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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[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--