probe | 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.

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Of course I don't!

One moment, I'm beating that shovelling bastard to death with a big Toblerone for the second unexpected time in an evening, and the next, I'm waking up here alongside that awful android and the sharkmouth woman!

And I'm just supposed to know if I was a Toblerone between those events!?

[now]

[looks extremely dubious about the fact that kaz may NOT have been a toblerone????]

[he grabs douman by the shoulders, which luckily isn't too much of a reach, and shakes them.]

Did! I! Taste! Familiar!?

[aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh]

I-I don't think so, Toblerones just...taste sweet! Stop shaking me?!

Edited 2021-03-10 23:53 (UTC)

What did I taste like!!

You taste like...l-like...oh, please don't ask me! I don't want to think about eating you!

Well I need you to get thinking! Was it luxury chocolate-esque? Would you describe my tasty flesh as sweet? Am I naturally Tobleronekin?

Answer me, giant clown man!

[SOMEONE PLEASE SMITE THEM OFF THE FACE OF THIS HELL THANKS]

You're not like chocolate-! But! I guess I'm just...I naturally find it sweet in a...weird way?

[looks at limbo describing things tasting like "sweet nectar" and closes my eyes]

Deeper! More detail!

[Just blushing???]

No! I refuse!

Denied! Deets!

What are "deets"???

The "hot goss", if you will.

[SHAKES KAZ]

STOP SAYING THINGS WITH YOUR MOUTH!

BUT I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY IT WITH!

JUST SHUT UP FOR GOOD! YOU....P-PINK-HAIRED HOOLIGAN!

NO! TALKING IS THE BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE MY REALLY IMPORTANT IDEAS, WISHES, AND DREAMS! ALSO, TO ORDER COFFEE THE WAY I LIKE IT!

YOU... PROBLEMATIC MONOCHROME CIRCUS ENTERTAINER!

Edited 2021-03-11 03:27 (UTC)

PROBLEMATIC? YOU SHOULD BE SAYING THAT ABOUT YOURSELF!!! AND I'M AN ONMYOUJI! ONMYOUJI! NOT! A CIRCUS ENTERTAINER, YOU CLOWN!

Edited 2021-03-11 03:29 (UTC)

I DON'T KNOW WHAT AN ONMYOUJI IS, AND AT THIS POINT, I DON'T CARE!

CLOWN? YOU'RE THE CLOWN AROUND HERE!

[he is now shaking douman back as they engage in mutual hijinks]