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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.)
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[Strangely enough the idea doesn't seem totally stupid to her, Youmu does frown at the mentions of torture though]
I don't think you should spend your death torturing others though, you might become a vengeful spirit and start causing problems again.
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And that's what I meant; I want to separate the two of us. Then I can make him pay for what he did...
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...Wait, so if there's two of you does that mean you have two souls?
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When you say higher and lower souls... Are you talking about the Akh and Ba? [And apparently he's not going to explain that concept either.]
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But where I'm from at least when someone dies their soul splits into two parts. The lower soul [She puts a hand on her chest as if indicating to herself] stays behind and can possess objects or affect the emotions of humans while the higher soul [She motions towards her phantom half, that strangely never stopped being a thing even though she's now full phantom] ascends to the afterlife to get reincarnated.
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But the Akh, if it's reanimated, can affect people too. Like the "lower soul". It sounds like your "higher" and "lower" souls are just a simplification [or misrepresentation] of the Ba, Ka, and Sahu or Akh.