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TDM 1 ⬡ The Oval Portrait

Casting Call



The Oval Portrait
Edgar Allan Poe
"Long — long I read — and devoutly, devotedly I gazed."
Name: The Aristocrat
Casting Call: Characters with a Birthday from September through December
Physical Notes: Desperately wounded, to the point of being bedridden, but not losing consciousness.
Personality Notes: Curious, and prone to becoming enraptured by the pursuit of learning about whatever has caught their curiosity. Mildly delirious due to injury.
Compulsions: To learn about their surroundings, whether through study of the portraits in the chateau apartment, conversation with a companion, or ill-advised exploration.
"We established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments."
Name: The Valet
Casting Call: Characters with an Unknown Birthday
Physical Notes: Older than The Aristocrat by ≥ 5 years.
Personality Notes: Willing and able (by force or by cleverness) to break in to a home for the well-being of their employer. A caretaker by nature.
Compulsions: To see that The Aristocrat is comfortable for the night and their wounds are tended to, and to get some rest themselves once their duty is complete. In the absence of The Aristocrat, The Valet is free to act as they please.
"She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee."
Name: The Maiden
Casting Call: Characters with a birthday from May through August
Physical Notes: Young, aged from 15-20.
Personality Notes: All smiles, loving and cherishing of all things, hating only The Painter's art, for they deprive them of their lover.
Compulsions: To live life to the fullest, to love, to be happy... But also to make their husband, The Painter happy, by being a good and willing subject for his portraiture, should he ask.
⬡ Will slowly waste away and die, should they sit and allow themselves to be painted.
"And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and wedded the painter."
Name: The Painter
Casting Call: Characters with a birthday from January through April
Physical Notes: Older than the maiden by ≥ 10 years.
Personality Notes: Passionate, studious, austere, wild, moody. More in love with his art than his wife.
Compulsions: To paint. To paint, and paint, and paint some more. To ask their lovely wife to be the subject for their next piece, and to throw themselves into the completion of it.
⬡ Unaware they are doing harm with their painting, until it is complete.
code @ efryndiel

The Chateau

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in The Chateau are The Aristocrat and The Valet

⬡ Literary Description

"To all appearance it had been temporarily and very lately abandoned. We established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments. It lay in a remote turret of the building. Its decorations were rich, yet tattered and antique. Its walls were hung with tapestry and bedecked with manifold and multiform armorial trophies, together with an unusually great number of very spirited modern paintings in frames of rich golden arabesque."

⬡ For Your Exploration

Characters may attempt to explore the Chateau, but it will be shrouded in darkness, and every room they enter will bring them back to the apartment chosen by The Valet. What decorations may be seen are dark and victorian in design, and the room and halls may be lit by candlelight.

The Maiden's portrait is on the wall, and will initially be cloaked in shadow for The Aristocrat to find. It appears remarkably lifelike, almost as though it is a window instead of a portrait. The other paintings on the walls will contain figures that are almost familiar to The Aristocrat and The Valet - as though they could be someone they know, but only if they squint.

There is no electricity. Characters will not have access to any powers.

The Artist's Tower

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in The Artist's Tower are The Maiden and The Painter

⬡ Literary Description

"But she was humble and obedient, and sat meekly for many weeks in the dark, high turret-chamber where the light dripped upon the pale canvas only from overhead. But he, the painter, took glory in his work, which went on from hour to hour, and from day to day."

⬡ For Your Exploration

Should characters leave the Painter's studio, they will immediately be transported outside, to a sprawling field of wildflowers. There won't seem to be anything else around, but there will be a light breeze and the sound of the sea in the distance.

Inside the studio, the air is stale and musty, smelling of oil paints and turpentine. It's dim, lit only by a skylight. There is a stool for the subject and an easel with canvas sitting in the light, but everything else - art materials, more canvases, both empty and with the beginnings of paintings, and props - are all pushed to the sides of the room and cloaked in shadow.

Like The Chateau, there is no electricity, and characters will not have access to their powers.

The Library

⬡ Welcome!

Free from their roles, through either death, completion of the Story, or from not being pulled into the tale in the first place, characters will find themselves in the gardens outside of the Library itself. As always, it will look and feel like a temperate, autumn afternoon.

As this setting is part of the Library itself, characters will have full access to all their powers.

⬡ Grand Opening Coming Soon!

The front door will, unfortunately, be locked, and a sign will be taped on the doors, detailing how the Library will be opening soon, but in the meantime to please enjoy the grounds and the pizza party in the courtyard.

⬡ Pizza party?

Pizza party! In the courtyard, there will be tables set up that will be absolutely covered in stacks of paper plates, 2-liter bottles of any soda one could dream of, and stacks and stacks of pizza boxes, containing any flavor combination that could be desired. Opening a random box will provide a random, but popular, flavor. Opening a box with an Intent and a Desire for something specific will provide exactly that.

Enjoy! It won't run out.


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Jack Howl | Twisted Wonderland | OTA | Aristocrat

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
A. The Chateau

[The first thing he does is curse when he wakes up to find himself injured in a place he doesn't even recognize. Nothing smells familiar and Jack finds his ears laying flat against his head. Growling, he gets out of bed regardless and starts to look around, sniffing at the unfamiliar. Nothing is helping him though. Everything is...wrong. He hates it, his tail twitching behind him in annoyance.

Storming out of the room, he's shocked to find that when he enters another door it's the same room again. Eventually, he realizes he smells another person which means he goes right to them.]


Where am I? What have you done to me? I'll kick your ass if you're the one who kidnapped me!

[Yes. He's yelling. Wouldn't you?]

B. The Library - Grounds

[If you're on the grounds you'll notice a very large white wolf wandering around sniffing everything in sight. He doesn't appear to be dangerous? But also that is a huge white wolf.

Who is now looking right at you.

Welp...what will you do?]



C. The Library - Pizza Party

[...So, after all that he's hungry. He's a growing boy and the food smells amazing. Plus it doesn't seem like it's dangerous. Everyone seems to be eating it. Good enough for him at this point.

Jack's snagged a couple boxes for himself and is sitting at his own table with a thing of soda, eating right out of the boxes themselves. He glares at the first person who gets close. Well, it looks like a glare. Honestly it's just his default expression for this moody pup.]


What?

[He takes another bite of...is that pear on his pizza?]
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savanaclaw: (🦁 021)

Pizza... puppy...

[personal profile] savanaclaw 2020-11-21 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, that was... that was a lot. Dying? Not pleasant. At all. Definitely not going to be talking about that one.

Especially not with his way too earnest dorm mate over there, munching away at his -shudder- fruit-ridden pizza. Really, what kind of carnivore was he?

Regardless? Leona has his own pizza box, his own soda, and now his own seat across the table from Jack.]


So you're here, too.
unleashedpup: (pic#14059140)

wow

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[No sooner has he grumped than he realizes who he's grumped at. Choking on his pizza, he coughs and blinks before realizing that he scent confirms it. That's seriously Leona.]

Eh? You're not supposed to be here!

[...well neither is he but one step at a time.]
savanaclaw: (🦁 018)

[personal profile] savanaclaw 2020-11-21 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Congrats, Jack, you've grumped at your dorm head. Who is just as grumpy right now, but is slowly being won over with food.

As you do.]


And you are? So then where is here, anyway?

[Yeah, he's 99% certain Jack doesn't know either.]
unleashedpup: (pic#14059137)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
No! I mean...no.

[His ears droop and he shovels food into his mouth. Great. Now he's been rude to his dorm leader who doesn't even deserve it. Right now at least.

He swallows and his ears perk up a bit, the delicious taste of pear pleasing him. It's not his favorite dish but this is a pretty great way to eat pizza.

...Maybe if he asks that guy over in Heartslabyul he'll make it when they get back home.]


I don't know. I woke up in some weird room and was injured. Every room in the house just led back to that room too.
savanaclaw: (🦁 005)

[personal profile] savanaclaw 2020-11-21 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[To be fair, Jack's been not-rude before when Leona absolutely deserved it, so. Like. Making up for lost time, here.

Anyway, munching pizza, stealing some of Jack's soda, just little dorm leader things.]


Huh. I woke up in some shitty flower field. Then died, I guess, and ended up here.

[Said... way too nonchalantly, tbh.]
unleashedpup: (pic#14059125)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hey! You have a soda!

[He reaches to snag his soda back because that's definitely his! Only he stops halfway there to stare at his dorm leader.

What...did he say?]


You died?

[Countdown to a protective meltdown starting in 5...4...]
savanaclaw: (🦁 009)

[personal profile] savanaclaw 2020-11-21 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, s'different than yours.

[As if that's a good enough reason to steal some of Jack's. As if Jack really should have expected any different from him.

But ah. There's that staring at him he does, like he's worried or something. It kind of gets under his skin a bit, reminds him of darker times...

Anyway. Time to brush it off.]


Yeah, I think so. But I'm fine, now, so it doesn't matter.
unleashedpup: (pic#14059146)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[...3...2...1...GO!]

Those bastards!

[He slams his hand on the table and stands up. His fur is standing on end and he looks ready to punch someone. Jack is pissed and, well, he's never been good at hiding his feelings.

Ever.]


I'm gonna find them and punch their lights out!
savanaclaw: (🦁 018)

[personal profile] savanaclaw 2020-11-21 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Sit down.

[So he's definitely just. Eating another slice of pizza. Way too casual for someone who just admitted to dying, probably.

But what's he supposed to do about it? Not like anyone had shown up twirling a moustache and admitting to the nefarious deed of... making him sit for an evil portrait? It was weird.]


How're you going to do that if we don't even know where we're at, anyway?

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[personal profile] ruggie 2020-11-21 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[see wolf, see wolf sniff]

[sigh and come over and rest all weight on wolf]

[Honestly, it would be more embarrassing if Jack were in his normal form. Still, after the whole incident of having his mind swept up in something he's feeling emotionally tired for once in his life and leaning on a giant, fluffy wolf seems like the best solution for it. Besides, Jack's used that form to save him before. Save him again. Metaphorically.]


You can get one free pass for just being a good underclassman right now, Jack~

[Ruggie wraps his scrawny arms around that white, fluffy nape and just buries his head there. What exactly that free pass is for... well, it's purposefully vague and Ruggie won't complain if Jack forgets about it entirely.]
unleashedpup: (pic#14059137)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Jack's head pops up from what he's been sniffing at the sound of footsteps. Seeing Ruggie his tail starts...wagging. But only a little bit! It's not like it's anything major.

He's just happy to see his upperclassman okay.

...maybe he's a little curious to know what the free pass is though.

Either way, he promptly sits his ass down to make it easier for that small frame to wrap around him. This is a lot embarrassing but maybe...Ruggie needs it. He can just pretend it's all fine. Totally fine. Nothing weird to see here...]
ruggie: (pic#14014087)

[personal profile] ruggie 2020-11-21 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Look, in a circumstance like this, Jack's allowed to be a little happy to see a familiar face. Even Ruggie won't tease him. Much. Right this minute.]

[Jack settles down and makes it nice and comfortable for Ruggie to sort of slide and and rest against him. It probably would look weird to passerby but, hey, after everything that happened in that... place... then what was so weird about a guy and his giant wolf? Just classmates, nothing to see here.]


I guess it's at least a relief you're here. [he starts talking, because Ruggie's really only quiet when he's trying to swipe something]

You're feeling like yourself, right? Nothing weird? [he turns his head and- oh, right, wolf fur.]

Uhh.... put a paw up for not feeling weird! [he offers he hand]
unleashedpup: (pic#14059116)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a grumpy noise that says that he doesn't know how he's supposed to answer that question. His tail even flops once in annoyance. Well before it vibrates some when he gets a solution.

Looking at the hand, he lifts one of his paws. It plops right down onto Ruggie's and he har-umphs once.

Yep! He's not feeling weird!

Just way out sorts because this is not home and all the weird and strange smells are throwing him off.]
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[personal profile] ruggie 2020-11-21 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[... okay Ruggie's not that nice a guy, he does do one shake before setting the other's paw down. Just a single shake! Free pass! Or something. He softly laughs and leans back against Jack's body.]

My head's all out of sorts. It was like someone tried to shove extra memories and stuff in there... I know which ones are right but the other ones are still hanging around like unwelcome relatives...

[Or, well, that's the best he can explain it. A pause.]

Even if it was some kind of magic, it totally made me forget I could even do magic.

Ah, but yeah, we can do magic, 'cos, [firm pat against Jack's haunch. he's a wolf. because, duh, magic is real and they can both do it and there's definitely not a multitude of worlds where that won't be the case] that.
unleashedpup: (pic#14059112)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[He gets that. He remembers understanding that things were wrong because he could smell it. Yet he'd been...some fancy weirdo or something. An injured one.

Jack hasn't been thinking on it too hard. Thinking isn't his best skill anyway.

He gives a growl in agreement though. (Yes, he's pointedly pretending like someone didn't shake his paw. Pretending very, very hard.) He doesn't know where they are but they've brought him somewhere he doesn't approve of.

At all.

Worse. They've brought in people he wants to keep safe.]
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[personal profile] ruggie 2020-11-21 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[If there's one thing Ruggie's usually sure of, it's who he is and what he's good at. To have that suddenly changed...]

[Just the fact he was relying on Jack this much was a sign it shook him. Even if he chuckles now and tries to act like it was all a bad dream. He takes a deep breath in and deep breath out. Jack and probably feel the way his whole body shifts with it.]


... at least with you here, too, I don't need to worry about not having a pillow or anything!

Leona will figure it out or something. He's let himself get held back a bunch but some of that education stuck. You can just leave it to us, Jack.
unleashedpup: (pic#14059112)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-23 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Jack gives a growl but there's no...oomph behind it. Which is a sign he's not nearly as annoyed about possibly being used as a pillow for Ruggie (and Leona) as he probably should be.

Leona being here though. His tail wags once. A sign that he's maybe a little hopeful.

Assuming their leader follows through and doesn't get lazy.]
wadoichimonji: (done with your shit)

Chateau!

[personal profile] wadoichimonji 2020-11-21 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Zoro had woken up hurting all over, and he had barely gotten out of bed when some strange mink that gone and started yelling at him.]

What the-- Shut up, man, you're way too loud!
unleashedpup: (pic#14059140)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not gonna shut up! You shut up!

[Pretty rich coming from the guy who just demanded answers a second ago but that's Jack for you.]

Tell me... NNGH!

[The pain from the injury gets to him and he stumbles into the room, landing on his knees panting. Shit! What's happening to him? He has to find out where he is...]

D-damn it...
wadoichimonji: (ok but no)

[personal profile] wadoichimonji 2020-11-21 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Zoro blinks, his one eye unfocused for a moment, but goes back to normal in time to see the very angry mink on the floor.

With more effort that he thought he needed, he moves over to the mink, trying to see if he was hurt as badly as Zoro himself.]


You ok, man?
unleashedpup: (pic#14059129)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-21 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Where are we?

[Sniffing the air again he realizes that... They're both injured? Who the hell brings someone somewhere then hurts them? And... Are those paintings?

For a moment he's distracted by them before he winces and looks back to the guy.]


Who are you?
wadoichimonji: (ugh not again)

[personal profile] wadoichimonji 2020-11-21 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
No clue.

[Zoro looks to where the mink is looking and frowns. The paintings are starting to get blurry, but they're... Kinda interesting. It's not until the other speaks again that Zoro stops looking at them.]

Huh? Oh, Zoro, who are you?
unleashedpup: (pic#14059140)

[personal profile] unleashedpup 2020-11-23 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Jack.

[He looks up at the guy again. He looks...really tough actually. The kind of muscle guy he knows he'd probably admire on a normal circumstance. Right now though? Well he's just feeling disoriented and hurt and distracted and...]

Have you tried leaving the room?
wadoichimonji: (pouting)

[personal profile] wadoichimonji 2020-11-23 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
... Last person named Jack I met was a dick, are you one?

[Zoro shakes his head, after finally realizing what the other had asked. Those are some cute ears on Jack, huh.]

Huh? Oh... No, I couldn't reach the door.