EVENT LOG: GRAVES

[inthenightmods]

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]

[ daylight sends the most grateful look to riku, smiling a bit to show his appreciation for his patience as he begins to try and tell the story.

it's- it's definitely difficult for daylight, it seems, whenever he stops and stumbles. there's a lot he tries to keep to himself still, a lot he doesn't think he can explain perfectly, and a lot more he doesn't really understand.

what happened, basically, is that daylight feels guilty for what had happened. he had let the woman - erinyes, affectionately known as erin to him - unto the ship in the first place. he had given her access to board the starship, to enter their territory and have a chance to try and kill one of their in the first place. it was because daylight had bonded with erin over circumstances the two had shared, making him look up to her as a big sister over time. it was why he had refused to listen to the others when they had voiced their suspicions against erin, when one of them (emergency aid, a close friend) had begun to dig into her past and find inconsistencies with some things she had said.

he defended her. in the end, even when there were a lot of lies and half-truths exposed, daylight had insisted that she deserve a second chance after all she'd been through. daylight doesn't explain in-depth what happened to erin exactly, but it must have been bad for him to clearly still hold sympathy for her. erin might have lied about some stuff but hadn't everyone, at that point?

(at this point in the explanation, daylight felt bad for throwing in the others' faces how they lied to him about important stuff in the past, but he felt like it was the right thing to do then. he gave them a second chance despite it all. erin deserved a benefit of the doubt then.)

and, well, look at how that turned out for him and everyone else. ]

... I'm just worried for everyone else now. My friends. Erin. The others on the starship. It was chaos when I...

[ it's still hard to admit he's dead. ]

Anyways, um, yeah. That's what happened. It's why, at first, before meeting all of you guys, I wanted to go back home. To see if they're all safe. Since we can't go back... [ he falls quiet, looking more upset now that he's had to think this over and look back at all the mistakes(?) he had made. ] I hope they're fine. All of them.

[ yes. even erin. he wants to know so badly why she did that. he wants to know if she's sorry and if she's safe. ]

[equinoctials]

[ Riku understands.

He understands how insurmountable it can feel, to have these things in him and such insufficient means to express them, or the idea that breathing them aloud makes them too real, that others will see something weak and strange for your admission. He understands so he doesn't press him for an answer.

Riku means it when he says things like take all the time you need and think about it and decide for yourself what's best for everyone. Because he understands how they're all made more whole by the ways they touch the lives around them, so that impact can't be written off.

And Daylight died. Regardless of anything else, that alone makes this the weightiest of subjects. He's allowed to approach with trepidation, with grief and concern. That's all right.

Hearts are unpredictable. ]

That was Erin? The one who...

[ Riku's question comes with a palm pressed against his sternum, over the steady drumbeat of his heart. It's one thing to be concerned about friends, about family, that's what one expects of a denizen of the realm of light. But if that's who it was who killed him...

Riku finds that puts a hot band around his throat. ]

Daylight--