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

[paletteswap]

"They shouldn't even be here." Now he sounds more than annoyed, he sounds mad. If he could personally eviscerate whoever thought to bring children to such a place, even those who were as capable as adults, he would. Such a creature is a monster that deserves no mercy.

"I don't know what the rational response is to seeing your own grave appearing and when others interact with it they relive your death."

[callada]

"Children die too," he points out, though he understands the anger. Not everyone who dies comes here or this place would be much busier.

As for rational responses, though, he's likewise at a loss. He just shrugs. "Everyone is going to handle it differently. But as I said before, I think now I'm more worried about what's to come. I hope it ends up giving us insight into why we're here, though. What we're wanted for, if anything." Other than yes, these resets, but that in itself means very little to him right now.

[paletteswap]

"Certainly, but they shouldn't be subjected to," he gestures around at the darkness and the nearby graves, "whatever this is."

He shakes his head, not fully agreeing, "Perhaps. All we can do is wait."