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🛎 ([personal profile] guestservices) wrote2022-04-26 01:31 pm
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GRAVEYARD.






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?




★
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!

★ At the very end of the first floor hallway is another door - this one is locked with a padlock. It has a message painted on the door.... Don't dead? Anyway, it seems you can't check just stroll in there! From the looks of it it would be ill-advised to attempt to break in. Occasionally there are muffled shrieks coming from beyond the door. Hmm!


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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.

★ A dumbwaiter sits at the end of the hallway of bedrooms. Inside of it is a typewriter, and a golden bell labeled as Virgo's. 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.




★
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.

★ 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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decaptych: ([108])

[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-03 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't. Do whatever you want.
ercnerd: (48)

[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-03 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow. That's his coffin.

Thanks to he and Hope's collaborative efforts, Sieghart wastes no time crossing the dirt to the group with a bunch of fabric strips, torn from the laundry room's old clothes, in one hand and a bowl of lukewarm water in another. He hands off several strips to Alphinaud, who seems the most stable.
]

Here, take these and help yourself and Clementine.

[He sets the bowl down, so that anyone can use it to clean their wounds. Then he turns to Souji, who's clearly the worst off.]

Sit down before you fall. Where's the worst of it?
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-03 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, don't be like that. Don't you know? Food tastes better when you eat it in company.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-07-03 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...As someone else once told me, there's not really much to say. Death tends to be final.

[ despite, y'know, their current state of affairs. that being said, he realizes there's a smarter way of going about this—before he finishes tearing off the next strip, he takes off his knife and starts shredding the shirt that way. it only took a bit for the braincell to kick in... ]
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[personal profile] frostythehitman 2022-07-03 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Goddammit--here? Seriously?! We're already dead!

Alright, shit--do we even have first aid supplies here?
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-03 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't that also mean you have a little to say?

[As long as the job gets done, Sieghart isn't criticizing. He has no such handheld blade on his person, and Soluna is too much for a task like this, so he continues tearing everything by hand.]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-03 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Just stares at this happen. He's not alarmed. What're they gonna do, DIE AGAIN? ]
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[personal profile] sageguidance 2022-07-04 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh thanks the gods, someone thought ahead. Then again, when there's only like, five people around, it's pretty damn easy to notice when three of them go missing for a day.

Alphinaud accepts the strips. ]


Thank you—I will be well, I believe... [ Just hurty for a while. ] 'Tis Souji I am most worried for.
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-04 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Does it?
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[personal profile] sageguidance 2022-07-04 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
No.

[ Because why would they need them?! ... Is what Alphinaud would think, if this were asked a day before. Apparently! The dead can get fucked up! Who knew. ]

So we must make do with what is available to us. I know not if we are able to receive any healing on this side...
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[personal profile] stillnot 2022-07-04 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ listen, he's right?

so she... waves. her arm is covered in blood and her sleeve is in tatters. hi. ]
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-07-04 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
...Even on this side, we aren't free from the possibility of excursions?

[ he's not happy about it! but yes, he is here with some of the "bandages" he and sieg had made not too long ago. he sticks around to help apply them, of course, but once they've sorted that out, he walks toward the grave the three had climbed out of, just to. see what's in there, if anything. ]
ercnerd: (46)

[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-04 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
A hundred percent. If you doubt me, shall we give it a test?
decaptych: ([108])

[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-04 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
............

[ Raises. His hand awkwardly.

???

He's kind of thinking about how this coffin holds a lot of people, wow.
]
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w3, sunday

[personal profile] highestheim 2022-07-04 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ VIRGO DOKO? ]
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-04 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Sieghart's visual attention is on Souji, but he just as easily responds to Alphinaud in words.]

Leave him to us and worry about yourself. You can tell us all about what happened later, so go and get some rest if you're okay.
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[personal profile] stillnot 2022-07-04 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ she's trying not to worry about that, but like, mood ]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-04 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I don't need proof.

[ However he will just deal with Sieghart following him if he wants uwu. ]
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[personal profile] sageguidance 2022-07-04 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ I mean, maybe? WHY NOT?

Alphinaud only looks a little surprised to see him, but regains his bearings quickly enough. ]


.. Ah, Aikawa... You—you must have only just arrived. Forgive us—this is... terribly poor timing...
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[personal profile] stillnot 2022-07-04 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Apparently not.

[ she sounds somewhere between miffed and confused about this, honestly. she didn't die in her last game?? and didn't hear much about the graveyard, so??? ??????? SHE DIDN'T REALIZE THIS HAPPENS? ]
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-04 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
It's not about need.

[Fool. Sieghart is a touch famished, though, so he'll follow Kai.]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-04 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
He's dying.

[ About this guy whose name is Souji apparently. He doesn't know who any of you are but Souji the LEAST. Not that he's doing anything about it but other people have him so. ]

What happened.
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-04 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[NOOO HE HATES THIS STOP FUSSING. Once he's sure Clementine and Alphinaud are out and alive and, like. Well. "ALIVE" but, y'know, he's able to start regaining a little of his usual demeanor in the face of being injured which is to stoneface it like hell.

He will, at least, oblige part of this. The part that doesn't involve sitting. AS HE WIPES THE BLOOD OFF OF HIS CHIN:]


--There are still a few partially opened injuries, along here. [Indicating his like just wholeass torso.]
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-07-04 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Virgo. [ a curt nod ] May I ask you to utilize your superior healing skills again?