EVENT INFO: GRAVES

[inthenightmods]

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

melisandre 🔥 asoiaf

[voktys]

well, she... already lays out regular offerings to hozier whatever is in the basement, so this one is kind of Inevitable. she'll scope out quite a few graves, though if someone clearly doesn't want anyone to see their death (ie, protecting their own grave aggressively), she'll take that as a 'no'.

as for her grave: it'll be a simple red stone shrine, with space to hold candles and some incense. the writing on the stone is in asshai'i, but thanks to the tablet, that one won't be a problem (also, i mean, we're using Regular Numbers and it's A RED STONE THING, it won't take a lot of guesswork).

melisandre
red priestess of asshai

114 BC - 300 AC

oh yeah baby, area hot lady lived to be over 400 years old and will be just as surprised about that one as you are. she knew she was old, but that old?

the gist of what can be witnessed at this hot new attraction around town is the joy of being stabbed to death while being way more concerned about there being no light rather than, y'know, the stabbing part. the stabbing part is still painful, though. besides, she had flashbacks all morning that day, so you'll get some of those as a bonus. mostly it'll be a lovely, freaky look into her mind.

as a special note: while she is not excited about the look into her mind, she'll be very touched by anyone who leaves her an offering, because that kind of means a lot to her.

[chivalrouswench]

If we are going to have Bri allowing Mel to see how she died she would probably feel sort of obligated to walk a mile in Mel's shoes in kind, but she would ask first because to her this whole thing is a massive breach of privacy that doesn't surly right with her in any way.

[voktys]

i def want her to see brienne's death for the lady stoneheart factor. mel would have no problem with her seeing her own death, but would probably be like "i did just watch you suffer through an execution so this is not exactly Necessary"

[chivalrouswench]

Very sweet of her to look out for the string bean.

Well, Bri will make the offer and then we can see how it shakes out!

[voktys]

i'm very down for that approach ye <3

[reigniter]

What kind of offering would Mel appreciate the most?

[voktys]

candles are high up! but she also went hungry essentially all the time as a kid, so food – fruit especially – would be intensely appreciated.

[reigniter]

Well Ignis is a cook soooo :3 maybe a fruit tart? I will think about it x3

[voktys]

sweets were rare beyond measure so she would adore the tart and adore him for the kindness /).(\

[reigniter]

Then he will definitely bring sweets for her!

[song_of_ice]

Perfect time for these two to run into each other.

[voktys]

SO PERFECT! mel got murdered on castle black, so that's something for him... to see...

and she is so scoping his out.

[song_of_ice]

Yeah that's definitely going to confuse him. They'll have to compare notes with what they remember.

[voktys]

oh yeah for sure! the got cast just... desperately trying to reach the same page.

[song_of_ice]

Get ready to have your mind blown, Mel.

Re: melisandre 🔥 asoiaf

[primordialerebus]

Offers up coraline as someone to chat to while guarding A Grave as well as have her stumble across her second grave or smth XD

[voktys]

i'm so here for it yes pls!

[primordialerebus]

WHIPS hell yeah!

[sunborne]

MELISANDRE...... The bit about her being concerned about there being no light is going to? Stick with Daylight for some reason??

Mel is going to get a NICE RED FLOWER and a GIANT PROTECTIVE ROBOT BOY after this event. I hope you're ready for this.

[voktys]

OH NO THAT IS SO PURE

she'll try to do right by the good robot boy, while being deeply confused by everything about him but like. in a friendly way?? it'll be strangely cute?

[sunborne]

Yessss - I'm so excited for this turn of their CR.

I saw that you have a toplevel up for the event and I liked the plurk for reference's sake. I'll try to hit it up by today! (And I'll reply to our other thread that we have going on at the introduction log. Sorry for my delay. /o\ )

[darkeyed]

Leaves her an offering.

Also can't be bothered to tinker with the translation function so will STILL not realize how old she is. Let the mystery carry on, like Hozier.

[voktys]

she'll leave him one too ;; and it'll break her heart a little bit

the numbers are in... well, regular digits. so he wouldn't be helped by the letter part, but he would likely be able to tell that she's almost 200 years old (which is still halfway off, but. at least not a normal human lifespan, either)

[darkeyed]

Noooo, don't be sad, Auntie Mel. :( LMAO I'VE BEEN THINKING WHAT OFFERINGS M.K. WOULD LEAVE and........ I think he might just default to blood offerings since it's used in spells and dark one blood is special, etc., enjoy those gross bodily fluids.

Just squints at this weird ass timekeeping someTHING DOESN'T MAKE ADD UP HERE..............

[voktys]

lkjdskfas OH NO SHE'D FEEL SO HONOURED?? BECAUSE BLOOD IS SUCH A BIG DEAL AND A ~~TRUST THING so enjoy that, m.k.

but also pls ask her about it, it'd be hilarious