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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Comments

[sunborne]

Thanks.

[ daylight is quick to slip into one of the chairs. he's been getting a lot better in getting into furniture here, late.y it's almost like he's adjusting to the surroundings and is that a good thing or a bad thing?

he tries to put that thought aside for now. there's a more pressing subject to tackle and that's the question: how?

for a few seconds, there's awkward silence on daylight's end. there's a lot he wants to ask, a lot he wants to know but... he can tell that a lot of people's feelings are running high... last thing he wants to do is push too far. ]

Alright- [ with those thoughts, er, thought through- ] I guess the best question to ask right now is what questions don't you want me to ask? About anyone? About anything?

Because... Just say it and I promise I won't make a peep over it.

[callada]

[His mind is running a little slower than usual thanks to the alcohol, he notices, as he mulls it over. This will be the last drink, then. No need getting completely stupid around these people.

Most of what he doesn't want to talk about, ever, with anyone, isn't likely to come up at all based on what happened around the time of his death. People here won't know to ask, and so he'll easily avoid answering. There are certainly other sensitive subjects, of course, but by mentioning them at all, he'll admit their sensitivity. There are things he can't and shouldn't say also due to their confidential status, but those answers are better given as lies. Again, mentioning them as important or to be avoided indicates that they are meaningful.

So eventually, he shakes his head a little, and the tails of the earflaps on his hat shake with the movement.]

I can't think of anything in particular. If something comes up, I'll just let you know as we go. Just asking doesn't itself bother me.