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?

★

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]

[ oh he looks ill so he just. hides his face. he can't watch this. ]

[frostythehitman]

[ staring at all our dug-up graves ]

What the fuck.

[stillnot]

[ UM ]

[frostythehitman]

[ p

pats her awkwardly???? ]

[stillnot]

[ acceptable. ]

I... Have no idea what to make of that.

[frostythehitman]

Where did our bodies go.

Or, uh. Most of our bodies.

[illomened]

[ALSO PATTING HER ARM GENTLY AND WITH GREAT CONCERN. Waht teh fukc.]

[cuedoves]

[ hovering in awkward teenage boy concern ]

[dms]

[ ...peeks at bucky but absolutely not at the portraits ]

Did they find anything? Besides, you know...

[ us ]

[frostythehitman]

Yeah, a whole lot of nothing. Half of our graves are some kind of empty.

[dms]

[ okay that gets him to look up ]

What?! But... how?

[frostythehitman]

No clue. Someone dug us up, I guess? Some of our graves have new stuff in 'em too.

[ pause. ]

You're still there. Untouched.

[illomened]

[UM.]

I... What does that mean?

[frostythehitman]

I have absolutely no idea.

[illomened]

[THIS IS SO CONCERNING.]

Aikawa-kun, you, Clem, Si-san... How did those items get in there, too?

[SWORD? MYSTERY BAG???]

[frostythehitman]

Same way I imagine our bodies got out--someone dug up our graves and messed around.

I just don't know why.

[ercnerd]

[Seemingly unperturbed by the sight of his missing body, Sieghart wraps an arm around Souji's neck as he leans in.]

More importantly, where's yours?

[illomened]

[SIEGHART your WHOLEASS BODY. He starts a little at the sudden contact because he'd been funneling all of his attention toward these graves, but leans in a second later and reaches up to lightly rest his fingers against Sieghart's arm.]

Ah... [YEAH HIS MISSING GRAVE.] --To be honest, I don't know if I want the answer to that at this point, but maybe I should ask Vi-san.

[He's expecting a lot of HAHAHAs.]

[cuedoves]

Is someone involving our corpses in their sick murder plans?

[ i just remembered it was affection week i want souji and zuzu to hold hands ]

[illomened]

[AFFECTION WEEK!! once again i play a character who's so tactile that they barely even notice... They're holding hands now, he's taking that handsie to hold.]

I would like to hope that isn't the case. I don't know how they would intend to use a corpse in a murder plan, anyway... Unless they were perhaps using it to get their own victim to drop their guard?

[Like, "set up a body as the bait in a trap"???]

[sageguidance]

[ I am belated to this reaction but I'm here.

Alphinaud also looks a bit ill watching this and eventually has to turn away. ]

I... I believe now is a good time to fetch some tea.

[ what the goddamn fuck ]

[frostythehitman]

[ why is the only touch interaction i can think of for touch week like....shoulder pats. have some of those, alphi. ]

...yeah. That might be a good idea.

[ poor lil queasy guy ]

[sageguidance]

[ get someone to snuggle with bucky ]

Aye... aye. Have you any preferences? I shall make enough for all of us.

[illomened]

[SWEET ALPHINAUD... Souji just reaches out to lightly touch his shoulder in an attempt to convey some sort of comfort in the face of like "hey here's your decomposing corpse and also some people are missing!" Phew.]

[sageguidance]

[ HAHA... YEAH..........

Thanks he's just gonna try to ignore they still have bodies back there. Or some of them do, anyway. ]