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

Shadow Moon | American Gods

[itsaname]

(This comes with spoilers for American Gods. I have no idea if the show will follow the exact same events as the book, but here's your warning. As a reminder, you can opt-out of spoilers here.)

Shadow's memorial will be a Norse-looking thing with a rather conspicuous absence of a first name (it'll literally be a big blank spot), though it will display the rest of his name and possibly a picture. There will be 3 options for experiencing Shadow's death.

OPTION 1: Congratulations! You'll be tied to a tree and hang there for nine days, completely naked, until you die from exposure. Enjoy the hallucinations, mania, visits from a few gods, and a last moment with your undead, visibly rotting wife!

OPTION 2: Welcome to the world between life and death! Here, you'll get to meet some neat Egyptian gods. You'll also get to endure the agony of having your entire life's worth of flaws, failings, weaknesses, and sins dragged out and examined. Hope you enjoy being reduced to a sobbing child! Later, you'll get to choose where you want to go — and you'll choose not heaven, not hell, but nothing, because you just want it to end.

OPTION 3: Ohhhh, lucky you! You get a combination of both 1 & 2! Have fun! :)

Shadow won't be trying to destroy his memorial, but he may wind up sitting by it to be like 'heyyyyy don't do it brah' if people are trying to leave offerings. He'll be willing to just tell the overly curious how he died, bc srsly why would you want to experience it. 8( That said, it'll totally be possible to get by him.

For questions/more plotting, leave a comment here, ping me in the game discord, or contact me on plurk.

[replicates]

hi dad hit me with that trauma 👌🏻

[itsaname]

SOB SON WHY THIS

also trauma exchange with shadow seeing rep's death(s???) y/n?

[replicates]

listen this isn't even as bad as most of the shit he's been through ok it's fine this is fine
where's that dog in the house on fire emote

anyway YYYYY at least his second death is much better than the first one so :')

[replicates]

shadow's second option will definitely hit home for him tho so like. get ready for mutual adoption ok

[itsaname]

b u t 8'(


man if rep isn't already aggressively adopted by then he's gonna be SUPER ADOPTED AFTER

and omg i didn't even think about that............ nothing buddies ;A;/

[replicates]

bless u thank u

nothing buddies i love it. they can just sit at each other's graves and be tired together

[itsaname]

so, so very tired ;A;

(i am excite, these poor nothing buddies)

[itsaname]

and here's shadow's top-level, at last!

[evulsed]

sounds like a party

[itsaname]

VANITAS YOU HAVE TERRIBLE TASTE IN PARTIES

but yes let's do this, i will link you when i put my top-level up!

[itsaname]

AT LONG LAST, here it is!

Re: Shadow Moon | American Gods

[primordialerebus]

LMAO if their graves are right next to each other they can be grave guarding buddies XD

[itsaname]

an excellent bonding experience, for sure!

[primordialerebus]

XD Do you wanna make it canon then or naw? (No pressure!!!)

[itsaname]

maybe not directly beside each other, since that could limit options for people visiting the graves? but we can certainly have them be guarding buddies at some point! shadow's top-level is right over here ♥

[primordialerebus]

I'll see if any of the prompts work out!! <3

[darkeyed]

MAN, I NEED ME SOME CR WITH THIS SAD MAN. What even is your life, big boy.

[itsaname]

MAN IDEK, he had a rough couple of years and then it just got worse

and heck yessss cr, i will link you when i put shadow's top-level up!

[darkeyed]

I'm sorry to say it'll probably get worse with M.K. as one of his upstairs neighbors. Quit making so much noise up there, you fuckin' twerps in 304, huffs.

I'll keep my eyeballs peeled...! 👀

[itsaname]

AT LONG LAST, here's shadow's top-level!