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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[nodo]

[ LAW IS SUFFERING....but he's also going to focus on finishing off his food that steven made in silence while he does is best to not think of how much of a fool he probably has come across by now.

it started so well!!! how did it end like this!!! anyway, with food done, he's going to go back to peeking at whatever it is that steven is looking at this time. anything good on the interwebs? ]

[kokytos]

[ Good, eat your food Law. At least the only one here to witness your embarrassment at the moment is just Steven. Because if anyone is around just watching all this bullshit, who the fuck even are you?

Steven apparently got bored of trying to Google things that could be useful or helpful to them, so he's apparently taken a break and has YouTube open. He's just watching interesting-weird videos now. ]

So? Did it taste halfway decent?

[nodo]

[ voyeurs who want to see one of the more normal(??) couples in the graveyard i guess. ]

Good enough that I'd take your cooking over figuring it out on my own.

[ it's a compliment even if it's a terrible one. law has resumed his previous location of being semi perched on steven's shoulder as he watches the video and...? ]

What are you watching? [ he WAS going to ask about the snail but now the luge course is happening and law doesn't even know? then it keeps getting more random and HELLO??? ] Is this what the internet is like?

[ send help. ]

[kokytos]

Your compliments could use some work, you know that? [ Idle. He would've said "they're terrible", but boo, effects. ]

It's just some video I saw on the front dashboard. Pretty interesting though, don't you think? [ Yeah Law the internet is just like this. ]

[nodo]

[ he'll just pat steven on the head for his commentary on his back compliments. yeah, yeah... the fact that steven gets any at all!!! ]

I guess. [ he's frowning as the video continues to play out. it's...not the worst?? but oh. oh no....... why must this video contain this?? ] What kind of captain loses control of their ship?

[ law will0 sound so offended by this as he watches the carnage. THIS HURTS HIM??? he has a submarine, sure, but it isn't as though law has never had a normal ship before in his life. ]

[kokytos]

[ HAHAHA. ] Of course that's the thing you would focus on. It's a yacht, he said -- so it's probably not someone who boats for a living.

[nodo]

[ ....

this will probably sound hilarious to steven coming law on so many different levels but he just can not. ]

Why are the rich the worst?

[kokytos]

Says the man worth what, a hundred million dollars!

[nodo]

It was half a billion.

[ because that makes it SO much better. ]

Just because I'm worth that much doesn't mean I have access to it all. It's part of a bounty and the other thing would kill me if I "spent" it.

[ you know, if it worked the way that it was rumored to. ]

[kokytos]

Oh, I'm so sorry for underselling you. [ Haha. ] Though if your rhetoric is eat the rich, well, you're going to hate the crowd I hang with.

[nodo]

[ it's not like law is all "eat the rich" but the wealthy people he knows are a bit....well. they're not exactly wonderful. different societies so he's giving it a shot. ]

Oh? What does that mean?

[kokytos]

[ He waves a finger in his face. ]

Rich assholes, Law. There tend to be a lot around me. [ Also Steven is one but that's implied, kind of. ]

[nodo]

[ he'll squint at the finger in his face. ]

How big of assholes are you talking about? The company I keep aren't pleasant either.

[ recent company is quite nice actually but he doesn't need to say that. ]

[kokytos]

[ His teasing quiets, suddenly. He's still got a smile on his face, but it's closed. The answer to that is actually more real than he'd like to get into. Keep joking! ]

They unironically bring sparkling wine sometimes, or other weird shit.

[nodo]

Sounds stuffy. Well, as long as they don't part of slave auctions I think I'll be forgiving.

[ hmm... well, law will joke(?) about this as well?? because really? fuck the world nobles. ]

[kokytos]

Well.

Nobody I actually like does.

[ Sometimes you are a socialite who socializes with other socialites and nobles, some of whom are assholes, for the sake of information. ]

[nodo]

[ law and his fucking deal to become part of the government :') sometimes you become "friends" with the enemy to get what you want. ]

I'll consider it a win then.

[kokytos]

[ He just sits back. ]

I'll treat you to something nice, if you get to come by. Luxuries with no worries about those kinds of people.

[nodo]

Luxuries?

[ if he's sitting back then law will take a step back...or steven and lean into his chest/torso area...because height difference even when sitting. ]

Such as finer foods, gifts, and all of that? I can't say I've had that kind of treatment before.

[kokytos]

I'm not much of a gifting person, but I could try if that's your language.

[ Be quiet it's a 3 inch difference, wow. ] If you wanted to try it, you could spend a day having the getting pampered experience.

[nodo]

[ it's still something!!! also hello? law is thinking this in the literal sense except that doesn't make sense either. ]

My language?

[ and honestly? he's frowning at that. being pampered seems....much..? ]

I'm not sure if I'd like that.

[kokytos]

Yeah. It's a whole category of things called "love languages". A concept someone came up with, about what form of expression speaks best to you. "Gift-giving" is one of them.

[ He shrugs! ] Honestly? A lot of things about opulence is pretty gross. But as just a one-time experience, it could be fun. I know these things fairly well, so I know what to avoid.

[nodo]

What are the others?

[ guess law is learning what the languages of love are now and this is dangerous knowledge....closes my eyes. also i cannot believe steven is here to offer a pampering to law. ]

Do you? What kind of things would you go about wanting to avoid then?

[kokytos]

Words, gifts, acts of service, physical touch, and quality time.

And anything overly wasteful, honestly. The rich really love doing that for some reason.

[nodo]

[ hmm. ]

If those are the choices I'd prefer "acts of service" and "quality time" then.

[ you know, if they're just going to talk about that? or even if not..... though it'd make sense for a tsundere, wouldn't it? ]