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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carol danvers

[starforce]

ok, so the short version is: before her entry into the game, carol died from absorbing the energy from a bunch of cosmic missiles, and they basically tore her apart. so that's.... fun.

long version: for a really longass time in the marvel universe, both in the comics and the movies (and in this case we're talking specifically about the movies), two alien races known as the kree and the skrulls have been at war. over the course her self-titled movie, carol learns that the kree are a collective giant bag of dicks and have blaming the skrulls for a bunch of different atrocities, among other things, when the skrulls, refugees of war, are actually just trying to find a home.

so, at the time of her death, carol is helping the skrulls to find a new place they can call home. she thinks they've managed to find it — on a remote world at the edge of our galaxy. this, however, doesn't last; the accusers, a kree military force, have tracked them to this world, and begin to bomb it with missiles. carol manages to buy the skrulls enough time to board their ship and escape by taking the force of the blasts herself, but eventually she absorbs all the energy she can, and when she's hit this limit, she's literally torn apart. super painfully. atom by atom.

what you'll feel, in addition to this intense pain, will be equal parts fear and relief as you experience your final moments.

the shrine isn't terribly elaborate, just a basic gravestone labeled "carol susan jane danvers". nothing too special, except note the two middle names.

other fun facts are that carol will definitely repeatedly be trying to blow up her shrine, because she's very much in a "fuck this place" mindset, so.... a lot of them are going to appear. all over beacon. probably one every 10-15 feet by the time she's done. SO!! there are going to be a lot of opportunities for y'all to run into one of them. please feel free to come forth and do so C:

oh, also to add: carol will also be poking around to see if this happened to other people, too, so she can definitely see others' deaths as well!

[hext]

HELLO IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR

LET'S TRADE DEATHS

[starforce]

hell yes let's do this i'm so here for it

this thanos guy suuuuucks