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🔫👽 ([personal profile] probe) wrote2020-12-09 02:05 pm

GRAVEYARD ✨





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.

holeful: (John Mulaney) (Default)

[personal profile] holeful 2021-03-08 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.]

I mean, that too, but more than that... I wanted someone else to make the same decision I did.
housewolf: (My favorite type of characters are)

[personal profile] housewolf 2021-03-08 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
And you're... satisfied now?
holeful: (I like when things are crazy.)

[personal profile] holeful 2021-03-08 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. I think that's why I don't feel like I have to do it anymore. But I could if someone wanted me to.
housewolf: to the regional manager (i hate the guessing game of how)

[personal profile] housewolf 2021-03-08 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. I'm glad you don't have the compulsion anymore.
holeful: (In terms of like instant relief)

[personal profile] holeful 2021-03-08 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
To most people it doesn't really matter if I do or not, though.
Edited 2021-03-08 03:57 (UTC)
housewolf: (i need to go to dark cvs)

[personal profile] housewolf 2021-03-08 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
That's pretty important.
holeful: (My vibe is like)

[personal profile] holeful 2021-03-08 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Closing his eyes.]

I mean they think poorly of me anyway, is all. It's fine though.
housewolf: (but you have the option to fight me)

[personal profile] housewolf 2021-03-08 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sure it's fine?
holeful: (That line never gets a laugh)

[personal profile] holeful 2021-03-08 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I think those sort of people are mostly still alive.

[So it's fine!!! People in the graveyard are chill. Mostly.]
housewolf: (but you have the option to fight me)

[personal profile] housewolf 2021-03-08 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Looks at how Omi attempted to fight Vlad.]

Mm. That's true.
holeful: (Get out of here with your technicalities)

[personal profile] holeful 2021-03-08 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Fukuda says nothing but if Omi listens to his breathing it's possible he's fallen asleep???]
housewolf: (pic#14704458)

[personal profile] housewolf 2021-03-08 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Omi follows him right along.

Tired...]