What's going on?! [Non-death QUEST]

[Iris|Kairi]

[Iris style~ Mystery quest with Mystery prize.]

One by one, random people from anywhere in the Kingdom Hearts universe have been teleported into the room with the talking door and the growth/ shrink potions. POOF! They are from all alignments and personalities. No rhyme nor reason is to blame for this random jumble of victims lucky beings appearing here to take part in what seems like absolutely nothing. Nothing for a prize!!

Or maybe ANYTHING for a prize. Something? Who knows! This is Wonderland, and they cannot leave here until it's over.

Waiting for the lucky beings is what seems to be a small, crudely made, but nonetheless adorable green stuffed bear with a gray patch on it's cute little sewn bottom and an umbrella in his hand. He was waiting by the talking doorknob. Waiting...very still. It's swirly button eyes stared forward, almost unseeingly, though it seemed friendly. It's stitched smile was without flaw. It spoke to the doorknob, apparently a friend of his, without moving his mouth. A talking ball of fluff!

"Oh, when will they arrive? I desperately need their help!"

3-4 members can join.

Posting order:
...None for right now. Posting order is slow..and will add to my chaos. Plus, characters may need to converse...before action. >D

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In a burst of light, a very random burst of light, Pierr appeared. Wait, that seemed a bit forward...just suddenly appeared, nothing important, nothing interesting? Not even anything to note? Strange...oh well, anyway, on with the introduction yes? Simple as pie. Now where were we? Oh! Right.

Pierr appeared in a burst of light, rolling along on a giant circus ball, juggling four smaller balls in his hands before opening his eyes, realizing he was no longer performing in the woods to practice his next routine, but instead he was in some strange room with a bear and a door.

He quickly moved his feet, rolling over to the pair on top of the ball, looking down at them and blinking before hopping down and having a seat on the ball. He was a bit confused, obviously he was in Wonderland again, where else could such strange and fantastic things happen but Wonderland? But still, he didn't know where exactly in Wonderland he was, or why he'd been brought here.

"Pardon me master...Bear." He said as he turned his gaze to the stuffed creature with the umbrella. "I'm Pierr...could you tell me why, maybe even how, I've been brought here? I don't remember getting any invitations to a party and you don't look like a sorcerer...so what exactly is going on here?" He asked with a bit of a confused expression as he folded his arms over his chest and waited for an answer from the fluff ball.

[Dante]

Another flash of light broke over the area, sending a young man with it. He landed on his rump, making the two bottles on the table shake a little. He let out a moan as he stood up and rubbed his bruise, sighing soon after. Before he had appeared here, he was, or had been, jumping down a steep hill that wasn't very tall, but enough to hurt the man. As he looked around, he could see a Clown, a stuffed bear, and a door. Crazy, don't you think?

The young man's name was Dante and he was nothing more than a hard working civilian, so why was he here, now, out of all of the times he was actually free? "Eh?... Hi?" Dante waved a hand at the three and then scratched the back of his head. This was strangely odd. He could've sworn that that door just moved... Must be going crazy after all, eh?

[nascent]

Even when things are going as planned, that which is unplanned can all too easily turn a perfectly good plan into a plan that hardly seems like a plan at all. For instance, say you want to whisk some hapless busybody across worlds to lend you a hand. Elementary teleportation, little more. What could be more simple? Ah, but as that wise old saying goes "the best laid plans of mice and men can bring face and ground together again". True, the second half is less widely known, but it was foremost on the mind of a certain young feline as, while in the midst of diving off a roof to evade his pursuers, he found himself engulfed by light and prematurely bearing down on solid ground. Strangely, though, this ground bore an odd resemblance to kitchen tile... particularly the cheap plastic variety.

This was bad because he couldn't Deep Dive into it like he'd planned, but in retrospect good because it made cleaning up the blood from his squashed nose a rather simple and stainless affair. Not that that's what flashed white-hot through Kassom's mind as he got to his knees, nor what rolled from his tongue. In fact, his utterances in that moment were of such a nature as to be completely unfit for the innocent ears of the nearby stuffed animal, and thus shall not here within be written down or hinted at in any way.

<<Ok, seriously.>> The inhuman voice of the youth's possessor rang in Kassom's mind, just loud enough to be heard over the sharp, unexpected anguish. <<What. The. ****. Just happened?!>>

'Aurgh!! Gah, I think it's broken!' The scarlet-furred lynx found himself momentarily unable to direct his thoughts due to the pain. With one hand he gently pinched the top of his nose to hold back the bleeding, and with the other he slowly pushed himself up until he could stand. Looking around, the unhappy wayfarer found himself amidst the most peculiar of environs... and in the oddest of company. A clown and a stuffed animal... at least the other guy looked fairly normal. Then he noticed that the little mouse-door had a face. 'Ugh... Ilaelis, have we died and gone to hell?'

<<If we did, then the devil who's running the place has a five year old's sense of humor and a grandma's decorating instincts.>>

Tearing off a piece of his ragged sleeve, Kassom held it to his nose as he spoke. "Can shumune vell fe fhwat dah feck isf voing ong fere?"

[Iris|Kairi]

"Oh goood....You are here. I was hoping for one more..." the child's toy spoke, it's rounded little "hands" wringing worriedly. The umbrella leaned against the knob, who wiggled his "nose" in protest, but didn't speak. Instead, the knob went to sleep..as usual.

"I...I need your help, you three. Beyond this door...is a small girl who has lost it's security toy along with her way. I am her best fwend...but that nasty cat came and stole me from her! I can s-still hear her wails...will you help me? She is very scared...something is wrong here. Not just normal wrong...but wronger wrong! The shadows grow and the plants groan and wail.."

The small bear peered at all of them with his button eyes. Taking his umbrella back, he pointed to the door. "And while I waited..now he's asleep! We need through the dooor...you guys can't leave me until I find my Bernice!"

There were two containers on the table, one that shrinks and one that unshrinks. Either way, the door is locked...but there is a whole in the wall on a shelf above the door. A very small hole.

[Dante]

Dante scratched his head roughly and squinted as he found a hole somewhere above a shelf. It was extremely small and it hurt his eyes as he strained to see if there was any other way into a different room, but all of the doors were extremely small, so there was no way he could complete the thing that the bear was asking them to do. Did that bear really think that him and the others in this room could fit through those mouse holes. Dante looked around some more and found only two bottles, a few books, and a sleeping door. He sighed as he sat down in one of the chairs near the table. "Um, Mr. or Mrs. Bear, how do you think we're going to get through either that hole up there or that small door? Haven't you noticed that we're not of this world?"

OOC: I'm sorry for the short post. I'm kind of out of the muse, so when everyone posts, I'll be able to make my post bigger.

[nascent]

'You have got to be kidding me.' Kassom thought, incredulous. 'That... thing brought us here to find a little girl?! This is messed up... we don't have time for -'

<<Kid, you're missing something here.>>

Kassom's thoughts paused briefly as he tried to figure out what Ilaelis meant.

<<Something important.>>

He was quiet for quite some time, letting the other man do the talking for a while. Then... it hit him.

'Shadows!'

<<Bingo. Growing shadows, wailing plants... sounds like?>>

'Heartless.'

And if the Heartless were here, that meant there might be clues for how to beat them... or at least a trail to follow. Kassom grimaced as he shifted his nose back into alignment, the bleeding having now subsided somewhat. This place sure was weird, what with talking toys, yawning doorknobs, and decor that just shouted "life in plastic"... but both the young rogue and his demon 'boss' knew that where things were straight-out abnormal there was often much to be discovered. Treasures to find, information to gather, secrets to learn... that sort of thing. Surely this place was no exception to the rule, right?

He glanced about, taking notice of the bottles on the table. Picking one up he looked it over and, seeing no obvious labeling, popped it open and gave it a cautious sniff. Weird... smelled like some kind of over-sugared fruit. Bottle in hand, he turned and looked at the little bear who was responsible for all this.

"So... let's say we help you, little fluff-ball... person... thing. How do you plan to help us in return?" He then gestured at the surroundings. "Where the heck are we, anyway? And - just out of curiosity - what are these medicine-looking things on the table for?"

[Heroic Bilby]

"Maybe they can cure your body hair problem. Hahahaha! Hey wait a minute... this isn't the bathroom."

Sitting on the strangely out-of-place bed in the corner of the kitchen was a thin, lanky man with shiny silver hair and dark red eyes. His laughter was genuine-sounding, and even in the midst of his confusion at the sudden and quiet change in locations he still seemed to be smiling happily all the same, completely unfazed.

Also... he was wearing a pink dress with white poka dots. The sandals on his feet seemed gender-neutral enough, but there seemed to be little mistake that this misplaced Nobody was male.

"Now how am I gonna try on the... hey! My lipstick is gone!"

Poor thing.

[Iris|Kairi]

The teddy bear turned and looked at the newest recruit. "Finally! Four! Happy day! Now...just to get someone on the other side to open my friend, Mister Sleepy Doorknob." it said, swinging the umbrella. "I heard that if someone drinks one of those potions, they can get through that hole up dere..." he indicated with a rounded paw. "I woould do it myself...but I have no mouth! Please PLEASE! Someone help me and my dear poor scared Bernice! Hurry Hurry!"

The poor thing bounced in anticipation, really in a hurry to get on it's way with his hodge-podge of help.

The Potions seemed to flash and glitter a moment, as if to emphasize their presence.

[nascent]

The young lynx did a double-take upon seeing the bizarre cross-dresser who'd suddenly arrived on the scene. Now he honestly wasn't sure which was more unsettling: the ghoulish-looking clown, the mouthless talking bear, or this guy. He didn't even want to consider what would possess a man to dress himself up in such a manner -- Kassom had donned all manner of costumes before, but never anything as unsettling as THAT.

"Okay, first order of business." He pointed at the effeminate man. "If YOU even come close to touching me I will cut you." With a flick of his wrist a throwing knife appeared in his free hand, just to prove the point. Having leveled a sufficiently serious glare at the disconcerting person on the bed, Kassom turned and looked at the potion he was still holding.

"So, this is supposed to help me get through that tiny opening? Man... this world is bent." He sighed and, motivated by a reckless desire to get this situation over with, took a swig of the potion. Several moments went by... and nothing seemed to happen.

"Pfft! So much for that." The bottle clattered back onto the tabletop as Kassom dropped it unceremoniously, then turned back to the assembled group. "So, all in favor of breaking... down the wall... say..."

It was then that the rogue began to shrink, shouting expletives and generally freaking the heck out. By the time the process was finished he was roughly the size of an action figure... and standing ankle-deep in what his nosebleed had left behind.

"HOLY ****!!"

[Iris|Kairi]

...was he shrinking...or was the room getting bigger?

The answer was clear as glass with Vaseline smeared on it. The only possible indication was..well, it seemed everyone was still the same size. The door was insanely large...as was everything else. Not to mention the space between everyone was at least twice as much. Now the bear had to yell for his voice to reach everyone.

"Oh dear! That didn't work at all! My poor poor Bernice! We can never reach that hole now....Boo hoo!" The bear began to tear up and cry, and thus pulled his umbrella out to shield his face.

Without warning, a salt shaker from the table tipped and 12 granules poured out and clattered to the ground. with a flash they suddenly had letters painted on them, one for each one. 1 A, 1 B, 1 C, 3 E's, 1 I, 1 N, 1 R, 1 S, 1 V and 1 !.

The bear looked up, a gleam in his eyes. "I think that's something scrambled!!" he squealed, pointing to them, then the others. "but...I don't know what it says..."

[Heroic Bilby]

"Okay, first order of business. If YOU even come close to touching me I will cut you."

"Its a deal!" the cross-dresser said with far too much enthusiasm and a thumbs up. Apparently he took it as an offer and not so much as a threat. Which was... additionally disturbing, no doubt.

And then every person in the room shrank.

"Woah! Woah!" the silver-haired Nobody cried as his body changed sizes on its own. "No fair man! If we're gonna be shrunk by a magic potion then I wanna at least TASTE it!"

Grumbling a little the pink-clad male started to stroll towards the door, seeing as the bed had been at the back of the room and he was now quite a way from the others. He heard the bear moaning on and on about a 'Bernice' before getting excited about some fallen salt pieces.

"A chick huh?" Chaosin asked as get picked up the sphere with the exclamation mark on it. "Hey Patchy! Would this Ladybug of yours have any lipstick?"

The man seemed content to address newly-met people by nicknames that didn't have anything to do with them. Then again, he was asking as he licked the side of the big(Or regular-sized) granule, so apparently he wasn't all right in the head anyway. Not that at least one person in the room needed any more evidence to believe that.

[nascent]

(OOC: Bilby, I gotta say... that post was generously sprinkled with comedic gold! Nice work!)



Kassom groaned for the umpteenth time; first shrinking potions, and now salt cubes that just so conveniently had letters painted on them. He was beginning to strongly suspect that someone was throwing these campy kiddie-puzzles his way on purpose -- either that, or this entire world was just wrong in the head. The young rogue glanced up at the hole in the wall, which now seemed as distant as a mountain peak. He'd done some tough jobs before... but nothing quite as outlandish or unreasonable as this. Upon drinking the potion his plan had been to have one of the others -- NOT the gender-confused guy, though -- just simply lift him up into that tiny opening...

... but that plan had belly-flopped when, instead of him shrinking, the room and everything else native to this world had become ginormous! What now?!

'Any ideas, boss?'

<<As much as I hate to suggest this... I have an ominous suspicion that the salt-scramble is supposed to be a clue. Failing that, I suggest we get someone to drink the other potion.>>

'Dare I ask why?'

<<Because I suspect it'll reverse what the other potion did. If I'm right, we can just pile furniture against the wall to create a climbable path to the hole.>>

'Sounds like a plan.' Kassom admitted, desperately wishing he could just Deep Dive through. But since that option wasn't available it would have to be clue first, wall-climbing next.

Thus it was that the lynx and his demon possessor went back and forth for several moments, silently discussing the code in Kassom's mind. 'Bars Ice Even? Hm, no... Carve Bees In?' <<Carve Bees In?? Kid, I really don't think so.>> 'Nice Beavers? Can Be Verse I? Bean Service? Hmmmm....... Beer In Caves?' <<You only wish!>> '... If it says 'Save Be Nicer', I think I'm gonna need to hit something. In the face.' <<No... I think it's a bit more direct than that.>>

Silence reigned in Kassom's head for a few moments... then he immediately slapped his forehead with his open palm. Gritting his teeth, he turned towards the bear.

"Mind explaining why this says 'Save Bernice!', fluffy? Is this all a joke?!" He grumbled and turned towards the other adventurers. "Okay, plan B."

"Listen up, guys! Looks like if we want to get out of here we're gonna have to find this Bernice person, so let's use our heads. I need somebody to go drink the other potion - hopefully it'll either grow us or shrink the room. Then we stack whatever we can find to give ourselves a way up to that opening, shrink again, and climb up. Are you with me?"

[Iris|Kairi]

"Ah! Ah! You solved the puzzle! Oh, if only I could have! You're a smart cookie!" Stuffed bear exclaimed with glee. "And of course she does..what a silly question. She's a Bernice!" he answered the cross dresser before ignoring the rest either of them said.

itup, tup, tup

He moved over to the salt and nudged them into order with his umbrella idly as one of his helpers hatched a plan. It didn't sound smart to him anyway. Drinking the first one grew the room...the other one would surely be worse. As the salt righted itself at least, they linked together magically and began to glow.

VERY brightly.

THEN they flashed red, blue, green, yellow, white, red, red, GRAPE SMELL! Well, right before it exploded anyway, revealing a black vortex that proceeded to suck everyone in the room into it, spitting them out into a pitch black area below, consisting so far of only an unsteady floor not unlike a waterbed. The bear floated down through the inky black, his umbrella slowing his descent.

"Oooh DEAR! Where are we now! BERNICE!!!"

[Heroic Bilby]

"Oh man! That salt has a kick!" declared the Nobody happily. He had landed awkwardly and bounced on the soft floor, now coming to a rest with his head sideways on the earth and his shoulders supporting his entire body, the latter of which stood straight up with the legs hanging down in front of his face.

"Speaking of which, does anybody have any water? Stuff makes ya thirsty even when it ain't giant."