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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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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Ruuuuupert.

[ He's here to pick up his twink. ]

Hey there.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[waving very tiredly as he pushes himself up.]

...Hey.
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
You feeling alright? Can't say crawling out of a coffin is the best way to wake up. Daycare was better that way.

[ Holding a hand out to help him up. ]
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Tell me we have more than snack food for children and I'll be fine.

[he takes his hand, though!]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
So the good thing is, we have waaay more food. We are no longer restricted to animal crackers and juice boxes.

[ Helps him up! ]

The bad news is that the vibes are bad. I mean, you crawled out of a cemetery, that's not hot.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
...Not to be pessimistic, but I think it was going to be bad no matter what given our host's sense of entertainment.

[up he goes, though! and he brushes himself off.]

Thanks.
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Well, can't be disappointed if the bar's low! Right?

[ Brushes off some dirt off his shoulder. ]

Better here than disappearing off into fuck-off oblivion I guess.

[ He doesn't sound very optimistic but he IS trying. ]
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
...Was that a possibility?

[alarming]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Uhm, well, you know... nobody really knows what happens after you die die... most of the time, probably.

[ He means it generically, but he backtracks because yeah maybe that's alarming. However, he has nothing but alarming news. ]

Wanna go sit down with food? By the way, there's a, uhhh, new guy here. His name's Souji, and he was here before any of us were apparently. You should talk to him sometime, he's got the most amount of information 'cause of how long he's been here, but he also stocks our fridge with food.

Hungry?
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[giving him a concerned look at first, but he nods at the second part.]

Can't say I'm particularly hungry, but... I should probably eat.

[tilting his head]

Before any of you?
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, hard to feel hungry right after something like that, huh? I get you.

[ Still, may as well get something down. He nods though. ]

Yep. He says he maybe saw a brief glimpse of the lobby before he K.O.'d and woke up here, from the sounds of it? You can probably get the details straight from him, but he died way before the rest of us.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I could never see a brownie again and I'd be happy.

[he frowns, though.]

Poor guy... I wonder who did that to him.
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ Stares off into the distance thinking about the murder-look Souji had later when we release Qi Rong from prison and mouthing 'did Qi Rong kill Okita Souji'

But that is later in the timeline so we don't know anything yet.
]

Yeah... he has no idea, either. It's pretty rough.

Sorry brownies got ruined for you...
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
I'll make sure not to press him about it, then.

[waving a hand]

It's okay. Well - it's not, but it's not your fault, either.
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think he really minds... as much as you'd expect a guy to mind, but yeah, he's pretty friendly though. Loves to cook.

[ He shrugs, haplessly. ]

I know... but it's kinda hard to come up with whatever else to say. We have rooms here?
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... Good. I'll look forward to meeting him, then.

[...]

Rooms are good. [another small pause.] Can I ask you something?
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Go ahead.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
We've all been wondering... I mean, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, but - who was it that...?

[you know. did a murder.]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, um.

[ Twiddles fingers a little. ]

Harrow.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[he pauses, surprised.]

Wait - seriously? Did it seem like a shadow kind of situation, or...?
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
...

[ He had assumed shadow, at the time, but waking up and seeing three people died... ]

...I don't know.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[after a moment of concern:]

...We'll figure it out when we get back.
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I guess so.

[ Clenching his fist a little bit, but sighing. ]
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-07-11 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[it's still affection week, so he's reaching for his arm.]

...I'm sorry, Aikawa. Either way, it shouldn't have happened.
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-11 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ AAA MY AFFECTION WEEK. He'll allow this, raising his hand to put it on Rupert's shoulder. ]

Hey... well, I don't really mind, personally. If it were just me.

[ The only reason he would get angry though, is because... hostages... ]

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