[World Exploration] Wonderland

[passingmod]

Who: Everyone! Open to All. World inhabitants can be npc'd as needed.
What: World Exploration : Suggestion Info here
When: all through November and beyond
Where: Locations in comments, or add your own.

There are whole new worlds out there. Some people know this already, some are learning it for the first time. Tonight, it's a world of mystery where nothing seems to work entirely by normal logic and everything familiar from waking life can become different. Flowers have a temper and may not like being picked, animals wear dapper clothes, and all of them talk. Some of them are helpful.

Whether flitting around the edges of this world at the Rabbit Hole or the Entryway, caught up in the Mad Hatter's tea party, taken to the Castle of the Queen of Hearts, the Croquet Ground, or somewhere entirely different, it's Wonderland. Be careful: The signs shouldn't always be obeyed.

(Notes: This is a log to keep together threads exploring Wonderland. Relevant threads can also be made as separate posts throughout the rest of the month or beyond. Mostly, this is an experiment to see how a mass log will work for world exploring. As usual with OPN, it is entirely optional and creative liberty is fine and encouraged while working within the setting. Feel free to use the location notes as prompts, but also feel free to do something else entirely. More world suggestions always accepted here.)

Comments

[tasercopter]

"Hell if I know." As she answers the question, Reno's swinging her own mallet around, twirling it like a strange, feathered helicopter blade. Gardens and croquet aren't her scene, to say the least, but she's here, so she might as well find some way to entertain herself.

Pausing in her whirling, she bends to scoop up a red ball with her free hand, then pauses to examine Howard more closely. "You're not much bigger than the bird, are you?"

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Now short jokes are just over the line, Reno. Howard's face goes from mildly peeved to a full-blown scowl. "Whatever. Are you just going to stand there swinging your bird around or are you going to come up with an explanation for why we're here?"

[tasercopter]

"Actually, I think you might make a better club--" Because these things are clubs, right? But wait, her short joke was interrupted, unfortunately.

"Can't I do both?" She gives the bird another swing, then shrugs.

"Looks like a game. Not sure how to play it, though." They don't have croquet in her world, though they have the grand sport of knocking over things while riding on snowboards. "Maybe I throw balls at you?" Asking Reno to invent the rules of the game is probably a bad idea.

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"I'm not playing." Howard is the best sport, clearly. Total trooper. "So no, you can't."

He doesn't like where this is going. Howard's not especially intimidating in his own right, so he can't just say 'stop' and get people to leave him alone when he's feeling picked on - and Reno's behavior now, whether she means it or not, is starting to remind him of the years of torment he received from his peers before finding a social niche.

[tasercopter]

"That's no fun. I think I can, if I want." Not that she makes any move to do so (yet). "Lucky for you, I don't usually do kids' games." Wickets and flamingos? No thanks. She prefers darts and pool cues. And guns. Target practice counts.

Another shrug. "You asked why we're here. That seems like it. Not that we've gotta do what we're supposed to do."

She glances at the garden, unimpressed by the drippy painted flowers. She gives her bird an experimental swing in Howard's direction, but without hitting him. "I'd rather get out of here. Find someplace better. What about you, big guy?"

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"I'm game for leaving." Granted, he's also game for parting from her company, but he manages not to say that out loud. "I'm not going to play a stupid flamingo game just because my dream dumps me here. Or however we got here."

It doesn't feel like a dream, really, but it also doesn't feel sensible enough for reality. Reality's weird, but not like that.

He chucks his bird to the side - it gives a displeased squawk - and tears a petal off the drippy flower. After a moment, he licks it.

[tasercopter]

Reno isn't willing to give up twirling her bird just yet, but she has to agree where the game's concerned. "Yeah, whatever all this is, I'm not about to hang around playing this shit."

She laughs when Howard licks one of the petals. At least he's doing something, she guesses. Not that she's about to lick strange plants. "You're already doing a great job getting us out of here. So how's it taste?"