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]

[Mikumo looks fairly confident in her current knowledge of the layout, and yet, the corridor that would normally lead from here to the casino seems to go on for an oddly long time. It's about when they've gone the normal length one and a half times over that Mikumo pulls out her Empathy again.]

I'm quite sure this isn't usually so long.

[Almost as soon as she shows that message, they reach a part of the corridor that looks a little bit different.

Actually, it looks an awful lot like the corridors everyone's rooms are in, despite them having walked in the literal opposite direction.]

[thotsandprayers]

[Yeah, no. This definitely isn't right. With a frown on her face, Kiara'll start working on a reply.]

This is the way to our rooms. That's not right.

[stargazed]

[Mikumo has come to the same conclusion quite quickly, and she nods with a bit of a grimace on her face. If things have been turned around to that extent, then it begs a follow-up question.]

Should we keep going this way, or turn back?

[They know it's different now, but it's hard to tell whether going back is going to get them what going back from this location would usually get them, actually get them back to where they came from, or something else entirely.]

[thotsandprayers]

[Kiara starts to say “I wonder” then stops, remembering it's pointless and typing a quick message instead.]

Let me check something.

[She'll head back down the corridor and take a look around the corner before motioning Mikumo over. Sure enough, instead of the way they came, it appears to the be the entrance to the buffet now.]

I thought it would be different, but I didn't expect this.

[stargazed]

[Mikumo draws back slightly in confusion at the sight - she's certainly seen some unusual things in her life, but this is new. Perhaps someone could make something like this as a trick with holographic technology, but not actually switch out entire rooms at the speed with which it seems to be happening here.]

This place must obey its own set of rules. There's no reasonable explanation for them to be able to change things so quickly. Unless it was some kind of strange take on warp technology.

[She almost writes "fold technology" before remembering that "fold" hasn't seemed to be recognised by anyone else she's talked to here.]

[thotsandprayers]

That or some sort of magic.

[That's more or less the same reason she's sticking to vague terms and not saying it could be a reality marble. She hasn't run into anyone familiar with that sort of thing and that's actually fine with her for the time being.]

Though technology might be an easier explanation.

[She doesn't know for sure, but magic and magecraft can be complicated sometimes.]

[stargazed]

[Mikumo hums a bit at that. Magic wasn't nonexistent in her world, but there were often complex technological or biological explanations for things that seemed like magic, so she could see a half-and-half situation too.]

Could be a bit of both. I can't say I've ever seen technology used to do something like this, but I feel like it'd be a niche need.

[As in nobody in any other circumstances would really need to be rearranging rooms randomly like this.] At least we know for sure it's more than one problem now.

[thotsandprayers]

It certainly could be. But either way you're right, we've found another problem.

[And one that can certainly make things much more difficult for everyone.]

[stargazed]

I might follow up with some of the others here. Everyone I've met so far has lost their hearing, but if anyone has lost anything else it may be impossible to navigate.

[She's thinking sight, but if more esoteric senses like direction are included, that might be a problem too. She'd prefer to know if it's the same for everyone or if there's people who'll need more assistance.]

[thotsandprayers]

[She'll nod in agreement before typing a quick response to that one.]

I'll do the same. The others might not have figured things out or like you said could be worse off.

[stargazed]

[Mikumo gives a short nod, then points back the way they came from. There's no telling where she'll actually end up, but going in opposite directions might be a start.]

I'll try back this way, then. If we take different paths I'd hope we might come across different people.