+ some wonderlands are kind

All of this is pretty alarming, huh?

In case you missed it, the mansion is running in safe mode! In other words, resources are incredibly limited, there is nothing outside anymore, and the closets do not work. Things don't fix as quickly when broken, and food can only be obtained via the dining room, but even that will not be as plentiful as it once was. The mansion is trying to conserve resources, make everything last as long as it can.

And evidently, even Wonderland does not believe things will last much longer. By now, it is common knowledge what the final coded message was:

No more tricks and no more lies
For those and more, I apologize
Now I’ve nothing left to give
And now, none of you shall live
What is done cant be undone
I'm sorry, sorry, everyone.

So, what will you do? How will you spend your final days? Will you try to leave? Accept your fate and eventually starve? Solicit help from anywhere you can? What will you do, dear friends, now that Wonderland is nearly out of power?

We will be back on January 1st with details regarding endgame, that will be largely based on how we see characters responding to this development. The power is in your hands, everyone. What will you do with it?

~ Koji ♥

As of this post, the second floor pool has vanished permanently. If anyone attempts to visit it, hoping for a wintertime heated pool swim, they will find that the door leads to an ordinary empty room.

I'm sure it's fine. Now, back to your regularly scheduled Advent Calendars! ♥

~ Koji

The Cheshire Cat announced an event and the Bulletin Board sent you here!

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Any deaths sustained during the event are considered Mansion deaths. Those people who are AUed as Gems may keep or alter their powers or gain new powers; everyone else retains their powers as normal. There are no network or closets, so be careful for the last couple days of the event!

There will be an open log for this event.

Like always, there is a Q&A thread here for any questions you might have!

As the Twins announced and as the bulletin board states, there is an event this coming weekend!

( Here are all the deets! )

A couple more notes:

- Deaths count as Mansion deaths.
- There's no network.
- There are no working closets.

There's a Q&A thread if you have any Q's! I have a bunch of A's for you.

EDIT: There will be an open log for this event. It will go up Friday.

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 is going to be an event this weekend! Most of the details are at the bulletin board, but here’s some quick additional details.

• This is an AU event! All characters think they live in Santa Barbara, or at the very least they think they’re in town for SBCC (Santa Barbara Comic Con).


• Santa Barbara has a disturbingly high murder rate, but all deaths will count as mansion deaths. Because it’s an AU though, no one will revive until after the event ends.


• The culprit, whoever they are, is an NPC - which means that you’re welcome to have your character turn up murdered, or to have your character jump in on the chaos and commit their own crimes if their AU self would do such a thing, or even have your character work on the case! Just jump right in on the action and start accusing each other!


• There will be a mingle log for the convention!

So, what is your character up to? Are they a fan attending the convention? Are they working security, or with the police department, or a criminal? Or maybe they have some other job in town and were just minding their own business as their lives got interrupted by murder again? And most importantly, what is everyone doing for cosplay?

This is your plot post for all of your plotting needs, and as usual there will be a FAQ thread for all your FAQ needs! Have fun, and happy SBCC!

~ Koji

As Tweedledee and Tweedledum announced, there is an event this coming weekend! All of the details are on the Bulletin Board, but here are a few reminders:

• This is a full AU.


• No one is allowed to leave the school grounds.


• Characters 18 and under are automatically students. Everyone else can either be an instructor or aged down to be a student.


• There are no special powers. Everyone is a "normal" human being.


• There will be a mingle log for this event.

Please do your plotting here! As always, there is a Q&A thread for your convenience.

Hello everyone! As you've probably noticed, things are a bit of a mess right now. In the last character event, the White Queen turned into the Jabberwocky and flew away, and Alice, her royal adviser, does not have the situation even remotely under control. She called an Address and was immediately called out for lying to the Mirror public about the situation. That being said, she's determined to do what she can to fix things, and to bring the White Queen back to her throne. Because surely this is all some big misunderstanding, right?

Alice (with the help of the Tweedles and the Treacle Trio) will attempt to conduct a magical seance on Thursday, June 6th. Seances call on those who aren't here anymore, right? It seems like a perfectly fine idea to Alice, and no one has thought to correct her. So up in the attic of the mansion, they will hold a magical seance and attempt to contact the other side.

However, this proves to be a bit too powerful. The spell will cast across the entirety of Wonderland (both Real and Mirror Side) and every single person in Wonderland, no matter what they were doing prior to the seance, will black out. When they awake, they will find themselves in a strange and twisted world outside of time - a different one than usual. Elements may seem familiar, but it's clearly a different place.

Welcome, Mirrors and Reals, to DREAM SIDE. The sky above is dark and speckled with far-off stars but the world below is unnaturally lit and bright. There is a mansion at its center, but it is warped and unusual, as though someone stretched it like taffy, but if you try to enter it, you'll find that the door is not just locked - it appears to be painted on, as though it is just static scenery. It isn't a mansion that can be entered, just a cartoon-ish mansion cobbled together from dozens of memories.

Dream Side, as you might have guessed from the name, is not a static place. It is built from the scraps of dreams of those who cross into that side of Wonderland. Characters on this side of Wonderland are not asleep, but the world they are in is shaped by the contents of their dreams. Unlike the glass between Real Side and Mirror Side, there does not seem to be an obvious thing connecting this Side of Wonderland to the other two - at least, not something visible.

They are not alone in this world either - because the girls were conducting a seance, they have inadvertently called upon the dead. For each time your character has died a mansion death, there will be a ghostly copy of them wandering Dream Side. They will look as standard ghosts do - pale and translucent, looking as they did the moment they died. They will have a tendency to haunt their current living version (and those who care about them), but they will not be able to speak directly with them. For Mirrors, these ghosts can be Unmade versions of themselves, if they were ever Unmade. Some ghosts might be hostile and some might just gently haunt from a distance - it will depend on the character and what they would do if they were a ghost how they behave.

Under the cut we have a few more details!
( What do you think they're dreaming about? )

What’s going on here? How do they get out of here? And just where is the Jabberwocky or the White Queen? (or both, perhaps, if the previous event is to be believed - do you believe it?) Time to put your thinking caps on, if you don’t get too distracted by this odd Dream Side you’ve all been transported to!

Please hit up our FAQ thread for any questions you might have, and hit up our locations thread to volunteer some locations for Dream Side! You’ll be able to add more to it while you’re threading as well, but this thread will give people an idea of what is freely available to be used. And finally, come plot with us here on this plot post! What are your characters doing? Who’s trying to figure out what’s going on and who’s just trying to survive with the least amount of trauma? Anyone’s Mirrors having some existential crisis-es or taking matters into their own hands, since Alice is clearly not the most competent leader? Come let us know in the comments!

And most importantly - have fun! ♥

~ Koji

So as Alice tried to tell everyone before she got soaked there’s an event this weekend - an AU event for The Good Place! You can read more on the bulletin board, but here are a few more specifics!

( Details )

If you have any questions, feel free to hit up our usual FAQ thread and I will be your personal Janet for the week! If you want a random nonsense soulmate instead of picking one for yourself, there will also be a thread for that - signups will not close until the event starts, and they will be assigned as soon as I am able to.

What’s your character up to in this horribly mediocre afterlife! What did they do to deserve being in the "Good" Place? How do they like that person they’re forced to live with for the rest of forever? Come over here for all your plotting needs!

~ Koji

As of Thursday, March 21st, all of the glass will be put back in place, and the Mirrors will return to their side of Wonderland (which will send anyone who went to visit Mirror Side back to Real Side). In addition, there will be a rare rainstorm today, washing away what's left of the chalk creations. Any that were created indoors will have a brief rain cloud form over them, raining just long enough to clean up the chalk mess before vanishing. Alice will also return to her post on Mirror Side, but she's had a lovely time visiting (and her threads will be back tagged)! The rain will last all day outdoors, and by the 22nd it will be sunny again.

Finally, everyone will get to keep their chalk, on the grounds that anything brought to life with it can easily be washed away, and nothing created by the chalk is very powerful or strong. So if your characters want to continue using their chalk post-event, or if they have a use for it later, then it's theirs to keep!

And that's the end of this one! We hope you had fun! Feel free to back tag the log to your heart's content!

~ Koji

As the the trio of sisters announced yesterday, there is a new event this week! More information can be found on the bulletin board.

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Please use this post for plotting and keep in mind not everyone has a plurk for such purposes. The usual Q&A thread will be available for questions. There will be a mingle log for top levels for this event!

As the the Gryphon announced yesterday, there is a new event this week! More information can be found on the bulletin board.

Please use this post for plotting and keep in mind not everyone has a plurk for such purposes. The usual Q&A thread will be available for questions.

EDIT: There will be a gathering/mingle post for this event!

HEY GUYS - We know this is a little bit early, but we wanted to give you guys as much time to plot, advertise and GET HYPE as possible! Ewaymas is our biggest event of the year every year, and this year we wanted to do something extra special.

On the evening before December 12th, the captives of Wonderland might be awoken by a loud commotion. Some of it is typical Ewaymas noise, likely familiar to anyone who has been in Wonderland for more than a year – construction sounds and jingle bells as Wonderland decks its own halls quite literally. Garland and lights race down the walls and down the stairs, and stockings appear on the walls for each and every person in Wonderland, embroidered with their names. There are decorative candles everywhere, and all sorts of decorations for every conceivable winter holiday, even if it does not align perfectly to the dates of Ewaymas. Time isn't real, so there will be menorahs and dreidels and Star of Davids even though Hanukkah ended two days prior. And of course, in the front hall, growing straight out of the floor, is a large decorated tree full of ornaments for everyone. And as always, it will have snowed heavily overnight, bringing all of the snow Wonderland will have between now and spring.

There is a second source of commotion in the night though – the sound of a crowd.

Over the course of the night, dozens of new arrivals will appear in Wonderland. Some for the first time. Some wondering how they managed to return with their memories. Others stumbling in with no recollection of ever having been here. Some might be friends from other timelines, other possibilities, and some might even be doubles of people who are already in Wonderland. It's strange for Wonderland to drag so many people into the mansion at once, but everything seems to indicate that they are supposed to be there. They have their own network devices and even have their own stockings on the wall and their own ornaments on the tree – by all accounts, it seems Wonderland expects that they'll be staying, and is treating them like any other new arrivals. Please, make them feel at home and help them settle in nicely.

Welcome to our first ever FOURTH WALL EWAYMAS! The fourth wall aspect of the event will last the entire event, from December 12th to December 26th. As always, December 26th is a mod-sanctioned backdate day – the last day of the event is December 25th ICly and we just don't know where December 26th goes every year because time still isn't real. Ewaymas is our biggest event of the year every year, and this time we'd like to invite as many people to join us as possible! Please take a moment to read our Fourth Wall Rules for more information.

This event will be split in two halves – the first from December 12th-18th and the second from December 19th-26th. There will be two mingle posts, on for the first half and one for the second.

( Part One and Part Two under the cut! )

As mentioned in the Fourth Wall Rules, anyone who apps during this event will be able to just remain in Wonderland after the fourth wall with all of their memories in tact even if they were in Wonderland before, as long as they app before the 26th.

We'd also like to take a moment to announce a minor change to applications from here on out - as of today, you can substitute a Test Drive Thread or Fourth Wall Event Thread less than two months old for your FIRST PERSON SAMPLE, if you so choose. Please keep in mind that a Third Person sample and Character History are still required, but now you may use any kind of Wonderland voice testing, as long it is from a recent TDM or Fourth Wall Event. Merry Early Ewaymas!

Please ask any plot-related questions in the FAQ on this post, and any fourth wall-related questions on the FAQ on the Fourth Wall Rules, and feel free to use this post for all of your plotting needs. What kind of scenes will your characters accidentally bring to Wonderland? Bringing anyone in particular for the 4th wall? If you're someone outside the game planning to come visit for the fourth wall, you're welcome to use this post too! If you need something to link around or just a place to keep track of everything, feel free to use this linkable Master Post!

And above all else, have fun and have a very merry Ewaymas, one and all. ♥

~ The Entranceway Mod Team
(Koji, Kristen, and Britt ♥)

So, as Alice has said, there's an event this weekend! She tried her hardest, she really did.

Welcome to Pottsfield! A few quick notes for the plot post here:

• This is not an AU - characters will be well aware that they were in Wonderland prior to this, but they won't be so sure how they wound up on the floor of a barn alone.


• Pottsfield is populated by two kinds of pumpkin skeletons – the first are generic NPCs who won't have much to say beyond how great the Harvest is and how your characters are a little too early to be here. The second type are skeletons that have been dug up during the event. These will be pumpkin skeleton versions of people in Wonderland, and will be much more talkative and interactive. They will still act like themselves, but they are very aware of the Harvest being a party for them and will act accordingly. Neither type will hurt your character - this is NOT a zombie event and skeleton-ism is not contagious!


• Pumpkin skeletons for this event are indestructible. You can theoretically knock them apart, but it won't kill them. They'll just tell you off a bit because wow, that was rude!


• Players can play two (or more) versions of their character – the one forced to work in the fields and, if that character has died in Wonderland, their pumpkin skeleton self. There is a skeleton for every death in Wonderland, so if your character has died two or more times there may be two or more skeletons buried. You don't necessarily have to play with more than one if that's more complicated than you want to get into, but just so you know they're buried there. Waiting


• Your character doesn't necessarily have to dig up their own skeleton – feel free to co-ordinate with other players so that your characters are digging up their friends, or maybe even meeting someone new! You can also choose to handwave having someone dig up your character's skeleton if you want to just jump right into the party.


• If for whatever reason you people decide to use this nice peaceful event to somehow kill your characters, they will not immediately join the skeletons. They're too early still! They haven't even been buried or decomposed at all!


• On the other hand, if your character wants to skip out on the farmwork and just join the harvest, the pumpkin skeletons will probably just let you do that and they won't even kill you or anything. The more the merrier!


• None of the pumpkin skeletons are living in the old timey houses you'll be staying in, but some of them are populated by giant turkeys. No one knows why.


• And finally, there will be a group mingle log for this event! Due to some confusion in other events, we're going to try and announce well ahead of time whether there will or won't be a log for an event. Sometimes they wouldn't benefit from having one. That being said, people are also still welcome to make their own posts and logs!

And that's that! If anyone has any questions, please hit up the FAQ thread, and feel free to use this post for all your plotting needs. Gonna dig up anybody? Gonna learn about that time your spouse died and then they totally didn't tell you about it? Gonna join a pumpkin cult? Come let us know!

Have fun, and Happy Harvest!

~ Koji

Hello! The results are in, and these are your groups of randomization for the plot that begins on Saturday!

Please remember to head to the plot post for any questions you may want to ask and for plotting everyone is guaranteed to see!

ALSO: There will be an event post for top levels so everything is in one spot.

( Rando resutls here! )