[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.)

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[one_one_se7en]

My home wasn't a dollhouse.

[Still staring at her. That grinning witch.

He's not moving in.]

[waterfell]

But right now, you don't need all that extra space! This is more convenient. [Definitely a brat, at least.]

[one_one_se7en]

I'd use something more dignifying.

[Complete brat.]

[waterfell]

[Oh! She knows the perfect suggestion!]

A model spaceship?

[one_one_se7en]

Don't get any funny ideas.

[Too perfect for his liking.]

[waterfell]

Let's see... there should be other toys around here somewhere! [Blissfully ignoring you, John.]

[one_one_se7en]

[While Ami is busy ignoring him and looking for toys, John does the next best thing.

He tries to escape.]

[waterfell]

[Ami doesn't notice at all. But as John starts to make his way down to the first floor, and to the ground from there, someone else has noticed. There's a terrible noise, and a gaping mouth full of sharp teeth... as an enormous, curious kitten mews at the interesting creature. It draws back a paw to bat playfully at John.]

[one_one_se7en]

[.......

Luckily, John gets through the surprise once it swats its' paw at him. he moves back as his shields lighten for a moment.

He remembers his training. Animals come over moving things, which is a part in which he had already failed; on another, animals move back when their faces are threatened, or in some cases, react in ways they don't expect.

So he moves forward, trying an unflinching walk. Before slightly slapping the cat in the nose.

It'd help to see if there was something else to work with.]

[waterfell]

[The kitten bounds back a step or two, but it's getting more curious and likely to swipe again. Luckily, there's a marble nearby that could serve as a projectile to try to drive it off.]

[one_one_se7en]

[He moves, slowly, to get ahold of the marble, as the cat looks at him.

He holds the marble out, showing it to the cat... before letting it roll a little quickly to his left, as a diversion.]

[waterfell]

[The kitten quite happily forgets about the mini-Spartan as the marble distracts it. It pounces as the little glass ball rolls across the floor, giving John his opening to run.]

[one_one_se7en]

[To run and to hide. Luckily for him, he's swift enough to manage to hop in from platform to platform, into a more secure spot with a better view.

This time, he blends within the rest of Ami's objects.]

[waterfell]

[It's right then that Ami glances back to see-

It's what she doesn't see that bothers her. Where is John? She turns sharply, peering everywhere near the dollhouse. (Did he run off...?)]

John?

[She peers around and under the various furnishings, increasingly quickly.]

[one_one_se7en]

[He hears Ami's voice. Knowing there is a cat around, he can't just call out to her.

Instead, he taps the most solid object to call her attention. And hope Ami hears it first.]

[waterfell]

[Luckily for him, she does hear it. Her head jerks in that direction and Ami heads over there immediately. Her eyes widen when she spots John, already a fair distance from where she'd left him (relative to his current size, at least.)

She has the uncomfortable sensation that she shouldn't have teased him like this.]

Why are you over here?

[one_one_se7en]

[He silently points at the cat busy with the marble.

A fair reason in his size.]

[waterfell]

[... She can't help being amused. At her current size, of course, it's far from a threat. In fact, she simply reaches down to pick the kitten up, holding it firmly in her arms.]

The problem should be removed now.

[one_one_se7en]

[His visor continues to look at the cat for a while. Naturally, not trusting the thing until it was someplace else other than this room.]

[waterfell]

[Ami notes the way the visor stays turned in that direction, and she can't resist pointing it out, dryly:]

It's a kitten.

[one_one_se7en]

It's your cat.

[Equally dry. Still not removing his visor off it, or over Ami's hands.]

I'm not even my size.

[waterfell]

[Hearing him, one would think John suspected Ami of plotting endless mischief, constantly, so much that even her cat would be prone to similar antics.

He knew her so well.

This time, however, it isn't her doing, although she'll tease him endlessly.]

It's fine now. It's finding other things to do. Should you be afraid of something so harmless?

[one_one_se7en]

You've never been chased by a Griff of Reach.

[In more colloquial terms and in planetary fauna, a Space Tiger.]

[waterfell]

[John, look, she's sorry that you're scared of something so tiny and helpless as a kitten and acting as if it's a giant cat.

Oh, wait.

Ami scoops the kitten up into her arms, where it promptly purrs against the apron of her dress before batting playfully at the hair escaped from her ribbon. Totally sweet and harmless.

Once Ami's not looking, it bares its teeth at John.]