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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))
flamingprick: (yeah whatever)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-27 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
But I don't think they would. There's a lot of people there that wouldn't vote for an innocent person, maybe.

[But now he's curious.]

What did you get threatened with?
liveronhersleeve: (Explaining)

[personal profile] liveronhersleeve 2018-01-27 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
You ever look at the info about me on the tablets? The whole "conspiring to commit deicide" thing was because there was a real nasty demon that'd been riding something that used to be one of my people's gods. It wouldn't have taken a lot to shake the demon loose rather than destroying it.
flamingprick: (but I hate studying!)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-27 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeesh, that does sound like trouble. Sorry I couldn't have helped you out with it.

[What with him being the 'ultimate exorcist' now apparently.]

But yeah, that's quite a threat. I don't blame you for wanting to prevent it from happening.
liveronhersleeve: (Another of the Fierce One's daughters)

[personal profile] liveronhersleeve 2018-01-27 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, Grim Eyes kind of thinks Rin would have fit right in with the team, which is to say he would have driven Digger crazy.] I don't know what the others have hanging over them, obviously. But I wasn't going home to that.
flamingprick: (I heard something like that once)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-27 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I don't blame you for that. But at least us dead don't have to worry about those 'sticks' anymore, right?
liveronhersleeve: (wot u say)

[personal profile] liveronhersleeve 2018-01-27 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the theory. [She's... pretty confident that the raccoons aren't actually competent enough to deceive the whole group about it for an extended period of time.]
flamingprick: (yeah whatever)

[personal profile] flamingprick 2018-01-27 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I wonder: maybe none of the threats are real, and they can't do anything anyway.

[But they DID have that vacation a while ago...maybe they can do something?]
liveronhersleeve: (Oh no)

[personal profile] liveronhersleeve 2018-01-27 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...yeah, I spent a lot of time trying to convince myself that was true.

Anyone who still hasn't killed or died must either be willing to take that bet, or they've got principles of solid stone.