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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█ LOCATIONS █ STATUSES █ PROFILES █ AUDIENCES
█ REPORTING █ PRIVATE CONVOS █ MURDER

Comments

[ktiseos]

So do I, but in that case, we ought to preemptively coordinate which of the two we are more inclined to choose. Given that there were two incidents and there seem to have been two shadows-- I would prefer Hua Cheng regardless of what they find.

[dms]

[ ...hm. ]

If there really are only two shadows at most, then he isn't the only one who killed without one.

[ just! saying! ]

[ktiseos]

He is not, no, but evidently he is the one who went quite far in attempting to blame another. If you are willing to kill someone, at least do it as yourself.

[overruns]

[ aikawa outed this already so he'll namedrop ]

I do not condone her actions, but Harrowhark did not frame someone. If we had executed Shinobu, who was innocent, you are aware that her hostage also would have died?

[ to him it's not comparable. ]

[dms]

Yeah, I am.

But revenge killing, and voting out of a grudge... isn't that the sort of thing the Nightman would want us to do? Pitting us against each other seems like exactly the sort of "entertainment" he'd want.

[overruns]

I do bear a grudge. I would kill him myself, if our stakes were not so high.

[ he did pose this to be upfront, so he'll be upfront. ]

But that is neither here nor there. Hua Cheng and Diluc's hostages are safe. It is not a matter of revenge nor justice to discuss who to vote for. And while Diluc's actions caused Bucky's death, in comparison to Hua Cheng, I believe he deserves some clemency for not being in control of his own thoughts.

[frostythehitman]

Gee, thanks for all the effort in getting me justice.

[ he's not serious ]

[overruns]

There is no justice here.

[ sorry, bucky. he thinks he's valid if he's upset with what happened -- victims always get priority over killers. ]

[dms]

[ he shrinks back from dimitri, looking away. to want to kill of your own free will... yikes. can't relate.

just. shakes his head. ]

I don't think it's worth it to play the Nightman's game, but I'm not going to argue.

[ he will literally let you guys win be free ]

[overruns]

[ save our sweet normies ]

I will not cast judgement if you vote otherwise. [ it's majority rule but kazu can have his opinions. ]

[ktiseos]

[after a moment, he just. huffs out a sigh.]

The game is played no matter what. If they do discover someone who has killed this week, then he gets his entertainment in the misery of those close to them-- honestly, likely more then, in the case of the shadows.

[philandery]

[ sees dimitri's death threat half an hour late ]

[highestheim]

Pitting us against each other has been the whole point of these games from the beginning, hasn't it?

[dms]

[ nods. ]

No reason to keep playing into it now that we're already dead, is there?

[illomened]

[thanks for allowing sooj to be here nu ANYWAY HE HAS NO HORSE IN THIS RACE but he does chime in with:]

I believe Aikawa-kun has more or less confirmed Harrowhark-san was not under the influence of the shadows. At the same time, she didn't actively use another's face during her attack, and wouldn't have recalled that she was responsible during trial because of Aikawa-kun's item... But she also still hasn't come forward openly as some of the others, if I'm recalling correctly.

[He'd still vote for Hua Cheng though.]

[ktiseos]

She hasn't, but knowing the way the rest of them are-- I should think they only allowed Mollymauk to confess to attempt to answer questions about the shadows.

[the rings are insane (affectionate)]

[illomened]

[He absolutely cannot judge them in the least because frankly the Shinsengumi is 100x worse.]

A bit strange, given there were already several known killers at the time... Perhaps Mollymauk-san simply wished to speak of it? He seems like the sort of person who can't exactly be "allowed" or "disallowed" from doing anything.

[ktiseos]

Mayhap he did. I can appreciate that, at the least.

[like if he HAD to die then at least molly admitted it straight to sweet estelle's face.]

[illomened]

[Points for Molly and his murderhands. Souji just nods, because he agrees!]

Mm. Even if one cannot control their actions fully in the moment, what they do in the aftermath still speaks to who they are as a person.

[highestheim]

...Perhaps she, for whatever reason, prefers to keep her skeletons in the closet.

[illomened]

[Bone jokes............]

...I suppose that may be the case.

[ktiseos]

Frankly, she is useful enough that I do not particularly mind if she has not put herself at further risk.

[harrow puts in so much trial work she's allowed]

[overruns]

[ bone jokes..... ]

[overruns]

This is my preference as well, though I realize I have my... biases. [ (dimitri voice) I'LL DIE MAD ] Both of their hostages are safe, and based on the number of shadows this week, Hua Cheng was likely not possessed when he framed someone. In which case I would choose him over Diluc.

[ktiseos]

I think we are all allowed our biases.

[he may not have died mad but he is mad in death. god bless us all.]

At the very least, I disagree most with his methods.