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.

NAVIGATION locations ₓ˚. statuses *+:｡ ic profiles :ₓo ic rules ･ﾟﾟ･｡ audience requests murder proposals ｡✧o private conversations ･ﾟo｡ curfew ･ﾟ✧ memories

Comments

[frostythehitman]

No clue. Mine only ever flashed once, after Shima was executed.

[siblingless]

... When Carré-san killed Raven-san, then. But not when she was ordered to take care of me. [????] Have you asked Wolf-san about it?

[frostythehitman]

[ THIS IS. A LOT OF WILD INFO YOU'RE GIVING HIM, SUMI.

He's kind of thrown off, trying to process all this. ]

Uh, yeah. They said it was flashing because they remembered something about themselves.

[siblingless]

[SOMETIMES, YOU JUST GET PLOT FLUNG AT YOUR FACE LIKE THIS.]

Yes, that's what I was told as well. But... the information about timeloops came from Wolf-san last week.

[How the fuck does it work? America explain.]

[frostythehitman]

Wait--what about time loops?!

[siblingless]

Yes...? We don't know much about it ourselves, but this isn't the first time we've gone through this.

[frostythehitman]

And how the hell did Wolf figure this out?

[siblingless]

The leaders regain memories every time someone in their team kills, remember?

[frostythehitman]

Wait--specifically when their team kills? Damn, I didn't know that.

So that means we're all losing our memories all the time anyway through these time loops. And of course we don't remember them, because we only ever sit around here losing more.

But the leaders for some reason get them back.

[ do you hear that? it's the sound of vezda's two lone rusty brain cells desperately creaking against each other in an attempt to generate a thought ]

...I heard that some of the leaders might be tasking some of their team members with killing. You think it might be because they want to get more of their memories back?

[siblingless]

Huh? No... That's not it. The leaders are tasking some of their team members with killing, but only to stop those whose nova has splintered— like me. If I had been left to my own devices, the splintering would have spread and transformed our friends into empty husks. I don't know how it's connected to their memories. But the leaders aren't motivated by selfish desires at all. They agreed to lose their memories to spare us from the Realm's effects.

[Realizing you're a ticking time bomb is bad, fam. She sighs a little.]

... From the sound of it, this may be the only time we've repeated this. We succeeded at something last time, but not everyone made it out... so the leaders decided to go back. And now, this is our last chance to get it right. Swan-san said there would be no more opportunities if we fail now.