GRAVEYARD ✨

[probe]

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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Comments

[niceguyferatu]

Oh, like people found you so much more enjoyable!

[brightred]

Of course they didn't, that's why that woman hunted me down long before anyone actually went after you.

[niceguyferatu]

Exactly. If anything, you're far more odious than I ever was!

[brightred]

Of course I am. [GRELL DO NOT SOUND SO PROUD OF THAT???]

[niceguyferatu]

Then congratulations on your heinous personality getting you killed immediately. It's a wonder you made it to adulthood at all like that.

[brightred]

I did die tragically young! But at least I'll never be a senile old man~

[niceguyferatu]

[ dragging his hand down his face ]

How many times do I have to explain that I am neither senile nor old?

[brightred]

You can say it as often as you want, old man.

[holeful]

If it makes you feel better, Mr Vlad, I never voted for you. I voted for Medb both times.

[niceguyferatu]

Thank you. You truly are the most reasonable person here. It really is a shame you had to die for my own crimes.

[holeful]

Well, I suppose you should be grateful since I don't think anyone else who's dead likes talking to you.

[DON'T JUST SAY THAT.]

[niceguyferatu]

[ WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO MEAN ]

Don't put words in my mouth. Enjoying your company has nothing to do with whether other people like me or not.

[ except it totally does ]

[holeful]

[HE HAS NO SOCIAL SKILLS.]

Oh, I didn't say that based on what you said.

[Just his own observation.]

[niceguyferatu]

[ just. FROWNS. ]