TWO TALES END (Golden Ending)

[whimsicalism]

Reunions and Meetings

It's a couple of hours since the end of the torment. The eternal game is over. A Little Brother, a little run ragged, runs around the Academy and the depot telling anyone who will listen that something is happening. The Queen, a friend of theirs, is visiting. She contacted the sheep while everyone was busy. They explain that she, along with a group of children, will be coming to the depot to meet everyone. She also can help get those who want to go elsewhere, get there. The Queen, it seems, found a way to open doors to other worlds and times. This could be helpful to get home as well as bringing old faces to the depot, if not Closetland itself.

It takes about an hour but eventually a golden door opens on the deck of the platform. A young girl in full petticoats dressed in blue stands before everyone. Even if her smile is nervous at the sight of so many new people she gives a quick curtsy. She shrinks back shyly as she speaks as a few other children come out of the door, too.

"I'm Queen Alice. The sheepies tried contacting my castle and told me what happened. I'm... very sorry about what must have happened. As my friends will tell you, you don't have to worry about the castle or her--uh, Nursery Rhyme--anymore. She's not a King anymore. I'm just a kid like everyone here, um. My friends helped me make this body so I'm sorry if it's a bit surprising. Um. I can help you get home if you'd like..."

Queen Alice goes onto explain that she can open doors to any world your character wants to go to. She can also gently pull other people through doors if needed. The sheep add that the teleporter to Closetland won't allow them to go there. The Academy is for students and staff only, after all!

The residents of the Castle seem nice enough, at least. Maybe now is the time for new friendships after shared two very long grueling experiences? Perhaps you just want to return to a safe place.

Two stories end quietly in the middle of a dark but calm ocean.

OOC

Welcome to the reunion post of Round One and Round Two. Players who played in either round only, please. You may play or NPC castmates of fellow characters if you'd like, though! Please no bringing in of Round Zero NPCs, please. They preferred not to come. If your character has no place to return to or ever needs a place to rest, Alice will offer them a room at her Castle provided they behave themselves. Powers are on there unless trouble arises. She's a bit sensitive after being drafted into being a murdergame accomplice, after all. We hope you enjoy yourselves and this will be the final post for round 2 of Castle Whimsical. Thank you, everyone!

Comments

[imozon]

[Hopefully everyone will just accept Alice at face value, but if anyone tries to mess with her, it's pretty clear they'll have someone else to contend with. Dark Dream is here, in all her fancy gothic lolita glory so she sort of matches Alice and to sidestep awkward questions about having her usual evil magical girl outfit when powers are off, and acting as her bodyguard. Sort of. She never gets too far away, and she does a pretty good job of paying attention to Alice and their surroundings, but let's just say she's not exactly the world's foremost expert on bodyguarding.

She's not really going out of her way to meet most people, but for someone who looks like a villain from a light novel about fantasy aristocracy, she seems pretty approachable! The easiest place to find her is raiding the food supply, because of course she does.]

[littlebratziska]

[Franziska, naturally, gravitates towards her. It's still odd to be back again, to be alive and well and close enough to make sure Dream is doing well, and that she's making wise choices as she should.

The easiest way to do this is to tell her what she should be eating, clearly. Only, after scanning the supplies, she unfortunately finds there is nothing up to snuff.]

What? Here too?? Do the people who run these things assume that merely because we are young, that there is no refinement in our palates??

[imozon]

Maybe that's just the kind of food they have here.

[Not that she's really sure where "here" is, all things considered.]

What do you think we should be having?

[violence_ensues]

Hey!

[A blue bat approaches as the food gets raided.]

Don't you think you should leave some for other people?