EVENT LOG: GRAVES

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EVENT LOG:
GRAVES

characters: everyone.
location: Bonfire Square.
date/time: July 12-19.
content: mysterious shrines appear and bring visions of death.
warnings: likely violence and potentially gore.

time to pay your respects.

It happens when no one is looking, when most of the town is asleep and the rest are inside. A makeshift cemetery has come to Beacon, taking up residence in the middle of Bonfire Square. Each monument, shrine, and altar is dedicated to someone who now resides here, a memorial of their previous life.

Some may be drawn by curiosity, others by fear, and some may simply have to pass through this strange graveyard to get to the Bonfire itself. Whenever a person gets near, the altars beckon with a mysterious urge— an urge to approach, and an urge to leave something behind. They will feel compelled to make offerings at the various shrines, but doing so has a curious effect; it causes one to experience the death of the person whose grave they've honored.

Whether you resist the compulsion or give in willingly (or something in between), you'll also have to wrestle with the fact that a grave exists for you. Will you let your death be known, or try your best to keep it secret? Destroying it sure won't work, as it will return— with a duplicate somewhere else in town.

However you choose to deal with this, one thing is hard to ignore— this a tangible reminder of your death, and the fact that it's probably permanent.

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Re: tavern

[hardwearing]

[ Ohhhh no, he's definitely not happy. Wash is only trying to eat at all because he knows he has to keep some kind of a routine or he spirals, and that's not something he can afford to let happen ever again. So food at regular intervals, sleep on a schedule as much as he can manage, and sticking to his training regiment even if it's completely useless in death. Better to not need it then regret he didn't keep it up.

He doesn't expect company, though, at least not from a complete stranger, and that accounts for most of the surprise in his expression. The rest is, yes, due to the fact that it's a teenager, but death doesn't care about such things unfortunately. It's just sadder. ]

No. I want it to be over already, so the damage stops spreading.

[ It comes out a little clipped, awkward, like he doesn't know how to address this without appearing vulnerable to a stranger. God, Wash, learn to people. But it's then that it occurs to him maybe this kid is approaching him not just out of random concern for his mood, but because he saw and figured it out... it's not rocket science to connect the dots between him and Kyna. His expression softens a bit, but also turns kind of wary. ]

...did you...?

[spitefullight]

No.

[ He answers immediately before the question is finished. He looks at the other with a bit of a sad expression of his own, but, Elden just looks at other with no trace of recognition. Considering he hadn't been told to leave yet, Elden just grabbed the seat across from them, pulling it out and sitting down.

His gaze shifts towards the window, lips knit together as he stares off in contemplation of the graves outside.]

But, it's obvious what's wrong. People seeing how you died, you not getting a say in who knows or how they know. People experiencing exactly how you felt....it's like an invasion of privacy. [ Really, it's the best way he can think to describe it. He lets out another exhale before looking back to the man, giving something of a shrug.]

So, I figured I'd come ask. Least this way you don't have to give context on what happened, just...you know, vent about why it's upsetting.

[hardwearing]

[ The stranger claims the seat across from him and explains his take on the situation, and Wash finds himself nodding along. It's a little more complex than that for him, because it's not just his privacy being invaded, but he doesn't want to explain that part and risk this kid -- or someone else nearby -- getting curious.

He doesn't particularly want to vent, either, because the most upsetting part is definitely the emotions he knows are winding up experienced. His guilt, his grief, his terror, none of it for himself. It's intensely personal and no one's business. Not even this kid's. Like he just said, all he wants is for it to be over to minimize the damage. But they have no control over that, and this guy wants to help so... he'll try to be a little more polite for someone who obviously means well. Or maybe just needs to vent themselves? ]

Sounds like you've got the right idea already. [ He shrugs, eyes cutting away. ] I should be used to this kind of thing, it happened all the time the last place I was.

[spitefullight]

[ Elden's brow perks a bit out of curiosity when he hears the other say that. What did they mean by that? Was this another one of those people who were from a place and ended up in another place before coming here? Well, no harm in asking; ]

I hope you don't mean waking up from being dead in some spooky afterlife. That would be really bad to have to go through the same thing all over again.