What do you supose the 4th Wall looks like?

Ask the guy in front the monitor.

Yes, I am talking to you.

edited 17th Feb '12 7:47:22 PM by Stratofarius

Then...I say it looks like an invisable glass wall.

It's broken. Thoroughly so — really, by now it's more a random heap of bricks than anything else.

Definitely a glass wall, no less.

A glass wall, through which one can see strange, giant creatures staring at oneself. In essence, a window to reality.

The lens of a camera.

You know exactly what it looks like. You see it all the time.

(Whoa, dude. Like, meta.)

Very fragile, since it's so damn easy to break

I heard it's got strippers and booze, then I went there. Just a former church redecorated into a shitty attic dive that young Nickleback ripoff bands play at. AND NO BAR! Very disappointing.

It's in the fourth space dimension, so we can't see it by normal means (as we can only perceive three dimensions). You have to squint REAAAAAALLY HARD to get a glimpse at it.

Then you see some ugly fat guy looking at you from the other side and stop squinting. >_>

Tell me about it, man. We should start our own fourth wall that really does have strippers and booze and blackjack... what were we talking about? Oh hi, giant camera disguised by a cardboard cutout of Dobie Gillis!

All black with a bumpy surface. And has no end and no beginning, no matter which way you go, you can't go around it.

Like the wall that is meant to be there, except sort of see through - more like those images you get if you double expose film: sort of misty on top, but opaque enough that those who don't know can't see.

Hmm- I feel another Department of Reality Enginineering short coming on.

edited 10th Nov '12 1:35:04 PM by LastHussar

Whatever we think it is

It is made of that kind of glass that only lets you see through it on one side, so what the characters see is a big black mass. The wall itself shines brightly for the characters, but it is so broken that there is black tape all over it, hence the darkness.

When a character breaks the wall, there is a light in one part of the wall, and the character must look at this light while breaking it. The reason their eyes don't follow you around the room is that they only notice that you are, or have been, present.

The eye of the beholder?

Easy.◊

As a someone with acting experience who has been in productions in which we leaned on and sometimes broke the forth wall, I know what it looks like. But it's indescribable. You have to see it yourself to know what it looks like.

All I can say is that beyond it were figures shrouded in darkness. Watching... just watching.

Also, all couches face it. Even in furniture stores where there are many couches facing a variety of directions. It's difficult to explain.

Very nondescript, but a tad shiny.

I always thought the Fourth wall looked kind of like one of those Funhouse mirrors. You know the ones that when you look at them they make you really tall or really short or really fat or really skinny.

It's mostly duct tape by this point, I think. How else do they keep fixing it after they break it?

A completely black brick wall, covered in cracks, super glue and duct tape.

Do you know that bluish menu screen windows from the Boderland games that appear everytime a player's character is making changes to their hunter's overall skills? It is something like that, but only the person looking at the forth wall can see it, and sees bright dots that represents the audience watching the characters action. Oh, and that very forth wall appear sporadically. That is what I think the forth wall looks like.

It's blue.

And infinite.