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

kara ( detroit: become human )

[chores]

cw: child death and suicide

kara won't actively avoiding visiting the graves but it will likely be compulsion that actually gets her to leave an offering since (lmao) what are human death customs?? if it is someone she knows though, she'd likely visit out of curiosity at first until she realizes what is happening and NOPE right out of that situation.

as for her own grave, a simple thing that is engraved with AX400 #579 102 694 instead of her name will show the events leading up to her rather physically painless death but emotionally it's a goddamn mess since she loses luther (her companion and family) along with alice (her daughter) dying in her arms shortly before she decides to "give up" and die on the banks of canada after having reached freedom. anyone will also experience general android fun times as several of her components had begun failing in the time leading up to her own death. they'll also probably realize very quickly that kara's memories only span over a period of about six days. weird, huh.

otherwise, she'll be in town quietly not coping at all. feel free to find her mending clothes or perhaps cooking out of frustration.

[darkeyed]

Oh no??? :( This poor android lady. I don't even go here but this sounds terrible.