EVENT INFO: GRAVES

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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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Comments

Scarlett Harker | Van Helsing

[kungfuey]

CW Suicide + Parental Death.

- Scarlett's tombstone will simply read VAN HELSING. It's not a name she will have told people, but notably, her network name is @ helsing. Yes, you are welcome to make the fourth wall connection to 'that Van Helsing' I'm sure that won't irritate her endlessly (tho let's be real if you do make the connection it will explain a lot about Scarlett to you).
- Scarlett chose to take her own life (by driving a knife into her chest) in order to stop an Elder vampire from being unleashed on the world and she was the key to setting him free. This fun little scene will come with a side of vampires and parental death to boot.
- She will very much act like none of this bothers her. If people want to talk to her about what they experience it's likely to be handled in terms of facts. She will, however, answer questions, just don't you know... expect her to share feelings and she'll likely be very dismissive of sympathy because how does one emotions?

Anyway! I'm going to do a write up on her death because it's not something I can pull out a vid for. You're welcome to have had your character make an offering but never actually speak to her about it. I'm down for any and all shenanigans.

[song_of_ice]

I think Jon would be so curious about what vampires are. He has a bunch to share with her about the undead.

[kungfuey]

OMG yes! I would love them to trade undead stories! Funnily enough the Vampire Elder looks a lot like a thawed out Night King.

[song_of_ice]

Whelp, clearly they have a lot to bond over! They can start linking to the Night King to the Vampire Elder.

Re: Scarlett Harker | Van Helsing

[knifecollecting]

Jo's definitely going to check that out since she knows the name from lore amazingly enough, they never meet a Van Helsing in Supernatural.

She'll be able to understand trying to stop a scourge on the planet, so... respect.

Sympathy is a good thing, Scarlett. Accept it.

[kungfuey]

Yesss good! One of the reasons I appreciate this even is that anyone who sees her death will be all 'and suddenly so much about that chick makes sense' lol.

They should clearly have a conversation over a drink at the Invincible and I'm stupidly excited for somebody who will get the 'Van Helsing' reference.

No, Jo! Emotions are bad.

[knifecollecting]

Jo sleeps in the bar so she's pretty much always available. /shruuug

EMOTIONS ARE. OKAY SOMETIMES.

[kungfuey]

Look. sometimes it rains on her face, but the key is, we don't talk about it and we certainly don't acknowledge it!

[identifier]

reporting in for cr!

[kungfuey]

I have a mighty need!!! Sidenote - I could not remember if we were going to keep their TDM thread canon or not - its been on my list to hunt down our OOC thread to see if it came up or not? 100% your call either way.

But yes! Maybe they can team up for some exploration during or after the event?

[identifier]

iiii think we did? and heck yeah let's explore.

[kungfuey]

Okay good! It was one I held onto to carry over once I checked but in the chaos of game start I never went back to double check ;;