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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
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cluelesscavewoman: (Distant Affirmers)

[personal profile] cluelesscavewoman 2018-01-24 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Does she have to get the beanbag again?]
very_good_end: (...to kill her.)

[personal profile] very_good_end 2018-01-24 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not full rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-her-head-off laughter at least]
cluelesscavewoman: (Participants in a Chance Meeting)

[personal profile] cluelesscavewoman 2018-01-24 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Good, that was kind of scary. Like when you thanked her for getting the wrong thing.]
very_good_end: (One Two Buckle My Shoe)

[personal profile] very_good_end 2018-01-24 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
[she'll notice the looks and eventually calm down.]

Futayo-san. Let me ask you a question.

Given the position you find yourself in, do you feel any regret?
cluelesscavewoman: (Those Lined Up Before the Horizon)

[personal profile] cluelesscavewoman 2018-01-24 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
No.

[She dips her head. Oh, right, she'd only mention that to Akira.]

If I regretted my actions then I would have tried to avoid being caught.
very_good_end: (Default)

[personal profile] very_good_end 2018-01-24 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but don't you see? They've announced now that there will be unlimited deaths and everyone will be revived.

There may be a situation where the entire remaining numbers dip to ten or below, presumably ending the game immediately.
cluelesscavewoman: (Conversations between Worriers)

[personal profile] cluelesscavewoman 2018-01-24 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
I do not understand how that would make me feel regret...

Judge. But bringing a large amount of the dead back to life would be difficult. They do not come back human unless a lot of care is taken.
very_good_end: (Birth of a New Witch)

[personal profile] very_good_end 2018-01-25 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
This is clearly a better opportunity. You don't realize now you were too impatient?

Everything would have been fine if you had simply gone back to your room... like you were told.
cluelesscavewoman: (Participants in a Chance Meeting)

[personal profile] cluelesscavewoman 2018-01-25 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
This opportunity did not exist then nor did we have a reason to think it would. It does not matter, I would rather have acted before it was too late.

... I was not told to return to my room. [She tilts her head]