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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WEEK 4: HERE'S THE E-MAIL, IT NEVER FAILS...

[siblingless]

[Rounding everyone up in the dining room at some point after the messages from the living arrive. Is it even Wednesday anymore? We just don't know! But there are nice little sandwiches, coffee and tea for everyone, courtesy of Yoshizawa being both hungry and nice. She may or may not be sipping coffee before she speaks up.]

Everyone, if I may have your attention...! I received three text from our friends in the town. They're a little bit corrupted, but I think they say...

[She will proceed to read her messages, from over here.]

... Who else received something, and what did it say? This is the first time I've heard anything about "timeloops." If it's the first time for everyone else as well, it may be something Wolf-san or Solus-san's leader remembered on Sunday. [So that's, hm. Great. She shuffles a bit, looking down at her coffee.] Um... We ought to share the texts we've sent, too. One of mine references a message to Soo-won-san, but I don't know what it means.

[pulsecannon]

If it's for Soo-won... [ A look towards Sharon and then Shiro. ]

I haven't sent any this week, so if you guys need an extra one, I can send it. How many letters came in anyways? Think it's letting more people outside of the winning teams send them?

[siblingless]

I don't know... Only one of my letters was signed, and it was from Taako-san. [Frowning. Please sign your letters, y'all.] That's still within the top three ranks.

[pulsecannon]

Maybe with the more nova collected, the more teams can send letters? Maybe we should ask our resident babysitter.

[ Looking over to the furry ]

[lionson]

I don't think it's tied to 'winning teams', since Wolf has won each week but we didn't get to message anyone until the start of week 3.

It might be tied to team kills. Can anyone confirm if messages were available the second week?

[siblingless]

It can't be connected to team kills. Two of the messages are from my teammates, and we haven't killed anyone.

[pulsecannon]

I think it's tied to the amount of Nova we've gathered. Everything seems pretty tied to that and the stability to the realm.

[ And about the other thing... ]

We think that only Wolf's team or the top winning teams had access to letters last week. Only a few people were able to send anything to us then. It was also the first time we even could contact them.

[maidforservice]

[u m]

[pouring herself some coffee, but stopping mid-pour to frown, brows furrowed]

Timeloops? This is the first I've heard of such a thing myself.

. . . I sent a message to Master Won last week, though. I received a reply from whom I assume is him mentioning that the messages we send are "censored." Perhaps our mail is being corrupted to a greater degree than the mail we receive is?

[places her coffee down to pull out her PHS. she pulls up her messages and holds them out for people to read]

[siblingless]

Oh—!

[She's about to say something about that, but she gasps now that she has discovered the dead can fucking read.]

We can read each other's messages here?!

[maidforservice]

[blinks a little, surprised by that exclamation???]

Could you not on the other side?

[lionson]

Time loops? I haven't heard anything about that.

[He'll wait and see if anyone else has though.]

Zuko wants to know who killed Raven, though. I know we aren't gonna tell him, but what should we tell him instead?

[siblingless]

What did Zuko-san's message say beside that? We can just, ah... respond to everything but that.

[lionson]

[He pulls out his message and reads it for everyone to hear.]

I guess I could tell him that something was messing with my head, to explain why I thought a kid was gonna have to kill again. But you know, I wasn't even wrong. A kid DID have to kill.

We should tell him about the '2 kills per team' thing too I think.

[maidforservice]

. . . Master Won wants to know who killed Lady Sumire.

[so lol. you know]

I intend to politely decline to answer.

[siblingless]

[... A gentle nod.]

I can't speak for Raven-san, but I don't want Carré-san to get in trouble for wanting to help.

[pulsecannon]

Tell him to figure it out, or we'll share after we're saved.

[laid]

It doesn't matter who it was, just th' teams. Has someone shared the team kill counts that we know? I told Claude about the flashin' on Sundays, at least.

[suddenlybees]

Who's Solus?

[ Anyways Kano's messages are here for reference, he'll let people read them themselves ]

[siblingless]

Emet-selch-san. He, ah, gave me permission to call him that because it was a bit of a mouthful.

[She looks through his messages, though, and points at the one from Sora.]

... This one is written similarly to the one I received about timeloops. [She will take out her PHS so everyone can read her messages, now that she know the dead can see.] Do you think it's from Sora-san as well?

Time Loops

[pulsecannon]

[ Cater will vanish for a while, before coming back to find people. ]

So I asked Wolf about the time loops and he says that we all have done this before. It's kind of a relief to hear that actually...

[ For reasons. ]

He did say things are probably different each time. It's pretty interesting to think about that.

[lionson]

Well, I guess it's proof that we really aren't dead and gone, yeah? Though it makes me wonder why we have to keep looping.

[maidforservice]

[. . . .]

I see.

Then I suppose the next question is how to break the cycle.

[siblingless]

[ah...]

Is anyone close to Rabbit-san or Tiger-san?

[laid]

I got a letter from miss Lup, I think.

[He'll read out the letter as best he can.]

But this is the first I'm hearin' about time loops too. I sent one letter ta Claude to let him know I got some of my memory back, but I ain't got plans for the other. Maybe I aughta send Lup a response if no one else is gonna.

[She seems annoyed!]

[siblingless]

Ah... I believe that would be prudent. Lup-san seems a little upset.

[SYMPATHETICALLY. Poor Lup. :(]