+ some wonderlands are kind

Alice, who is a little tired of all the boringness of winter, and not feeling particularly confident in her abilities as royal adviser, will decide on March 14th that she needs to take a break and will try to get everyone to welcome spring with her the best way she knows how - with coloring! Or more specifically, with chalk! Magic chalk!

As of the 14th, all of the snow will vanish and it will abrupt become Springtime in Wonderland. Everyone will receive a small basket full of paper grass and assorted colors of chalk with a note from Alice. All of the chalk seems to be particularly glittery (from the magic, naturally), and it can be used on nearly anything - pavement, chalkboard, walls, the air, each other, etc. Alice’s intention is to get people to come outside and color with her on the paths, but your character very well might have other plans, since the chalk has many potential uses:

• Anything drawn with the chalk can come to life. If you draw a monster, a monster will come to life and start attacking people! If you draw an owl with a cat face that cat-faced owl will fly right off the pavement. Any person or creature you draw will come to life, with the caveat that they will be made entirely out of chalk. They will leave behind chalk dust everywhere they go and will likely not cause much damage - and if they do, a little water will wash them away.


• Any landscapes drawn can be jumped into (or fallen into) a la Mary Poppins. The entire scene will have a chalk-drawn aesthetic, but everything in it will move and react to whoever’s jumped inside. The scenes won’t loop the way scenes other events have - if the landscapes had any people or creatures in them they will just suddenly become all about these delightful people who just fell in. They will be very curious about these visitors and will cater to what they want. This will even happen to some degree if someone’s drawn a dangerous landscape - the scene would go out of its way to protect you from chalk warfare, for example. If they need to be rescued from the scene, someone outside of it will have to wash it away (or if they happen to have water on them they could destroy it from the inside).


• Characters can draw on or around themselves and give themselves new items and features! Have you always wanted functional fairy wings? A tail? Dinosaur legs? Robot arms? Now’s the time! If you draw on yourself you can change your look completely if you want to, including costumes and accessories. Just keep in mind that everything is made of chalk - nothing will be very sharp or dangerous and if you draw yourself clothing you might want to wear something underneath, because it will wash away when exposed to water. Make sure you have ooc permission before you change someone else's look!

There’s just one tiny catch to all of this fun - Alice will be inviting the Mirrors to come over and play as well. They will each receive their own basket and invitation and the glass will be removed temporarily on the 14th. The glass being removed means that Mirrors and Reals will be able to be on the same side of the glass at the same time without either of them swapping. This also means that people can go over to Mirror Side, however, the chalk will not work on that side of the glass. Its magical properties only work on Real Side and anything that has been created or brought to life by chalk will fall apart going through the frames of the mirrors, so if you’re going to be utilizing the chalk in any way, Real Side is where you want to be.

There will be a mingle log but it will be specifically for people joining Alice to color outside. For anything else, you can and should make posts and logs. Don’t forget that Mirror Side network posts go in mirrorside and logs for either side go in entrancelogs as long as you label clearly which side it’s taking place on. You can also use one thread from a Mirror Character in your AC, so definitely bust out your Mirrors and come play!

So come plot with us! Please feel free to use this post for figuring out what your characters will be doing and establishing Mirror things as needed. There will also be a FAQ thread as always, for all your question and answer needs.

Have fun, and come welcome Spring to Wonderland with Alice! ♥

~ Koji