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GRAVEYARD

Notice of an itinerary change—

Well, shucks! You died. This might be a familiar experience for you, maybe not. Either way, you're probably feeling distinctly less dead now, with any injuries you previously obtained now healed. Grogginess still clouds your mind, but in a way that's reminiscent of waking up rather than anything nefarious.

... Not too unlike when you first arrived here, actually. Namely, because you wake up in what looks to be an airport terminal. Again! It's not quite the same as the one you were in before, but you're not free of airports yet, it seems. To be specific, you're in the baggage claim area, in the most literal sense: lying in an open suitcase on the carousel, going round and around (or, if you were unlucky, you might've tumbled out of the suitcase as it slid down onto the conveyor belt). You might want to hop off at some point.

If you're worried about your belongings, you can find them either on your person or in another suitcase chugging along on the belt. Once you retrieve everything, there's a new area to explore. Plus, reunions to be had with those who died before you, or with the four Hosts you haven't seen since the first week. And should you be worried about the living side, there are various screens around the terminal, allowing you to still watch what's going on over there.

► GRAVEYARD RUNDOWN

You are able to see the living (and their public network posts).
Weekly effects are still active.
Any personal items you didn't give away before your death are with you in the graveyard.
You can still use your curse items on the living, with the usual caveats of avoiding OOC inconvenience (e.g. no effects that would last into Thursday night).
The graveyard has its own set of NPCs (Maestro, Bora, Libeccio, Scirocco). You are no longer able to contact the living side's NPCs via audiences, but you can talk to the other four once again.
If you get injured and would like to be healed (within reason), the graveyard NPCs can heal to varying degrees, so feel free to handwave tapping them until you got one who could help you.
You may handwave the NPCs explaining the basics to you: you're alive again, but you're unable to regroup with the "living" side due to lacking a mode of transportation to the airport terminal where they are, and a barrier is blocking people from leaving the old-fashioned way. Trying to book a ride is a work in progress for the entire graveyard.
As of Week 4, the memshare effect from Week 3 remains.

QUICKLINKS

NAVIGATION; (FULL NAV)

INFO

PLAYER STATUSES IC PROFILES MURDER PROPOSALS CYOA SIGN-UPS

SETTING

NPC AUDIENCES LOCATIONS ROOMING CURFEW

REPORTING

PC TURN-IN MOD REPORTING EVENT TURN-IN VOTING

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ well he did want to write a long screed about proper and true mage rights but just like last time since he was trying too hard to be a debbie downer and a serious sally it is going wildly out of his control and is now an autobiography which is more one of those fics thats labeled slow-burn but the author is a little too addicted to the "slow" part to get to the "burn" like to the point its insanely frustrating and the main characters just someone end up not getting together for literal actual years through increasingly comedically horriblely timed misunderstandings and coincidences ]

[after attempting to follow all this and not making it even CLOSE to the end]

Holy shit! How does this even happen?!

[ FUMING. ]

It's not my fault his mother got chopped into pieces by a blood mage and it made things really unromantic for a long time!

Then he should've been able to get over it, it's not like YOU did it.

Well, no, I did not chop his mother into pieces and reanimate her into a ghoulish puppet meant to evoke my long-lost love, because that would be crazy, but I can see how it might unsettle someone for a while.

(no subject)

sarkazm - 2025-07-03 00:56 (UTC) - Expand

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[ well he's awake again and nursing both a terrible headache as well as a lump on his head. he would like to read this long convoluted story but unfortunately it is long and convoluted and he doesn't have the patience for it right now. ]

I think you should cut it down.

[ BUD ............. ]

I think you should sit down.

[ takes a seat next to anders and squints at the story. ]

Did all of this actually happen to you?

Ugh. Yes. Though it's all irrelevant in the face of what I faced as a mage, and what I was trying to write about here. That's the more important message. It's why it didn't ever work out. The cause is important.

frostfist - 2025-07-03 00:43 (UTC) - Expand

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[ she chooses not to finish reading. ]

Is this your ideal kind of story?

[ hmmmmmm.

well the story is continuing where one of the Love Interests has committed a horrible crime and blown up a church, and the other is trying to decide whether or not to execute him for it. ]

I would say maybe just more the kind of one that happens to me?

[ okay. she sees what is happening. ]

Write what you want to happen to you. Not what has happened to you.

Put my vulnerabilities on paper? In front of everyone? For you all to make fun of or pity me about?

[ sounds like THERAPY. ]

disingenuous - 2025-07-03 00:32 (UTC) - Expand

spiritbalm - 2025-07-03 02:05 (UTC) - Expand

disingenuous - 2025-07-03 02:33 (UTC) - Expand

[ damb who would do this ]

You need an editor or therapy.

Probably both.

If I don't stop hearing about "therapy" I'm going to start blowing up more buildings. I would rather eat glass than go to therapy.

[ relatable tbh ]

Maybe pet more dogs. I hear that works too.

[oh.... good call...

appears in wolf form for therapy dog pets...?]

spiritbalm - 2025-07-02 23:58 (UTC) - Expand

honkinbigteeth - 2025-07-03 00:03 (UTC) - Expand

I don't like dogs. They slobber too much, and crave attention too badly.

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nostradamus - 2025-07-03 00:59 (UTC) - Expand

[Maybe is the only one with the personal experience of patience to read this in its entirety.]

[ there's a really long section in the middle thats just for some reason about killing five waves of endlessly annoying giant spiders and everyone is complaining about the spiders and everything is covered in spider guts and also the spiders are carrying gold in their spider pockets for whatever reason ]