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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. ]

[personal profile] frozentear 2016-07-08 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[What. What even. Okay, so those are (probably) actual ears under there. And he's probably not actually human. Do things like him live in the mines? Is he like the witches Sebastian's heard of? Maybe this one's the real wizard. Maybe they're both wizards. Animal wizards.... Come to think of it, he's never heard of the wizard in the forest giving quests. That usually only happened in stories.]

...Do you know where the keys are?
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[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-08 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
In the Worlds, Alice.

[ He'll gesture to the doors, arms spread wide. Which is giving what's probably the first proper look at his appearance with how it adjusts and angles things. ]

Gotta go through the Hearts of you and the other Alices to find 'em.

[personal profile] frozentear 2016-07-08 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Hearts is... a metaphor?

[As hard as it is to imagine it being literal, it's getting easier by the minute. And "Alice" seems to just be a term for everyone here who's not the cat or the bunny... hmm, they really don't care about names. And they're both so young-looking.]
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[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-08 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Nope! Every little secret, every feeling you don't want others seeing... You're gonna have to sort trough them if you want to not turn to foam!

[ Yup, literally heading into each other's hearts. ]

[personal profile] frozentear 2016-07-08 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Good. Great. Fantastic. He doesn't care about going through other people's hearts, but he really doesn't want anyone in his.]

Can't I just get my own key myself?
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[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-08 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Nope! Gotta follow the rules! And that means working together!

[ Sorry, Sebastian, people are going to see all those horrible secrets. ]

[personal profile] frozentear 2016-07-08 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[At least he's not a murderer or anything.]

.........................

[Still, he sighs deeply, looking down - and looking very uncomfortable with that idea. Because he is.]
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[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-08 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Don't look so down, Alice. Why, you're the most boring one here as far as secrets go!

[ Gotta spread the suspicion. ]

[personal profile] frozentear 2016-07-08 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[If the aim was to be comforting, it failed. Even thinking of what secrets the others might have doesn't actually tell him anything, though.

He takes a deep breath, sighing again, then looks back at the cat.]


Where do I... we... start?
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[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-08 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Dunno which one he unlocked, so try them all until you find the one that opens. Simple as that.

[personal profile] frozentear 2016-07-08 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods, and then goes to try the doors until he finds the one that opens.]