GRAVEYARD.

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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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Comments

[callalilies]

Some good morning.

[ a. as he sits up from wherever he ended up in this damn mausoleum. he pats the ground a bit and then gets to his feet, one hand on the wall, the other making certain that he's all in one piece. he calls out. ]

Anyone else here? Rise and shine, we've got to find a way out of this place.

[ he will reach out a hand and honk whatever is in the vicinity with his free hand.

b. well at some point, kaeya's gotten thoroughly lost and separated. this place is so dark and at some point everyone stops talking or the dark becomes a little too cloying and you misstep. maybe holding hands with his fellows would have helped, but he's truly not in the mood because the fuck is all of this?

at some point or another he starts whistling a meaningless little tune out into the dark, winding paths, just to see if maybe someone will whistle back? ]

[frostythehitman]

[ going with a just so i can do this ]

Stop honking my buttcheek.

[callalilies]

[ i was super hoping this would happen

in any case, kaeya just closes his eye! ]

Then give me your hand so I can stop holding your ass. I can barely see anything here with just one eye at my disposal.

[frostythehitman]

Why are those my only choices? I only have the one hand to work with!

[callalilies]

... Then give me something else to hold that is not your ass or your only hand so we don't get separated.


[ lets go and reaches higher? pats pats... shoulder? ]

[frostythehitman]

That's my nipple.

[callalilies]

[ now he's just pinching deliberately. ]

b!!

[philandery]

[ ...hearing a whistle somewhere in the vague, spiraling dark is actually pretty creepy. but that said, sylvain hasn't been warned for any monsters or spooks down here, so he can only assume the tune belongs to one of their own... ]

...Hello? Someone there?

[callalilies]

[ he recognizes that voice, and for a moment, kaeya is silent before stepping forward blindly. ]

Sylvain...? Is that you?

[ hello? he's going to actually start moving towards the sound of his voice in the dark halls. ] Keep talking to me... [ as his hands slowly trail along the wall, trying to keep steady. he closes his other eye just to focus on the sound of his voice. ]

[philandery]

Kaeya...?

[ it... couldn't be him... could it? he mumbles under his breath, ]

...You'd better actually be Kaeya this time...

[ instead of another shade... sylvain's probably run into several fake kaeya's by now... ]

[callalilies]

[ sylvain have you considered how gay you are about this? ]

Just follow my voice and keep talking, I think you're getting closer?

This place keeps winding—can't make heads or tails of it.

[philandery]

[ there will be no heterosexuality in this graveyard (bc they're all dudes here except for clem)

but also... yeah. yeah he is. 😔 ]

That's what you said last time.

[ he's joking... (or is he? these shades are bastards.) he also nearly runs into a wall in his renewed effort to get to kaeya. ]

Could really use a light down here... Have I mentioned that I hate dark, cramped spaces?

[callalilies]

[ "that's what you said last time" worries kaeya a lot! ]

Like that awful, rattling box we were stuck in...?

[ there's a sort of unhappy laugh that follows that. or the well your brother threw you down? it's all the more reason for kaeya to hustle, his steps getting a little quicker now. ]

Hated that door. Remember it?

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[illomened]

[HE'S RUN INTO SO MANY TRICKY SHADOWS AND SHIT BY NOW he's genuinely just here sweating real fast about the fact that he's hearing only whistling and no actual talking... What does this MEAN......

But on the off chance that this isn't another TRICK, he'll follow the sound for a little bit. Instead of calling out just yet, he'll try to pick up the tune, whistling another little piece that sounds like it could match the melody.]

[callalilies]

[ at the response, kaeya whistles back in turn, adding to the back and forth accordingly while following it carefully. eventually he calls out: ]

Did you wake up here as well?

[illomened]

[Oh, that's a voice he recognizes!! Hell YEAH no spooky ghosts this time... He's free... He immediately starts trotting at a faster pace in the direction the voice seems to be coming from, keeping a hand on the wall as he goes so he doesn't fall off some random ledge and die about it.]

Ah, Kaeya-san! It's me! Vi-san sent us down here to come get you out. You're in the mausoleum - did you really just wake up here?

[callalilies]

[ oh! running steps! he's going to slow his own pace, but keep talking to see if perhaps souji's disembodied voice might find him? ]

Did Virgo say why we were down here? Did they know anything?

[ concern... ] I did. I have no idea how, it's a terrible place for a nap.

[illomened]

[Souji's disembodied voice is growing closer... Ominous.]

I don't know if they did... They just said that something was wrong, and that they could tell you all were in here. Ah - when they opened the door to this place, shadows started to climb up their arms, too?

[That was probably a bad thing! He thinks... ANYWAY.]

Are you hurt? Or with anyone else?

[callalilies]

Damn shadows... Nightman must be interfering. I feel like that's their signature at this point. Hope Virgo's alright.

[ he holds out an arm just a bit as he walks a little closer? maybe he can honk souji's nose or something if he bumps into him. who knows. he's just really sick of not being able to find his way more easily. ]

I ran into Bucky and Aikawa, but... got a bit separated. Just me. Not hurt, though... a bit disoriented. Didn't really expect to wake up in a grave again, hah. Are you alright? Haven't been hurt along the way yourself?

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[decaptych]

[ You may honk his titty. No I'm kidding you can honk him right in the face, where he's lying down on the ground and Kaeya literally just accidentally grabs and honks his face. ]

Wau-huhgh -- excuse me!

[ Excuse me!! ]

[callalilies]

[ !!!! ]

Aikawa! Apologies... it's so dark in here.

[ the hand will drop to try and find? an arm to grab onto carefully? must stick together. ]

It's okay—it's just me. [ not a ghost... unless? ]

[decaptych]

[ He is very wide. ]

Kaeya??

[ Hello??? ]

Wha -- how'd you get here? How'd we get here.

[callalilies]

I just woke up here, I take it you did too? This place just can't leave well enough alone.

[ SIGH ]

I'm not sure how we were moved here, but suppose we should try and find a way out, right?

[decaptych]

That'd be nice.

[ Get them OUT OF HERE. All he wants to do is lie in bed and be forgotten. ]

You wouldn't happen to have a torch or anything on you, huh...?

[callalilies]

[ aikawa...... ]

Sorry, I don't... we're on our own here. I can barely see in front of us and from what I can tell, I don't think we're in the mansion...

Come, let's try and see what we can find. Keep a hand on the wall and stay close.