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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[housewolf]

I. Arrival

[He's completely fine. More or less. Just covered in blood. Gross.

Omi takes a second to stare at the screens, just half way out of the pool of blood, before getting out.]

... Not what I thought the afterlife would be. [He doesn't make it that far though, just staring at the screens.]

II. Around

[Eventually he manages to pull himself together and start actually looking around town. He can't just lie down on the floor to let death reclaim him.

Or at least, he won't.]

I

[notaccurate]

It's a bit more boring than I was expecting, honestly.

[And there's Luca, standing next to the pool of blood. He may have been waiting there for a bit now, but he doesn't say anything about that. No, he's just offering Omi a slightly strained smile and a hand to help him out of the blood.]

[housewolf]

[Ah. Alright, there are other people here, after all.

And he takes Luca's hand.]

I didn't think I'd still have consciousness, I guess?

[notaccurate]

Ah, the atheist way. I can't blame you for thinking that.

[Time to tug Omi out of the pool!]

As much as I wish you had stayed on the other side, it's good to see you. Far better than becoming nothing.

[housewolf]

I mean, me too.

[Out he goes. The blood just slides right off. That's nice.]

How's it been?

I

[holeful]

[That's fair. It's fair for Omi to be sad. Fukuda is sad too.]

Omi... I didn't really want to see you again.

[housewolf]

... Yeah, didn't really go the way I was expecting.

Sorry to disappoint.

[holeful]

.... I mean, in some ways I'm glad. I missed you. But you shouldn't be here.

[He will offer Omi a hand out of the blood pool.]

[housewolf]

[He takes Fukuda's hand out.]

Not much we can do when it comes to should or shouldn't at this point. Just work with what happens.

I

[niceguyferatu]

It's certainly nothing like the afterlife I'm familiar with.

I'd say welcome, but, well, no one's circumstances in arriving here are all that pleasant, are they?

[ Also, Vlad is just in the butt-ugliest, most ill-fitting, godawful eyesore of an outfit you can imagine. Just so you know. ]

[housewolf]

[Omi

just fucking leaves.

He has not acknowledged Vlad at all. Do not speak to him.]

[niceguyferatu]

[ WELL THAT'S RUDE.

Vlad follows. Not because he's that desperate for a conversation or anything but just because he doesn't appreciate being brushed off like this. ]

...Excuse me?

Hello?

Did dying ruin your ears or something?

[housewolf]

[He just gets punched in the face.

That is what happens to him.]

I. Arrival

[kokytos]

[ Hey Omi. Steven was nearby already, so he's just here to greet everyone as they come out of the blood pool. It's fine. ]

Me neither.

[ Hey. ]

[housewolf]

[Now that he's all the way out-]

What were you expecting?

[kokytos]

Someplace a lot more... tormenting, probably, since I expected Hell. And also, not still saddled with you lot and the game's responsibilities.

As it is now, though, it's mostly just a whole lot of nothing.

[housewolf]

[Yeah, figured it wouldn't be that easy.]

I was expecting a lot more nothing.

What responsibilities do we have here?

i

[brightred]

Oh? [There's Grell, watching him climb out of the pool.]

What were you expecting?

[housewolf]

Emptiness, I guess?

[He's all the way out, and it's a little weird to see the blood just slip right off.

Weird.]

[brightred]

No humans are ever that lucky.

[housewolf]

Part of your job?

II.

[bachelorbored]

[i mean

that's what kaz has been doing on and off for weeks, so? especially with the weakness wave?? what, too good for death reclamation???

anyway he waves to omi, like he's waving him down.]

Oh, hey! It's you!

[housewolf]

Kaz.

[He has spent 3 years being depressed and just going through the motions, he has had enough of that, thank you.]

How's it going?

[bachelorbored]

Oh, you know. Same old, same old!

Listen, can you possible get me a coffee? HK-47 has walked off somewhere, and I'm too tired to find him.

[housewolf]

The... the killer robot?