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entranceworks2019-05-18 10:08 am
vitaelamorte) wrote in entranceworks2019-05-18 10:08 am
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+ MAY / JUNE TDM! +
Welcome to the EWAY TDM!
Prompt A: Serious Event
Hellhounds are coming for a visit! For the first day of the event, residents will hear crazy howling coming from the direction of the forest, but it's off in the distance. If anyone investigates, they won't be able to find the source of the howling.
On the morning of the second day, the hounds approach the mansion. They are invisible, only able to be seen by demons, but they can certainly be heard by their growls, snarls, and barking. They aren't the most delicate of beasts, so there will be plenty of broken furniture and doors as they charge around inside the Mansion.
Hellhounds take no prisoners. They attack viciously and woe betide those who end up in the same room as one. A death by hellhound is nasty and probably slightly traumatizing, if remembered. Here is what one would expect when a hellhound comes near.
There are defenses against them: lining plenty of salt along doorways and windows, or even standing in a circle of it can keep them at bay. They can also be blown to high heaven, if one can rig up a bomb big enough. Barring a door very well can also help, but hellhounds are strong and tenacious, so they'll eventually break it down. They just won't stop once they have someone's scent.
Prompt B: Lighter Event
This event is bringing movies to life! For each character, there will be one movie represented in the mansion in some way. This will most likely be either a setting change (where part of the setting just shows up on the grounds or inside), the sudden appearance of creatures or animals (because everyone needs velociraptors running around), or the general themes of the movie affecting the population (like some mysterious American Pie rooms on the second floor that make people want to lose their virginity
How do you decide which movie your character would bring to the mansion? Well, one of two ways. The first is that if your character is from a canon where they would have watched movies, then you would pick something that they have seen. Movies that only exist in their canon are 100% okay to inflict on the mansion. The second is that if your character is from the past/a mystical magical movieless land/just doesn't care about movies, then you're free to pick any movie you want to add to the mix. Movies that they have seen in the mansion are also okay to use, if you would prefer.
For the characters who are film buffs, big fans of a movie, or just plain watch too many movies, this event will go one step further. These characters will think that they are actually a part of whatever movie the mansion brought to the event on their behalf. They will take on one of the character roles from this movie and thoroughly believe that they are really this character. Being plucked out of their movie will not phase them too much – they will be trying to stick to the general plot of their movie as much as possible. They will gain or lose abilities based on who they think they are (someone from Star Wars might be able to use a lightsaber, but if they were a wizard before they wouldn't be able to use their wand for this event), and their personality will change accordingly, but there will still be traces of who they really are underneath. Little details that don't quite match, like certain phobias or their annoying habit of whistling too much. Of course, their friends who don't have any interest at all in movies will be thoroughly confused and probably try to snap them out of their craziness, but that most likely won't be easy. They're busy! They have to go blow up the Death Star! Or find their son Nemo! Or stop the aliens from stealing all their women and gold!
Prompt C: ediS rorriM
The mirror side is Queen-less. Or so it appears. How do the mirrors cope with this new turn events, what do they do? What does it mean to be a mirror? Feel free to have your mirrors contemplate it together, or reach out to their real counterparts by writing on mirrors to communicate.
Prompt D: Choices
Any scenario goes! Thread out your character's arrival, have them act like a long-established resident, let our past events inspire your scene, or write up literally any Wonderland-based scenario you feel like playing with.
Rules
Test drive memes go up every other month. Please note that ONE (1) TDM thread may be used as an application sample. Minimum 5 sentences. ♥ TDM threads do not count for AC. ♥ The next TDM will be for July/August ♥ Have fun!
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"Dib?" She hopes she's saying it right, since it does sound like he's got an entire invisible dog shoved up his nose. "Believe it or not, for one of the more dangerous events, this is kind of tame."
It's a pain in the butt, sure, but there aren't spaceships crashing into the grounds or fleets of alien soldiers rushing the mansion so it's still a step up.
"Follow me. We have a safe area set up in the ballroom. You shouldn't be wandering around the mansion by yourself in all of this."
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Dib trots after her, thoroughly impressed. Grenades and a fortified safe zone? She is already one of the least useless adults Dib has ever met, except for the one who shoved him in a spaceship and sent him to Mercury. This sounds almost too good to be true! If he were a more jaded person, he might wonder when the rug will be pulled out from under him, but since the comedy depends on Dib slipping and falling, he already trusts Juliet. Also, she hasn't laughed at his salty pants, which is a major point in her favor.
"'Event?' You mean this kind of thing is normal?!" Dib asks. Then, without giving her time to respond, he begins to babble. "At first I thought the invisible dogs were what was taking the garbage away! Invisible garbage-eating monsters would make the garbage invisible when they ate it, explaining its mysterious disappearance." He adjusts the straps holding the empty super-soaker to his shoulder. "But then my allergies started acting up, which told me they had to be some kind of canine. And, since I didn't have an allergic reaction near the trash chutes, they can't be what's making the garbage vanish!"
Dib. Dib. No one cares. These aren't brilliant deductions. You're embarrassing.
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"Yeah, every couple of weeks there's an event. It always involves someone else's universe colliding with Wonderland, so we end up with a lot of different things. Sometimes they're fun, sometimes our memories get wiped and we live like someone else for a few days. And sometimes, it ends up like this."
She shrugs, as if it's no big deal, even though it kind of is. But there's really no point in freaking out the kid any more than he probably already is.
"No one has solved the mystery of the garbage chutes yet, though. Or the closets. It's a magical mansion! That's pretty much all the information we get." She glances down at him, making sure she's not walking too fast so he can keep up. "Good catch on the dogs, though. Not everyone would have made that connection."
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"I discovered the salt by accident," Dib admits. "I was running away from one of them in the kitchen when I knocked a whole can of it off the counter. Spilled all over the floor. When I realized that this ordinary salt seemed to create a protective barrier, I knew I had to find a way to make it last. To weaponize it." He shakes his fist illustratively. "So, I asked a magic closet for a Super Soaker. My solution...was a solution! Ha ha...ha."
This is a very lame joke and Dib isn't sure if he regrets making it, so he examines the hole in the water gun's reservoir and changes the subject.
"I was actually doing pretty well until the tank tore. Guess I should have reinforced the cheap toy-grade plastic." Oops. He'll know for next time. If there is a next time. These events sound like they're all different, but it's hard to say. Eh, he'll probably find out soon enough, whether he wants to or not.
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"It kept you safe enough until now, at least. You're really lucky. Usually, with events like this, we put together a safe zone. Travel in pairs only if you absolutely have to, and don't try to outsmart the event. It will end eventually, and it's more important to just survive it."
Her tone darkens a little at the end, because that last part is easier said than done.
"There are other kids here, too. So you won't feel too alone."