oocinthenight | 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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bill will be visiting his own grave. morbid, but he is still trying to come to terms with his death and it seems like the thing to do. he won't be going out of his way to visit other people's graves initially, so the first time will be completely accidental. i don't know whose it's gonna be, so i'll either leave it vague or i'll just randomly choose someone.

once he figures out he can get deets on someone's death via offering (#twigs4all), then he may or may not look into a few parties of interest. i don't think he cares enough to make the rounds or even guard over his own grave, so if anyone wants to experience his death, they are welcome to it. he was shot twice in the chest by his former best friend/bro-in-arm in a church that he'd managed to crawl to after being wounded and tossed into a dumpster. (it's a long story.) iii haven't decided HOW MUCH of his death somebody will get to experience when they give him an offering, but i'll have it worked out by the time i tlevel him for the event. it's prob not a good idea to approach him about it though iajs.

i'm also open to less grave-related threads. he still has a lot of people i'd like for him to meet, so feel free to hit me up for plots and don't hesitate to share any thoughts/ideas or questions you have with me!

Arya is going to run right to it after she figures it out, mostly because she's wondering if he died in his mask or if she'll get a chance to see his damn face.

he wasn't wearing his mask time of death but i'm prob gonna have it be experienced through his lens so his face won't be shown (since i wanna wait a bit longer before it's revealed to people in game)

they would also have to know his birth name too since the grave is gonna read "william russo" and i think he's only divulged that to one person so far. but if someone manages to stumble on it, then they could prob make it out to be him by his voice etc.

Okay, we'll go with the voice recognition then, because Arya will definitely be trying to experience a few (not limited to her cr) so even if she wasn't sure it was him she'd give it a go out of curiosity.