Event Log: Fourth Wall, Part One

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone in the city + Fourth Wall visitors!
What: Part one of the fourth wall event, hosted by Fear, Confusion, and Delight!
Where: All around the city
When: October 24th-November 1st
Warnings: Visitors from other worlds!

If you're not from around here, you may be wondering what's going on. You've woken up out of the blue in the colosseum, or near a temple, or in one of the numerous other locations in the city. You're somewhere underground and it's dark, cold, and maybe a little unnerving.

Luckily, shortly after your arrival, the road below your feet begins to light up in a gentle, warm glow. The light points you in a set direction and, if you choose to travel that way, will lead you toward the center of the city, where there is a large gathering of others who are lost here like you, people who might know their way around a bit more, and even some of the gods who rule this place.

There are lights strung up on poles throughout the large clearing, casting a comforting glow onto the tables beneath them. The tables are abundant with lots of food that looks simply delicious- though, none of it tastes quite like it should. The tarts taste like green beans, the mashed potatoes like cheesecake, and the chocolate seems oddly reminiscent of steak. In addition, there are decorations artfully placed around the meeting point. If you see them moving, don't worry- that's probably just your imagination.

Also distributed along the tables are shot glasses, filled with a sludgy, yellow substance. If you're brave enough to consume them, they taste strongly of mint and will give you a much needed energy boost, circumventing the need to eat or sleep for a full 24 hours! After that, however, everything hits you all at once, so use them wisely. Some of you may remember these shots from our How Delightful event earlier this year!

In addition to all of the above, there are also party poppers strewn around the area. Each popper can jet out some strange objects- glitter bombs, seashells, plastic dinosaurs, maybe a live lizard or two- so be careful! Feel free to use your discretion on these, but remember to keep it small!
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Of course, you can always not travel that way. The rest of the city has plenty of places to explore- maybe you'd like to stumble in our Silent Hill zone, have a quick look around the alien orchard, or check out any of the god temples that can inspire their chosen emotion. Be careful not to get lost in the tunnels leading away from the cave- none of them can actually move you above ground, but you may run into a few monsters on the way.

For those of you who have been with us awhile, please bear with the gods while they try to adjust around these new folks! Join in on the festivities if you like, or try to orient as many of the others as you can. Start a community outreach program, start a fight club, introduce your parents to your weird cave girlfriend- nobody's judging!

Well. Some of us might be.
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Enjoy the fourth wall event at Hadriel! Once you're settled in feel free to explore the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies.

Fourth wall characters do not enter with phones so they cannot reach the network- however, if you'd like to handwave that they somehow got ahold of Mello's Newcomer guide to avoid the 'where am I/what is this' sort of questions, then feel free!

Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers October 24th-November 1st.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well! Fourth wall characters will not have posting access, so grab an in-game friend if you wanted to do anything separate from the main log.
► Fourth wall characters will be in the city for at least one week, though they can stay for longer. The party will go on throughout the entire week, thanks to Delight's boundless energy!
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!

Comments

[somuchlove]

[Perhaps everything in the Underground was a hell for them. Their family was broken and Chara was in a weird state of "alive". It's the least they deserved, isn't it?]

Perhaps so. I will see through the choices that Frisk makes along side them.

[Chara hasn't exited the golden hallway just yet.]

[cter]

Good.

[Their voice is quiet, but...satisfied. Undeniably satisfied. Considerably more at ease than they were before.]

It seems that no matter what world we live in, we are always intended to be their partner.

[somuchlove]

[They can feel it. Chara still has a guard up but in the way that Chara is Chara and they're sure the other them knows why. But the likelihood of anything happening was less than zero.]

Always fated to fall, to meet Asriel and his family. To be their partner.

[They smile a little, genuine and happy.]

I had stated that there was no going back. I was wrong. There should be one more path left for us.

[One more photo. Just because the photograph of the smiling face were all crossed out...didn't mean it was fate. That was all up to them, wasn't it?]

[cter]

Determination.

The resolve to change fate.

[With that at their disposal, they can accomplish nearly anything. Nearly anything. Determination is not necessarily the end-all and be-all, but it can be...enough, sometimes.

Enough to alter things. Or, conversely, to keep things the way they are.]

[somuchlove]

[Not the end all like Resets are not an automatic means of dodging the consequences. But sometimes it's enough to just...put one foot forward one more time. And some days it's worth doing it.

Some days, it's worth it to hope.]

* Despite everything, you're still yourself.
* But that doesn't mean you cannot change.

[cter]

[Continuing to be yourself. The dots of asterisks are a little odd, strange and unique, but they won't begrudge their double that.]

And you never know.

[Their eyes flare red for a moment, the same shade as their doppelganger's, and then they close them. When they flick open, they're brown again, and in the next blink they're standing behind Chara in an abrupt snap of displacement that might seem not-so-subtly familiar. Not so unlike that of a grinning skeleton.]

Sometimes there's more to yourself than you might think.

[somuchlove]

[Speaking of strange and unique.

Something catches in Chara's throat when the other them disappears and reappears behind them. They whip around and expect bones to erupt from the ground and pierce their flesh any second. But no, it's not that. Back to a snowy bridge, speaking to Sans and seeing the lights of his eyes go out, feeling something bottom out in the pit of their stomach as he gave them his...warning. And then he was gone. Faster.

Chara doesn't equip the Real Knife again. But this one could probably recognize their hand curling around a weapon that wasn't there.]

...it seems we are full of surprises. I cannot claim to know a trick like that.

[cter]

[It's a pretty understandable instinct, especially coming from another Chara. But they keep their smile soft and easy, not the vibrant, edged thing it can easily become.]

You might be surprised.

[Their fingers open and close in their pockets, an unintentional mirror of their...mirror, ha. Flexing, reaching for a weapon they don't need.]

Humans dislike anything they do not understand. Including magic.

[And one of their own who can use magic? Why, that's practically anathema. Practically sub-human. Lesser than monsters. Lesser than human.

They had a word for something like that, didn't they.]

[somuchlove]

[Freak, sub-human, anomaly.

Demon.]

There were history books at school. We were taught that tale.

[It took..."artistic liberties", shall we say, with the whole thing. Even the humans that possessed magic, the ones who sealed away those dangerous Monsters were treated as weird. Chara had been fascinated by the whole thing regardless. The idea of magic still appealed to a child that young, before they had given up.]

Did you know this before your own fall?

[cter]

That I could do things that scared people?

[They almost bare their teeth at that, like an animal. They'd spent nights under their bed (where monsters belong), running their tongue over their canines as if expecting them to bloom into sharpened points, heralding their incipient transformation into something so terrible and terrifying that no one, not even a monster like them, could ever love it.

That had been the big joke, of course. They were already a horrible thing from the start. It had simply taken them some time to realize.]

Well. [Their smile is smaller, softer. Sadder.] Why do you think kids like us climb mountains like that?