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

Coraline Li | Original

[primordialerebus]

Coraline will probably only manage to leave offerings for One person before she gets freaked out and realizes that means other people can see how she died. She'll first try to destroy her grave in secret, but when it comes back (and unknowingly duplicates), she'll be standing guard until it disappears. So basically you don't necessarily havec to interact with her to get her memories.

Her grave will be a simple headstone carved from some unknown black rock that seems to absorb light. Other than that, it's pretty normal. Etched on it is:

Coraline Li
2013-2030
Had more to give.

Her death basically involved cultists jumping her on her way home, her putting up a fight, getting her powers sealed, and chained up on an alter in a random ass warehouse. There, they basically do the requisite superhero rant about how she was supposed to bring with her an apotheosis of darkness, blah blah blah, we're gonna kill you and release the thing that's clearly in you so the thing can still happen. Then she gets stabbed in the heart and dies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[callada]

This is brutal and I'm here for it.

[primordialerebus]

>:3c Coraline's death's just like here have this weird ass mess

[hext]

big sis i think will see this before coraline catches on if you're cool with that ;;

[primordialerebus]

I'm super cool with it!!!

[paletteswap]

Well that's several kinds of unfortunate. Sign this guy up for that trauma.

[primordialerebus]

>:3c I'm honestly still trying to figure out how much I want to show/leave for later revelations but this might be the best time so *u*

[paletteswap]

The more trauma the better.

[primordialerebus]

... true.... god rip all our characters

[sunborne]

Daylight is going to relate very hard to the whole 'what the hell is happening oh no and then death' scenario. ; o ;

He's probably going to visit her grave at a later time so she'll probably be standing guard by then. If she really insists on him not seeing it, Daylight will agree to it and simply give her the flower as a gift and not as an offering? Long as it doesn't touch, he thinks it won't happen. (And what if it's accidentally dropped on the grave during exchange because it's huge... :>)

[primordialerebus]

NOOOO DAYLIGHT ;A; He doesn't deserve that sob.

And omg what if that technically still counts. asdklgh BIG RIP

[sunborne]

I want it to happen now! Since Daylight still has it on his processors that he wants to give her something, I think that counts.

I am so hyped for this ahhhhh.

[primordialerebus]

YESSS LETS DO IT XD