worldkeys: ([rabbit] big key.)
World Keys ([personal profile] worldkeys) wrote in [community profile] seaofhearts2016-07-07 10:56 pm

Round 1 Introduction Hub Log

Who: The Alices and the White Rabbit.
What: What: Everybody wakes up on the first day of the first round inside the World's Hub, greeted by the White Rabbit, who seems largely unimpressed.
Where: The World's Hub.
Warnings: Rabbit is gloomy and has a bad temper and tends to complain a lot. Otherwise, not much.

You entered a closet. You knew that much. You woke up from... somewhere, and you entered a cupboard or a closet and you followed a strange cat with golden eyes. You blink. You feel assailed by the feeling of your body falling somewhere, the sound of heavy machinery--

And then darkness, before... a wooden pathway, and another cupboard, and a boy in a hood. A cat-boy, with golden eyes, much like the one you followed. He cackles gleefully at everyone before disappearing with a meow. The cupboard behind him is locked. Past this area, you find yourself in a strange room of ruined, cracked cobblestone and oddly-shaped lamps. Dead trees line the path. There are old tombstones scattered about. A gloomy boy with black twigs for hair and strange eyes, dressed in fancy, Victorian-looking garb stands in the middle of the room. There are others like you about, you notice. Not TOO many more, but a fair few.

Something about the boy's eyes carry a dreadful feeling. They're red on black. No whites to them at all. He has two white rabbit ears on his head, but one is distinctly torn off, like something had just taken a bite out of it. He looks at those assembled, cocks his head to the side, as if... curious for a moment, before shaking it and then sighing.

"... Ah. Welcome, Alice." There's a pause, as if he's assessing what he's doing. He particularly stares deeply at Clock. "... Oh? No, not at all... well, you're still ▒▒▒▒▒ to me."

A nod to himself, as if to confirm it.

"More pressing... I have a task for all of you. If you could help me with it, that would be most appreciated."

[ OOC: Feel free to respond in either prose or bracketspam. Also, Cheshire will probably have a thread later you can reply to as well. For now, this is the opening log to badger the NPC with questions. ]
mearry: (pic#6796002)

[personal profile] mearry 2016-07-08 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Holy shit they're real. Well things just got about ten times more disturbing. Fine. ]

Well, I guess it'll be useless to ask, then. [ lips are pursed in a thin line ] So, what do you want us to do, White Rabbit?
apatheticguide: (After the day was done--)

[personal profile] apatheticguide 2016-07-08 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Go and fetch me my Keys, of course. You'd like to go home, wouldn't you, Alice?

[ Seems simple enough, doesn't it? He thinks so. ]

They were stolen not long ago.
mearry: (pic#6796023)

[personal profile] mearry 2016-07-08 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ C-ta quirks an eyebrow, unsure of how simple rabbit man was making it out to be. Irritation does seem to be welling up in his heart, though-- isn't this basically some sort of hostage situation? ]

Of course I do. [ he crosses his arms, pressing them against his chest ] Guess I would have preferred to be asked before being dragged to....wherever this is, though.

[ C-ta chuckles, though it's not from amusement. ] Anyways, do you have any idea where they could be?
apatheticguide: (Had got no business to be there)

[personal profile] apatheticguide 2016-07-08 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
In the Hearts of those gathered here, of course. Yours. The other Alices. That one girl... Clock? I don't know. But she's here too, and her as well.

He probably hid them there.

[ He glances around over behind him, then back at C-ta. ]

... Yes, it's likely there. ... You'll of course go retrieve them. Leaving here is in both our best interests, I think. I don't want noisy guests, and you don't want to be here, surely.
mearry: (pic#6796072)

[personal profile] mearry 2016-07-08 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ he looks over his own shoulder, trying to follow the Rabbit's line of sight, but he can't really make heads or tails about anything.

It's troublesome, and maybe he's unconsciously clenching his jaw, but C-ta's doing his best to stay calm. ]


Yeah. Guess we don't have any other option. [ Ugh. ] But what's preventing you from going in there yourself??
apatheticguide: (Don't do anything at all)

[personal profile] apatheticguide 2016-07-08 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
I cannot. It's against the Rules, besides. I cannot go into the other Doors, and I cannot leave this spot. ... Besides, it's too troublesome. I hate bothersome tasks.

[ Is he just lazy, or is he really incapable? WHO KNOWS. But he really hasn't moved his feet from that spot, at all, standing much like his hair looks and resembles: a rooted tree. ]
mearry: (pic#6796109)

[personal profile] mearry 2016-07-08 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. [ He is giving the Rabbit a suspicious look, masked behind a defeated smile. This all seems too strange, and honestly C-ta just wants to leave now. ]

And the keys-- why are there multiple ones? What do they open?
apatheticguide: ("I doubt it" said the Carpenter)

[personal profile] apatheticguide 2016-07-08 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
The doors behind you, of course. Specifically, the World Doors. They open the Alice Hearts.

[ Come, now, he thinks this all seems obvious. ]

And, when collected, they send you back home. I can use them to do that.