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pandatreasure ([personal profile] pandatreasure) wrote2017-12-24 12:44 am

GRAVEYARD

[You know you must have died—nothing is ever easy around here, certainly not quick, so you must remember burning, bleeding, falling, dying?

And yet. You're waking up.

Do you recognize it here, once you pick yourself up off of the hard floor, maybe half-strewn across a couch or beanbag chair? This room died, too: you're in the library, good as new and maybe better than that, only barely smelling of burnt paper and you only sometimes kick up ash, just like those old wounds that finished you off only ache every now and again, dully.

The book selection isn't quite the same as you remember it—all the bad erotica that didn't die is missing here, sorry to say, but so are the books on everyone's home worlds. Snoop around enough and behind the librarian's desk, you'll find tablets: one for each participant of the game, and with enough experimentation, you'll find the one that reacts when you press the button. You're already logged into your Recyclr account and can read the feed, but the same rules apply: 140 characters, one tweet a day. The voting app is gone, replaced by a sort of security monitoring kind of app. Characters can view different rooms of the school, or even place a few side by side so they can view a few at a time, and they'll be able to see the living go about their day to day lives. There's even an archive of recordings, but only the important ones: murders, executions, investigations, trial highlight reels, and major events like libraries being burned down. Was watching yourself die once not enough? Boy have I got good news for you!!!

It's kind of exciting that you can go around touching stuff, probably, despite being super dead and vaguely transparent in a way you notice like your own breathing; you don't and then you do and it's all you can think about, but your tangibility only extends to the inanimate: try to touch any of your fellow deceased and you'll find that you just pass right on through like touching cold air.

The windows aren't bolted up with those big metal plates on this side of things, but look out of them anytime and it's just pitch-black and still outside, so that's demoralizing. There is, of course, the door out of the library—but for now it's locked up tight. Whatever is a ghost to do?]

((Recyclr

Offerings/Letters
Day 11
Day 14
Day 16))
suppressthedark: (☾ 4)

[personal profile] suppressthedark 2018-01-21 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, honestly, being able to walk around without any injuries is what makes Ichigo also explore - plus that he doesn't want to be useless when he doesn't even have his powers, what the fuck - and he'd been aimlessly poking around before he sees Akira suddenly bolt upright and look around.]

...Akira?

[wtf r u doin

Also hi futayo]
purrtagonist: (Wait is this chalice like a microwave)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-21 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[waves a hand at the both of them!]

No, no one's being dumb. I'm looking for something-- Futayo, is there a re-shelving cart in here?

[he asks, but doesn't offer an explanation]
cluelesscavewoman: (The Usurper in Town)

[personal profile] cluelesscavewoman 2018-01-21 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Head tilt.]

I do not know. I have not seen one, but I do not look at the shelves.
suppressthedark: (☾ 79)

[personal profile] suppressthedark 2018-01-21 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't had time to look that closely.

[He'll help look though!]

purrtagonist: from the devil. for your own safety (Everyone please stand 20 feet away)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-21 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Aha.

[crouches next to the cart and starts to go through the books. what are the titles?]
pandatrash: (Default)

[personal profile] pandatrash 2018-01-21 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[The books on the top shelf, from left to right:
  1. Fast Tires
  2. Fallen Empires of Europe
  3. Grappling With Loss
  4. A Time Apart
  5. Apples to Oranges
  6. Ghost Problems
  7. Fire and Things You Can Do With It
  8. Eatin' Good with Marley
  9. Drinkin' Bad with Marley
  10. Deadwood Palace
  11. East of Forever
  12. Father Funkmeyer's Prayerpalooza
  13. Erase Everything You Love
  14. Erudite Walruses of History


The books on the bottom shelf, from left to right:
  1. Captain Tycoon’s Pirate Adventure
  2. Attack of the Squirrels
  3. The First Loser in History
  4. Perfect Dark Zero: Espionage
  5. I, Robotnik
  6. Arthritis and You
  7. Northern Exposure
  8. Open Book
  9. Orwell Was Right
  10. No Rest For The Wicked Pissah
  11. Fantastic Garbage Dumps and Where to Find Them
  12. Omelette Cooking Techniques
  13. Un Histoire
  14. Raquelle’s Tips For Self-Love

]
purrtagonist: (Naruto is just your animal companion)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-21 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[. . . WELL OKAY]

Futayo, Ichigo? Can you help me flip through these?

[he is grabbing "Captain Tycoon's Pirate Adventue" first, opening and leafing through the pages for anything of note]
Edited 2018-01-21 22:33 (UTC)
cluelesscavewoman: (Distant Affirmers)

[personal profile] cluelesscavewoman 2018-01-21 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's reading Ghost Problems. It seems relevant for her life now.]
suppressthedark: (☾ 13)

[personal profile] suppressthedark 2018-01-21 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait.

[Ichigo grabs his arm - automatically wincing as it goes through him, because he forgot.]

I don't think it's the inside of the books we should be looking at.

If you guys could put them back -

[Even without them, he's got a pretty good idea of what's happening.]

....'Cat Piano on Four' is the bottom, and the top is 'FFGAAGFEDDEFEE'. Those are all notes.
purrtagonist: (Can Holy Fire be used for arson?)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-21 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[. . .!]

Notes to play on the cat piano.

[glances at the door]

Which we can't play at the moment, but. . .

[and then down at his tablet, contemplative]
purrtagonist: (Can I take a rain-check on Valhalla?)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-22 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[WELL THAT'S BORING]

[is there anything else notable about the books, like bright bookmarks or whatever, other than the clever arrangement of their titles?]
purrtagonist: (The gargoyle takes a MASSIVE hit)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-22 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[SO. . . THAT'S. . .]

What's with all these bookmarked chapters about pets?