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!

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

Comments

[dms]

Ah... Yeah, that's valid. I'm not sure whether it'd be better or worse if it was her choice, TBH. Either way, it's still bad.

Maybe we can write to her and ask, while we're sending letters? They do say the shadow leaves after trial, so if she was possessed, she should totes be able to talk about it by now.

[decaptych]

[ He'd be a little upset if it wasn't done because of a shadow possession mechanic, tbh. He's understanding of the mechanic and forgiving, but it'll be less so if it turns out it was just actually a straight up murder.

Since one of them would be uncontrollable, but the other would mean actively risking the death of Aikawa's hostage, which he is way less okay about than his own life. ]

...Maybe, but it's a little awkward to go around sending a letter like 'hey so why'd you kill me'?

[dms]

Maybe... I don't know, though, I'd rather say something than nothing at all, even if it's awkward. It's least I can do, you know?

Buuuut maybe it's that simple for me because I was possessed. I don't know.

[decaptych]

[ The sad part is that he's the type to believe until proven wrong, so he's just gonna...... subtly make himself believe that Harrow definitely killed him out of possession and forget about the notion of people being able to murder without possession in play. Sometimes you just gaslight your way through life! ]

Yeah, I guess so. Plus, Hope's over here so it's not like you can super ignore it anyway.

[ Bar the fact that he kinda ignored it when Molly was in the gy with him. Hey, Molly got yeeted back to life so he didn't have to care about it anymore! Probably. ]

[dms]

[ this is valid of him and honestly kazunari would do the same in his position.

he's wincing a little at that, though. ]

That's... Even if we weren't both here, I couldn't just ignore it or pretend it didn't happen. I didn't before, either.

[decaptych]

Before?

[dms]

[ hoo boy. sighs heavily. ]

In the prism. I refracted.

[decaptych]

You really had to deal with it twice, huh.

...Sorry, Kazunari.

[dms]

Yeah. 0 out of 5 stars, would not recommend.

[ he'd say it's okay but they're still dead so it's not!! ]

...But I guess it could be worse.

[decaptych]

Yeah, no kidding. I mean, I dunno -- it's pretty bad as it is. I don't really wanna imagine what 'worse' means.

[dms]

If someone refracted too much in the prism, they turned into these giant rainbow monsters that hurt everyone around them before they were killed. I'd call that worse.

[decaptych]

Okay. Well.

[ He's very much like 'damn I actively said I'm not asking but here I am with the lore'. ]

You're right, that is worse. Fucking hell, in my place we were all just maybe-possibly-sorta gonna get assimilated into a 'story' and forget who we were and live in that new story forever, but we weren't gonna turn into wackjob monsters... probably!

[dms]

[ chattering helps him cope ]

Yikes! That was the whole script thing, right? Totally weird! I’m going to have to warn Tsuzuroon about that when I get home for sure. Last I heard, he's got loads of half-finished scripts sitting around.

[decaptych]

[ Internally: WHO

Externally: ]

Yeah, that's right. Tell him to be careful if the script starts writing itself!

[dms]

Mm, absolutely! TBH, though, I think he'd be pretty freaked out by that even if I didn't say anything? That's totes not normal!