fourth wall mingle (fourth wall event open through March 16th)

[wrnpcs]

[For the regular denizens of Balamb Garden, it's an ordinary day...until more off-worlders start showing up, for only a few hours at a time. Unsure what to make of these more temporary visitors, the Garden faculty is holding off on registering them as cadets or offering them jobs.

[Maybe someone you know might turn up?]

Mod note, to reiterate:

Fourth wall characters can only be seen at certain hours of the day. They may appear for two hours a day, or four... or seen only in the early morning... the time doesn't matter to us, but they're not permanently here. They may return to Garden multiple times over this fortnight, but they're not around 24/7.

Like apped characters, fourth wall characters can't be ridiculously-sized. Transformers, Gundams, and similar concepts/characters will become human-sized (and in the case of mechas, not allowed altogether.)

Players (like you and me) are not allowed to visit Garden. We're breaking the fourth wall, not destroying it altogether!

Apart from this post, fourth wall characters are free to reply to open posts in witchesreign tagged with *post type: event or open logs in concoursec. WR players have the option of closing their posts to in-game characters only.

All BBS posts are locked to in-game characters only. 4th wall characters do not have access to any sort of logged in posts unless they hijack someone else's log-in---and in those cases, we need to know this beforehand.

And a new note: Fourth wall characters applied to the game have the option of keeping the memories of their fourth wall visit(s) here. Threads from the fourth wall event may also be used as samples.

For those unfamiliar with the setting, here is more info on Balamb Garden's facilities and layout. Additionally, some of the NPCs around and some player characters may be wearing Balamb Garden's cadet or SeeD uniform.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask on the OOC post or through the mod channels (wrmods or witchesreign).

Comments

[elementofloyalty]

Well, we CAN summon them, but they're sort of... invisibly in here. [She taps the side of her head.]

I know it sounds weird, but it's really ultra-cool.

[appletastic]

Well, I guess it ain't creepy if you say so.

Anyway...so I guess I'm stuck for a while, huh?

[elementofloyalty]

I dunno. Normally nopony just shows up here. You gotta come and apply and get accepted. This is different.

Still -- [Rainbow gives Applejack another whack with a hoof] -- so long as you're here, you can crash in my room. And if you stay here, that would be awesome! You'd be almost as good as ME once you got through classes and stuff!

[appletastic]

Almost?

[She glowers, then deflates.]

Gosh, I'm usually no good at all this complicated stuff. If I could just fight, I'd be right there.

[elementofloyalty]

Well... they do make you go through a lot of required classes. Math and physics and stuff.

[She glances quickly around, then moves in a bit closer as she drops her voice.]

Honestly, you know I'm not so good with... egghead stuff. I had to get a lot of help from a friend. But if I can do it, you can do it.

[appletastic]

Well...yeah. No way I'm gonna lose if I have to stay and learn.\

I'll just have to study extra hard.

[elementofloyalty]

Me and Twilight, we got your back.

...And Pinkie Pie. But I have no idea how she ever managed to graduate.

[appletastic]

Pinkie can do just about anything. We'll just never know how, I suppose.

[elementofloyalty]

Yeaaaaaaah. But trust me. You got nothin' to worry about.

[appletastic]

I don't know physics at all.

[elementofloyalty]

I know air stuff, but I had a lot of trouble with it too. I had to ask for help.

[Which Rainbow is a little embarrassed about.]

[appletastic]

Guess I'll have to if I wanna get anywhere.

[She sighed and tossed her mane.]

Oh well. No use fussing now. But...I don't know if I like this place, exactly. I'm no city gal.

[The uniforms look a little high-society for her tastes, though she knows Rarity would throw a fit anyway.]

[elementofloyalty]

It's better here than anywhere else. They think we're MONSTERS outside! Like ponies are horrible beasts or something!

[appletastic]

What? Us, monsters?

[She looks alarmed.]

Even worse than I thought. I can take it, but I can't imagine you cooped up anyplace.

[elementofloyalty]

Naw, look at me! I'm doing great! Never better!

[She grins broadly... though it's kind of brittle around the edges. It's ALMOST entirely true...]

[appletastic]

You sure about that, hon?

[elementofloyalty]

Yep! I'm fine! Totally fine! Absolutely no embarrassing personal problems here!

[That isn't oddly specific, is it?]

[appletastic]

Exactly what personal problem are you absolutely positively not having?

[Applejack might have trouble telling a lie, but the bearer of the Element of Honesty has little trouble spotting one.]

[elementofloyalty]

Nothing, nothing. You'd just laugh at me anyway. If I was having any. Which I'm not.

[appletastic]

I wouldn't say that.

[She swings from teasing to gentle in a second, her eyes widening. She steps up to give her friend a gentle nudge with a hoof.]

Considering I don't even know what the problem is. Nothing's too small to help a friend with, right?

[elementofloyalty]

Look... suppose you had a problem where, I don't know... suddenly you liked dressing up in frilly girly dresses all the time. That's not exactly something you want to talk about, is it?

And that's NOT a problem I'm having so don't even think it.

[appletastic]

What? I mean...I'd feel a little strange about that, sure. Can't imagine it happening, but I betcha Rarity'd be delighted.

You're afraid you won't be cool anymore?

[elementofloyalty]

I'm ALWAYS cool. That'll never change. Some things just... aren't cool even when a cool person does them.

[appletastic]

Says the mare who managed to make her tortoise look cool.

Come on, Rainbow, whatever it is can't be that bad.

[elementofloyalty]

Tank was always cool! It just... took a while to see that.

...It's not something you'd understand, okay?