GRAVEYARD

[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, but it leads you to somewhere that's not the front lawn. 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. On the desk are some blank pieces of paper along with crayons, as well as a written note next to them that says PLEASE DRAW THE PREFERRED ANIMAL :). It looks like this is how you ask for a meeting with a Leader. 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. As of Week 3, each person has the ability to send messages on their PHS unlocked.

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[suddenlybees]

[ Kano finds Schwann when he's asleep... with a marker in hand... How much of this raven can he draw on Schwann's face before he wakes up? ]

[laid]

[Kano helpfully labeling uncle so we don't forget who he really is...

No unfortunately Schwann is a much lighter sleeper than Raven so Kano maybe gets the head and half a wing on there before history repeats itself and Schwann wakes up to grab his wrist. His grip is a lot firmer this time. It's almost painful actually!]

I see you haven't learned anything in your time here.

[suddenlybees]

[ Yes, please, Raven is just so much easier to spell and I don't have to keep parenting up or copypasting to remember how Schwann's name goes.

Kano would much rather have the old Raven back, but it doesn't look like he's learned anything— he doesn't react to having his wrist grabbed either, as if he can't feel it. ]

Haha~ How'd you know it was me and not, like... Cater?

[ Actually there's very few people here who would do this, maybe it was just a 50:50 on him and Cater ]

[laid]

[I'm sorry Ori mods said it's Schwann time for the forseeable future I would go back to Raven if I could.

Anyway if he's honest Schwann didn't 100% know it was Kano, just strongly suspected. Because yeah, he doesn't think the others would do such a thing. Regardless, as soon as Kano speaks, it's confirmed.]

Call it intuition.
[He does let Kano's hand go as he sits up, at least.]

Sit down, Kano. We should talk.
[This isn't a request it's a command.]

[suddenlybees]

[ He looks down on the ground in front of the couch, then back up at Schwann, but doesn't move. ]

Eh... Do we really have to? I'm, like, super shy and am no good at talking, see?

[laid]

[Closing his eyes... man, honestly, he can't say he doesn't understand that. He's not much for conversation either, but.]

Sometimes things are hard because they are necessary. I believe I have been unfair to you in the past and would like to understand better what happened.
[He can't remember properly, can't remember what he, what "Raven" said, but he dimly remembers Hikaru scolding him for it.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano makes a face that Schwann can't see. ]

Ehh, no.

[ Oh no. Nononono not this sort of talk. ]

Everybody's been, like, super fair to me? There's nothing to understand. Let's just not understand and leave it at that.

[laid]

[This is what you get for pulling pranks, Kano!!!

Super fair, huh? Falsely executing someone is fair, now? Well, he can see where that sort of logic would come from, but after that "removal" he's not sure he buys it.]

I'd like to. But you're the one who came over here to bother me. [Also he thinks Hikaru would want him to try a little harder. But he won't say that.]

There's nothing fair about dying the way you did.

[suddenlybees]

If you'd stayed asleep, you wouldn't have been bothered...

[ It's not like he wanted to talk? The plan was to draw and run but now he has his wrist trapped and nothing to cut his arm off with. ]

Anyways, I've had this conversation plenty of times! It was super fair, what happened, after what I did. We really can't just leave it at that?

[laid]

[You know, I said Schwann let him go, but now you've given me this card to keep Kano trapped in the conversation so I will retcon it. You are in a prison of your own making.]

Tell me what was it that you did, exactly?
[SINCE HE... DIDN'T KILL ANYONE?]

[suddenlybees]

[ adfslkhj my reading comprehension!! ]

Uhhhhh... like... existed?

[ And that is a crime enough to warrant execution, maybe ]

[laid]

[OH BOY. Yeah Schwann frowns mightily at that. Where do you even start with that. He has to strategize a moment. With thinking like that, you're not going to just accept being told it's wrong. He needs more imformation first.]

And who told you it was a crime for you to exist?

[suddenlybees]

What does it matter?

[ Why does he care? It's not even like it's one person, but so many people, implied and to his face, over years and years and years...

It doesn't matter anymore. He's gotten used to living as a criminal. ]

That execution was, like, best case scenario, you know? Really, things couldn't have lined up better. I don't feel too bad about it, so you don't have to either.

[laid]

[Hm this is definitely some sort of karmic punishment, isn't it. Having to hear thoughts like that coming out of someone else's mouth.]

It matters because at least some part of you didn't want to die. Otherwise you wouldn't have bothered fighting back.

[suddenlybees]

Fighting back...?

[ It takes him a moment to recall the execution, as much as he doesn't think about it if he can help it. ]

Aah, that. I guess, yeah, you could call that fighting back. Yeah. It would be good if everybody thought of it that way.

[laid]

[HM.]

What would you call it, if not that?
[SIR?]

[suddenlybees]

Granting wishes.

[ THERE WAS

SOME SORT OF PLAN....... ]

[laid]

[Schwann is so tired.]

Please elaborate.

[suddenlybees]

Don't wanna.

[ Kano is also very tired. ]

Let me finish my drawing and I'll tell you.

[laid]

...
[Weighing his options.]

You may finish it while telling me.
[Sucks for you Schwann doesn't care about his appearance as much as Raven!!!]

[suddenlybees]

Deal.

[ He picks up the pen with his off-hand and starts drawing even more badly. ]

So, like...

[ Just going to talk very very slowly. ]

[laid]

It's not until you finish your drawing, Kano. Don't stall.

[HE SEES YOUR GAME YOU TRICKY GOBLIN.]

[suddenlybees]

It's hard multitasking, you know? I gotta focus on this masterpiece or else I'm gonna mess up, and that'd be really too bad!

[ Talking and drawing at the same time? Impossible. Can't do it. He says as his pen does not stop moving the entire time. ]

You try not to talk or move either, or my pen's gonna slip and accidentally stab you in the eye or whatever.

[laid]

[Hrm. Well. This is clearly untrue, given he's talking right now, but Schwann really isn't ready to put it past Kano to do that, so he does shut up for now.

It's fine. Kano's still imprisoned by his other hand. He's not getting away until he fulfills his end of the bargain.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano is also realizing this as he finishes up his drawing. ]

...when I was little, me and my mother died and were swallowed up. I was granted a wish, and a new life. Ruler's wish is stronger than mine. I needed both of us to die, so hers could be granted.