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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w6 mail sharing!

[dawnblushed]

[on wednesday, it's time to... get down to business. once everyone's messages start coming in, yona will try to gather as many people as possible together for a meeting.

(yes, jan, that means she's going to attempt to invite virid. i'm assuming he won't come.)]

It looks like some messages have come in... I think they probably wrote these before they got anything we sent out, though. I've only got one message left - I used one to tell Zuko what happened to Shigeo and to let him know we were trying to send messages without words, so to take those seriously.

Did anyone get anything important? And how many messages do we have left to send to them, now?

[bisouled]

I've got a message left, too, if we've got anything important to share - I'm perfectly willing to use it.

[ this is a wonderful difference from hikage ]

[dawnblushed]

Thanks, Fiora. Let's try to get an idea of what needs to be said, who needs to hear it, and how many messages we can send. Then we can strategize.

[exercisms]

[He's just looking at his mail extremely pleased! He got mail. . .

Oh, but then he pays attention to what Yona's saying.]

. . . I already sent messages to Zuko-san and Uraraka-san. But I don't know if they got those before they sent these.

[Because Zuko's. . . is awkward.]

[dawnblushed]

Mm. I'm... pretty sure they didn't. I think Zuko's message to me would be pretty different if he'd gotten mine first.

[exercisms]

[Ah. . . pat pat.]

He won't be angry. He just doesn't understand, yet. Sometimes it's easier to be angry than sad.

[siblingless]

If I remember correctly, the others receive their messages at the same time we do. You may not receive a response to the messages we sent already until Friday, or even next week.

[exercisms]

Oh. [Well.] As long as they get it today. . . I don't want anyone to go into trial thinking they should be angry at someone.

[heartablaze]

Nii-chan and Chijin both sent me messages on Monday, but I think it was sent before the execution, before Tiger-san corrected everybody about the splintering rumors. Both of them were asking for really specific numbers.

I asked Swan, and Swan confirmed that it shouldn't matter whether somebody is splintering or not to reach the two person total.

[dawnblushed]

I wonder where those rumors came from in the first place? I only ever heard it needed to be two deaths per team, period. There was never anything about it needing to be someone who was splintering and someone who wasn't.

[heartablaze]

Maybe somebody misread something, or one of our messages got blacked out funny... I don't know. Both of them had the same misunderstanding, though.

I already used my messages to both of them, to correct them and try to let them know about Swan and Fox. Chijin tells everything to Hua-chan, who can pass it onto Swan-san's team if they don't get it from somebody else, and he'll make sure Won-san knows as well.

I made sure to use an extra item with Nii-chan, too, since he didn't get my entire message last week, so I... I didn't wanna confuse him any more. I made sure he knew how many teams were safe, and which teams still needed one more kill. His team's in danger, too, so... I just hope he got it okay.

[suddenlybees]

[ Oh. There's a silent laugh from Kano somewhere curled up on a couch in the background when Yona mentions having advised Zuko to let people know to take the charades seriously.

He doesn't have any messages to share, but he holds up his plastic star with one hand and also two fingers.

He has nothing to share; he only ever comes to these meetings for the snacks Sharon makes. ]

[dawnblushed]

[She looks over when she sees him hold up the star and his fingers.

Hm.]

...I don't get it.

[suddenlybees]

[ HE'S ANSWERING HER QUESTION, PLEASE..........

He holds three fingers up above his head, then points at his mouth, and then tilts his head questioningly at Yona. ]

[frostythehitman]

I didn't get anything related to the whole, you know, murder thing. But if anyone knows how to...make metal arms work, help me out. I need to explain it to someone, but I don't know myself.

Anyway, I've still got my two. Rufus asked me for updates last week, but hell if I know how much he knows, so I haven't responded yet.

[dawnblushed]

I don't know anything about metal arms, sorry.

...oh, but do you know what it means to "dunk on" someone? Apparently I'm supposed to do that to you.

[frostythehitman]

What, you mean like biscuits in tea?

[bisouled]

He knows a decent amount - he knows about all the teams needing two kills, and that his team shouldn't do any more damage. And he knew my team was still one short last week.

[ her experience as a rufus whisperer is finally coming in handy. i bet you thought this would be her helping with attaching a prosthetic arm, but she's useless for that!! ]

[frostythehitman]

Hmm. Then I could tell him the teams left who need to kill.

...Not like it would even matter, would it. He's on my team, Wolf--what's he supposed to do with that info? I doubt the living know who's on whose team as much as we do.

[siblingless]

[She will offer her PHS to anyone who wants to read her messages, since the dead can read shit on each other's devices. The benefits of the afterlife, yay!]

I used both of my messages to contact Sora-san and the others, and request that they share the information I passed onto them. [A little apologetically.] But I did receive a response from, ah... Taako-san, I think? It seems like he may have forgotten his name. There was another message from Varishikov-san as well.

[Frowning now because of the Taako thing, but...]

Taako-san said my team is working with Fox-san's team to settle things, so that's a relief. Did anyone send a message to Varishikov-san recently, though...? He said he received one that was completely censored.

[suddenlybees]

[ haha

Kano shakes his head ]

[siblingless]

[oocly i am cryin

icly, sumi just makes a little sad face. :(]

You don't know, either?

[maidforservice]

[VIRID NEVER COMES :( IT'S TRAGIC. also Sharon has prepared tea for this meeting!]

I didn't receive any messages today, but I have sent both of mine out for this week, as well as the message I was allowed to send with this star.

[holding up the now defunct star for emphasis!]

I sent one to Master Won to inform him of the team count on this side. I sent my other to Miss Alex as a reply to one she sent me last week.

And I sent this-- [holds up the star!! again!!] -- to Lady Dorothy to show my appreciation for her choosing to kill for Fox's team this week.

[heartablaze]

I hope Dorothy-san lets her teammates know. I told Nii-chan about Fox-san needing one more, but I know he... he really doesn't want to take anybody's life.

[dawnblushed]

...she confirmed she was going to do it? That's good.