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

[housewolf]

Fukuda, I usually play antagonists. I don't want to be that in real life.

[holeful]

[Finger guns]

Exactly!

[housewolf]

... You don't want to help get off of this ship?

[holeful]

Well, I don't mind helping. But someone else will have to take the lead.

[housewolf]

We need to figure out what we can do from here, if there is anything we can do from here.

[holeful]

Once the Avatars are healed up we should ask them about that, I suppose.

[housewolf]

... Tomorrow's Friday, so they'll be busy. Then there's the trial on Saturday. They're usually free after that.

Then they're free after execution on Sunday.

[holeful]

[Nodding.]

That gives them plenty of time to... regrow everything.

[housewolf]

... You know, I never used those pods. But maybe they're going somewhere else.

[holeful]

Maybe... the Avatars seem to have different constitutions than us.

[housewolf]

I still wish they didn't get injured that badly in the first place.

[holeful]

[Hmmmm.]

It's a shame we're stuck in this place since it seems like we similarly regenerate from any injuries.

[housewolf]

It takes us like... fifteen minutes before we're fine again. That looks like they need to go somewhere else.

[holeful]

So you think our ability to avoid death is even stronger than theirs?

[housewolf]

We already count as "dead" but the Avatars are still alive.

[holeful]

Are they? If they can come here, maybe...

[housewolf]

Hm... We can text them on either side, but I think that's because of their job...?

[holeful]

Mm. And they can't pass messages along for us. There's a lot we still don't understand.

[housewolf]

We've been in this for about a month now... What are we missing?

[holeful]

Well, I think maybe this isn't how things usually go. And the Avatars can't tell us what they don't know.

[housewolf]

Is there a "usually" we can even compare against?

[holeful]

[Just shrugs!!!!]

Maybe we should coordinate who's going to contact which avatar, though? So we don't go asking the same one the same question twice?

[housewolf]

We could use the whiteboard for that.

[holeful]

Yeah!! That's a good idea. We can do that when we decide it's time to message them.

[housewolf]

We'll talk about it at trial watch.