[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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Entryway

[passingmod]

This large, open room has nothing but a table. On the table, there are piles of cookies and glass bottles labeled 'Eat Me and Drink Me', but doing so may have strange consequences.

(ooc: results of eating or drinking here would be entirely up to the involved muns, and could have physical or mental affects.)

[decaying]

[Great. Just great. Kanda wasn't exactly the smartest person in regards to riddles and such so when he found this room, he blood boiled. Now what?]

I'm just going to break this entire room, I don't have time for this.

[braidstobows]

[Homura, in contrast to Kanda's temper, maintained her unshakable calm. She brushed her hair out of her way and spoke up clearly.]

I hope I don't need to tell you this, but despite the invitation, you should avoid eating anything in this place.

[Whether she knew something, or was simply speaking common sense when in a strange place looking at strange food, she left unsaid.]

[decaying]

I'm not an idiot.

[Which was why he offered to break this place.]

How did you get involved in this mess.

[braidstobows]

I was hunting prey that ran in this direction.

[Her solemn face suggests nothing strange about a teenage girl chasing down... whoever or whatever she may be referring to. She carries no obvious weapon; once she lost her quarry, she had allowed her bow to vanish.]

[decaying]

Right. [Like Hell Kanda believed the girl but he wasn't about to ask details. Not his problem.]

There's no way back, is there.

[braidstobows]

"The way I came seems to have closed off. If you're asking that, I presume the same has happened to you."

Despite the lack of outward emotion, this bothers her. It's too like a witch's barrier, a trap.

"We may not be able to leave until we find the source of what's keeping us here." If it's a witch or a demon, she can finish hunting it down, get rid of it, and the barrier should dissipate, returning this place to normal.

Should.

[decaying]

We won't be able to do much finding if we can't get out of this room. [Oh he is so angry right now.]

[braidstobows]

[Oh. Well how about that? Homura stares at something rather suspiciously.]

There appears to be a door. [The trouble is that the door is not only almost impossible to see, but entirely too small for either of them to fit through.]

[tasercopter]

Reno might like drinking, but she hasn't lived as long as she had by eating and drinking random labeled substances asking her to do so.

Instead, she's managed to catch a white rabbit (how convenient) and is planning to use the animal as her own personal test subject to solve the riddle of this room.

Not that she wants to hurt it for no reason, so she's having a bit of trouble getting it to choke down a cookie. Rabbits don't like being forced to eat cookies, as it turns out. But she's going to figure out what these drinks and cookies do one way or another. (And hopefully won't get crushed by a giant rabbit in the process.)

[braidstobows]

Homura pushed her hair out of her way and watched Reno somewhat impassively. Satisfied that she could leave matters in the room to Reno, she glanced back in the direction she'd appeared from. No signs of an exit.

Not good. Most traps she's experienced are not the sort people get out of alive very easily. Still calm despite that knowledge, she turned back to Reno.

"How long will you take to finish feeding it?" Evidently, she got the point, if she's willing to wait.

[tasercopter]

"Stupid thing won't open its mouth," grumbled Reno, adding a few curses under her breath. She could have pushed its mouth open, but she didn't want to get bitten by a rabbit. That would be quite the undignified injury. As usual, she had no healing Materia on her, and Rude wasn't around to heal her up, unfortunately.

"Give me a minute, unless you want to volunteer to take its place." She didn't worry about the other's safety too much. As long as Reno wasn't the one drinking the mysterious potions, she was good.

The rabbit seemed to be giving in, maybe taking pity on her at last. "This has gotta be the way out. Somehow." Her peerless logic and intuition told her it was. It wasn't like there was anything else in the room. She'd already searched for hidden panels and switches, and if a Turk couldn't find hidden panels and switches, there probably weren't any.

[braidstobows]

"I have no wish to sample suspicious foods." Homura eyed Reno for a moment before offering, "Do you desire help in holding the rabbit?"

Once they determined the effects, they could see whether some be advantageous to their escape.

[tasercopter]

"Fine, can't say I blame you," said Reno, who then added, "You can help if you want." Not that she needed help or anything. No rabbit was going to best her. "If you need something to do, go ahead." She nodded down at the rabbit in her arms.

[braidstobows]

Homura came closer, and reached for the rabbit. Her grip was steady and strong.

"I will hold it. Once I have it firmly, you will be able to give it the drink easily."

[tasercopter]

"Great, great. Teamwork." Even though her job was technically all about teamwork, she didn't have to be positive about it. But Homura was doing a good job of holding the rabbit, and so Reno was able to get some cookie in its mouth.

She jumped back just in time, reaching out to grab Homura's arm and pull Homura away with her, as suddenly, the rabbit was a great deal bigger than it had been previously. Reno looked up at it, wide-eyed. "Shit."

[braidstobows]

"Whether you favor teamwork or not, this is a simpler answer to the problem at hand." She can sympathize, really. It's still a bit awkward with everyone else in her world. She was used to going it alone for so long.

Just then, Reno pulled her away. Homura may have appreciated the act; but she treated the giant rabbit with the same calm she'd shown towards feeding the small one. She was alert, but far from seeming worried or even shocked.

"We will have to deal with that creature at its new size." She has a feeling leaving things like this would make an even worse situation.

[tasercopter]

"By doing what? Killing it?" Reno wasn't particularly worried, but she wasn't a fan of giant bunnies, either. It's not like they didn't have those where she came from. They generally attacked. While they weren't hard to fight, they were a pain to deal with. She kept an eye on it, ready to take action if needed.

"How's this supposed to help us? Give us more to eat for dinner so we don't starve in here?"

[braidstobows]

"This incident was our own miscalculation," Homura says, as her eyes never leave the giant rabbit. They were, after all, the ones to feed it what now seems to have been a magical growth potion.

"There are other foods available. One may be a remedy; however, they may have affects as unusual as this one."

[tasercopter]

"How was I supposed to know a cookie would make it giant? That doesn't even make sense." And it didn't, as far as Reno was concerned.

"I'm not eating something if I don't know what it does, period." She looks down at the remains of the cookie in her hand. She knows what that does. If she were larger, she might be better able to force their way out of here. She wouldn't have to worry about the giant rabbit, that's for sure.

So she takes a bite. Suddenly, she's much larger than the rabbit. All right, maybe it wasn't the best idea, maybe even rash, but how could she resist being giant Reno, if only for a little while? "Hey, how's that for a growth spurt? Now let me see if I can't get something done."

went with the bottle after all since the other cake is later in the story haha

[braidstobows]

Reno may have a point, but Homura dislikes acting rashly. She looks up at the towering Turk with a small sigh. There may be no antidote; and there is certainly no guarantee that one exists in this room.

But while the giant handles the enormous rabbit, she can look for one. And then she remembers it: an old story, where a girl switched sizes with everything she ate...and drank. The bottle had made her smaller.

It hadn't been sound logic, but neither was this situation.

"Make the rabbit drink from the bottle," she calls up to Reno. "It should return it to its normal size."