No one knows where it comes from. It takes hold of the mind, allowing it to be free, as a child's is. Whether reaction or delusion, it's the one thing that people live for. A chance to spin off into dreams, dreams so real, that it can only be called one thing. Wonderland.
The year is 1885, and the place is a fairly unknown bar in France named Le Papillon, a simple name for a place that will place that will play host to our story. The people are nine fairly unordinary people, but then, that's what everyone in the world has in common. They all have their stories to tell, and their quirks to act upon, but one thing will be their joining point. A drink called Green Fairy or Absinthe, a highly popular drink at this time.
Now, this isn't ordinary absinthe, no, that wouldn't fit into the story, something in it makes it quite powerful. Something Lovecraft would write home about. It takes you out of the world that you know, or maybe its a world that you do know. Alice In Wonderland is around twenty years of age at this point, mayhap you've read it? If you have, then you have a slight possibility of knowing this world. For nine friends, it's the world of Wonderland, the skewed sort. Down the rabbit hole and off you go into a strange portion of the mind, a place where your real self exists.
Then and again, maybe this isn't Wonderland. Its dark and scary, like something out a child's nightmare. Sure, all the features exist, but this is a place where the childlike innocence of Wonderland is lost to the darkness of adulthood. Here, who are you? Can you see yourself in this strange body? If you aren't in denial, then you should. This is you, your naked soul, running through this strange Hell.
There are seemingly no rules in Wonderland. Anything you can imagine can and most likely will happen. It's your dream, if you can get a hold of yourself, you can make anything possible. There is just one rule. You may never know anyone else's name. If you refer to yourself by your real name, then you'll find yourself unable to speak. That is the rule.
Not everything that happens in Wonderland is a dream. Whatever you do there happens in the real world as well. If you get too out of hand, the owner will snap you out of it. The dream wears off eventually, but you can bring it back with just one shot...
Nine friends. One dream. One shot.
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The story will take place in and outside the dream. Outside the dream, they all live in Paris, in fairly grungy surroundings, depending on who they are. The friends have known each other for varying amounts of time.
The story starts off as they have just entered the dream for the first time.
