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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Nate is incapable of not being nosy, so after leaving something for someone the first time he might make a point of quietly seeking out specific graves belonging to people he's met thus far. He isn't so invasive as to explore a stranger's grave, but he'll most likely leave offerings in the form of little drawings on slips of paper torn from his sketchbook.

His own grave is a tall Celtic cross with intricate knot-work, and the plinth of the headstone will read:

Nathan Drake
1976 - 2015
Sic ♦ Parvis ♦ Magna

Nate's death includes the moments leading up to Rafe Adler leveling a gun and shooting at him, before Nate's older brother steps in to take the hit on his behalf. This action knocks Nate back over a cliff, where he cracks his head on a rock before hitting the water. The primary emotion is the deep, agonizing betrayal of a trusted loved one having been revealed as a liar, with the fleeting willingness to take a bullet.

He'll be around town, probably sketching people's headstones if they're of particular interest, and will most likely talk to anyone who addresses him.

omfg nathan drake you utter adorable nerd
i need a thread, whether it's grave sharing or just her catching him drawing idk idk idk??

SINCE THEY HAVEN'T MET HE DEFINITELY WOULDN'T TOUCH HER GRAVE but she is free to touch his or she can notice him leaving a doodle...or just drawing in general............

they can still meet if you want since i tagged in late to the intro, but the idea of them just commiserating while he doodles is also adorable - do you have a pref alex m'love?