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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Comments

[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.

[siblingless]

... I believe that's a good idea, yes. And we ought to clarify that Solus-san's nova is intact as far as we know. It will be dangerous if anyone continues to think of him that way.

[Too bad murder proposals are over and Emet is shit out of luck if someone decided to shank. Unfortunate!]

[lionson]

I told Xie Lian in my message to him. I told him to apologize to Emet for me, because I wasn't in my right mind. That should be clear enough, yeah?

[siblingless]

Mm, I think so. Would Xie Lian-san have spread the word?

[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.

[maidforservice]

[looking over at Raven, wherever he may be]

I suppose I have slightly different reasons for wishing to protect Miss Ange. [hm!] But she has also been ready and willing to work with us in her messages. Because of that, I believe she is a valuable ally while still "alive."

[pointing to her second message]

I believe this one may be from her, even though the signature is distorted.

[siblingless]

Slightly different reasons...? What do you mean?

[Giving her a curious look like, ma'am. Your mystery.]

Has she signed her texts using only her initial before?

[maidforservice]

[a secretive smile. IT IS A MYSTERY]

And no, she has not. But I have only sent messages to Master Won and Miss Ange before now. This sender references a "censored" message as well, so it can only be from Master Won or Miss Ange.

[AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT SHE THINKS]

[lionson]

Maybe we can get the information across without revealing who it is? Something like "Raven's killer and Yoshizawa's killer are on the same team"?

[siblingless]

[Pausing, thoughtfully...]

They may figure out that it's Wolf-san's team because of the PHS. Honestly, I'm worried about causing a stir.

[lionson]

Why would it cause a stir? if we tell them 'just 2 kills per team,' then logically it should follow that 2 people will kill on a team.

[maidforservice]

[. . .]

I agree with Miss Sumire. The level of viciousness those still on the other side displayed towards Miss Sumire's killer was. . .

[hm]

[HM!!!]

[laid]

Yeah. I don't think we could explain the situation well enough in the space we get fer people not ta get agitated.

[A beat.]

... Maybe if she doesn't stop at two kills I might change my mind.
[Because there's no reason for her to kill again at this point but who knows with that girl.]

[siblingless]

You think she wouldn't stopped even if she's asked to refrain?

[pulsecannon]

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

[lionson]

Ha! Now there's an idea. That might push him to do the work.

[pulsecannon]

It would be a good kick in the motivation.

[ Does he need it? She has no idea ]

[lionson]

[He might need it, so.]

Alright, we can message him with that. I have to tell Soo-won stuff though, so I'll send Soo-won the message and he can relay it to Zuko too.

[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.

[lionson]

I sent the teams to Xie Lian.

[laid]

Now what we need is fer all of 'em to actually share information with each other as a group. Feel like that ain't happening.

[They asked for the letters to be signed!!! This did not happen!!!!]

[lionson]

They're limited in what can be said out loud. The week you died, Elsa said something out loud to the whole group, and it destabilized the Realm briefly.