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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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ambrose spellman ( chilling adventures of sabrina )
while ambrose has hinted at this to a few people, if you come upon his tombstone, you're going to see the dates 1929-2019 because ambrose is about ninety years old even if he doesn't look it. warlocks are long lived (nearly immortal but they can be killed). he'll just talk about his moisturizer regime.
his tombstone is going to be simple. just a headstone with his name and dates and something like loyal to the end. i'll come up with something solid later.
if you do choose to approach his tombstone and offer something, you're going to see a rather violent death at the hands of angelic witch hunters (visuals here and her and here). ambrose suffers a lot and it's bloody and painful so enjoy.
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Re: ambrose spellman ( chilling adventures of sabrina )
I'm not sure if he'll lay an offering (he's not very keen on the whole... seeing other people's deaths without their permission thing) but just that detail will be neat to work into future threads c:
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they can talk about being old dudes together!! so yeah, even if gene doesn't take a look at his death, i'm stoked he'd notate the birth year so they can chat about it.