floors. She is an intrepid adventurer and loves excitement, so she's really happy to go anywhere as long as a good time is promised. She also loves dark, spooky places and monsters and zombies and whatnot don't faze her at all. If anyone wants to check those places out, she'd be a good companion.

YOUSUKE will be in grounds 5, 8 and near the ocean, because I say so. In the mansion, he'll be on the 2nd, 5th and 10th floors. I expect him to be having shenangians with his P4 pals? However, he'll hit up anyone to hang with because he's needy like that. But he'll probbaly be staying around the safer floors/areas unless someone needs his help for something.

[thisisherson]

So I'm late to comment because of reasons, but I'M GLAD EVERYONE LIKES IT SO FAR.

James will be exploring a little bit of everything, but expect him to spend a lot of time in Area 2, on the Quidditch pitch, trying to get people to come play. He'll also probably be nice enough to explain the Boggarts to people, one he hears they're there. Really, he'll be around all sorts of places, just trying to check everything out.

Kurt will probably enjoy his floor (First Floor) the most, being all formal and posh, but his goal here is going to be safety, so once h runs into a Boggart, he'll probably leave. He'll be avoiding the more dangerous places in favor of comfort, because he's a wuss.

Anyway, if anyone wants to do anything, let me know. :D

[libraritology]

I WANT TO THREAD WITH KURT AND EVELYN GDI
first floor fanciness?
y/y?

[sinkships]

> SIXTH FLOOR
> SPACE STATION

Hehehehehe

Redglare will leave the 6th floor as fast as possible, simply because space stations are for soldiers, not legislacerators. She will be walking around the basement making it somewhat safer and generally wandering in places with a lot of hostiles. Her glasses, at some point, will turn into butterflies.

[hamburellakind]

wait is she going to kill butterflies and make them into glasses

because beiste might have words about that

[paper_knight]

MARS. OMG MARS. AND. THINGS. AND OTHER THINGS. AND--

Okay okay no I...I can easily send Mark to nose around anywhere and everywhere because that is just what he does does anyone want to plot with him?
Everything here looks wonderful I can't handle decisions by myself

[40410]

HEY MARK HEY MARK ARE WE STILL AWKWARD DO YOU WANT TO HAVE SRSTALKS OR MAYBE GO HANG OUT ON MARS

[oneofthosefaces]

AAH! So many wonderful things. ❤

Jonathan will be...panicking starting on the fourth floor where he has recently settled in. Sorry, new neighbors. You see, he really does like his material objects, so when they turn into butterflies or are upside down, he get a little concerned.

Other than that, he may end up in either Areas 3 or 7 in a failed attempt to find normalcy and a drink. Company is most certainly welcome!

If you have any other ideas just let me know. :)

[dashboardlite]

If he wants drinking buddies in either Athos or Dean, lemme know! Otherwise I can throw Evie at him in one of those places.

:D

[papshooshing]

I'm a little late to the party, but I have no plans so Karkat is open if anyone wants something to do with him.