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oocinthenight2019-07-09 06:30 pm
inthenightmods) wrote in oocinthenight2019-07-09 06:30 pm
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EVENT INFO: GRAVES
EVENT INFO: GRAVES
the basics
It's been a rough week, to say the least.
First you woke up dead in a land of perpetual darkness, and now it looks like you're stuck here until you fulfill a mysterious goal— or the lighthouse keeper resets the town. Maybe you've come to terms with your death and maybe you haven't, but it's a difficult task; you're basically grieving for yourself. And you know what they say makes grief easier? A tangible place to do it.
During the "night", or at least when the most people are sleeping, a curious thing happens in the Bonfire Square. Dozens of shrines, altars, and other memorials appear seemingly out of nowhere, lined up in rows like a haphazard cemetery. Each one is covered in candles, and each bears an image or a name (or in some cases, both,) of a current resident of the town. The air around these monuments is solemn and reverent, and it instills in visitors an urge to pay respects.
Doing so, however, may have surprising results.
the details
The shrines appear on July 12th. Each one is unique, and can look however a player wishes to correspond to their character. It can be an actual grave site, a pagan altar, a household shrine, a roadside shrine— anything you like, so long as it's some form of memorial for the dead. (Yes, the NPCs get them too.)
Characters who visit the makeshift cemetery will feel the need to make offerings of some kind at the shrines of others. These offerings can be just about anything a character wants to place, but doing so will cause them to experience the death of the character whose shrine they're offering at. These brief (we hope) hallucinations include visual information as well as feeling and thought. You'll get to learn exactly what happened to your friends (or enemies), but you'll have to decide if the pain is worth it.
After making your offering(s), you may want to check in on the people whose deaths you saw. Maybe now you can comfort someone in a way you couldn't before, maybe now you understand them better. Or maybe you just want to taunt them. Up to you. It's also entirely possible that you don't want anyone to know how you died. But do you really want to guard your own grave for a week?
After July 19th, the shrines will vanish, just as mysteriously as they appeared. When they do, characters will receive all offerings placed at their shrines, in the form of a package at the post office.
the tl;dr
- July 12th shrines appear
- Each character gets their own unique shrine
- Making offerings at shrines causes you to experience the deaths of others
- July 19th the shrines vanish and characters receive their offerings
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Washington
OKAY I'LL BREAK THIS IN, GATHER ROUND FRIENDS!!ROY BEAT ME okay anyway.Three important things for Wash!
1. The name on the grave is gonna be his birth name, so not "Washington" and there's not going to be a picture, meaning you'll have to figure out whose death you're seeing from context clues! (Either if your character saw him in his armor the first day or...)
2. Wash and Kyna (his girlfriend, although only Nate knows that ICly right now) were killed by genocidal alien robots only seconds apart, and we just determined that he saw her get hit first but didn't make it to her in time. So that'll be SUPER FUN for folks to experience.
3. He's definitely going to try to destroy his headstone once he realizes what's happening, and when it pops back he's gonna fucking camp out on it to try and keep people from offering things. GO AWAY. But if you aren't into that as of the second day there'll be two and he can't be in two places at once, so you don't have to thread with him directly!
I'm open to absolutely anything for this event, feel free to hit me up or ask questions or whatever. ♥
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though you have a point, everybody can consider this official blanket permission to identify wash just based on kyna's presence in the memory. they're not subtle, they're together all the time. anybody in town can probably guess "oh it must be that guy."
he hates e v e r y t h i n g about this btw.
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wash could be stubbornly camping out without realizing he's got a second grave (since he destroyed the first one and they multiply on respawn) and rosi can make an offering to that one, have happy death funtimes, then encounter wash at the original site and inform him that uh you've got another one bro. at which point he'll realize camping out isn't going to help much and they can talk and maybe he'll go make some more offerings of his own?
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