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Poor little Alice. All she really wanted to do was get the hell out of Wonderland.
Unfortunately, the Queen of Hearts, also known as Queen Redd, had other ideas...which is why poor little Alice is presently languishing in a prison chamber that no one has managed to find, where she is slowly going mad. Queen Redd, having basically taken over Wonderland, lured its most famous visitor back and locked her away, reasoning that with Alice in confinement, no one stood a chance of thwarting her.
In the palace of the Queen of Hearts is a long, sumptuous corridor lined with mirrors, so that the Queen may admire herself from every angle as often as she likes. To construct this corridor, she laid claim to every mirror in Wonderland...each of which has its own special magical property.
The White Rabbit and the Caterpillar, desperate to find some way to rescue Alice and restore Wonderland to its usual chaotic but peaceful glory, began to put these magic mirrors to their own use. Among them is a mirror of their own creation, the Mirror of Erised. It was through these mirrors that different individuals were called from different lands, times, even worlds - all summoned to a Wonderland that none of them could ever have imagined. The Queen of Hearts was initially furious, but the Rabbit and Caterpillar disguised their true intentions by explaining that the visitors were summoned for the Queen's own amusement. She could entertain herself by watching them muddle through a specially created 'subsection' of Wonderland, also called Erised, trying to understand where they were and how to escape, while dealing with the existence of the other people who were also there. Some of them look the same; some have similar powers; all are equally bewildered. And all are needed to break Alice from her place of confinement and save Wonderland.
But be warned. Though this is a Wonderland gone horribly wrong, it is Wonderland nonetheless, and things here are not always what they should be. Certain powers may prove restricted. Certain weapons may prove to sometimes be completely useless; will you shoot that minion of the Queen? Your gun might fire bullets...or it might fire bubbles, or flowers, or fish. Who can you trust in this madcap world? What is real?
Every character retains his or her memories of their own lives and personalities and so on, but none remember falling through the mirrors. They have no recollection of the Queen's mirrored hall, or how they came to Erised. Each simply wakes up in his or her bed at the Halfway House - so named because it's halfway between sanity and madness. From there, it's up to them whether they can join forces with the other players and determine what their purpose is, and how to survive in a world where nothing's quite right...without losing their minds.
Occasionally they will meet other characters. The White Rabbit and the Caterpillar, and the Cheshire Cat - they know of the residents of Erised. After all, they chose them to be their champions. But can the visitors to Erised, the unwilling heroes of this tale, bring themselves to trust, and to believe? |
