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In the Night Moderators ([personal profile] inthenightmods) wrote in [community profile] oocinthenight2019-07-09 06:30 pm
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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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Noob Saibot

[personal profile] saibot 2019-07-10 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Sup. He's most definitely going to visit Kuai's grave and then Hanzo's after he finds out that you experience their deaths. Otherwise he'll be around haunting the area.

His grave marker will read Bi-Han, not that Noob really gives his name away. Also there are two deaths to choose from if anyone wishes to visit it:

His first as a human (Sub-Zero). He gets burned alive by Scorpion/Hanzo Hasashi and then his spine is ripped out though he was most likely dead by that point.

second death is when Nightwolf knocks him into the soulnado and he kind of gets blown up and ripped apart by a bunch of angry souls. Because that's what a soulnado is. Evil angry souls as a giant green tornado. Why? Ask Shang Tsung.
paletteswap: (Could you not?)

[personal profile] paletteswap 2019-07-10 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Kuai is probably going to cry. Is that what you want Bi-Han? IS IT??
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[personal profile] saibot 2019-07-10 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
... Which death is he going to see?
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[personal profile] paletteswap 2019-07-10 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
They're both pretty traumatic. Prooooobably Scorpion because he was there for the soulnado. Well not when he got ripped apart but he knows that's what happened...
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[personal profile] saibot 2019-07-11 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
That's true. I feel bad for poor Kuai.
paletteswap: (Honor their memories)

[personal profile] paletteswap 2019-07-11 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
He's not gonna have a good time.