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[ en ] tranceway . m . o . d . s. ([personal profile] vitaelamorte) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2017-04-21 09:42 pm

+ It's good that we can't see what isn't there +

Who: EVERYONE
Where: Wonderland and adjacent dimensions!
When: Friday, April 21st to Monday, April 24th
Rating: PG-13, warn if higher!
Summary: A place to list your tears throughout the event, and describe the worlds that can be seen or accessed through them. Event Post.
The Story:

While invisible zombies ravage Wonderland, tears are popping up everywhere! Through them characters can see versions of themselves from alternate universes. Some of them show a different version of Wonderland, some a different version of their home. Some are as benign as a character drinking coffee instead of tea, others are as drastic as somebody's entire personality changed completely.

On day one tears are so small as to barely even be recognisable. Faint voices and melodies can be heard through the tiny cracks if you step really close, but these brief and indistinct glimpses are barely even worth describing.

On day two tears have opened up wide enough to recognise them for what they really are. Yesterday's melodies will sound clearer, and the voices will become decidedly familiar, belonging to people characters know, sounding perhaps even like the characters themselves. Look through the tears and they may catch sight of home, or something that merely looks like another part of Wonderland. The tears are yet narrow and instable though, and the field of vision is correspondingly poor.

On day three the tears have grown a great deal. The worlds beyond them can be seen and heard, though most cannot be interacted with at all. Only the biggest ones are already stable enough for characters to stick their hand inside, and pulls through any objects within reach.

On the fourth and last day some tears have finally become large and stable enough for characters to pass through whole. Not all tears will reach this stage, but those who have can be visited, and the world beyond them explored... at each character's own peril.
screwedontight: Sways (Point)

[personal profile] screwedontight 2017-06-17 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Seth skirts the tear, not ready to deal with any of that again. Or ever if he's lucky enough. The two he's encountered so far are more than enough.

Not even glancing at it, unwilling to see anything in it, he follows Tim for the time being, waiting until he's had the water to speak.

"You know eventually I'm going to ask you about this, but not today." And not any time soon, if only that he doesn't want to relive any of it. Not right now, not with what he's been through already. "I don't think there's enough alcohol even with the closets to deal with that right now."
postictal: (that sounds like total bullshit my guy)

[personal profile] postictal 2017-06-17 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Please don't. He doesn't do much more besides shoot Seth a slightly concerned look from beneath lowered brows, bordering on a scowl. He can only hope that it'll be enough that he just never thinks to bring it up again.

It probably won't. Hoping tends to be useless, where Tim is concerned, because he know what optimism fucking gets him.

Tim, for his part, slouches into one of the kitchen chairs and sighs, biting back an apology that will simply raise more questions than it answers.

"But you're feeling...okay now?" he ventures, after a moment, with lifted eyebrows.
screwedontight: (Hints)

[personal profile] screwedontight 2017-06-19 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
He remembers the words, being told not to think about it. But Jesus H Christ, how can he not eventually? And he knows it. It's that moment of being caught between a rock and a hard place. How do you not think about what you're not supposed to think about? He remembers the riddle from his childhood.

Leaning against the counter, Seth doesn't answer that right away. Instead he actually takes a minute to access himself.

"Except for the splitting headache that feels like someone took to my head with an axe, yeah, I'm okay."

For the value of okay after all of that.
postictal: (barely got a lid on it)

[personal profile] postictal 2017-06-19 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds about right." The words are dry, but the specter of strain, of unspoken terror, trembles beneath the commentary. He'd offer the medication, but he's pretty sure Seth is the kind of guy who has his own form of self-medication, probably in the form of something alcoholic.

Tim blinks, his jaw tightening in a small grimace, eyes lidding. An apology would raise more questions than it would answer - he knows it would. He knows, even if it's what he owes him.

"Should probably get some sleep," he says, eventually. And hope It doesn't show up in his nightmares. "Maybe eat something yourself."
screwedontight: Sways (Worn)

[personal profile] screwedontight 2017-06-19 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"So glad I'm normal in the face of that shit," he mutters, though it's more of Seth's sarcasm than anything else. "Let me guess. You're one of those that would stay here if they could?"

Of course, he's assuming those things might be everywhere, like the Culebra, hidden but around. He'd avoid that shit too.

"Have a drink too," he says, confirming some things. "But yeah. I'm thinking sleeping until this shit is over sounds perfect."
postictal: (i have too many "tim is sad" caps tbh)

[personal profile] postictal 2017-06-19 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Tim shrugs, neither confirming nor denying. Going home would mean having a means to an end for all this, for once. It would also mean plunging headfirst back into the shit that's plagued his life, and leaving whoever has the threads of Its influence to deal with it alone.

No one should have to be alone for that.

So instead, he only addresses the latter of Seth's remarks.

"Sounds like a fool-proof plan." The tears don't swallow people up while htey're asleep. Or shouldn't, as far as he can tell. He'd have to ask Elizabeth to elaborate, but she's probably got enough on her mind.
screwedontight: Sways (Emotions)

[personal profile] screwedontight 2017-06-20 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I feel the same way," Seth admits, as if Tim had actually answered him or anything about staying here. "No reason to go back right now." And less if and when he ever finds out about how bad life is back home. Even if it gets better.

"You going to be okay? And I don't mean fine, I just mean okay." He figures he should at least try and make sure he's going to be okay and not like try and off himself or anything. Or head back for that thing. He doesn't think he would, but then around here how does he know what most of them would do.
postictal: (im going to punch you in the taint)

[personal profile] postictal 2017-06-20 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
No reason to go back now. What would that accomplish, other than a well-earned feeling of pointless guilt and a final opportunity to set things right - an opportunity that Tim will no doubt squander, as he does most things?

"I'll live," he says. That's about as close to "okay" as he gets. Everything is fine, right? Everything is going to be fine. He's not got any reason to do anything more with himself, after that.
screwedontight: Sways (Cobbsquint)

[personal profile] screwedontight 2017-06-23 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
That's about all Seth can expect in that moment. He can't imagine that is something that someone deals with regularly, and Tim apparently has pills for it so that said a lot to Seth.

"Good. I'm holding you to that."
postictal: (nervous im not nervous ha ha)

[personal profile] postictal 2017-06-23 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Tim makes a mental note not to die anytime soon, which for most people would maybe be a no-brainer, but for someone like him - to call his life complicated, particularly when it comes to his relationship with death and dying, would be a significant understatement.

He grunts by way of an answer, and drains the remainder of the water bottle.

He'd nurse a private hope that things won't get to be unshakably terrible down the line, but even that's asking a little too much, he should think, given his track record.

Just give it time.