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

[spitefullight]

[ He hadn't touched the grave yet. He had had enough with experience people dying for a lifetime...or second life time. Elden had looked at the grave and had assumed when he saw the name it was of the boy he met. So, Five really was there name. He wonders what kind of parent would just give their kid a number?

If he was being honest he could think of a few parents who could fit that description. But, really what he focuses on is the dates. He can do the math...

30 years. So...this kid wasn't human? He squints at it a bit before he hears the voice and suddenly stands to his feet. Elden looks at the so called boy with recognition, but he's scanning them now. ]'

I didn't look, Five. I've already intruded on enough people's privacy.

[ Still, he purses his lips in thought before saying; ]

So, you're not a kid, are you? Or at least, you age a lot slower than humans do, am I right?

[fogey]

Wrong.

[ he doesn't relax, arms crossed, as he takes in the guesses. even if elden did respect his privacy enough not to look at the memory, five isn't too thrilled about the questions. ]

I am human, Jesus. [ even if he often feels otherwise, all that blood on his hands. ] I just look like a child. Time travel.

[spitefullight]

[ Right, okay, human....but in a child body.

So an angry 30 year old because of time travel? It's sort of hard to make sense of that but, he lifts his hands up in surrender. ]

Sorry, I just, there's races of people where I'm from who look like they're kids but are really in their hundreds.

[fogey]

[ he has to make a sound that's almost a laugh, at least, at that. ]

I'm not quite that old, and thank God for that. [ hundreds....christ.... ] I've never heard of anything like that.

[spitefullight]

It's not uncommon from where I'm from. Elves, halfings, Aasamir, tieflings, lots of different races with different but long life spans. Some of them can even pass as human.

[ He gives something of a non committal shrug to his explanation as he looks at the other. ]

Point, being is I'm sorry I assumed you were younger than me. I guess I was projecting or something stupid like that.

[fogey]

[ he hasn't heard of even half of those races, and those he have are straight from fiction. elden's world is clearly far, far removed from his own. unsurprising, really, given the variety of people here. but still odd to confront.

he gives the kid kind of a funny look at the apology, then shrugs. he probably does sound angrier than he thinks, wound tight by the situation; but elden hasn't done anything, in particular, to really annoy him.

(not that he loves being asked questions as a general rule. but there are the momentary annoyances, and the things he actually holds onto.) ]

Most people around here assume I'm a child, because I look like a child. That's nothing special.

[ worth apologizing for, that is. ]