Playing in the Queen of Hearts' Castle

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Joining them, the Gryphon said, "It's a matter of plain physics. I'll get tired too soon if I try to carry TWO people in the air. It's also a matter that Alice will be recognized personally by some of the soldiers."

The King of Hearts, with Sapphira's ten-inch-long teeth close to his head, was quickly persuaded to sign the order telling his troops to cease hostilities. Eragon handed this to Alice, wishing her success.
 
OOC: Someone other than me should now decide whether the Hearts infantry has by now covered enough ground to have run into the rude surprise of their intended victims NOT being asleep after all. Wonderland being rather smaller than, say, China, my guess is that they HAVE gotten to their destination by now. But card-soldiers not being the most macho of warriors, perhaps no blood has been shed yet; perhaps the two sides are limiting themselves at first to shouting insults back and forth.
 
The Snow Queen refuses to listen to the Mighty vopice in her head but someho she is forced to do so. A soft and gentle but strickt urge to listen. She thinks a couple of seconds.

SQ: Do I really want this? Do I really need him?

The Snow Queen is torn apart by her own feelins she never felt before in her whole life.

Me: Eric, what is going to happen?
Eric: I don't know. It looks like Alice is going but I have no idea what the others have decided yet
Me: We are going with them if they are going
Pippin: Wherever they are going
Merry: That's the question
Rabbit: Hobbits.......
 
Coming back from giving Alice the document to carry, Eragon explains to Vanessa, Eric, the Hobbits and the White Rabbit that Alice is relaying the stand-down order to the Hearts army. Then he tells them:

"Sapphira will recover better in our own world; and after all she has done for us, she deserves that consideration. As soon as we feel we are no longer needed to scare the King and Queen out of trying any more mischief, we'll be heading home."

"How will you get there?" asks the White Rabbit.

Pippin assumes the expression of one who thinks of something he failed to think of sooner. "I never thought to ask you folks how you CAME here!"

"The dimensional pass to the Monologues thread will serve our purpose," the she-dragon told them.
 
The passage of time in the Monologues Dimension being not always in sync with Wonderland, it was now night in Horse-With-No-Name-Ville. In the simulated bunkhouse above the Gunslinger Steakhouse, Jake leaned out from the upper bunk to jeer mildly at his big brother, "Hey, Emmett, I betcha dream about the Snow Queen!"

"Dadblast it, Jake, of course I will NOW--danged power of suggestion!" Emmett lurched onto his other side and snorted. "Dunno which'd be worse, though: dreamin' of her wantin' to kill me, or dreamin' of her wantin' to make love to me!"

"Ya think she even knows the difference 'twixt them two things herself?" mused Jake.

"Good blamed question. But I'd rather get her OFF my mind. Now we know it was magic made us SO scared of her, I don't feel so bad about havin' cut an' run; but if I do dwell on her much, I'm liable to start into some kinda darn-fool revenge fantasies, which ain't 'specially Christian to be doin'."

"Haw!" chortled Jake. "Jes' hold that thought, Emmett, and your dreams oughta be fun. Dream the good Lord takes all her magic away--which He can do if'n He takes a mind to--and then you can take her over your knee and spank her till the sparks fly offa her!"

But Emmett refused to say anything more. And in the morning, he wouldn't tell Jake what he HAD dreamed.
 
Me: we will stay here whenever we are needed
Pippin: It is a fun thing...I walked into my own Shire when I suddenly ended up here
Eric: I was playing a hockeygame and then I didn't see the crowd anymore but I was here. In Wonderland
Me: I decided to join so that's how I came here
Rabbit: I always have been here. This is my world, my Wonderland. But it's fun to have some good company
Eric: In the beginning I was like " what in the world am I doing here?! Please send me back" but now I enjoy it more and more
Merry: Yeah, we know the reason why, don't we Eric? Well for me it was simple. I was going out fishing and felt into the water and then I was here
Rabbit: Yeah everybody over here added a special character
Me: I remember Darth Vader used to be here too. Where did he go?
Rabbit: I think he must have gone to the monologues thread or back home to his own dark world
Eric: Maybe we should go and gather ourselves to prepare for a future battle?

While the opthers are talking about what to do next and finally move over to Alice and her group the Snow Queen is desperately trying to make a new snowglobe to see how her so beloved Emmett is doing. But it fails miserable. Aslan has taken most of her evil powers so she would not control others with her magic spells anymore. Sure she had some powers left but the strange changing inside of her only seems to have started shortly.

Skua: What is going on my Queen?
SQ: Silence! I try to make a new snowglobe but it doesn't work the way it should
Skua: But you used your magic powers
SQ: I did indeed but not only those powers but I forgot how to make it work
Skua: Your evil heart made it work

Suddenly the Queen throws away the globe she just created. Then the Skua screams. The Queen looks up and to her surprise she sees the snowglobe shining

SQ: It works! It works!

The Queen grabs the snowglobe and watches. She speaks out her wish to show her Emmett the gunslinger. And she sees him indeed. Talking with his brother Jake. The Queen is so happy it's working she even smiles.

SQ: Globe...can you show me the location of there hiding place?

But the globe does nothing. It turns off like the power had turned off and has become a normal globe again.

SQ: NO!! You darn thing! I want you to show me the location!

Nothing happens

SQ: Show me the cowboy again

And the globe shows Emmett again. It shows the Queen what she wants to see but it won't reveal the place Emmett and Jake are staying

Skua *hides*: You aren't going to be mad now my Queen?
SQ: I can see him again!
Skua * surprised*: I thought you were going to hit me!
SQ: Not this time...........I don't feel the need to hit you now my globe is working

The Skua watches his Queen and wonders himself what is going on.
 
Alice climbed onto the gryfon's back after bidding her friends farewell. When the Gryfon asked, she said she was ready, and he took off. Lucy waved and shouted, "Good Luck!" The others did the same. After waving back, Alice turned and bit her lip, trying hard not to look down.
 
Since no one else has covered this aspect.....

In the neighboring card kingdom which they had been sent to attack first [OOC: somebody remind us which one that was], the Hearts troops had so far neither suffered, nor inflicted, a single death. Having been painfully shown by Emmett and Jake what REAL war could be, their hearts, no pun intended, were not in it. They were frankly glad that their adversaries went into a purely defensive posture, hiding in their own closed-up castle.

The Hearts soldiers also had their consciences bothering them for the way they had used unarmed servants as human shields the other day. These men were not like Palestinian terrorists on the True Earth, who would purposely shoot from behind children, WANTING to draw return fire so that they could pretend that Israelis had murdered children intentionally for the fun of it. So, when the Hearts troopers encountered the defenseless civilians of the target nation, they could not work up any enthusiasm for plundering and vandalizing. So, in order to be able to tell his King and Queen that they were doing SOMETHING like invaders, the senior officer present had ordered all personnel to BUY things they wanted in the local stores---but to "rob" the storeowners by paying only 95 percent of the asking price.

This was the situation in effect as the Gryphon carried Alice across the border.
 
ooc: I believe that it was the clubs kingdom.

Alice, in spite of her fear of hieghts, forced herself to look down as they crossed the border. "I hope we've come in time to prevent any fighting," Alice said. "I'll be glad when all of this is over." She was quite ready for Wonderland to go back to be being the same peaceful land that it had always been.
"Well," replied the Gryphon, "Seeing as the Hearts soldiers are very reluctant fighters, I doubt that anything drastic will have happened yet."
"Oh, I hope that you're right," Alice said, clasping the document tighter, so as not to drop it.
"And I hope that you don't crush that document before we get there," said the Gryphon.
"Sorry," said Alice. "I just - don't like being up so high."
 
A sergeant in the Hearts army was trying to do his bit in "terrorizing" the locals--by pushing ahead in the checkout line at a grocery store--when a glance out the window revealed a familiar shape in the air: the Gryphon of the Hearts Kingdom.

Pushing his shopping cart to the side and saying "Excuse me, excuse me," the sergeant hastened outside...remembered that he had left his spear leaning beside a coatrack...went back to get it...and then ran to find some of his comrades and point out the approaching Gryphon.

"Maybe he's got news of reinforcements! Maybe the King has had a battering ram or something made, so we can beat down the gates of the castle here and say that we've won!"
 
Toj was still uneasy about letting Alice go on her own,
but she decided to not fret about it.

The room was quiet at the moment...
The SQ was chatting to her Skua and Peter, Caspian and Edmund were huddled in a circle
 
Suddenly, the gryphon something golden glint in the sunlight. He smiled. "You're wearing the slippers."
"Yes. But let's focus on getting down there."
"Of course."
They circled lower and lower, and Alice could see not only the Hearts soldiers forming a line, but so were the Clubs. She bit her lip, hoping that they weren't too late.
Suddenly, without warning, one of the clubs soldiers shot an arrow at them. The Gryphon gave out a loud cry, expecting to be hit, but nearly stopped in mid air in surprise as the arrow shattered into a million pieces before it them.
"What on earth," said the Gryphon.
Alice grinned. "Lets go down there."
 
As the majority of Heart soldiers turned their attention to Alice, one captain in the Hearts army approached a counterpart in the Clubs army and said, "For the honor of your flag, you should be allowed to put up at least some kind of a fight before you surrender." So the two officers went and sat at a nearby picnic table, where they planted their elbows, gripped hands, and arm-wrestled. Somehow--it could only happen in Wonderland--they BOTH managed to LOSE at the same time.

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OOC: Orange, you don't think the Snow Queen is in THE SAME PLACE as you and the Pevensies, do you?
 
The Gryphon circled for a few more minutes, wondering where would be the best place to land. Alice watched the two armies closely as another soldier bent his bow to shoot at them. His companion shouted, "You fool! That's Alice! She's a friend!"
He answered, "But the gryphon brought her, and the gryphon is a friend of the King of Hearts!"
"Don't shoot, you silly! Alice only wishes for peace, and you know that! Would she come to threaten us? No! Of course she wouldn't!"
 
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