GRAVEYARD.

[guestservices]

GRAVEYARD

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today...

...to be super dead. No, did you think you were getting a funeral? Sorry.

When you wake up, no matter how you died, you'll find yourself all in one piece, inside of a fairly large box that upon further inspection may in fact be a coffin. However, throwing the lid off isn't too difficult, and as you step out of your own grave, you'll find yourself standing in a cemetery behind a large mansion, where an iron gate stands between you and the entrance. Thankfully, the moment you approach, dirty and tired as you are, the gate swings open, and you're allowed immediate entrance into the mansion.

The mansion itself is a little dusty, and the furnishings are vintage at best, but... hey, it's home. Why don't you explore a little?

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FIRST FLOOR.

★ On the first floor is a parlor and sitting area. On one of the tables is a phone, which as of Week 3, Saturday has a dial tone and can be used to contact hotel staff. In addition to that is a kitchen stocked with food - not to mention a large wine cellar full to the bursting with every kind of wine you could imagine. Vintage!

★ Walking down a long hallway, you'll find a laundry room with a washbin and a washboard, a few closets full of dusty old clothes, a large library, and an ornate dining room with a crystal chandelier.

Of note, the dining room in particular has a very tall wall of what look like portraits to one side. If you walk closer, however, you may notice that the portraits are moving - and appear to actually be holding black and white images of your friends (and enemies?) back in the hotel, so you can monitor their activities. That's nice! There are record players set up beneath the portraits, which come with blank records set in there already; if you turn them on while the blank records are set there, you will be able to hear what is being said by the people in the portraits.

★ At the very end of the first floor hallway is another door - it is locked up tight with a padlock, and has a message painted on it.... Don't dead? Inside here is the basement that the dead locked Qi Rong into on Friday of Week 5. In theory you might be able to take the key from someone and go in, since it hasn't been returned to Virgo; inside here is a dark, dank basement illuminated by a lantern giving off a dim green glow. There are barrels of stale water and sour wine, boxes containing stale crackers, extremely questionable jerky, and other rotted foodstuffs, and... uh... there are some unpleasant-looking rats skittering around. Icky. In practice, why would you want to? Just keep it locked.

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SECOND FLOOR.

★ On the second floor of the mansion is a series of bedrooms. Just like the hotel, you'll find a room already booked with your name on a nameplate on the door - and a portrait of yourself, as well as your hostage, hanging just above the nameplate. The inside of the rooms are simple - a bed with red covers, a desk with a typewriter, and a small bathroom with a toilet and a clawfoot tub. Provided that you didn't give your belongings away, you'll find all of them on your bed, waiting for you upon your arrival. This includes tickets (so long as they weren't looted from your body and used to pay for hints) and other things that may have been evidence in your case but belonged to you beforehand.

★ A dumbwaiter sits at the end of the hallway of bedrooms. Inside of it is a typewriter, and a space where there once sat a golden bell labeled as Virgo's; however, the bell is currently missing. An unlabeled bell sits to the side of it. A small sign above the dumbwaiter says: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT STAFF BY LEAVING A MESSAGE. VIRGO MAY ALSO BE SENT A TIP AND RUNG. PULL THE LEVER TO PRESS SEND. - STAFF

It seems you can reach out to the hotel staff by leaving a message or ringing the bell, though your options are limited for the latter. Sure enough, a lever in the wall next to the dumbwaiter is currently set to the "down" position. Push it to "up" and watch your message disappear.

★ Beside the dumbwaiter is one last bedroom. This room is marked with a plaque that says "Dream Suite", and has several familiar constellations decorating the door. Occasionally, when you ring the bell by the dumbwaiter while thinking of a member of Hotel Staff on the living side, the corresponding constellation on the door will light up, and you'll feel as though you should walk in. Inside, there is a line of comfortable beds. Lie down in one, and you'll have a dreamlike "in person" audience with the NPC you had attempted to contact.

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OUTDOORS.

★ Outside of the mansion is a small garage. The ground here is worn down and thin, and you can almost make out what look like railroad tracks embedded in the dirt. Inside of the garage is a rattly old car that moves along those little railroad tracks, from the garage to the mansion front, and then back all the way around to the cemetery.

★ On the grounds, there is a garden full of flowers. There are also the remnants of gardening supplies and supplies to package and send bouquets, but none of these supplies are in useable condition now.

★ A "bumper cars" rink has been made by clearing out all of the rocks, weeds and grass in a sizeable area. There are some small slopes and dips, and a bumper barrier along the outside of the rink which was made by piling up compacted dead leaves from the graveyard. There are two "cars": laundry baskets that have rudimentary jar lid wheels with ladle axles and nails stolen from a dining room chair. They have been padded with some old clothing, like that will save anyone. Since we don't have electricity in hell, each "car" has one paddle made from tree branches broken down into the appropriate size, presumably used to push the cars around.

★ The cemetery where you first awaken is a direct copy of the cemetery outside of the hotel - right down to the placement of statues, mausoleums, and the creepy atmosphere. Your grave remains after you wake up in it, in case you want to take a dirt nap.

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█ REPORTING █ PRIVATE CONVOS █ MURDER

Comments

d-d-d-daruma drama

[supremity]

[ general psa for everyone who wants to listen on this fine monday: ]

If you see that daruma anywhere on this side? Leave it alone. Call Virgo, or if you absolutely must touch it, don't mishandle it and don't attempt to destroy it unless you're certain you can destroy whatever power or piece of this Luo Binghe is in there in the process. Keep it separate from his body.

I've sent a warning to the living, as well, but I'm inclined to believe that he was contained for a reason rather like Qi Rong's imprisonment. Especially judging by Estelle's reaction to the confirmation that he's truly here, after her response when she saw his contract. She said that Qi Rong wasn't "the only dangerous one."

Changing someone into or containing part of their spirit, essence, power, whatever inside of a daruma is something I'm familiar with. It isn't to be messed with.

[guestservices]

[virgo walks by and hears this, nods, and then walks away because fckin capitalism. peace out]

[supremity]

[ thanks dogfucker :v: ]

[illomened]

[WHY ARE SO MANY OF THESE PEOPLE S-TIER LEVELS OF DANGER.]

Thank you for the warning.

[supremity]

[ THEH MORE WE FIND OUT ABOUT THE STAFF(?) THE MORE THE THREAT LEVEL RISES ]

En. Kaeya caught me up on what happened with that worm [ qi rong ] when I arrived. I would like to avoid a repeat performance, if necessary, now that we're all more aware that there's trouble in hidden places.

[illomened]

[HELP.]

Mm. I'm sure that none of us would like an encore... Though it makes me wonder how many encores we're at risk of.

[sageguidance]

... He is not another spirit, is he?

[supremity]

I couldn't say for sure. But from what I know of the room that the daruma was originally found in, his looks, his name... maybe he's from Zhongguo, or somewhere similar.

[ but something about him is weirdly familiar

( insert joke about all MXTX canons existing in the same universe ) ]

[sageguidance]

Zho...n... [ okay maybe he shouldn't attempt trying to pronounce chinese ] Pardon my ignorance, but I know not the name.

❓

[ercnerd]

[Well, with just about everyone gathered here already, Sieghart nods along—many thanks for the notice, Hua Cheng—before piping up:]

I was, shall we say . . . in a tryst earlier? My partner for the moment was thankful for everyone's help.

[He perches a hand on his hip, because he's still missing an arm and so cannot fold them.]

More importantly, are we still debating questions? If so, we should get them sorted out sooner than later.

[frostythehitman]

...a tryst?

[ercnerd]

It was short, but sweet.

[supremity]

[ hua cheng is more than fine with passing the floor to sieghart with a return nod, because this part comes from Before Him. he will add on, agreeing: ]

The contract period ends soon. Sooner than later would likely be wise. [ and das it he'll pipe in again if necessary but leave this part to y'all ]

[ercnerd]

Mm, yes. If we wait too long to send our thoughts, we may as well be dead.

[decaptych]

I hate you.

[ Just putting that out there but given how his seance trysts from last game ended up with him having a girlfriend, he actually believes this could be true. ]

[ercnerd]

Hm? Is that jealousy I hear?

[ktiseos]

I believe we were, but- [gestures at the living discussion] Claude had the other item, did he not.

[hi he's here, maybe a little subdued-- his attention is very much glued to the portraits and has been ever since they found a guy in the floorboards.]

[overruns]

Yes, he did.

[ so they don't need to worry about dicks ]

[sageguidance]

... Are you able to elaborate on this—ahem, tryst?

[ercnerd]

Why are you so curious to know someone else's private affairs?

Besides, it's obvious once you think about it.

[illomened]

[girl help.]

[ercnerd]

[Lucretia's not here, so no.]

[agleam]

Wow, no lipstick this time...

[ercnerd]

[!!]

That . . . that was completely different!

[classmate]

[ Belatedly but she’s mad cause Luo Binghe is sexy what do you mean he’s gotta be locked up. Let her jump on his bones.













I have nothing helpful to give anyone. ]