Wonderland: Final Day

[wonderlandian]

[When the time comes for Alice's trial, anyone who has come to watch will notice the cards guarding the area to the west start to stir. They seem quite alarmed about something... And in a moment, a short, ugly figure with a loud, shrieking voice makes their concerns clear.]

I am the Queen of Hearts!

[The woman glares about with her nostrils flaring. It's almost comic, really, but perhaps it's best not to laugh.]

I did not call for this trial! All of you! All of you shall lose your heads for this!

[She turns to the cards expectantly when they do not move instantly. It is a gaze that inspires fear in a number of them, and soon the guards are attacking. They aren't beheading anyone - the queen wants to watch that, after all - but they are willing to do whatever they must to capture the spectators and lock them away. Alice flees into the chaotic crowd.]

(ooc| Have at it, guys. This is the last part of the plot, and after a while, the Jabberwocky will be on the seen to make things even worse. Threads will go on until tomorrow - or, more accurately, until Crystal and I are both asleep - at which point characters will awaken with a start in their beds, back home.)

Comments

[wonderlandian]

[The Queen is perfectly happy to make her own assumptions, though.]

To think there's an imposter going about as me!

[kungfuwitch]

I have seen her, Your Majesty. Why anyone would want to impersonate you is a complete mystery to me.

[wonderlandian]

True! You would think they'd know the consequences!

[kungfuwitch]

Given your insistence of beheadings at the least offenses one would certainly assume that impersonating yourself would have a cost at least as grave as that.

[wonderlandian]

The imposter must be very, very stupid!

[kungfuwitch]

Clearly. How do you intend to capture her, Your Majesty?

[wonderlandian]

With my superior cleverness, of course!

[kungfuwitch]

[She looks around at the card guards running into each other and basically being entirely useless]

And what about the cleverness of your army?

[wonderlandian]

Oh, I'll just behead them when all this is done.

[kungfuwitch]

That does seem to be your solution to everything.

[She tilts her head at the screaming monarch.]

[wonderlandian]

It's been working perfectly well all these years.

[kungfuwitch]

All it's done is drastically reduce the population and cause those who remain to fear the axe.