to lose all my senses —

[happyheartsstaff]

THAT IS JUST SO TYPICALLY ME

It's not clear how many days it's been since you arrived in Wonderland. With it stuck in perpetual twilight, it could have been days, perhaps longer — everything starts to blur together, in this artificially joyful place. Maybe you've started to feel like you you're getting used to it, maybe not...

But eventually, something happens to break the monotony. Your ears begin to ring, and ring, and ring and then — stop. The lights become blinding, forcing you to squeeze your eyes shut and try to rub the afterimage of all that light from them — but when you open your eyes, you still can't see.

The staff don't understand when you ask them what's happened to you. "You've always been like this", they insist. They sign at you, or try to hand you papers written in braille — if you insist you've never signed in your life, or that you can't read braille, they laugh at your funny joke. You begin to wonder — have you always been this way? You were so sure... But everyone around you is equally sure of their truth, and their voices are so much louder.

As if that weren't enough, nothing in the hotel can be found in the same place twice. All the shops keep switching places, once you enter one area it's as though everything shifts in the minutes before you leave again. Getting back to your room is a struggle — where are the elevators? Finding food is nearly impossible — the Pig & Pepper was there, but now it's not. The staff are equally useless here — they have no idea what you mean about moving shops. Where would you want to move to when all your needs are accounted for right here?

What is going on?

SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL — 5/11

The day starts like any other has in the Hotel — unsure if a new day has started at all. Perpetual twilight and lack of clocks makes it difficult to tell time here in the Hotel, but on this particular day, something breaks up the monotony. It begins slowly — or else it happens all at once. Over the course of the day, all Oysters find themselves losing a sense. Staff don't understand their complaints — you've always been like this, they say, gentle, as though to a person in the middle of a break with reality.

Losing your temper won't help, either. Oysters who shout and yell will find staff remaining frustrating calm and compassionate, insisting that they cannot fix what has always been and murmuring about Mad March before taking their leave. Physical aggression may result in a spike of fear, but staff will quickly make their exit and may avoid that Oyster for a while.

If that wasn't enough, nothing in the Hotel is staying put.

IT'S LIKE A MAZE IN HERE — 5/11

The interior of the Hotel has ceased to remain stationary. Beginning at the same time as the loss of senses, the establishments of the Hotel begin to jump around, never staying in the same place twice. An Oyster may have entered the Pool of Tears from the lobby, but exit it into the middle of the casino. The Pig & Pepper Buffet is never in the same place twice, and always seems to move right when Oysters desperately need a meal.

Even as the old shops move, new establishments seem to be being added, but they aren't easy to find — Oysters will see a new sign across the building from where they are, only to see it's moved again by the time they get there. If you take your eyes off an establishment as you head toward it, it disappears and reappears elsewhere. Making it to the new establishments will take some time and dedication (or perhaps plain stubbornness), but there are rewards in it for any Oyster that can manage the feat!

Back To Rights — 5/15

A few days after the effects of the event begin, they just as suddenly end. Sight, hearing, speech — they all return in a rush, possibly overwhelmingly so, and when one tries to make their way to a shop, it stays exactly where it was when they first saw it, and they exit the exact same place they entered. Staff will react much the same way as they did when they were questioned after the loss of senses — you've always been like this.

You made it through, Oysters. You've completed your first event in the Hotel.

We hope you enjoy this first event, Oysters! If you have any questions, please leave them on the first comment to this page. Happy playing!

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Comments

[stargazed]

"Just noticed something that wasn't there when I came through earlier. I can't tell if it's the restaurant from this distance, though," she says, though she sounds a little thrown off by that second thing. She knew from the moment she arrived her that her senses had been dulled a bit to bring her in line with a normal human, but it's only now she's had to apply those muted senses to anything particularly pressing.

That said, while she managed to catch that short question in her peripherals, she's not sure she'd be able to get anything longer right now. "I might not be able to answer you for a little bit, the last time I tried to catch one of these places it disappeared when I took my eyes off it."

Can't watch a doorway and watch someone's lips at the same time, so she's going to set the latter aside until she's caught the doorway and can tell him what it is.

[scaredofdogs]

Wei Wuxian just nods to show he understands and moves a little closer to her just so if they have to move quickly that he can sense the urgency to do so. He closes his eyes as if that actually will do anything, but it almost makes him feel like he can concentrate better as he listens to her and waits for her to figure out what might be going on.

[stargazed]

Mikumo does start to move a little faster after a moment, but it's only so she's sure she can catch the door before she has to blink. Once she does...

...unfortunately, the sound of water will become audible to her companion at that point, and Mikumo lets out a sigh of discontent.

"The pool. It was worth a shot, I suppose. At least we didn't land in it somehow."

Considering the weird issues that have come up with the pool previously, she'll take that victory.

[scaredofdogs]

This place really was strange.."The pool shouldn't be before the bar..this place really is just trying to frustrate us."

He usually really likes the pool but he thinks that maybe visiting that when he can't see anything would be a bad combination.

"What should we do?"

[stargazed]

"It's been mixing itself up since this whole sensory strangeness started. I'd be shocked if it wasn't intentional," Mikumo says, sounding a little dour about the whole thing. She initially compared it to an experiment when it started, that sort of thing being her nearest comparison point, but what's gone on since then definitely hasn't done anything to do away with that initial take.

"There's not much of an option but to try other doorways and see where we get. I've found the restaurant to be particularly evasive, but if we've both been looking for it for a while maybe we'll have better luck actually catching it. Odds in our favour, or something along those lines."

[scaredofdogs]

"not going able to actually look makes things a little more difficult.." It's not like they have two sets of eyes keeping close watch on the rooms. He wishes he wasn't so useless in this trial.

"I wish I could help more."

[stargazed]

"That's true, but I have a feeling it's not in their interests to let us outright starve to death," Mikumo guesses, taking a look around the Pool of Tears and what exit options they have. If they were going to let people die this quickly, why even take them in the first place?

"It's no matter, anyway. I suggest we take a few more doors and see how it turns out."

She begins to guide him over towards the other side of the pool, before pausing and instead turning back the way they came. Perhaps the less traditional route might help them more here.

[scaredofdogs]

"I'd say you should leave me somewhere so you could travel faster..but we'd probably never see each other again..uh..feel each other?" Can't see, can't hear..what terminology does one even use? He's only half teasing about getting left behind, not that she can hear any sort of teasing tone.

He continues to follow along, not wanting to say too much so that she can focus on where she wants to go.

[stargazed]

"There's a good chance I wouldn't be able to find my way back, yes," Mikumo remarks. She imagines the other man would find it just about impossible to track her down when he isn't used to having lost his sight, so she feels she doesn't even need to point that out.

They pass through the door, and it leads out to one side of the casino, where there shouldn't even be a doorway normally. There's nothing to turn back to, so Mikumo proceeds to the next door, which spits them out near the end of a corridor that looks somewhat familiar.

Mikumo turns around so they're not facing the hall side, and realises why it looks familiar. "Ah. We might have something, give me a few more seconds."

She's usually more pragmatic about this sort of thing, but honestly, the sensory loss has been jarring enough for her that she doesn't mind taking the extra moment or two to clarify that they're making progress. Her steps down the hall are faster and more determined, like she wants to catch something before it goes away.

[scaredofdogs]

Wei Wuxian let's her continue to guide and stays quiet for now so that she an concentrate. He can hear the sounds of the casino when they enter it so he has a vague knowledge of the rooms once they are there. But the fact that the track they are taking shouldn't end up in these places is still rather disorienting.

But he keeps up and feels encouraged when she says they might have finally found a potential lead to their actual destination.

[stargazed]

Mikumo is rather fast about this sort of thing once she's decided on a destination, so after a few moments, they move through another door and into the familiar sounds and smells of the restaurant.

"We came from the casino into the corridor to the restaurant. I wasn't completely sure the door would lead here this time, but I thought it couldn't hurt to try," she admits. Then again, if everyone's expecting things to be in entirely different places by this point, then why wouldn't it show up in the actual place once or twice just to mess with them?

[scaredofdogs]

"So we actually made it?" Wei Wuxian actually seems shocked by it. For awhile he thought perhaps they weren't meant to get to the restaurant and would be wandering aimlessly until they passed out from starvation. This is a significantly better outcome.

[stargazed]

"Somehow. I was wandering around for some time before I ran into you, so perhaps the odds just got short enough to pull it off," she says, looking around the area as if to make sure it's operating as normal and they're not going to get whisked away again before they can actually eat.

"Then again, I doubt starving us to death would be profitable."

[scaredofdogs]

Wei Wuxian lets out a cheer. Glad they were able to get there despite the obvious difficulties. Certainly they won't kick them out now that they are victorious.

"Lets eat and drink to celebrate!" Which they were going to do anyway but it doesn't hurt to have a reason to celebrate.

[stargazed]

"I don't think we need an excuse for it, but I suppose you could take it as a chance to bulk up if you don't expect to be back here for a while," Mikumo says, some amusement in her tone. She can run on very little food because that's just the diet she's adjusted to, but this could drag on for any amount of time, and she doesn't want to be too careless.

[scaredofdogs]

"We could eat our fill and then take some back to our rooms to keep for later." That way if this lasts for awhile then he doesn't have to worry about if he can find someone to help him get back to this place. Certainly there is some food that can stay fresh for awhile.

[stargazed]

"I suppose we could. Though I'll admit I'm not too familiar with what foods keep well outside of a ration pack," Mikumo says, looking at what's on display currently. Anything that needs to be kept at a certain temperature is already out, but there's baked goods and other things offered at room temperature that should work for that.

"That is, of course, assuming they don't take it back while we're asleep."

[scaredofdogs]

"Why would they be so mean?? There are people that need their midnight snacks!" Wei Wuxian looks horrified by the thought of someone stealing their food in the middle of the night.

[stargazed]

"I'm not sure they'd do it normally, but if this is staged then they might particularly want to make getting food difficult," she points out. Normally the buffet is so accessible and full that it'd be difficult to justify taking back food, but it seems almost specifically hard to get to right now with all this going on.

[scaredofdogs]

"Well all we can do is try and if it disappears..well..I guess we start all over again. But if it doesn't then we don't have to worry until this mess is over!"

Seems like a solid enough plan to him. He doesn't mind keep a few things in his room as a just in case. He might not always get so lucky as to fun into someone with working eyes.

[stargazed]

"The question is how long it's going to take to be over," Mikumo remarks, tone rather sober, but at least making the attempt to keep some food aside should be worthwhile. She doesn't want to make waves before knowing the consequences, but this feels like quite a minor thing to attempt.

"For now, I suppose we can think about it over food."

[scaredofdogs]

He is going to be at her mercy for whatever food she decides to pick for the both of them.

"Let's eat! I don't know what there is..but do you see anything spicy?" He loves spicy foods.

[stargazed]

Mikumo pauses for a moment at that question, though Wuxian won't be able to see the strange look that crosses her face as she decides how to phrase the problem here.

"I'm not sure how to identify spicy foods other than by taste. I've never eaten any before," she says, tone almost cautious like she expects a strange reaction to the fact.

[scaredofdogs]

"Ah..well..usually something that is really red in color or has a lot of red looking spices on top of them." It's a little hard to explain but that is about the best he can come up with.

"It's okay if you don't see anything like that! Sometimes the staff is willing to give us stuff to put on it in order to make it spicier."

[stargazed]

"Hmm. I'll see what I can find, but I'm sure I've eaten red foods that weren't spicy," she says mildly, looking over the offerings. There's some berry pastries that she assumes aren't the kind of red he's looking for, but in the midst of the hot foods, there seems to be some sort of meat and vegetable dish that smells rather strong, so she starts to direct him over there.

"Does that smell like what you're looking for?" Once they get close enough, the scent of peppers of some sort will be very obvious - it's a pot of chili.