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

[saibot]

You don't wish anyone to see.

[It was more of a statement than a question. He found it interesting those who choose to stand guard over their own grave -- just because they didn't want anyone to witness their deaths.

He wasn't about to make an offering anyway, this isn't someone he knows so it's of little interest to him. He was mostly just stalking around like a ghost.]

[itsaname]

[ Shadow shrugs. He's not going to deny it. Certainly not when his intentions are so apparent, guarding the grave as he is. ]

It was a kind of personal way to die.

[ The visions could be even more personal, he knows. He supposes he should be grateful that the revelations about his parentage were omitted. ]

[saibot]

All death is personal. Either to yourself or the even the one that caused it.

[He didn't really care if someone watched his own death, but he had difficulty comprehending a lot of human emotions anymore. If he were still human he might actually feel the same as Shadow.]

[itsaname]

I guess so.

[ Shadow wonders if anyone else could be considered the cause of his death. It was ultimately his choice to hold the vigil. He has plenty of opportunities to avoid it. ]

It sounds like you're speaking from experience.

[ His tone isn't accusatory, nor is his expression. For all he knows, this stranger has just been going around peeking at other people's deaths. ]

[saibot]

The clan I'm originally from were assassins. We played a role in many deaths.

[He actually wouldn't care if he was accused or not. He couldn't really feel anything close to compassion or empathy anymore so regret over anything he's done is out of the picture. He just stated a fact. The Lin Kuei were assassins though he's sure that his brother's new version was nothing of the sort.]