GRAVEYARD

[pandatreasure]

[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?]

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Comments

[purrtagonist]

[alas!!]

[clicks the right arrow to see if it takes him to another map screen, then]

[pandatreasure]

[It's a floor plan of the second story! Same deal, with the notable rooms—nurse's office, art room, rec room—labelled specifically. The dormitory wing is labelled as such, but the specific room names are all corrupted text. The generic classrooms are numbered, starting with 200.]

[purrtagonist]

[huh. . . Akira pauses when he sees that corrupted text in the dormitory wing, and. tries to click on it to see what happens? again???]

[IF NOTHING HAPPENS he'll just scroll through the maps for floors 3, 4 and 5, if he can. to save Courtney time]

[pandatreasure]

[Nothing happens when the corrupted text is clicked, and all five floors are available to look at, room names labelled. thank you so much for your consideration but also look more specifically at stuff goddamn it]

[purrtagonist]

[HEY HE JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE ALL FIVE FLOORS WERE HERE!!]

[okay he's moving back to floor four, actually! and looking for the DO NOT ENTER room that he and Ichigo tried to break into back on Night 10. is it there and if so what's it look like]

[pandatreasure]

[The actual contents of the room aren't illustrated at all, but the room itself is labelled Control Room.]

[purrtagonist]

[does the map indicate any other entrances to the Control Room, beyond the front door?]

[pandatreasure]

[It looks like the front door is the only way in.]

[purrtagonist]

[damn. can't access the control room from the front door while that horrible rube goldberg death machine is still there, so. . .]

[back to floor two! specifically, the corrupted text near the dorm rooms. can he make out like, any of it, or is it all gibberish??]

[pandatreasure]

[It's just complete gibberish—it definitely looks like letters, layered on top of each other, but it's excruciatingly difficult to figure out what the words are.]

[purrtagonist]

[thanks text gibberish!!]

[okay, another idea. back to the fifth floor. that BIG DOOR with the FUSE BOX, what is it labeled??]

[pandatreasure]

[It's just labelled "Fuse Box." Which. Yeah, I guess.]

[purrtagonist]

[I mean. not inaccurate]

[EITHER WAY, THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING UP WITH THIS MAP, what if he goes to the numbered classrooms on floor one to see if the numbering sequence is like. out of order??? or notable somehow??]

[pandatreasure]

[This school is so bullshit labyrinthine that honestly there isn't much of a point in trying to discern a proper order for these, but floor one is consistently in the 100s, floor two in the 200s, floor three in the 300s, and floor four in the 400s. There isn't a lot of apparent logic put into which wing is 400-410 and which is 411-420 (nice), for example, but 400 and 402 are next to each other with 401 and 403 across from them. That much stays consistent. Something specific we're looking for?]

[purrtagonist]

[mostly just anything in the sequencing that could be taken as a puzzle hint! but if there isn't anything like that, how about secret passageways or secret rooms that might be marked on the map that they otherwise didn't discover during their short tenure of being alive?]

[pandatreasure]

[The secret passageway in the second library is mapped.......... Thanks.

Actually, looking closer, there seems to be some corrupted text around the back side of the interrogation room? But it's complete gibberish, too.]

[purrtagonist]

[THANKS. . .]

[CLICKS ON INTERROGATION ROOM CORRUPTED TEXT, Akira that didn't work before it's totally not going to work now. probably]

[pandatreasure]

[truly i do appreciate your tenacity but it is being applied in the wrong place and it DOESN'T WORK]

[purrtagonist]

[LET HIM LIVE!!!]

[okay FINE, starting from floor one to floor five, are there any OTHER pieces of corrupted text beyond the bits near the dormitory wing and the interrogation room?]

[pandatreasure]

[Alas, that's the end of it. Everything else looks like real and legible words and/or numbers.]

[purrtagonist]

[excellent. time to see if he can close the map out to access the desktop, or if this computer is a Map Only Computer now that it has died in a fiery library inferno]

[pandatreasure]

[There doesn't seem to be any visible way to get out of the map screen, tragically. Hope you like navigating???]

[purrtagonist]

[that's usually Futaba's job, but he sure can give it a whirl!

[is there anything else starkly of note that stands out about this map before he moves on to something else??]

[pandatreasure]

[although we are most certainly not done with this goddamn map i swear to god, nothing actually all that visibly stands out about it.]

[purrtagonist]

[LMFAO COURTNEY]

[WHAT IF]

[HE CLICKS THE LEFT ARROW]

[WHILE HE'S ON THE FIRST FLOOR]

[TO SEE IF ANYTHING COMES BEFORE IT]