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

[letteropener]

Well... my problem seems to be that I've been transported to a new and strange place, far from home, without any idea what has occurred or why I am here. Sadly, I'm having a difficult time finding answers to any of my questions, because the person I've asked seems unwilling to help me, for reasons I don't understand.

[She delivers all of this with her usual calm serenity, smiling throughout.]

[rewritethis]

You didn't ask any. [He'd like this to be an unmistakable voice of reason, but mostly he sounds sulky.]

[letteropener]

Then perhaps I could persuade you to tell me where I am, if I did?

[rewritethis]

[Apparently she can. His scowl only deepens, though.] In a school. Don't waste your time asking for anything more specific than that. It won't help you.

[At least he's no longer actively lying.]

[letteropener]

Then I'll ask, why won't it help me to know more?

[rewritethis]

'Cause if you needed to ask in the first place, chances are you're one of the lucky ones. You won't be here for long.

[letteropener]

You have experience with this sort of thing, then.

[rewritethis]

It's what I heard. Anything else? [This could almost be construed as a threat.]

[letteropener]

I'd still like to know more about this place. Even if I'm not here permanently, I'm very curious.

[rewritethis]

That's too bad. Believe me, lady - if I knew everything I wanted to about this place, I wouldn't still be here.

[letteropener]

But you certainly know more than I do.

[Still smiling, perpetually it seems.]

[rewritethis]

As far as anything useful goes, not really.

[letteropener]

I'm not certain what is useful, but my curiosity is intellectual. Of course I'd like to know more about a completely new environment, with completely new people.

[rewritethis]

If you really wanted to know for sure, you'd look around yourself instead of taking some stranger's word for it.

[letteropener]

You just said I might not have enough time to do that.

[rewritethis]

No, I said you won't have enough time for it to matter. But why go fishing for answers you can't even be assed to listen to?

[letteropener]

Information from a more experienced source is quicker and benefits from a much greater observation time than personal observation. It may be less absolutely accurate than that personal observation, but I'd be much more likely to find at least some satisfaction to my curiosity from it in a limited time.

I do wonder at your hostility, though. Is it simply because you are trapped here, and believe I am not, or is there more to it?