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🔫👽 ([personal profile] probe) wrote2020-12-09 02:05 pm

GRAVEYARD ✨





POPULATION: GHOST TOWN



You die - and then you wake up.

For a second, it feels as though you can't breathe, and then your head breaks the surface. You crawl out of a pool of blood and into a large, crystalline room. Moving images play across the crystal walls, and if you watch close enough, you'll realize that you're seeing the land of the living; a familiar space station with familiar faces. You can watch these images for as long as you'd like - there are several very large benches (as in, you have to climb them to sit on them) around the room for you to rest on while you do.

Regardless of how you died, it seems as though you're not quite gone completely. You're in one piece, at least. That's good news. However, your surroundings are not exactly what you remember.

When you exit the first room, a bleak, empty city sprawls out ahead of you.

The city itself is large. The framework of it seems to tower higher and higher than you can see, up into the black opal sky that shivers and curls every so often. A river entirely made of blood runs through the city, winding around buildings and ending at the crystal room. The most noticeable thing about the buildings themselves is the fact that thorny vines made of pure white steel dig into the walls and floor, cracking the foundations.

The residential building is worn down and old. It's two floors, and has a few small studio apartments built for one or two people to live in. The beds are extremely uncomfortable. It has a communal area downstairs, but the TV is broken, and the couches are torn apart. Sometimes, this building feels obscenely hot in temperature, and smells like rotten eggs.

The grocery store is your typical convenience store. There's a large selection of food in this area, but it all tastes the same - like chalk. On top of this, every so often there will be bloodstains on the walls, the floor, and the displays. They change in size and location, each time you enter the store.

The clothing store is thrifty in nature. All the clothes here are uncomfortable and scratchy, and don't fit quite right. While you're here, time feels... weird. Distorted, almost dreamy. As you're picking out clothes and trying them on (no money needed, just take what you want), you swear you can hear a gunshot in the distance.

Enjoy your time in this city, and remember...your story isn't quite over yet.

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[personal profile] brightred 2021-02-28 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, her. Did she kill you?
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[personal profile] notaccurate 2021-02-28 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
She did. Such a horrible girl, she pretended to be dead on the floor and then stabbed me when I went to check on her.
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[personal profile] brightred 2021-02-28 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh? What a nasty trick. [GOOD FOR HER]

It's a pity you got caught up in that.
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[personal profile] notaccurate 2021-02-28 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
She should have stuck to Vlad and let me live.
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[personal profile] brightred 2021-02-28 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
And leave us with Vlad?
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[personal profile] notaccurate 2021-02-28 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
He's here regardless! And I had so much to live for!

[His SHIP]
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[personal profile] brightred 2021-02-28 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh? What did you have to live for? [Please. Please let her know. She needs some drama.]
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[personal profile] notaccurate 2021-03-01 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
You know, a bunch of people just convinced me to stop doing what others tell me to do and to make my own choices in life. And then I had to go and die.
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[personal profile] brightred 2021-03-01 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
What were you planning on doing with your life?
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[personal profile] notaccurate 2021-03-01 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
I hadn't really decided yet, it's only been a few days since those conversations.