GRAVEYARD ✨

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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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W3 - Friday

[brightred]

[All right. Grell has been doing basically nothing this week but dramatically lying on couches and complaining (she's bored, the food's terrible, she's really bored, there's nothing good to wear, she's bored).]

Ugh, fine! Fine! I'm sick of this!

Doesn't anyone here know how to provide any entertainment? If we don't have cards we can at least play some parlor games!

Why do I have to be the one to organize this!?

compliments

[brightred]

This one's easy. [Grell says, because clearly no one here knows parlor games so she's going to have to teach all of you.]

Everyone must pick an animal, and announce what animal they've become. Then everyone else must pay them a compliment fitting their animal. If anyone fails to compliment the animal appropriately, they owe a forfeit.

[brightred]

To start. I should like to be a plain, brown spider. What compliment shall you give me?

[notaccurate]

Thank you for eating all of the bugs and keeping my house clean.

[brightred]

I do my best~

And what animal are you, sir?

[notaccurate]

I will be a red-tailed hawk.

[brightred]

A fine, majestic creature. The sort of thing that can soar to heaven!

Then I shall be a mouse.

Re: compliments

[bachelorbored]

Oh, I'm an animal lover. This should be easy.

Let's say... Panda, and not just because Gottlieb turned into one, but because I am a fan of them!

[brightred]

A what?

[bachelorbored]

A panda.

Wait, did you just lose?

[brightred]

Of course I didn't lose! You can't just make up fake animal names as if everyone knows what they are!

[bachelorbored]

Uh, a panda is not fake. They may be endangered, but they're not gone.

[executeprogramming]

Commentary: I do not understand the point of this game, meatbag. Perhaps it is because humans are already animals which are severely lacking in complimentary qualities?

[brightred]

Well then, I'm sure it's much too difficult for you to come up with compliments for other animals~

three kingdoms

[brightred]

For this game, we must each think of something, alive or not. Everyone else has twelve questions in which to guess it. I recommend your first question be "is it Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral".

[kokytos]

...Okay, are you the one we're asking, then?

Is it an animal, vegetable, or mineral?

[brightred]

Ask me to start, and then you can think of your own~

Mineral.

[kokytos]

Is it something that would be classically considered a precious stone or jewel?

[brightred]

No.

[niceguyferatu]

[ well, since steven's already guessing grell's... ]

Very well. I have something in mind, you're all welcome to ask and guess at it.

[executeprogramming]

[some core problem-solving aspect of HK's programming has him interested in this game, although his crossed arms are those of someone pretending (?) they couldn't care less]

Query: Is it an animal, vegetable, or mineral?

[niceguyferatu]

Animal.

[executeprogramming]

Prediction: Womp rat.

I love my love with....

[brightred]

I love my love with an A, for he is artful, alert, and ambitious. [Your turn.]

forfeits

[brightred]

[Did you fail a game? Screw up somehow? It's time to pay a forfeit.

Parrot: the person who's being punished must walk to everyone in the room and say "If I were a parrot, what would you teach me to say?" and repeat exactly whatever is said to them. (If someone says a variation of "give me a kiss", the parrot can just kiss them instead). The punishment is over once everyone has given the parrot an instruction.

The Bridge of Love: the person who's being punished must go on their hands and knees on the floor until a couple sits on their back and kisses each other.

Exile: go stand in a corner until someone else is punished.

Kiss your Beloved without making it known: somehow the person who's being punished has to kiss the person they're most interested in without letting anyone else know they kissed them. No one can leave the room. (The usual way it's solved is the person being punished just kisses everyone).

Or because of weekly events just go with "confess the worst thing you've done here that you were trying to keep secret" or "tell someone how you really feel about them".]