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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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liveronhersleeve: (Oh no)

[personal profile] liveronhersleeve 2018-02-01 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I swear, that girl's got a tree branch between her ears sometimes. ["Sometimes" is being charitable. And then a realization -]

That "lightning" - is that what makes all the devices work in this place?
purrtagonist: (How much nature do you have)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-02-01 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Ah-- yeah, it is. It's called "electricity," but the best way I can think of to explain it to someone who isn't familiar is to call it "lightning."
liveronhersleeve: (Oh no)

[personal profile] liveronhersleeve 2018-02-01 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
And it - works in water, right. Like how when lightning strikes a pond it can kill things living in it. [She-is-fiercer preserve her, how much of an idiot is Minako?]
purrtagonist: (So what happens on a triple botch)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-02-01 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[. . . oh, that's right. . .]

Yeah. That's exactly how it works.
liveronhersleeve: (Annoyed)

[personal profile] liveronhersleeve 2018-02-01 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
The little - she ought to know better, I think that's how she killed me. We flooded the second library and she knocked something into the water.
purrtagonist: to summon the devil (I gotta play the fiddle)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-02-01 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[that is absolutely how she killed you, Grim. BUT HE ISN'T SAYING THAT ALOUD]

Rin was thinking of sending her a warning. Although she really shouldn't need one. . .
liveronhersleeve: (Oh no)

[personal profile] liveronhersleeve 2018-02-01 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Look she just now figured out that everything works here because it's full of lightning, cut her some slack.]

That would require she stop trying to get killed by the wall long enough to check her tablet, though...
purrtagonist: I’m riding a goose paladin (Need I remind you)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-02-01 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ugh]

You've got me there.

Just don't die, Minako. Please.