GRAVEYARD 2.0

[retellers]

GRAVEYARD Well, that sucked. But no matter what your death was like—whether it was something peaceful or traumatic, you'll find yourself waking in a completely white room on the floor. Small and empty, there isn't anything else there besides an open door to walk through. But before you do that, you'll probably notice that whatever injuries you may have had, including whatever may have been the death blow, are now gone. That's exciting. Stepping out of the room, it seems that you're in a large... house? with three different floors. Everything from floor, ceiling to furniture is completely white, except for the drawings that are plastered to the walls in each room. These are all colorful, drawn in colored pencils and crayon, and resemble a child's drawing. The other notable thing are the windows. While they're present all around the building, looking out of them only shows TV static. Besides that, everything is furnished with the absolute bare minimum of each room. The first floor is all typical common areas one would find in a house. There's a kitchen, living room area, laundry room, dining room, and a main hallway where the stairs are. There are also helpful drawings in these rooms that show the rooms much more lavishly decorated than they actually are. There's a door that appears to be the way to exit the building, it's locked. The second floor consists of nothing but twenty bedrooms. Each room has one queen sized bed, an empty dresser, and an attached bathroom with only a sink, toilet, and shower. Like the first floor, each bedroom has drawn pictures that show it looking much more lavish than it actually does. Thanks for nothing, artist! The third floor only has two rooms. One appears to be a home office with nothing but a desk and two chairs, one behind it and one in front of it. While there's blank pieces of paper and crayons on the desk, the note that was previously there is gone. The other room is much larger, and it's completely empty save for the many drawings lining its walls— in fact, the walls are covered in them, much more than in any other room. On closer inspection, though, it seems like these aren't actually drawings? The papers seem to be showing scenes from the living area. Everything from inside the hotel to the areas beyond the bridge are visible here. However, when curfew hits on Thursday nights, they revert to being normal drawings! Except for the fact that they're all drawings of stick figures being murdered in various ways. Well. At least there's plenty of things to draw with, if you get bored. Also, a handy link to the previous post.

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Shiro's threads

[lionson]

OOC organization is over here, sign up there for a thread.

A

[lionson]

[When they step out of however it is they get to these memories, it's into the blindingly bright light of a clean-looking hallway. The buzz of the electric lights overhead is the only sound here, with no trace of any other person to be found. The hallway lacks any decoration at all, with the metallic surfaces reflecting the light from above and making it seem even brighter.

There are a few doors here, though. Most are locked, but four are unlocked and labeled with stenciled letters on the glass: 'Records', 'Lab 1', 'Lab 2', and 'Rooms'. You get the feeling that you should pick one of these four doors and not bother with the others.

Also, Shiro is nowhere to be found. You'll have to track him down.]

[exercisms]

[I'll just. Jump right in here. Mob will look around, and then go wandering down the hall to the doors. Just. Opening Records?]

[frostythehitman]

[ ...yeah, Vezda will stand behind Mob and try peeking into Records too. Because he doesn't trust there to not be some giant monster that jumps out and tries to eat them. ]

[lionson]

[You never know the monster might be in records.

But in records they're going to find literal paper records, because this office is full of filing cabinets. And these probably should be in Japanese but we're going to say magical translation rules here.

There no people in here thankfully, but there are a couple files on a table, one labeled 'Body Suitability' and the other labeled 'Regeneration Serum'. then there is a drawer open on a nearby filing cabinet. Said drawer is labeled 'AZ: E-G'.]

[exercisms]

[I mean, they magically translate for him to continue to be in Japanese. He's going to just rifle through that drawer, then?]

B

[lionson]

[A light snow trails down from the sky, adding to the thin blanket of snow already covering the muted town. It must be a weekday, because there aren't many people out and about, despite it being early afternoon. Work and school are occupying most, and the cold is keeping everyone else inside. It makes the area feel oddly quiet, despite the fact that it is in a downtown area.

The group will find themselves directly in front of the grounds to a church with an attached dormitory-style building. There is a sign out front that labels it as a church and group home for boys. In the yard there is a haphazardly-built snowman, as well as a mixture of tiny and large footprints trailing this way and that, which are slowly being covered up by the snow.

They can explore the church grounds, or they can go in the front door of the church. Either way, Shiro has gone missing and they will have to find him.]

[suddenlybees]

[ ...Kano goes over to the snowman and starts patching it up. Elsa would have wanted this. ]

[siblingless]

Kano-san, what are you...?

[Sir, your priorities? Oh, well. She would feel bad leaving him behind, so she takes this moment to take a closer look at the footprints. Are they just scattered all over with no discernable trail?]

[lionson]

[It seems like, around the snowman, they're just all over the place. But there is a distinct trail going towards the front door of the church, as well as one that came out of the church. The trail coming out of the church is much older and filled in with falling snow, while the trail going into the church is fresher. Also, that trail shows that it's one set of big footprints and two sets of small.

Good job patching up the snowman, Kano. It looks a lot better now. If a snowman could smile for real, it would.

...actually, the coal pieces that make up the mouth seem to be moving slightly? Hm. What's up with that?]

[suddenlybees]

Yikes!

[ Kano's hands fly away from the snowman's face before it can collapse on him and make some little kids cry. ]

Uh- yeah! Maybe we should leave? Thinkin' about following those footprints?

Hydok here's your trauma

[lionson]

[Hey.

Hey Laine.

You ever seen a demon baby before?

Because that sure is a newborn baby, on fire, running along the wall and causing people to burst into flames.

Luckily Shiro IS there for this thread, though he looks much younger now. He also has a sword in his hands and looks eternally tired.]

Well shit. You know anything about fighting demons?

flaming baby time

[tensecondsahead]

Not really. [Laine says, watching the chaos.]

Are you trying to kill it? [He has a knife, but he'd rather not kill a baby unless he has to.]

[lionson]

Well-

[That baby sure did just light someone on fire.]

-I'd rather not die here, I know that much.

[tensecondsahead]

[Yeah that's a lot of fire. Laine's looking around for anything that looks like it could help either contain a demon baby or put out its fire.]

Do you remember anything at all about getting rid of it?

[lionson]

[He holds up the sword he has.]

Stab it in the heart- [Which, if Laine is looking closely, he will see is floating outside of the baby's body.] -and it should neutralize the demon in it. But that kid's only a half-demon, so who knows what'll happen once the demon in him is neutralized.

You any good at swords? I'm alright, but I'm better at guns.

Raven

[lionson]

[The fog of memories opens up to a similarly cloudy view, as Raven is going to end up on a snowy mountain in the middle of a snowstorm. He should watch his footsteps, because the snow is deep.

The snow is also bloody, too. There's a trail of footsteps through the snow, heading towards a nearby watchtower, but they're staggering and there are drips of blood on the ground.

There is also the sounds of two infants crying up ahead.]

[laid]

[Well this is nothing if not deeply troubling!! But at least the two things worthy of concern are in the same direction, right? He's just going to follow the bloody footprints towards the sound of the babies crying?]

[lionson]

[It's hard to see in the snowstorm, but eventually Raven will find the end of the blood trail and footprints. There is the body of a young woman there, laying in the snow right where the footsteps end.

About thirty feet away, at the end of some bloody skid marks in the snow, is Shiro. He's not quite as dead as the woman, the pained look on his face and the way he clutches his bleeding midsection give away that he's still alive at least.

The infants can't be seen yet, but their cries get more insistent.]

[laid]

[Well!!! This sucks!!! But he knows a dead body when he sees one, so he focuses his attention on Shiro, trotting over through the snow and crouching next to him.]

Hey. Don't go dying on me now when we're so close ta the end.

Shima

[lionson]

[Hey Shima, how's it feel to be back at the monastery again? Because welcome home, binch.

The air is very heavy here, though. Since Shima just went through Kyoto arc stuff recently, the miasma should feel familiar. Seeing all of his relatives walking around a good 15 years younger might be a bit of a shock, though.

There is a lot of murmuring about 'the man who fell from the sky' and 'we need to kick him out, he'll interrupt the ritual'. It seems like a man is being held in one of the rooms? Hmm, how strange.

Does Shima want to see what everyone else is doing, or does he want to go see the interloper?]

[yamantaka]

[ MMM you know as curious as he is to see his family around the takezou era, nah

he's going to use all his usual sneaking routes to get to the room where the interloper is ]

[lionson]

[It's one of the guest bedrooms, except there's a couple guys standing outside to make sure he stays in there. Shima can totally sneak in though.

Yep, it's Shiro in there. He's all bandaged up like he got hurt recently, and he's laying in a bed. He is also digging around in his coat (which was folded and put next to the bed) for cigarettes while grumbling to himself.]

Pah! What do they know? I found that sword once, I can find it again.

[yamantaka]

[ just kinda popping in once he smirks at the guards behind their backs. so easy~ ]

Oh, lookin' for something?

[lionson]

[Shiro pauses, looks up at Shima, and blinks a few times.]

...

What the hell are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be a baby?