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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[holeful]

[You know what I'm going to give Law to deal with is when he comes into the residence building Fukuda is just splayed out on the floor in front of the door like he's dead?

Like, Law can and perhaps should ignore him but he's literally too big to step over.]

[nodo]

[ why.

why am i being inflicted with this? as much as i would have law step on fukuda, he won't because of reasons unknown to me but he will nudge him with his foot because that's the least he can do in this situation. ]

Fukuda.

[holeful]

[Wow step on the big dog you coward.]

Ah. Hello, Doctor. Thank you for avenging Omi.
[Does it really count if it was by accident? Anyway he's not moving.]

[nodo]

[ no because fukuda might be into that and law isn't about to indulge him in that. ]

Omi? [ h..wh... hello? give him a hot second but not much more because: ] So, it was Douman who killed Omi?

[holeful]

[AEJDFJKEDFJ STOP!!!!!]

Aah. That's what Omi said. They didn't kill Steven, though.

[nodo]

[ TELL ME I'M WRONG CAITIE..... ]

No, I didn't think they did. That was Vlad, wasn't it?

[ he'll sound a little distracted from fukuda and be looking around for something. it's fine though, he's still here for you fukuda.

hmm. ]

[holeful]

[YOU ARE WRONG!!!]

Didn't you kill Mr Douman because you thought they did?

[Listen its fine he knows he's worthless garbage this week.]

[nodo]

[ HMMMM.... ]

No, I killed them because of something they said about Steven.

[ THIS MAN HAS NOTHING LEFT TO WORRY ABOUT... god it's almost a relief. ]

[holeful]

What did they say?

[He's curious.]

[nodo]

[ sorry..... ]

None of your concern and nothing that matters now.

[holeful]

Haha... I see you're as uninterested in small talk as ever. Or maybe just with me.

[He is still blocking the way because Law hasn't asked him to move.]

[nodo]

[ god i can't believe this is how they're talking..... ]

It's not just you. I didn't tell anyone what they said to me.

[holeful]

Mm... still, I'm your natural enemy, aren't I? With you being a doctor...

[And him being a killer.]

[nodo]

Don't forget I'm a pirate, too. It's not as though I stop people from killing, I make sure they don't end up dead.

[ says a doctor who is dead and also murdered so it's all about perspectives here. ]

[holeful]

That seems like a difficult balance to strike.

[nodo]

Does it?

It works out for me just fine.

[holeful]

Haha.... I'm starting to wonder if there's anything you find difficult, doctor...

[nodo]

[ RELATIONSHIPS. ]

I'm sure there's something; I'm not a perfect person.

[holeful]

Well, you are a killer now, after all...

[And he closes his eyes. Is he going to sleep???]

[nodo]

I was one before I came here.

[ ...



.....


is he...going to sleep...? ]

[holeful]

[He doesn't respond so yeah he might have fallen asleep.]

[nodo]

[ "law woke up and choose violence"

i also can't believe law has only been nice to luca and steven at this point. ...though one is a given. ]

Don't just go falling asleep in the middle of the way.

[ with an all not that kind of a ""nudge"" with his foot. ]

[holeful]

[Either he's still asleep or just too Depression to respond?]

[nodo]

[ ....

he'll "nudge" fukuda with his foot with more purpose. or, well, otherwise known as law will lightly kick fukuda in the arm. ]

[holeful]

[I wanted more than a light kick but Naru will yell at me so he wakes up, raising his head to look at Law.]

Oh, Doctor, it's you again.