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

wanda maximoff ✖ mcu

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Death: Wanda dies in canon at the end of her canon pull-point, the end of Avengers: Infinity War. She nearly defeats Thanos by sacrificing (killing) the Vision whom she cherishes to destroy the Mind Stone, demolishing that stone while still in his head, but is outsmarted by him when he uses the Time Stone to reverse the last minute of events. He steals the Mind Stone from Vision's head himself, instantly killing him again while leaving his cold vibranium android body behind. This time, however, Thanos possesses all of the Infinity Stones to carry out his plans. He snaps his fingers — and half of the universe's living souls are decimated. Wanda is one of them. In her harrowing grief, we watch her slowly evaporate into nothing more than dust.
( here is her picture story )

Her alter will be a simple wooden table, round and uncovered with an hourglass full of pale red dust and sand sitting among the aforementioned candles. The sand apparently doesn't move (defying the laws of physics) unless you put down an offering. Right in front of the hourglass is a wooden plaque with her name on it, Wanda Maximoff.

Once she realizes what's going on — she'll catch on quickly, with people stopping in front of other shrines and briefly going catatonic or feeling pain as they experience death scenes, receiving telepathic waves of distress — she'll try to destroy her altar as swiftly as she can because OH NO that is a VERY PERSONAL AND EXQUISITELY PAINFUL DEATH as well as a FULL ON FAILURE TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE. But per the questions asked, it just keeps reappearing, and the continued use of her powers tires her — her exhaustion will just lead her to feel more vulnerable to the compulsion to leave offerings for others.

As for whose shrines she visits, and who visits hers, I'm really flexible! I am kind of all about building CR off of pure shared horror, whether it's the kind of CR where it's like wow I totally feel you let's hold hands or wow I can't believe you just saw that stay away from me I have forgotten how to look you in the eye... at first... then bond later..... because #traumaaaaaa

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wheeze hi margot it's ame

i'm down for having this dumbass visit her shrine! he can handle the pain because kh is suffering and the game's been rough on him for a while lmao he's a little awkward with people but if he catches wanda destroying her shrine multiple times he'll try and check on her... or they can just sit and enjoy these peanuts he's leaving people as his offering

tbh i'm really down for anything ok i just miss u and want this cr please and thank u

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OMG AME HI THOUGHT I REPLIED TO THIS
TURNS OUT I ONLY DREAMED I DID

AME SWEET AME!!!

YES LET'S DO IT

i've been waiting on my graves post so it'll either go up before i go to sleep tonight or... tomorrow?
wanda is just... gonna gather all the kh kids, i foresee this

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IT'S OK WE'RE HERE NOW
REACHES FOR U

ok that's totally cool!! i have... yet to write my own graves post too lmf but yes i will hit u up when you slide wanda in ok
please... wanda the big sis they never had

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yeah absolutely!! also where's ur plurk?? i'm @ aescapes

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just added u!! i'm @ wooloos