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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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[Listen Schwann isn't smart and neither am I. He'll then hand over his PHS.

He'll dictate the message to Kano, which I'm sending Ori.]

Did you get all that? Have Cater look it over before you send it.

[ He nods even though it doesn't even matter since Schwann can't see, types up his message, and then hits send.

Oh. His finger slipped. Honest mistake, really. ]

[A long silence, as he waits for... something? Some sort of response?]

Kano? Are you still there?
[HELP.]

Hm? Yeah. It's all good. Cater just gave a thumb's up. Here, feel.

[ He takes Cater's wrist so he can guide her hand over to Schwann's hand so he can feel the thumb's up? Being blind is a pain. ]

[ !!! ]

Hey! I didn't say you can touch me.

You didn't mind it before...

[ Her face heats up ]

That was different. [ A beat ] I'm sure the message is fine.

[ Don't do that!! Kano is going to look away and pretend he did not see. ]

Yeah, yeah, it's totally fine~

[ Don't make it weird by looking away! ]

Okay... don't be lazy writing it, okay?

[ He's not!! He'll look back up at Cater but with this closed eyed smile so he can continue not to see. ]

I won't~ It's a rare opportunity, right? Real serious business. I wouldn't fool around with something like this.

[ cross his heart and all that nonsense! ]

[ Just going to pat him on the head then. Lowering her voice, as she pointedly STILL looks away. ]

Not like I'll blame you even if you do fool around.

[ Since Schwaven was a butt first in her book.

Anyways... she is going to scoot away now bye. ]

[YEAH HE'S NOT GOING TO... TOUCH CATER?]

.. That's fine. Just hand me my PHS back if she's said it's alright to send.
[He had a bad feeling about this but oh well.]

[ How else is he supposed to prove it when his claim isn't enough? There's a moment's contemplation of typing up a second message while he's got Schwann's phs, but he's not much he needs to say to Claude in particular, so somebody else will have to help him out with that one. ]

I wonder if she'll cry. Ah, did you know? Upstairs with the... well. I guess you can't see 'em.

.... What?

[Just... elaborate on all of that.]

Voyeur windows.

The room where we can observe the living? I know about it. Even if I can't see them, I can hear. What about it?

Oh, so you heard all the screaming and chomping today? Isn't it great? Like having television back~

[ Dinosaurs, man... ]

[Hm. Apparently delight in the suffering of others aside;]

I don't know what that is.

You don't know what screaming is? I could demonstrate for you? Hey, Cater, I need your help again--

[HOLDS UP A HAND, STOP.]

I know what screaming is. I don't know what television is.

You know what a voyeur window is, though?

I know what those words mean individually and could infer what you meant, yes.

That's television.

So you have something that lets you watch other people without their knowledge where you come from?

[Well,,,]

[ yeah... yeah. ]

Sure do! It's, like, a national past time? People sit in front of the screen for hours watching other people in secret, hoo boy!

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