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BREAKING } from Ace of Spades, the Wonderland blog of Georgia Mason, entry #7
As many of you have no doubt noticed by now, we are in the midst of what, for lack of a better word, I'll call an event. Not a normal event, though. Wonderland hasn't raked through anyone's memories and put bits of our lives on display. This is the doing of individual Reals and Mirrors, and the fallout of their actions, proving once again, our greatest enemies will always be ourselves.
Leopold Fitz and Cisco Ramon, two scientists that started out with the best of intentions, as so many scientists do, have been trying to create a way out of Wonderland, though they refrained from sharing this information with the public before running their experiment last week. "I don't think anyone's been that in the dark that some of us have been working on trying to find a way home. There's no sense in getting people's hopes up over something that is almost certainly destined to fail the first few, probably hundred times," said Ramon, when questioned.
Fitz and Ramon's portal. Photograph by Shaun Mason.
Fitz did put out a statement to the public, but only of the potential for noise pollution. "We won't be working with anything particularly dangerous," he stated, and when pressed for details would only reveal that it was "a mechanical stress test." Upon further investigation, the mechanism in question was a portal generator, made using technology and power sources from both Fitz and Ramon's worlds as well as technology from the recent space event and data from the recent event with the alternate reality tears. Fitz still maintained his stance on the level of danger the portal provided when questioned. To his knowledge, it was unfinished and incapable of taking them anywhere. Previous attempts had either failed entirely or only managed to take them elsewhere in Wonderland. "At this stage, we only want it to turn on without exploding," said Fitz.
And turn it on without exploding they did, but rather than pointing somewhere elsewhere in the mansion, as has occurred in previous similar experiments or leading actually home, the portal opened onto the Mirror Side. This was a surprise to Fitz, but Ramon, who was under the impression the Mirrors had kidnapped his associate Caitlin Snow, sabotaged the experiment intentionally using information gleaned from Fitz's Mirror. This allowed Ramon to access the Mirror side and switch places with his Mirror, who had at the time of our interview continued to impersonate the Real Ramon for the whole week. Mick Rory's Mirror also passed through, attacking a number of Real individuals to provide distraction.
The portal may have been a success, but the attempts to evade the Queen's attention were an abject failure. She ordered her Mirrors to cross over and apprehend the Mirrors involved in the attack. This may have been a more successful endeavor had she bothered to inform her agents which Mirrors were the traitors. They were also ordered to "punish" the Reals, involved or not, by messing with their minds and stealing possessions that held sentimental value to them. At that point, it became clear things had gone extremely wrong. "We've been running electronic simulations for over a year to make sure this would be a safe test," Fitz stated. "This shouldn't have happened. There's no explanation for it."
There is, of course, an explanation, and it lies with the real Cisco Ramon, who is obviously unavailable for comment. Fitz has spoken favorably of his intentions, but good intentions don't change facts. It's notable that catastrophic fallout or not, this is the first successful breach of the Mirror Side by Reals using methods other than the Rabbit Hole or the Mirrors. It is possible following this line of research could eventually lead us to more successful tests later, but Fitz won't be the one leading the research team. "Everything I try just hurts someone. I can't keep doing this to people," he said, "I'm not a hero. I'm not going to be the one who solves it." One can only hope that whoever does take up the challenge next has a better sense of safety procedures and is less inclined to listen to words written on mirrors.
Addendum: Mick Rory's Mirror, who prefers to be called Chronos, has made it clear that regardless of the intent of the mirrors involved, his motives were revenge, not furthering along their schemes.
[ooc: feel free to threadjack around and discuss with each other in the comments! Turn this into the nightmare comment section all articles deserve.]
Leopold Fitz and Cisco Ramon, two scientists that started out with the best of intentions, as so many scientists do, have been trying to create a way out of Wonderland, though they refrained from sharing this information with the public before running their experiment last week. "I don't think anyone's been that in the dark that some of us have been working on trying to find a way home. There's no sense in getting people's hopes up over something that is almost certainly destined to fail the first few, probably hundred times," said Ramon, when questioned.
Fitz and Ramon's portal. Photograph by Shaun Mason.
Fitz did put out a statement to the public, but only of the potential for noise pollution. "We won't be working with anything particularly dangerous," he stated, and when pressed for details would only reveal that it was "a mechanical stress test." Upon further investigation, the mechanism in question was a portal generator, made using technology and power sources from both Fitz and Ramon's worlds as well as technology from the recent space event and data from the recent event with the alternate reality tears. Fitz still maintained his stance on the level of danger the portal provided when questioned. To his knowledge, it was unfinished and incapable of taking them anywhere. Previous attempts had either failed entirely or only managed to take them elsewhere in Wonderland. "At this stage, we only want it to turn on without exploding," said Fitz.
And turn it on without exploding they did, but rather than pointing somewhere elsewhere in the mansion, as has occurred in previous similar experiments or leading actually home, the portal opened onto the Mirror Side. This was a surprise to Fitz, but Ramon, who was under the impression the Mirrors had kidnapped his associate Caitlin Snow, sabotaged the experiment intentionally using information gleaned from Fitz's Mirror. This allowed Ramon to access the Mirror side and switch places with his Mirror, who had at the time of our interview continued to impersonate the Real Ramon for the whole week. Mick Rory's Mirror also passed through, attacking a number of Real individuals to provide distraction.
The portal may have been a success, but the attempts to evade the Queen's attention were an abject failure. She ordered her Mirrors to cross over and apprehend the Mirrors involved in the attack. This may have been a more successful endeavor had she bothered to inform her agents which Mirrors were the traitors. They were also ordered to "punish" the Reals, involved or not, by messing with their minds and stealing possessions that held sentimental value to them. At that point, it became clear things had gone extremely wrong. "We've been running electronic simulations for over a year to make sure this would be a safe test," Fitz stated. "This shouldn't have happened. There's no explanation for it."
There is, of course, an explanation, and it lies with the real Cisco Ramon, who is obviously unavailable for comment. Fitz has spoken favorably of his intentions, but good intentions don't change facts. It's notable that catastrophic fallout or not, this is the first successful breach of the Mirror Side by Reals using methods other than the Rabbit Hole or the Mirrors. It is possible following this line of research could eventually lead us to more successful tests later, but Fitz won't be the one leading the research team. "Everything I try just hurts someone. I can't keep doing this to people," he said, "I'm not a hero. I'm not going to be the one who solves it." One can only hope that whoever does take up the challenge next has a better sense of safety procedures and is less inclined to listen to words written on mirrors.
Addendum: Mick Rory's Mirror, who prefers to be called Chronos, has made it clear that regardless of the intent of the mirrors involved, his motives were revenge, not furthering along their schemes.
[ooc: feel free to threadjack around and discuss with each other in the comments! Turn this into the nightmare comment section all articles deserve.]
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