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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?




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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!

★ 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.




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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.

★ 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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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-07-03 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...Ah. You want me to follow you.

[ he can take the hint, smol creature. as the pig bounces off his other foot, he pushes the chair back and stands up... where are we goin ]
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-03 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hope's braincell saves the day! The pig bounds around him in little circles before starting to lead the way out from the library... Every now and then, it turns around and looks back over as though ensuring Hope is still following and not wandering off to go on adventures.

Eventually, it leads the way to the kitchen! At which point it trots over to their snazzy 1920s fridge and makes the same little circles in front of the door.]
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-07-03 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he is a good boy, he will not abandon the obvious story marker for a sidequest... still in a bit of a daze from Everything, he follows the pig until they reach their destination. when it stops in front of the fridge, he looks down at it for a second before opening it, because sure, this may as well happen. what waits for him inside? ]
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-03 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Inside of the fridge, there's a corpse.




Nah just kidding (probably), there are what appear to be several containers full of some soup-lookin' dish! The pig looks toward then and then toward Hope, before trotting over to sit on one of his feet. If Hope chooses to pick one up and open it, it'll smell like some home-y, herbal, chicken-y type broth.]
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-07-04 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ god i wish

but oh!! how sweet... he does indeed take a whiff of one of the containers before putting the lid back on and closing the fridge door. he makes note of it as he bends down and pats the pig on the head. is this even what you do with pigs... either way, good oink. ]


Thank you. You're a thoughtful little one, aren't you?

[ i'm going to make you keep rping this pig now that youve tagged me with it ]
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-04 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[IM LOSING MY MIND STOP it's okay though because Saizo is the best pig in the entire world and he deserves to make friends.

Whether or not that's something you do with pigs, it's something you do with Saizos, apparently. He seems very used to being patted and doesn't fuss at all, maybe even puffing up a bit as if prideful of his fine contribution to this poor man's life.]