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

[bachelorbored]

Oh, wow. Petty.

[housewolf]

[SHRUGS. Death happens.]

What was with all the Toblerone?

[bachelorbored]

You mean, when I died, or just Toblerone in general?

They're the best generally-available luxury chocolate, if that's what you're asking!

[housewolf]

When you died, I know what they are.

[bachelorbored]

Well, uh... first, I froze Ming Yi with my power, then I beat him to death with my big Toblerone, then, just in case, I buried Ming Yi in them in case he survived and tried to come after me!

...But not only did he survive, he got out of the Tobelrone tomb—the Tomblerone, as I've taken to calling it!—and killed me anyway!

Crazy, right?

[kokytos]

 

[bachelorbored]

My feelings exactly!

[housewolf]

[Wha...]

I don't know where to start with that.

[bachelorbored]

Take your time. It's a lot!

[housewolf]

Did he attack you first?

[bachelorbored]

Yeah! He was all, "oh it's so weird we're both awake, let's get a snack!", and then he tried to garrott me in the middle of the kitchen! Absurd behavior. I've never done anything to him!

[housewolf]

[Closes his eyes very hard.]

That sucks.

[bachelorbored]

It's fine, I got out of that one.

[housewolf]

But you did end up dying.

[brightred]

You're just not very good at murder! [Grell says, from across the room.]

[bachelorbored]

I don't want to be good at murder!

I wanted to survive!

[brightred]

And you're not any good at that either!

[bachelorbored]

It's hardly my fault that one of us has a gun!

[commedia]

Uh, but....do you know why your body disappeared like that? I guess you were dead at the time so you wouldn't know...

[bachelorbored]

Disappeared?

[he seems genuinely flummoxed by the question?]

What do you mean? Like... it disappeared in the trial? Disappeared how? When?

[commedia]

Yes, everyone thought that...Limbo ate you in the form of a Toblerone, because your body never showed up.

[it was INCREDIBLY STUPID]

[bachelorbored]

What? What are you talking about? Eat me as a Toblerone!?

[kaz is aghast, hands akimbo at the thought]

Hell no! That's cuckoo bananas. If that asshole Ming Yi could have turned me into a Toblerone, why would he have put me to sleep, first?!

Maybe he just, uh... I don't know. Ground me up into little pieces...? I mean, come on! There had to be something, right?

[commedia]

...

[Kind of trying not to look disgusted at the thought of Kaz being in little Toblerone pieces.]

No. Not a single thing. I think at the time I thought Gluttony might have used their portals to get rid of the body, but...

[bachelorbored]

...But?

[kaz is trying not to look freaked out, and it's failing.]

Nobody told me my body was missing! I thought you guys just... fucked up, or something! Everyone else had a body! I saw the trials! [did he??? did he really?????]

Maybe you just lost it? Like, Ming Yi stuffed it in a closet, or something!

[commedia]

No, I'm pretty sure they checked your entire room out...and don't the bodies update when they go to the location of the body?

[it was just GONE, bro]