+ Life is but a dream +

[vitaelamorte]

I'm sure you noticed the Twins' announcement! So here are the details.

When people wake up on the 15th, they will find themselves caught in a memory. It can be any memory, from an important moment in life to an afternoon spent playing video games. But these memories are off just a little, and characters will be repeatedly struck by a sense of deja vu. As the scenes continue, characters realize they've done this before--had this conversation, performed these actions, etc. Some people will figure it out faster than others, but it can take awhile to convince others of this.

Once the character realizes the situation, he or she can then move around more freely. After a little exploring, characters will find they aren't alone. A number of other residents are with them, and so are those residents' memories. See the randomized groupings below to find out who you will be starting the event with!

As people meet up, the scene will start to change as different peoples' memories meet and blend at the edges. What was their room where they were talking to a friend might turn into the friend's house that burned down years ago. Characters can wander around the scene and will find that it changes according to what they're thinking about or talking about or remembering. Of course, this results in the Mansion quickly turning into a huge mish-mash of worlds, landscapes, buildings, and rooms, some features of which may defy the laws of space (such as walking to the moon along the branch of a tree).

Scene changes such as this are mostly subconscious, but some characters may find it possible to consciously alter the landscape. (For instance, thinking "There was a staircase here, wasn't there?" and confirming that memory might result in the sudden appearance of a staircase!)

Eventually, characters will find that they can leave the "bubble" they've been stuck in. It might be difficult to do, but because reality inside the bubbles is a conglomeration of the memories of its occupants, common points of memory can provide the path to other bubbles (so prior CR and the building of memories with other characters will be essential in moving around!). When a person leaves a bubble, he or she takes his or her memories along to be integrated into the new bubble, therefore simultaneously changing reality in the bubble being entered and the one being left behind.

If that wasn't confusing enough, the last few days of the event bring one more change. If characters wander far enough, they'll find themselves running into alternate versions of themselves, all of whom are dead. These AU characters are limited to those characters currently in Wonderland, and can be based on canon alternate timelines or the player's ideas of what might have happened if a significant decision or action in the timeline had happened a different way (a Mark Melter whose daughter didn't disappear, a Once-ler who decided to listen to the Lorax instead of ruining everything forever, an Arisato Minato who chose to kill Ryoji on 12/31).

To make this a little easier to follow, here's a schedule rundown:

Day 1: Characters relive memories, realize they've done this before, look around for and find other people within their assigned group.
Day 2: People continue to interact with people and their memories within their assigned group, and some may begin to move between bubbles.
Day 3: All people are able to move between bubbles and are free to find whoever they can.
Day 4: The exceptionally curious/adventurous may encounter dead alternate universe characters (please coordinate this with the correct players, unless the character is meeting him-/herself).
Day 5: Most people will have run into dead alternate universe characters.

Initial groupings:

Group 1: Blaine Anderson, Alex Kralie, Sam Winchester, Souji Seta, Santana Lopez
Group 2: George Lass, Yousuke Hanamura, Philip, Dean Winchester, Natasha Romanova
Group 3: Jay, Clint Barton, Mamimi Samejima, Amaterasu, Karkat Vantas
Group 4: Thorfinn, Eleanor Lamb, Peacock, The Lorax, Dave Strider
Group 5: Kurt Hummel, Tony Stark, Shinjiro Aragaki, Sollux Captor, Buckingham
Group 6: John Watson, Brittany Pierce, Aikawa Yuu, James Potter, Nepeta Leijon
Group 7: Bela Talbot, Lithuania, Stan Marsh, Redglare, Tara Gregson
Group 8: The Once-ler, Mark Meltzer, Evelyn Carnahan, Kyle Broflovski, John Egbert
Group 9: Minato Arisato, Kazuki Hihara, Shannon Beiste, Jim Moriarty, Jade Harley
Group 10: Sherlock Holmes, Pinkie Pie, Athos, Loki

A few other important points:

1) There will be a log posted for days 1-2 of the event with a thread for each initial group.
2) The network will not function during this event. This means no text/video/audio messages. Only action.
3) Everyone will play dead alternate universe versions of their own characters. For the sake of everyone's sanity, you may want to indicate if a tag is the real character or an AU.
4) Characters can be behind the schedule described above (that is, for instance on day 4 a character can still be stuck in his/her initial memory if you want), but please do not get ahead of the schedule.

As always, there is a Q&A thread on this post for all of your Q&A'ing needs.

Comments

+ Q&A +

[vitaelamorte]

I have answers!

[sadfreezingbrit]

Why? /broken sobs

Re: + Q&A +

[jivitadana]

Just in case since I'm not sure if I understand correctly: If characters can imagine things to fill in the blanks (e.g. the staircase), can a character consciously stop things from their memories from appearing or have them disappear the moment something appears?

GROUP 1 PLANNING THREAD

[blaineanderbooty]

I'm gonna go ahead and make a thread for people in Group 1 to plan out anything specific we might want to happen. So for reference the characters are:

- Blaine Anderson
- Alex Kralie
- Sam Winchester
- Souji Seta
- Santana Lopez

And away we go!

Re: GROUP 1 PLANNING THREAD

[itsahotone]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT ALEX

ahem.

[eatsyourscience]

Yuu's memory will actually be pretty normal--he'll be sitting on a bench along a sidewalk in Tokyo, waiting for someone. It'll take him a little while to figure out what's going on, but once he does, since he actually is dead in his canon, he'll become one of the dead AU characters (with blank white eyes and everything!). So...he doesn't need any of those.

Yuu will probably avoid most people because he doesn't want his memories to affect anyone, but anyone is free to seek him out.

Souji's memories can get pretty bizarre, which'll be fun for everyone he runs into. As for his AU selves...I'm not sure. I'm open to suggestions.

Karkat will figure things out very quickly, since he's been in dream bubbles a number of times. There will be two AUs of Karkat: 1) a god tier Karkat who died when Bec Noir destroyed the session, and 2) Karkat's dream self who...also died when Bec Noir destroyed the session.

[jivitadana]

Wait, so Yuu's not starting out as a dead AU character upon the start of the event? Just want to make sure. XD

[hamburellakind]

odjgaoirauwpiteotw BEST.

John is going to remember his house before he entered the medium-- so just a regular house, really. Specifically, his room is probably of interest to people. AU options include: Doomed John (from the doomed timeline where John was tricked by Terezi into being killed by Typheus) and Poppop Crocker (Alpha Session John).

George will remember Der Waffle Haus. AU options include: Mom George (George if she hadn't died from the toilet seat and instead followed the typical plan that her mom did-- husband, house, dog, 2.5 kids)

The Lorax will remember the Truffula Tree Valley. AU options include: Asshole Lorax (the Lorax who gave up on being polite and making good arguments and playing pranks and decided to just be a total SJ asshole to the point of the Once-ler just. Axeing him.).

Beiste will remember her apartment with Cooter. AU options include: Vengeful Beiste (the Beiste who fought back against Cooter and lost).

Tara will remember the bowling alley she and her family frequently visited. AU options include: Child Tara (Tara if she had died at the hands of her childhood abuser).

I'm open to suggestions on AU's and places if people have ideas and I WANT TO PLAN WITH YOU GUYS PLEASE POKE ME. <333333333

ETA: Oh, I guess Asshole Lorax was enough of an asshole that the Once-ler just. Killed him. Yeah, sure. :3 I...originally said Beiste won but. But um. She has to die so. yeah it's editeldkjafoieuaweotiua

[thneedifestdestiny]

The Lorax and the Once-ler could travel to each other's dream bubbles pretty easily, since they're remembering the same place. The Once-ler's would have more focus on where he set up camp though, of course. :T Also John and the Once-ler could hang out at some point because WOO GROUP BUDDIES. ♥

Also man I want to play with Beiste too I WANT TO PLAY WITH EVERYONE FOREVER.

[sadfreezingbrit]

Philip will be stuck in the memory of the day he received his father's letter. Given his experience with the Tuurngait virus he's actually used to watching out for déjà-vus, so he'll catch on very quickly.

The main settings of his memory would be a lecture hall at his university and his own flat in London. We'll try to keep the more disturbing places out.

His AU versions will be
a.) Professor LaFresque aka. Philip who decided to burn his father's documents as instructed and consequently never went to Greenland. He died in a boring, old car crash.
b.) Prince Philip (admirablyabnormal) aka. Philip who went to Greenland, but never stepped through the door into the Shelter. He slowly went mad and drowned in an underground lake one day.

[hamburellakind]

I want George and Philip to interact because they are IN THE SAME BUBBLE AND ALL but I am struggling to think of a thing for them to do. Damn them both for being so antisocial!!!!!!!

[airshipswank]

Buckingham will offer the perfectly innocent and uneventful memory of playing cribbage with the Queen of France. In a nice and fancy parlour. Do help yourself to a biscuit, if you like. It might be a while until Buckingham gives up trying to woo Her Majesty.

As far as AU versions go there is

a.) George Villiers aka. the Buckingham who never left England and never became a courtier. He has to make do without sparkly riches and tends to the family estate with his brothers instead. Since King James never touched him he tragically died of the King's Evil.
b.) Buckingham aka. the Buckingham who was betrayed by the lady who was supposed to betray the musketeers, but instead instantly turned on him, causing him to be imprisoned and later hanged in France.

[thisisherson]

Oh, hey, look! It's Kurt's favorite Duke, conveniently located in the same dream bubble as him! He'll have to come pay Buckingham a visit. ;D

[thneedifestdestiny]

OKAY FIRST AND FOREMOST: I'm going to be doing a lot of backtagging for this event. I really like this one and it's got a lot of potential for my characters, but I've got a gross work week next week But on the upside I'm going back to four days a week in October YAYAYAY.

Kurt: He's in Group Five, and I'm still deciding between a couple different things for his memory, but it will probably be in McKinley High School somewhere, most likely either the auditorium, the choir room, or the boy's locker room I'm a bad person. He'll probably catch on pretty quickly and go looking for others. I'm also still trying to decide what I want for an AU version of him. Maybe a Kurt who's mother didn't die, or a Kurt who gets all the solos in Glee club, idk but they die somehow I'M WORKING ON IT.

James: He's in Group Six and will be at Hogwarts. Well, near Hogwarts. He'll be in Hogsmeade sneaking around through passages and having fun in all the shops with his friends just like any other lazy weekend at Hogwarts. He's bright though and he'll notice that something's off, and go explore these Dream Bubble things. He'd be insanely curious about them and how the memories connect and so on. He's going to have several AUs of himself where tried to save Lily and Harry, but they all go wrong somehow, in someway. I enjoy stepping on hearts, yes I do.

The Once-ler: He's in Group 8 and his memory is of the Truffula Valley. Anyone who comes to find him will find lots of Truffula Trees and Bar-ba-loots, and Swomee Swans and Humming fish, and it will just be a forest paradise. He's more likely to be fooled that his memory's real at first, but he'll easily be jarred out of it once he remembers that oh yeah his company and Wonderland and stuff. THAT'S CUTE KRISTEN, HOW YOU SUGGEST A ONCE-LER WHO WOULDN'T RUIN THINGS no it's not going to be that at all. Lorax fandom is the king of five milllion AUs of the same character, so there might be more than one, depending on exaclty how busy I get. But he will run into at least one that tries to get him to listen to the Lorax, and TRIES to warn him about how bad things can be. ...Lolol we'll see how that goes. :D;;

[libraritology]

Evelyn will be trapped in her memory of the day her brother came to visit her at boarding school and told her that their parents died in an airplane crash. Given that it's a memory she suppressed, it's like ripping an old wound open and practically bathing in it, so it will take her a while to realise she's already gone through it before.

Evelyn's memory will take place at St. George's School for Girls in Ascot, Berkshire.

Her Alternate Universe dead-selves will consist of:

1) the stuffy librarian who never went on any adventures but was very clumsy and was crushed to death beneath a falling shelf of really heavy books.
2) the girl who wasn't saved by the Big Damn Hero in time and ended up getting stabbed in the chest by an enthusiastic mummy-come-back-to-life in a ritual.

[hamburellakind]

John could try and comfort her about her parents and kind of go through his mental anguish as of late of GUYS MY DAD IS DEAD ISN'T HE again :|a

[thestormcomes]

Athos will wallow miserably in the memory of That One Day (TM), roughly a year ago, when his beloved betrayed him by drugging him and selling out to THAT BASTARD OF A DUKE the English. He replays this in his mind enough already, though, so he'll hop out of there lickety-split.

You'll find him in Venice, Italy, dealing with some shit.

His Alternate Universe dead-selves will consist of:

1) Athos who was not drugged so much as he was poisoned one year ago, suffered massive internal hemorrhaging as it ate through his body, and died choking on his own vomit. c:
2) Athos who lived a long and happy life with a loving wife and no political turmoil to speak of, retired from the musketeers to live on his estate in the north of France, and died of old age.

[airshipswank]

Buckingham will visit that memory bubble and have a threesome with his memory self and Milady.

[jivitadana]

Minato will have the initial memory of being at Naganaki Shrine on January 1st, so it's actually really peaceful and serene. (1 | 2 | 3).

Feel free to hang out here or ask him about it. It's nice there! I promise! (As opposed to a million other memories that'd be worse to share.)

No AU ideas so far. He might not have any that he'll run into. XD (And fff since I'm going to be slow this weekend, I might not do it so I don't slow anyone down even more.)

[masukukunai]

In group 2, Yousuke's memory is going to take place in the the backside of the tv because he spent like, a whole year there and it's creepy as fuck. Look at the floor! Did someone die there? Probably! Hell, there might even be some shadows out there, so be careful.

Death AU: Yousuke has died once here, from being shot in the head, so you might run into him with half his face blown off. Delicious!

Another, more theoretical time, I'm making up is that after wrongly accusing Namatame of the Inaba murders and throwing him in TV world himself, the fog comes and the shadows leak into the real world, killing him and the rest of the IT. Proper warning: approach him at your own risk, he's going to be seriously messed up!

In group 9 Kazuki has a memory of the roof of his school at sunset. In the distance, the melody of Ave Maria being played on a violin can be heard.

I can't really think of any reason for him to be dead, so I won't force it in that area, lol.

[hamburellakind]

Is Yousuke the jealous type, in your mind? I think it'd be interesting if he saw George and was like OH IT'S THAT GIRL WHO IS FRIENDS WITH MY MAN /HMPH

Beiste might go hang out on his roof because that sounds nice and she is gonna be pretty sad. B(

[spacetier]

Jade is in group 9 ( aka the best group wink wink (ゝω・)┏┏ ). I think I might go with Jade being in LoFaF for this. Mmm snow and frogs. What more could you want?

I will be pretty slow because of school though (like I'm not already) so no AUs

[jivitadana]

Jaaaade, let's hang out! Minato will wander around with her? ^^ (No worries, I have no AUs either for him because of slowness this weekend XD)

[blackflamed]

Mamimi is in group three! Her memory's gonna be the day Naota got hit by Haruko's Vespa, aka the start of canon. I'm not sure what AU's she'd have, though.

[forevercapslock]

She should meet one of the Karkat AUs!

...And also Karkat's memory, since they're in the same group fffff.

[urnewkingbitch]

THOSE FUCKING GROUPS JKFDLSAHJFKEA HAHAHAHAHA I LOVE IT

....

Ahem.

Dave is in GROUP 4, and it's just gonna be various meteor rocketing through paradox space memories. Like suplexing Karkat. :3 Potential AU's of him include various doomed timelines of himself and Alpha!Dave (jpegartifacts.

Amaterasu is in GROUP 3 (lulz lulz lulz), and she's going to bring in...uhhhhhh...random shit from Nippon, idk just yet. Maybe stuff to do with Rao because DAAAAAYUM THOSE MELONS Possible AU's include not going to the Celestial Plain, but still defeating Yami and dies by doing something heroic, and being defeated by Yami.

Nepeta is in GROUP 6 FUCK YEAH!!!!!! She'll be bringing in LOLCAT, her planet. :3 Possible AU's of her include God Tier, surviving Gamzee's rampage only to die by something unexpected, and managing to avenge her moirail's death only to die due to bloodloss or something. \o/;;;;

I'm open to anything. :3

[forevercapslock]

get out

Group Ten - Sherlock Holmes

[not_a_hero]

Sherlock will be bringing the roof of St. Bartholomew to the group. Possible AUs include Sherlock who truly committed suicide, never got clean of cocaine, or never let John into his world and chose the wrong pill.

Group Seven

[onsilksheets]

No ideas yet for Bela here so consider this a group planning thread if you like.

Re: Group Seven

[cautious_knight]

I just threw up something with Liet, if you somehow want to jump in on that... I really hope that I understood this event correctly.

[cookingfordogs]

Here are the three ideas I have for Shinjiro's AU forms. I'm still not entirely sure how this will work though, so tweaking may happen.

The first one will be a more clean-cut, friendlier version of himself, all fancy in his school uniform and everything but always with the sacred beanie. In this form, he didn't kill Ken's mother and ended up staying with SEES.

The second one will be just like his current self, but he dies after the encounter with Ken and Takaya on October 4th. This kid is even less sociable.

The third one is from a world where Shinjiro doesn't ask to join SEES with Akihiko. So he doesn't even know that he can summon a persona; he just knows it gets weird looking at night if he stays up past midnight. Nice like the first one, but untrusting; since SEES operates outside of his involvement, he has a constant feeling of suspicion which will include wondering where the other people in the group came from.

Loki - Group 10

[not_a_troll]

Loki's AU form is the one thats just currently living in Asgard, stuck in the neverending memory where he scoops up the dung from Thor's goats.

Backtagging will be a thing, I'm gone this weekend.

Re: Loki - Group 10

[cautious_knight]

I'd love to do something with Liet and Loki, since they have a bit of CR they should be able to enter each other's bubbles...?

[doesntmiss]

Clint Barton: Group 3 will start out on the memory of a certain Helicarrier, namely his memory of the first time he was there, though as we go on this may easily slip into memories of a circus.
Dead AU versions may include but are not limited to: Clint who never left the circus and died in a stupid reckless accident, Clint who died in Budapest protecting Natasha, Clint who got killed by Loki because Loki decided he didn't have quite enough heart, and Clint who was killed by Natasha because she couldn't shake Loki's control over him.
Enjoy.

Jim Moriarty: Group 9 brings the memory of a swimming pool, swarming with (faceless) children who will probably pick on everyone and try to push them into the pool.
Dead AU versions may include little James who got drowned by his classmates, Jim who wound up getting into drugs and died of an overdose at a young age, and Professor James Moriarty who grew old and even creepier but never actively got involved in crime, and eventually just died of old age.

[hamburellakind]

Oooh, I kind of want Beiste to initially be like WOW JIM WHAT A DICK YOU ARE and then see the bullying stuff and somehow find out that's his memory and just. Oh.

Oh.





you're still a dick but i was bullied too so i guess i get it.

[sisterutopia]

Eleanor is in group 4; expect images of Rapture, both the real Rapture (underwater, lots of brass and metal, like living in a giant underwater hamster habitat) and the version seen through her eyes as a Little Sister (everything sparkly, golden, fairy-tale-like, giant statues of Daddy everywhere). Memories might include gathering ADAM from a corpse, sitting around in her "room" trying to orchestrate her escape from captivity, the first time she put on her Big Sister suit, sitting on the escape pod on the surface, etc.

Alternate versions could include the other endings (This Eleanor's from the best one). Bad ending Eleanor and mopey normal Eleanor, to contrast with cheerfulish hero-worshiping Eleanor.

The first thing that comes to mind is letting the Lorax see how humans live in the absence of any real nature apart from the fish floating around outside. MAN I REALLY NEED TO GET HER OUT MORE.

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[cautious_knight]

Lithuania will remember the moments before he met Poland for the first time.

AU options include: if the Teutonic Knights had been successful to a much higher degree than they ever intended in the normal world and basically succeeded in a genocide (partly through assimilation and partly through murder)

Group 10

[quirrel]

I'm supposed to join this one group, and yeah. Hi guys.
Anyway, Quirrel will remember the whole showdown before the Mirror of Erised.

AU options:
If he had succeeded in getting the Sorcerer's Stone when it had been in Gringotts and got Voldemort his body. Another option is if he had never found Voldemort and continued to travel the world.

Re: Group 10

[quirrel]

Oh right, I should probably say how they died, huh?
The Successful stone-stealer would have died by Voldemort Avada-Kedav'ering the shit outta him. He just kills off his more powerful followers doesn't he? He wouldn't want to share anything, so... Yeah.

Second dead Quirrel will be just dying because of Vampires. He had a run-in with those.

Group 6

[was_a_soldier]

Very late, but John will be probably be locked in memories of Afghanistan or London's streets (perhaps during a chase like when they were pursuing the Golem?), depending on what my group would like!

The dead AU options will be:
1) If John, not Sherlock, went to the roof to confront Moriarty. Died by jumping off the roof.
2) If John met Moriarty before/instead of Sherlock. Died by being killed on a mission or something]
3) If John never met Sherlock at all, and died by eventually eating a bullet.