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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death

[evocation]

[Anyone who's kind enough—or compelled enough—to leave an offering at Kyna's grave might be surprised to find themselves somewhere that is certainly not New York.

Instead, it's a patchwork alien city surrounded by dense jungle, and everything is chaos. Kyna and a group of others are protecting what looks like a strange temple, ancient and unfamiliar. There are huge ships hovering in the sky, but on the ground, the fight is focused on the Null, robots made up of hundreds of thousands of intricate parts that seem to shapeshift and change tactics with mindblowing fluidity.

Nearby, in their makeshift little fighting force, some might recognize Wash in his signature gray and yellow armor, and though it's clear Kyna is making a point of keeping an eye on him, it's also clear Wash is handling the fight with an expert level of skill. Most of the others around them seem surprisingly ill-equipped, but they're doing a hell of a job keeping the Null at bay. Kyna, of course, is relying on magic.

She's exhausted, but blasts of fire and lightning seem to be taking the Null down well enough. Despite the circumstances, every well-executed, deadly spell she casts sends a rush of exhilaration through her, and even with the overwhelming odds against them and the knowledge that this is their last stand, Kyna thinks they're going to win this. She takes another one down, a well aimed gout of flame destroying it, but the only that takes its place seems... different, somehow. The plates of its exoskeleton are denser, its body sleeker and swifter. It doesn't really matter. Kyna isn't bothered, and even if she were, she doesn't have time to process it. They have to protect the Door, and that's all that matters. The Null have been changing tactics ever since the first invasion, anyway.

Electricity crackles between Kyna's fingers, but this time, when her spell arcs toward it, the Null doesn't even seem to falter. It surges forward, and whatever the new weapon it deploys on her is, no one ever sees it. Kyna feels it, though, some sort of pulse that shudders through her, and suddenly she can't think.

Her thoughts are scrambled, mind so fogged that she can't focus enough anything, let alone weave her magic into another spell. She scrambles backward out of instinct, panic overtaking her, but she can't even cry out for help before the Null's arm morphs into a sleek javelin and skewers her through the stomach.

The pain is like unlike anything she's ever felt before, all-encompassing and utterly excruciating, and she lets out a weak whimper as the Null shakes her off of its limb and leaves her in the dirt. She bleeds out so quickly that the only thought she manages is a vague, desperate hope that Harlan or Wash won't see her death.

Anyone who witnesses Kyna's death and wants to track her down won't find her anywhere near the graves—she'll be holed up in The Invincible, determined to pretend no one is seeing her last moments.]