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Purr Honor ([personal profile] mewreview) wrote2014-03-24 03:30 pm

the graveyard

the graveyard




You wake up in your bed. At first, it might not seem as though anything has changed...until you try to leave the room. You'll quickly discover that while you can phase through the interior walls of the building, you can't open doors, pick up objects, or alter the environment in any way. Worse, the only people who can see and hear you are your fellow ghosts; to everyone else, you may as well be so much empty air.

That said, there are still a few other things you can do besides just observing those who are still alive. You now have the ability to conjure any food, drink, or reasonably small object out of midair, although anything you conjure will go unnoticed by the living inhabitants. More interestingly, there is now an intricate iron door embedded in the wall of the main room that you're sure hadn't been there yesterday. If you open it, you'll find that at long last you've exited the building...and the world outside looks quite familiar.

In fact, it's your world. Though...it might not be exactly how you remember it when you left.

You won't be able to get far in the area before you feel some kind of barrier preventing you from taking another step, but it's enough for you to know that something has Gone Terribly Wrong. Perhaps it's the bombed-out shell of your building, or the monsters screeching nearby, or the corpses of your army scattered on the ground; whatever the situation is, it's clear that you would have been in grave danger had you still been back home. Luckily, your ghostly status is still in effect even here; while there may be danger still lurking about, none of it will be able to affect you.

The building behind you has taken on a translucent, almost insubstantial appearance; only the iron doors remain as solid as ever. You can simply open them again to return to the cat's domain.

(OOC: Here's how this will work! Whenever someone new arrives to the graveyard, the world outside will change to their canon's world. We'll leave the exact location and situation up to you to describe; the only thing that matters is that it should be clear your character would have been in enormous danger had they been around. Everyone in the graveyard will be able to explore the area, which will at maximum be around the size of a large ballroom; you'll be able to see things outside the area, but you won't be able to take another step forward. You can interact with the setting, but you won't be able to affect anything living, and anything that might pose a danger such as bullets will pass right through you.)
hakurouken: (✿ 切る)

[personal profile] hakurouken 2014-05-10 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Around this time I think we'd be having a cherry blossom viewing.

[But thinking about the blossoms leaves her with an odd mix of nostalgia and anxiety]

I'm afraid there's not much to do here than to wait for an outcome to the case. If we get rid of the last shadow something might happen, but I don't know what.
bladebender: (STAND ► hold it there fuckwit)

[personal profile] bladebender 2014-05-10 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Trailing Ty Lee around, and watching... all this unfold, and... wow. Uh.

Mai looks genuinely concerned for once, fidgeting a bit with her hands since she can't just grab Ty Lee and shake her out of a breakdown. ]


Ty Lee... she's never acted like this.

[ It's not that Mai disagrees that Malik deserves a solid ass-whooping of some kind, but Ty Lee essentially arguing that someone die? That's... just... nope nope nope. ]
hakurouken: (✿ Uh no...)

[personal profile] hakurouken 2014-05-11 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
It must have really hit her hard, you two always seemed close.

[At the same time, she can understand Ty Lee's sentiment. Better to kill one than risk have many more murdered. Youmu wouldn't be here if she didn't feel the same]

Do you think she'll be okay when this is all over?
bladebender: (TALK ► yeah ok)

[personal profile] bladebender 2014-05-11 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds nice. And less boring than... this.

[ The same building they've been in for a couple of weeks now. And now unable to touch anything. ]

I suppose it's a bit much to hope we'll suddenly return to life and be able to go home to find everything isn't... like the door shows.
bladebender: (TALK ► ?)

[personal profile] bladebender 2014-05-11 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
We've been friends since we were children... not that she remembers that, but.

[ Mai agrees with Ty Lee, certainly-- as much as she doesn't want to have to hang out with Malik in the afterlife, she'd also like to punch him in the face-- it's just the fact that Ty Lee is the one saying these things. ]

I... don't know. I think she doesn't think she has anything to live for, that if what the windows showed us was true, her family and home is gone... and even if it isn't, she's going to prison for defying Azula, though I told her we get released later... [ SIGHS ]
hakurouken: (✿ 切る)

[personal profile] hakurouken 2014-05-11 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think we would have been willing to pay the price to come here if it was all a joke. I don't think anything good will come of resurrecting the dead either but...

There must be something we can do. We can't spend the rest of our existence like this.
hakurouken: (✿ Uh no...)

[personal profile] hakurouken 2014-05-11 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
There must be something, she can't give up just yet... But they really do need to be careful. It's not good for anyone else to end up here.
obeytherod: (POSE  ‣  I hate everything...)

[personal profile] obeytherod 2014-05-11 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Well look who just showed up. Malik doesn't leave his bed for a while. He just sits up and draws his knees upwards to rest his arms against them. He knows he's died, but it still takes some time and testing of nearby objects for that to settle in.

...It would probably be a good idea to not approach the others, so he just leaves the bed and tentatively phases through a door to get into the hall. As soon as he finds her, he begins to follow Harriet around.]


We were so close... [Everything hurts.]
hakurouken: (✿ 切る)

[personal profile] hakurouken 2014-05-11 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
But better some may die so others can live, isn't that right?

[There is no sneer to her voice but the way Youmu addresses him is a lot colder than her usual tone]
bladebender: (GLARE ► EXCUUUUSE ME)

[personal profile] bladebender 2014-05-11 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mai was planning on staying the hell away from Malik when he shows up, but there he is. And she's good and properly pissed with him. He (his shadow monster) killed her, he smirked at her corpse and upset Ty Lee, and frankly she never liked him anyway.

Without a word she throws herself at him, fist first. It doesn't matter whether it phases through or hits him, she's PUNCHING THIS DOUCHELORD IN THE FACE. ]
obeytherod: (MALIK  ‣  worried)

[personal profile] obeytherod 2014-05-11 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
... [He glances over at Youmu, but his gaze soon returns to Harriet.]

That's right. I died, and so Harriet lives on.
vivillon: (we've managed to meet)

[personal profile] vivillon 2014-05-11 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Serena is staring at the cat a little blankly. Is her world really doomed?]

...Isn't there anything we can do? [Her voice sounds so small. She doesn't even have her Pokemon with her to calm her down.]
ladyofthehouse: (accusatory)

[personal profile] ladyofthehouse 2014-05-11 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
There must be something.

[She can't accept the reality she saw behind the door.]

I refuse to take it's word on this! It's mislead us this entire time!
bigthings: (sigh)

[personal profile] bigthings 2014-05-11 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, just think of how you might have been saved if you hadn't gone out of your way to piss everyone off. [Sorry bro, Kouha might have liked you when he was alive, but he heard that whole 'kehkehkeh at the dead' speech...which to be fair he might have agreed with if he hadn't died because he tried to save everyone's asses from Naho.]
obeytherod: (MALIK  ‣  >:()

[personal profile] obeytherod 2014-05-11 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Malik sees it coming, but he's not fast enough to get out of the way. He takes the brunt of Mai's hit and staggers backwards.]

...Satisfied? [He wipes his mouth, glowering over at Mai.]
obeytherod: (MALIK  ‣  dramatic lighting)

[personal profile] obeytherod 2014-05-11 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
That had nothing to do with it. My guilt was my own problem.

[But maybe some of them would have tried harder. He doesn't think it would have mattered though; he's just not looking forward to having his nose rubbed in it the entire time he's here.]
bigthings: (anger)

[personal profile] bigthings 2014-05-11 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
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<small[Kouha's fists are clenching hard around an invisible hilt of a sword he no longer has.]</small> There's no way I'm gonna let <i>that</i> happen to my home! We can't just let it end like this!
vivillon: (we've managed to meet)

[personal profile] vivillon 2014-05-11 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Serena looks around, her expression a little wild.] Then--let's do something. The cat's sight was blocked before--maybe he can see us now. Or maybe there's something else here we can do something with.
bladebender: (SIGH ► s i g h)

[personal profile] bladebender 2014-05-11 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Like what? They're probably going to end up all killing each other just for the chance to go home alive. What can we do about that, or about any of it?

[ And then there's Mai on the pessimism boat. ]
bladebender: (FIGHT ► aim fire)

[personal profile] bladebender 2014-05-11 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Not really, but it'll do.

[ If she could, she'd probably kill him BUT THEY'RE ALREADY DEAD, SO... ]
bigthings: (sigh)

[personal profile] bigthings 2014-05-11 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe they'll wind up killing more than they need to and some of us can get the chance to fix our worlds instead. [Here's Kouha on a boat that is somehow both horribly pessimistic and horribly optimistic at the same time.]
vivillon: (in our brief lives)

[personal profile] vivillon 2014-05-11 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
There has to be a better outcome than that. [But Serena still doesn't see anything they can do here.]
bigthings: (anger)

[personal profile] bigthings 2014-05-11 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
What else can ya think of? [His fists clench.] If it was just my life on the line here, I wouldn't care. But that thing back home - it eats worlds. It's done it before, and it'll kill everything in my world if I can't stop it. People, animals, trees, it'll suck anything and everything dry.

I'll kill everyone in this whole fucking building before I let that happen.
hakurouken: (✿ Please don't agree with her)

[personal profile] hakurouken 2014-05-11 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
Unacceptable! Absolutely unacceptable!

[She was seething. Such blatant disregard for the nature of life and death, from herself included, left Youmu almost shaking with anger]

That cat... Who does he think he is accepting bribes like that? It's his job to judge the dead, not send them back! And to accept payment from all of us when he only planned to save a few in the first place? What a crook!

I don't agree with giving someone another chance at life beyond reincarnation but on the principle of it I can't let him do this.

[But what they should do about it she hasn't actually figured out. Unless there was something they've missed their only chance to contact the living world was through Maya, and even then what could they do that the others couldn't?]
obeytherod: (MALIK  ‣  extremely mild shock)

[personal profile] obeytherod 2014-05-11 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
What, not going to finish the job?

[Yeah, he's going to taunt her. He's already dead, what the hell does it matter?]

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