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]

Mine as well. Though that's not surprising, what would take them away?

[It would take more than death to pry out the cryomancy that's his birthright.]

Agreed, I can see how this could spiral quickly. Especially now that emotions are running high after seeing so much death, willingly or not.

[reigniter]

Death itself? Seeing as we're not supposed to have bodies with us.

[All of this is very confusing to him. If his real body is dead, why does he have another one? His magical skills are tightly entwined with Noct's royal magic- he shouldn't have it here. Only his experience with daggers and polearms.]

True... I didn't expect that the offerings would do... this.

[People around here that arrived with him are just nice and respectful. With a few exceptions but that doesn't overshadow the others.]

[paletteswap]

Why wouldn't we have bodies?

[He'd been in the Netherrealm for years, everyone had bodies. How else do you make someone suffer without being able to rip them to shreds or be in a constant state of fighting?]

It's unfortunate that when we seek to honor someone in death, we are being forced to witness their final moments. It seems... disrespectful.

[reigniter]

I was thinking our spirits wouldn't be in solid form as a proper body.

[It's just how he perceived that afterlife would look like. His spirit would retain the shape but he wouldn't have proper, living body.]

It really does. I wish there was some other way to pay respects.

[He gave a small prayer but that's not enough. At least, not from Ignis' point of view.]

[paletteswap]

[Not from Kuai's point of view either. There's traditions to be upheld and respected and not being able to preform them makes him feel dishonorable.]

Perhaps we could make another memorial elsewhere that wouldn't have the same effect as this. But someone will have to maintain the graves so they do not fall into disrepair.

[He sighs, thinking about graveyard maintenance was not how he envisioned his day going.]

We'll deal with it, as we have all other things. It's unfortunate it even came to this.