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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] dolosa 2016-07-08 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
I already know how important it is.

[ ... ] Is there a reason why you stole that object in the first place? Or chose me? Or was this all random?
stolenface: (pic#10336439)

[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-08 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
...Good question, and one I'm not allowed to answer. So sorry, Alice. As for the why... Well. You'll just have to get it back to find out, won't you?

[ There's something entirely too amused in how he holds himself right now. This Alice is interesting. ]

[personal profile] dolosa 2016-07-08 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
All that getting that emotion back will do it make me want to leave more. That's all there is to it. Even if the cost is unfavorable... he won't have to know that.

[ It isn't as if he's here, after all. ]

By the way, I don't know if you'd answer, but... it wasn't that girl's name you stole, was it?
stolenface: (pic#10336423)

[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-08 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Nope! Didn't touch it. Maybe it was God who stole it. Maybe this World just didn't like it. Maybe there's a rule about names in place we didn't know about. Who knows?

[ Sharp. Very sharp. ]

I only steal one thing from everyone. Just one, always.

[personal profile] dolosa 2016-07-08 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
The 'god' you speak of -- are they just the god of this particular world? Or are they the god of the entire set of universes we're from?

[ A beat, and then -- ]

On that note. "Always" implies that you've ran this so called game more than once. Am I correct?
stolenface: (pic#10336432)

[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-08 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
Good question. Too bad I don't have the answer to that. Maybe you can find out one day. But more than once... Yeah. We've done this lots of times. It's always a treat to see how you Alices react. Everything's always so different. Don't think we've quite had an Alice like you before.
dolosa: (☣ no need to ask)

[personal profile] dolosa 2016-07-09 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
That's fine; I didn't expect you to.

[ She shrugs her shoulders wide, as if uncaring. ] ... I see. You find entertainment in games like this don't you? I suppose I can understand. People complaining about being called 'Alice', wanting to go home -- well. I do need to go back to the world where I was prior to this.

But you won't happen to tell me if someone I knew played this particular game before, would you?

[ Although Rei doubts it -- she has to ask, out of pure curiosity. After all, they say curiosity killed the cat. ]
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[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-09 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
You sure you wanna know if he was here, Alice? Knowin' that this place can't be good?

[ Oh, he wants to know how much she wants to know. That might determine if he talks or not. ]
dolosa: (♥ you gonna play this lonely game)

[personal profile] dolosa 2016-07-09 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not a good person. I've thrown people into games before. He's been in two before, too. Although I'm not only specifically thinking about him.

[ She just wants to know if anyone she killed was here. Or perhaps, Mitsuki. Or... her parents. ]
stolenface: (pic#10336423)

[personal profile] stolenface 2016-07-09 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, someone you knew was here once. May not have been from the same universe, but they were here. Gonna have to find out for yourself who, though!

[ He'll give a lazy, uncaring shrug at that. It's not gonna be fun if he outright tells her. ]
dolosa: (☣ no need to ask)

[personal profile] dolosa 2016-07-11 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Seeing as you like to play games, I can see why you wouldn't tell me. Interesting to know that someone I knew was here, though. I guess it makes this just a little bit more entertaining.