[Dreamscape] Alice Liddell

[madcuriosity]

Characters: Alice Liddell and you
When: All Week
Where: Alice's dreams
Rating: G, PG-13 at the highest
Summary: Welcome to Wonderland. Or perhaps you've entered the looking glass?

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[buntails]

Usagi falls right into Wonderland. When she finds the chessboard, she can't help fiddling with it (with an appropriately puzzled expression) to land herself in the Garden of Live Flowers.

[madcuriosity]

"O Tiger-lily," Usagi would have heard Alice say the little girl had her hands clasped in front of her, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, "I wish you could talk!"

"We can talk," said the Tiger-lily: "when there's anybody worth talking to."

Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice -- almost in a whisper. "And can all the flowers talk?"

"As well as all can," said the Tiger-lily. "And a great deal louder."

"It isn't manners for us to begin, you know," said the Rose, "and I really was wondering when you'd speak! Said I to myself, "Her face has got some sense in it, thought it's not a clever one!" Still, you're the right colour, and that goes a long way. That one beside you though, two long petals seems terribly dangerous!"

Alice suddenly turned at the mention of an "other."

"Oh! Miss Uu-saa!"

[buntails]

"Alice! The flowers are talking!" Usagi, apparently, lived in Obviousland. When it wasn't Obliviousland.

"They're already so pretty, too. It makes them even more wonderful."

[madcuriosity]

"Put your hand down, and feel the ground," said the Tiger-lily. "Then you'll know why."

Alice did so, gesturing for Usagi to do the same. "It's very hard," she said, "but I don't see what that has to do with it."

"In most gardens," the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft -- so that the flowers are always asleep."

[skyofhope]

There's that silly rabbit in his waistcoat again. Of course he has to chase it because that means this place is somewhere he's been before.

Falling. That's something Sora's familiar with even in his own dreams so it's not very startling to him and he's perfectly calm as he lands gently on the ground. As for the table it definitely helped confirm where he was. The door he picked was at complete random but on the other side was that long table with various chairs and tea cups.

"It always looks like it's time for a tea party around here," though there was a fond smile on his face.

[madcuriosity]

"That's because it's always six o' clock Mr. Sora!" Alice said from her spot at the table.

"Another one!" the Mad Hatter exclaimed as he sipped his tea. The March Hare nodded sagely, unaware what he was nodding to though.

"May he sit down with us?" Alice asked suddenly. "Maybe he knows the answer to your riddle!" she said when she saw that the Hatter was about to protest. But at the idea of someone who would know the answer, he nodded his head.

[skyofhope]

Okay, the people weren't so normal. He'd never met them and he'd never seen Alice outside of her presence at the trial. Still he gave them all a wave of his hand. "Now how it is always six o' clock, Alice?" Even though he knew the answer to his own question.

Sorw wasn't about to turn down tea or new friends. Especially not ones he missed the first time through his trip through Wonderland. So when the Hatter gave his approval he took one of the many seats. "What's the riddle?"

[madcuriosity]

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" the Mad Hatter and Alice said in unison.

"And it's always six o clock because the Mad Hatter quarreled with Time."

"Let me tell the story! It's my story to tell!"

Advice from a Caterpillar

[halflingfox]

Fox looks around and around the room of doors, half expecting to see cakes and potion bottles. She's read Alice in Wonderland, after all, not that she'll ever feel compelled to mention that to Alice directly. But she's the right size for the doors and that's comforting. She picks up the key-ring and tries one of the doors, stepping through and looking around curiously.

[madcuriosity]

Fox would find herself suddenly no taller than four inches, Alice a tiny little three inches. Alice was looking over the edge of a mushroom, sitting atop it with a hookah in his mouth.

"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."

Alice had yet to notice Fox had joined her.

[halflingfox]

Fox can't help but laugh a little bit as she sees the confused little girl trying to answer the Caterpillar's bold and brash question. She knew how she'd answer it if the question were posed to her. Though the answer was different to how she would have answered if she'd been Alice's age, nonetheless Fox now had a confident answer if the Caterpillar's attention turned to her. She watches Alice with an amused expression, not speaking up because she's not sure if she's even a part of this little scene.

[madcuriosity]

"And YOU?" the Caterpillar turned to look at Fox, letting out a puff of smoke into Alice's face. She frowned and waved her hand trying to remove the smoke. She coughed lightly and then turned to look at Fox, surprised to see that she was tiny too.

"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar again in his very curt manner.

A Mad Tea-Party

[thelonegenin]

Naruto is cofnused. It's not his usual confusion either - just a different breed of the stuff. He'd been falling, he felt sure he'd felt that before - but how he'd ended up here.

[madcuriosity]

As soon as Naruto opened a specific door it led him to a long table with dishes of all sorts, surrounded by chairs. Alice sat at the head of the table as she was conversing with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse was fast asleep.

"It was the very BEST butter," the March Hare said with remorse.

[thelonegenin]

Butter?

Slowly, Naruto takes a few steps closer to the table, interest piqued by the dishes around him. Food. Nice.

"H-Hey. Is this... for everyone?"

[madcuriosity]

Suddenly three sets of eyes (and half of an open one from the Dormouse) that gazed at Naruto. Alice smiled brightly.

"Mr. Na-rue-toe! Please have a seat."

"It's very rude to invite people to a tea party that isn't yours," the Mad Hatter said tersely.

"You have so many seats, surely one more wouldn't hurt?"

Advice from a Caterpillar

[reckless_equine]

Ranma- or rather RANKO - crashes into Wonderland face-first. After a bit of grumbling, she picked herself up while rubbing her face... and then noticed what she was wearing.

"What the hell?!" She screamed in outrage as she looked at the dress she was wearing. A red eyebrow ticked viciously as she glared at the thing like it was the most offensive thing in the world. Knowing her, it probably was right now. She tried to change it, but for some reason all of the clothes in her subspace was replaced by replicas of that thing she was wearing.

"This sucks." She growled to herself as she opened a random door and went in.

[madcuriosity]

As soon as Ranko entered the door he... she was suddenly no more than four inches tall surrounded by grass. Alice was only a few feet away which seemed a terrible distance when one was only four inches tall talking to a caterpillar smoking a hookah.

[reckless_equine]

"...huh?" Ranko blinked, confused as everything suddenly seemed a LOT bigger. Wasn't she taller a while ago? Like... less than a second ago? But then she just shrugged. At least she still had her clothing. "What the heck? Did I just shrink? Well... this IS a dream."

She then decided to explore the place, having nothing better to do. Hopping on a grass leaf, she quickly... erm... grass-hopped in a random direction, enjoying the view of a strange new world in a strange new perspective this trippy dream gave her. Coincidentally, it was the same direction that led to Alice and the caterpillar.

Once she was near enough... she stared as she balanced on a blade of grass, blinking in disbelief one. "Is that a caterpillar who's... smoking something? I wonder if it's Coke or Pot." She asked herself as she stared at the two in confusion.

[madcuriosity]

Alice and the Caterpillar suddenly looked up to see Ranko staring down at them and Alice tilted her head, not recognizing the girl in the slightest.

"Who are YOU?"

"Who are you?" Alice and the Caterpillar asked in unison though with completely different tones.