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Castle W Mods ([personal profile] whimsicalism) wrote in [community profile] castle_whims2020-10-04 10:44 am
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You're My Friend, They're My Friends (IC Intro)

Whatever you were doing before, wherever you were before this moment it doesn't matter. The world seems to grow dark around you: an almost inaudible giggle floats to your year before you lose consciousness completely. Other it belonging to a child there's no defining characteristics of the voice. Maybe you just imagined it? Even if you did, one thing is clear when you wake up.

You're not where you were before. The bedroom you find yourself is plush and well decorated, almost like a fancy hotel or apartment. That might be little comfort considering that it's clear that you don't recognize it. Before you rush off to explore your surroundings there's a message pinned to the door to the hall.

From the desk of the Queen:

Hello, my friends dear.

I can only hope you enjoy your new life here. For those you stirring from sleep, this is my promise that I will keep: I will let you go if that is what you desire but the price for it will be quite dire.

For my rules are quite clear that I don't wish you to leave. Yet I will, if you can take the grief.

If you wish to know my name and the reasons to my game, meet in the audience hall for tea. Tea, yes, a grand tea party for my grand guests! Cake and sweets are what we need to meet. In an hour we both will be there, no peeking before!

Signed,


Instead of a signature, there's a small feline paw print underneath as well as some strange sort of heart crest?

There seems to be others moving outside your room. Perhaps it's time to explore, to see if anyone else knows what's going on. Don't slip on the playing card (an ace of hearts, with the heart shape replaced by the strange crest). That there's a scribbled phrase of 'dormez-vous? dormez-vous?' on the card but surely one of the others slipped it under your door.

This Castle seems like a strange place ot live in... yet for now it's quiet and peaceful, even if the Audience Hall is locked.
xxxx_me: ([Look] I'm still longing)

[personal profile] xxxx_me 2020-10-04 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shaking his head.]

I haven't left the facility for months.

[Besides, well...]

Do you think this is a dream?
rowboats: (🌹 but when you long)

1/2

[personal profile] rowboats 2020-10-05 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her eyes light up. Maybe! Inhaling smoke was bad, right? She could have breathed in too much of it from the fire, and now she's unconscious.

So, Ib smacks her cheeks a little and pulls on her ears. ]
rowboats: (🌹 finish at the end)

2/2

[personal profile] rowboats 2020-10-05 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
...it's not a dream.

[ THAT HURT ]
xxxx_me: ([Surprise] of the universe)

[personal profile] xxxx_me 2020-10-05 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Ah...

[Oh no.]

Um, things can still hurt in a Dream like this...
rowboats: (🌹 the way you turn in the queue)

[personal profile] rowboats 2020-10-05 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? Isn't that the number one rule of dreams? That you don't get hurt.
xxxx_me: ([Sad] as I dream of)

[personal profile] xxxx_me 2020-10-05 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
...

You can definitely get hurt in Dreams.

[He should know.]
rowboats: (🌹 the doves have died)

[personal profile] rowboats 2020-10-05 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
What sort of dreams do you have?

[ concern???? ]
xxxx_me: ([Surprise] of the universe)

[personal profile] xxxx_me 2020-10-05 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[...

He's a little at a loss. None of the others really questioned it before.
]

I've been in a... really long, painful dream for a while now. I think I was close to getting out, but now I'm here...

I think it might be another part of it, though. When you go to another World in the dream, you wake up in a bed somewhere. But I don't know whose World it is.