+ some wonderlands are kind

Sorry this was up a bit late; I had already drawn the names, but I forgot to put them up. Forgetful Kytha is forgetful. |D; In any case, using this handy name selector, here are the five ~lucky~ residents who'll be taking a trip out into the middle of the storm:

( and the five lucky winners of the golden tickets are... )

Should anyone attempt to search for the missing residents, they'll simply find themselves wandering in circles, unable to move too far past the front of the Mansion-- as though the wind itself is pushing them back towards the Mansion. By evening on the 21st, even exiting the doors will be impossible-- the winds have brought the snow piling up against the sides of the Mansion, completely blocking some of the windows as it builds up...

On the 22nd, the foyer of the Mansion and some parts of the residential areas (feel free to decide if your character's particular corridor is affected, but please leave a note on this post so we can keep track of the damage~) will end up rather inhospitable as some of the larger windows (including the skylight on the roof) shatter, letting the accumulated ice and snow blow indoors. Unlike most damage the Mansion suffers, this won't fix itself immediately; if you've ever wanted an excuse to have your character seek new accommodations or temporarily bunk with a friend, now's a good chance~

If you have any clarifications to ask (i know the dates and events within the event tend to follow right on the heels of each other. ;;;) please feel free to do so, and I apologize for not getting this up earlier!

Just as the title says, moderator applications are now closed. I know some of you are surely dying to hear the results right now, but Kytha and I are going to spend time deliberating over them - You haven't given us an easy choice! The results will be announced after this event is over.

Thank you so much again for all of your applications! ♥

~ Koji

Over the next week, the weather outside the Mansion will begin to change. The temperature will drop steadily, and from November 18-20, the residents of the Mansion will experience their first flurries of snowfall-- typically, it won't be heavy to start with, but the air's definitely chillier. The closets will begin to produce more clothing suitable for colder weather, and characters will find that their rooms have suddenly had fireplaces and warm rugs installed in them.

( more details~ )

As a final reminder, moderator applications are still ongoing! They will be closing on the evening of November 18th, so there's still plenty of time to get that application in if you were planning on it. If all goes as planned, we'll be able to make an announcement before the Thanksgiving weekend. Thanks everybody~

We hope you enjoyed the event, everyone! Now though, for something just a little different from usual. Moderator applications!

Don't get scared - nobody's going anywhere. We're a little shorthanded here at Entranceway though, and so Kytha and I are looking for a third moderator for the game. It's a decision we're not taking lightly, and we want to absolutely make sure we find the best person for the job, so we've created a moderator application.

" Wow guys, this sounds awesome, but how do I go about trying to join the mod team?" Why, I'm glad you asked! It works as follows:

1) Fill out the application, we're giving you in this post as honestly and accurately as possible.
2) Slap it in an E-mail and send it to entrancewaymods@gmail.com.
2a) Really, e-mail it to us. Don't comment it to any of the contact pages on LJ, don't PM it to us, e-mail it to entrancewaymods@gmail.com. Thank you for your cooperation! ♥

And that's it! Applications will close at the end of the day on November 18th, and after that Kytha and I will deliberate on all of the applicants and make a decision from there. In other words, applications will be open for one week.

( Application! )

So again, if you're interested in being a moderator at Entranceway, please fill out this application and send it to entrancewaymods@gmail.com! Kytha and I both thank you for your interest, dedication, and love for this game, and we look forward to having a new addition to our moderation team. :)

~ Koji

Aaaaand time! Thank you for your applications! <3

Regarding the current event~

If for some reason you wish to incorporate characters that aren't currently in the Mansion into the performance, that's fine. However, they'll be represented by inanimate objects and have 'voices' provided by, of course, the actors themselves-- as necessary. (Actual skill in ventriloquism optional.)

They can be in the form of hand puppets, plushies, life-sized cardboard cutouts on wheels, or the old favorite broom-with-a-picture-pasted on it; whatever works! Play out your character's tale of sordid loss and despair in highly unflattering fashion! /o/

In case you haven't seen it, the next event is another mildly er... coordination-requiring one?

( Oh my, how wordy this is. )

NOW THAT THAT'S DONE, please please ask any clarifications, questions, etc you have in the Q&A thread of this post. :D This is mostly so we don't like, lose a question in the middle of the comments, since we expect people to use this for general coordination/to give other people a head's-up on how the parodied versions of their characters are going to be like.

Alright guys, the Activity Check is over, and the results are in! Please copy this list and paste it into the Admin Console

If you wish to reclaim a character lost to the activity check, entranceway requires you to re-apply for the character. While the background may be reused, we require new samples. If you wish your characters to retain their memories of the Mansion, please re-apply for them within the period of one (1) month. Thank you!

friend remove shewashuman
friend remove recoilles
friend remove commitomemory
friend remove ttlypartitioned
friend remove rvolutionaryboy

(Not bad, guys - only five characters were cut! I don't think that even really justifies a text-area box. Thank you for being active! ♥)

A little late and oops I have two of my own characters here but better than never~ Here's the results for the past six or so weeks' activity check.

For reference, here are the rules once again. Journals that will be autopurged for showing up with 3 weeks of inactivity twice in a row are marked with an asterisk (*) (unless links to logs/'action' logs within the last two weeks can be provided). Please remember that the minimum posting requirement is a journal post once every two weeks, or log/'action' log activity in the last two weeks before the AC. Again, if you've been logging but showed up on the list anyway, throw us a link to your log and you'll be in the clear~

To the best of our knowledge, this includes people whose hiatuses have expired, etc; if there is someone on this list who needs an exception, please contact a moderator or use the inquiries form if neither of us is online.

This activity check ends on 11:59 PM EST on October 15, 2009. An event will be going up shortly, so if you're stuck for ideas on what to post, that will hopefully provide some inspiration~

( I see twelve, thirteen, fourteen! Fourteen idle journals! AH-AH-AH! )

Also, as just a general reminder/pimping it around for the new players, we do have an ENTRANCEWAY WIKI for your own use, if you'd like to add your character's profile to the database. It's by no means mandatory, but it's a nice way of putting up information somewhere where your fellow players can access it! ♥

Your one week is up and here are the results, as well as a few drops we've had over the past week or so~ Copy paste this list here, and you're good to go.

If you wish to reclaim a character lost to the activity check, entranceway requires you to re-apply for the character. While the background may be reused, we require new samples. If you wish your characters to retain their memories of the Mansion, please re-apply for them within the period of one (1) month. Thank you!

friend remove blurosequeen friend remove detests_sleep friend remove mybeautifulface friend remove little_nutmeg friend remove stray_cat_magic friend remove aguardedheart friend remove karuwazashi friend remove ofasandgoddess friend remove shiftingvisage friend remove inblackfeathers friend remove kaeru_jyanai friend remove stealinghats friend remove timewardrums

It's that time of the month again! Here are the rules of our Activity Checks, for those of you still unfamiliar with them. ♥

Since we've just had a mirror event, it's entirely likely you've posted for a character on the mirroruniverse comm instead of their main journal. If that is the case, then please by all means drop us a link to their mirrorverse entry, and that will count as valid activity if it was within the last two weeks. However, just as a reminder, mirror posts will not count towards character activity-- you signed up to play the real things, after all. ;D

If exceptions need to be made (hiatuses that didn't get announced in the official post, etc) let us know. :] Journals marked with an asterisk (*) will be auto-dropped as their muns (not necessarily the journals themselves) have exceeded the two-month hiatus limit, or because this is the third time in a row they've showed up on an AC with 3 or more weeks of inactivity. :'(

( here we go! )

Hey guys! We hope you enjoyed the event (which is now officially over)! I'm here with a recap and something shiny and new in the landscape for your trouble.

( Something old. )

( And something new. )

Again, we hope it was fun for everyone! Expect a normal event announcement soon, as we do indeed intend to have things getting back to normal. ♥

~ Koji-mod

Suddenly, in the midst of all of the fighting and all of the searching on the mirror side, there is a voice, crying out.

“No, please! Please don’t take it! Please don’t take Dinah away!”

And there are sobs, for a moment, before it continues.

“ Please! I’ve done nothing wrong! I’ll be so lonely without Dinah! Don’t take her, don’t take her!”

The cries become far more desperate, and panicked. But where is it coming from? Where else but the ventilation system. Through the vents, her fear and sorrow can be heard very, very clearly.

“Please, she’s all I have, she’s everything I’ve got, please don’t take her!”

And then, she really, truly begins to scream.

“DINAH! DINAH! Oh Dinah, please don’t go, don’t take her away, please! I can‘t forg-”

Her scream twists into one of excruciating pain then, mid-sentence, and it lasts for a good minute or two. Then, it goes quiet and she says nothing more.

But don’t worry! We’d never kill her! But, if you feel like trying to find out what happened, those sounds may have been coming from further upstairs. Either way though, you‘ll be hearing from dear Alice, very shortly. ♥

If any real things want to try and go back to real side, they will need to speak to an NPC that will lead them to the rabbit hole or have their mirror return to mirror side and swap them.

The Queen will speak on matters later tonight, in this last plot development! We hope you've been having fun!

~ Koji-mod

Hi guys, I'd just like to make a quiiick couple of non-event-related requests.

First, please double-check if your character's LJ is on the F-list add/remove! It seems like a few journals weren't added up (whether because people forgot to comment or comments got deleted) to the list, and while I've fixed it now, it's entirely possible someone's still missing. .D.b

Second, since I'm cleaning up the member lists on the main communities and mirroruniverse is one of them-- it seems a good a chance to gather a list of mirror journals as any! :D Please comment on this entry with a list of the mirror journals you use for your characters on the mirrorverse comm, if any; that way I can clear off the journals of dropped characters without accidentally kicking anyone's mirror off. o/ I'd really appreciate it~

-- Kytha-mod

I'm posting this for Kytha while she's in class! The next piece of the event will be coming soon, but likely not until during the day tomorrow. ♥

"One more area of the mirrored mansion appears to open itself for intrusion-- the laboratories of Vexen's mirror. Far larger than his counterpart's, its ceiling arches high overhead. The walls are painted in pale, luminescent white-- or is that just from the circular fluorescent lights flickering, high overhead.

Most of the doors are locked, and any attempts to break them down result in being attacked by what resembles little else but insects with metal carapaces--and underneath them, instead of wings, wickedly sharp scalpels mounted on wire-fine limbs. But there are plenty of other doors to go through. Like the one over there, in one corner, left half-open as though to beckon you inside...

Inside, you'll find Alice. Or, as it happens, a reasonable imitation of her.

For Vexen's mirror wasn't idle with the blood he collected off that courtroom floor, oh no, he wasn't; he'd neatly swabbed it up and stuck it in a petri dish and spliced each cell apart, pulling out its secrets like a child pulling out a string of paper dolls.

The fruits of his labor you'll find here: one, two, a dozen Alices, in various states of... disassembly. And vivisection. Here, a skeleton stripped of flesh; there, a neatly lined row of jars with internal organs. There's an Alice staring out from where she's pinned to a lab table, one eye wide and unseeing, the other a telescopic monstrosity. Half of her torso has been replaced with copper and wire.

Turn away in disgust, attempt to pilfer any of his implements, or explore further? It's your decision to make."

And it is located on the first floor, by the entrance to the dungeons, through an ordinary door you may not have noticed the first time you passed by.

Have fun with Mirror Vexen's lab and look forward to tomorrow!

~ Koji-mod

Having fun so far guys? As promised, here is the next part of the event!

( Details beneath the cut! )

And that is that for this part! Look forward to the next piece on Friday!

~ Koji-mod

So! We’ve left you in suspense long enough, I suppose! Shame on us, telling you an entire month in advance when Alice plot was going down. As a reminder, this event will run from Sunday August 9th to Saturday August 15th.

Mm, I do believe I promised you guys a way over too, didn’t I? That’s all under this cut as well.

( But just how do we get there? I'm glad you asked! )

And, I think that’s it! Your characters will have a couple of days to settle and orient themselves to their new surroundings, and make their way around (and kick some mirror ass). Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning the next part will be announced, giving details on what’s in the dungeons, and what else is happening on the mirror side. I’m sure your lovely mirrors can keep them busy until then, mm? ♥

If you have any questions, please ask them here! I hope everyone has fun! :3

~ Koji-mod

And the results are in! Please remove these journals from your friendslist at the Admin Console.

friend remove kleptoninjagirl friend remove doesntneedpants friend remove brbwritingsmut friend remove braceletbearer friend remove notyuui friend remove soundlikemurder friend remove lietuvabrangi friend remove pandandragon friend remove eyesoftopaz friend remove viceranger

Reminder: The policy for reapplying for characters lost in the AC is that it is acceptable to use the same application except for samples (we'll need new samples from you). If you want to reapply for your character, you have one month to do so and have them keep their memories of the mansion. Otherwise, you are still welcome to reapply, but you will need to start from scratch in terms of memories and character relations.

It's that time of the month again~ Our monthly activity check. Under the cut are the journals that have made the naughty list. ♥

Just to remind everyone, the current rules for the activity check are here. Again, this only accounts for journal activity; if your character has participated in a log (whether on the entrancelogs community or in a commentlog of at least five posts or more), please post a link to the log here.

If you need an exception for yourself or another player due to mitigating circumstances, like blackouts/epic computer death/BEING GROUNDED this is also the post to let us know. \o_O/

Characters marked with an asterisk (*) are characters that have ended up on the activity check with 3 or more weeks of inactivity for the second time in a row, without being excused by being on hiatus previously/currently.

As per usual, if there's someone on this list who shouldn't be here, please let us know ASAP. o/ Thanks.

( all around the mulberry bush. )

ACTIVITY CHECK ENDS: 11:59 PM (EST) on August 1st!

To begin with, the two sides presented their opening statements, and then the criminal herself, Alice was brought out. Ivan recieved a penalty almost immediately for his treacherous opening statement. The defense then presented the evidence, and was cross-examined by the defense, as well as the Queen. Ivan, Russia’s mirror, caused quite the commotion with his objections, and Alice sobbed for her cat (which caught the Queen’s attention). Haruhi shouted out against the claim that Alice stole the white rabbit's "luck", given that the Rabbit was eaten by the mansion long ago, and Dean echoed her objection.

Then, the witnesses were brought out. First Alice? was selected randomly from the crowd and questioned. Alice? was firm in his belief that Alice is completely and totally innocent of all charges, and suggested that the Queen was the one preventing her from leaving. Then, a witness from the mirror side was brought out, Riqis. Riqis, of course, testified that Alice had been sneaking around, talking to those “fakes” as he put it, and that she had probably been stealing things, and that she was very stupid and annoying. Alice was very insulted by this, and spoke out against it. Jace asked if her cat obsession had been a tactic to distract him from guarding her, and Mia objected. The Queen over ruled it, but the questioning was quickly objected again, this time by Arland, only for him to be ordered to cease.

Then, the next day, Dormouse was called to the stand, only to be completely unhelpful. Alice gave her side of the story, and then, after closing statements,

( The Queen gave her final decree )

We hope you enjoyed the trial! There will be no way of crossing over until the second week of August (and we will give more details on that then), so for now, take this as a time to regroup and think up strategies. ♥ And also, if you have any unfinished threads in the logs, feel free to continue them! The next part will be the final part of the Alice plot, so please stay tuned!

~Koji

So, it's time to unveil the members of the court, as chosen by our lovely Randomizer!

( And here they are! )

As a reminder, the trial will take place on Monday, July 13th and Tuesday, July 14th. Have fun with the rest of the evidence gathering!

~ Koji