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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

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locktouching: (59)

[personal profile] locktouching 2018-01-22 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[RIN THAT'S NOT HELPING. Niles makes a choked noise and huddles in on himself.]
flamingprick: (why would you even)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-22 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[OH GOD

This is normally when he would hug someone but he can't hug anyone here.
]

Is there... something wrong with that?
locktouching: (55)

[personal profile] locktouching 2018-01-22 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Shudders and pulls himself together, slowly taking his hand away from his face.]

There's a lot of things wrong...
locktouching: (56)

[personal profile] locktouching 2018-01-22 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
I'm dead?

[Duh????]

And I'm not worth anything regardless. He should know that.
flamingprick: (what the fuck are you talking about)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-22 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, what is up with you guys here and saying you're not worth anything?
locktouching: (55)

[personal profile] locktouching 2018-01-22 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
...I've had to do detestable things to survive growing up. I've stolen, begged, assaulted, killed... sold everything I could, and when I ran out of things I would sell my... self......

It's no longer behind me, I went right back to killing someone here to get by, and would have let another die in my place. No grand cause for it, just my own worthless life.
flamingprick: (that's a nice story)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-22 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Well for one, your life isn't worthless. Every life is worth something.

Secondly, so what if you did that stuff in the past? You feel bad about it, right? That's the first step to changing who you were. Making mistakes is how you grow. What matters is what you decide to do from this point forward.

[This. This may be an important topic for him.]
locktouching: (09)

[personal profile] locktouching 2018-01-22 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Ah.

Those would be nice words... if I had any kind of future to build.

The dead have no future.
flamingprick: (cheers!)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-22 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
If that's what you really think, then why not join up with me? If I don't come back to life I'm gonna go to Hell and kick Satan's ass, I could always use some help with that.
Edited 2018-01-22 06:54 (UTC)
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[personal profile] locktouching 2018-01-22 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gives Rin a 'why do I even talk to you shonen anime boys' look.]

...For starters, you're not going anywhere. We're restricted to this library.
flamingprick: (listen to me)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-22 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
We're not going anywhere yet. And besides that, you're the one saying you have no value and no future. And I'm saying otherwise: you do have value. You do have a future.

You can come and hang out with me, that's one future. But there's others too, if you don't like that one.
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[personal profile] locktouching 2018-01-22 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rubs his eye with the heel of his palm.]

Is this the part where I'm supposed to vow eternal support and follow you off a cliff?
flamingprick: (*raises eyebrow*)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-22 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
No? Do people really do that?

If you wanna leave, then you can leave whenever.
locktouching: (25)

[personal profile] locktouching 2018-01-23 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
I can't leave.

[We're in this one room, Rin! But also...]

.....

...I... don't want to leave.
flamingprick: (that's a nice story)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-23 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He meant afterwards, but.]

Good. Then you don't have to.