entranceway | first adventure ✪ video; forward dated to end of the event

Oh wicked, this place even comes with a comm system!

[ Look who's fresh out of the mysterious gateway portals and figuring out the method to best meet everyone all at once, eh? One very energetic Overwatch agent at your service, entirely too excited to be staring into a camera lens at the world at large. ]

Right then, hellooo Wonderland! Tracer here! [ Her first two fingers touch her temple, a jaunty little salute punctuated with a giggle. ] This is brilliant, isn't it? Out of all the pickles I've found meself in or travels I've been on, I don't think I've ever seen a place like this!

[ So many oddities! Mysterious self-populating dinner plates, closets that spit out whatever's your fancy, creepy masked fellas with odds and ends for sale. She's loving it and it is very apparent on screen, this slight woman practically vibrating to get into some trouble. ]

So what's all there to do then? Baddies to fight? Spooky caverns to spelunk? Pub runs?

As long as it's an adventure, I'm there!

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[Oh. She's so cute. That's new, at least.]

There's only one bar, so it would make for a pretty bad run if you were lookin' to move the party. But I'd say there's plenty to do around here.

[ Well hello there yourself stranger. ]

Shame. But one's all I'd need to buy you a drink.

[ Her sly smile goes right back to the usual glib friendliness Wonderland is not at all used to yet but will be if Tracer is kept for long enough. ]

What, like jobs? Some people've mentioned events and the like, but I've no clue what those are outside of, I dunno. Stage shows?

[Well well well. That's something she'll accept graciously.]

Well, I wouldn't stop you. Even though they hand 'em out for free here, it's no less appreciated.

[She grins, a little smugly.]

But, nah, more like amenities. Big pool, nice grounds, huge dining room and lots of food. Events, on the other hand... well, there's not a better way to explain it than just laying it out. This place runs on other people's memories. Every couple of weeks it ends up really liking one and we all get to live it for a few days before it rights itself. This, ah, goes anywhere from Halloween in July to a full-on zombie invasion.

[That was... fun. ish. Sort of. By day 5 she was exhausted.]

Even better! I don't have any creds here so I was gonna have to figure out a way to pay you back for borrowing yours.

[ She'll just tuck that raincheck into Shepard's back pocket, okay? ]

S'pose it's nice that rent and whatnot is taken care of, but sounds like some of the people round here aren't too keen on the price.

So some people have been here for years? I can see where some people would get fed up with it, and I know I'm not part of that, but do you lose these memories?

[ That's really the only part of this whole bit that's got Tracer looking concerned. Being stuck is one thing; forgetting about who does, where she comes from, and who she's left behind is...

Yeah, no, that is just not on. ]

No payment needed but your company on that one.

[Oh she's got it, make no mistake.]

Apparently, every time there's an event, it takes something from the person's memories that they forget forever. I've heard it's mostly words. But if you're here for years and years... well, I guess that could add up.

[It bothers her, too, that she could start forgetting. Worse so if you're the only person from your world here, because then there's no one to keep you in check if you start forgetting things other people might not know.]

The only other way to really lose something is... well, if you die here, you don't stay dead. The Mansion will bring you back. But if you die 5 times, it takes something from you. Only word we have on that is "something that makes you who you are". So it's probably best to avoid dying about as much as you normally would. Besides, I can't imagine it'd be, ah, very pleasant.

[Okay, so she knows it's not, but not from dying here. Probably not the best thing to say to someone new, anyway. You don't really introduce yourself with 'hey, I've been dead before'. A little uncouth.]

Otherwise, this place tries to be as accommodating as possible. You can get anything you want out of the closets just by asking, as long as it's not something specific to your world, so... y'know, clothes, food, games, all a go. If you ask it for something too specific it'll either do nothing or bring you a generic. Honestly, it probably wants us to stay, if it runs on our memories, so I'm not surprised it tries to keep us comfortable.