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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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For a second she stares, unsure about what just happened but that's not important right now. She had to let everyone know that she's alright. Youmu dashes through the halls as fast as she can before bursting into the central room where the others have gathered]
Everyone! There's no need to worry I'm-!
[Not okay, if the sight of her corpse is anything to go by. Somehow it seemed strange to see herself without her phantom-half. Just a dead human. But it was strange to see herself like that at all.
Unable to properly process what's going on right now she steps carefully over to Yuyuko and kneels by her side with her hands on her shoulders]
Yuyuko, can you hear me...? It's okay, I'm still here.
I might be the same as you now, but I'm still here...
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None of them can hear us. We're dead.
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Miss Maizono! You're okay!
[She was happy to know that the people consumed were still around but her feelings were still mixed. The grief she'd experienced mere moments before was still playing on her mind]
I kind of figured but... It's weird. Even if we're dead they should still be able to hear us, right? This is still the living world, we haven't crossed into the afterlife yet.
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[Well, she certainly is here. That doesn't mean she's okay by any means.]
I don't know anything about being dead. Maybe we're supposed to haunt this place.
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Not right now, I'm needed here a little longer.
I would have thought that we'd be sent to the Yama to be judged but maybe not. I still don't understand why they can't see us...
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[Youmu really isn't as phased by that part as she should be]
I was half dead to begin with, and Lady Yuyuko is a ghost. Just because we're dead we shouldn't be invisible.
[At least under the logic of her world. Here is completely different]
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But if we're in the living world then we should still be able to talk with the living. The afterlife isn't just an abstract thing, it's a completely different place.
Which is why I don't understand...