fullthottle | GRAVEYARD

GRAVEYARD

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Abruptly, you come to.

The sun is hot on your back, but there's the gentle lapping of cool water on your feet and legs as you regain your consciousness. Beneath you is sand - lots and lots of sand, some of it wet, the majority of it dry and burning. You hear the sound a seagull crying from somewhere up above you, and you can smell and almost taste the tang of salt in the air.

You've found yourself washed up on what appears to be some kind of tropical island - one of your hands is gripping your clamshell, even if you didn't have it in your hand before you died. It's bright and well-lit, and there's the sound of voices from somewhere a ways away from the beach.

Lastly, as you sit up, if you had some kind of supernatural power before coming here, you notice one thing in particular - that power that you were so familiar with before it vanished upon your awakening inside the hotel?

It's back.

Welcome to paradise. You won't be leaving here any time soon.

- - - Welcome to the graveyard! Though your character is now out of the living side of the game, this does not mean they are fully removed from the action. We have several mechanics and events planned that will allow the dead to affect the course of the game just as much, if not more, than those on the living side. We will announce these opportunities as they happen in the #graveyard-announcements channel. But in the meantime, here are a couple of neat things to consider as you settle into the graveyard!

1. As mentioned above, all characters will wake up with their clamshell in hand. While there's no place to use Finansex at this moment, characters will still have access to the My Appointments app to request NPC audiences. Go forth and request private meetings as your heart desires.

2. The graveyard has its very own location page. You can check it out over here to see what kind of shenanigans your characters can get up to while on the island.

3. Additionally, powers are now available. While some may still be nerfed if they are too game breaking, most characters will wake up to find that the majority of their powers have been reactivated. Should you have any questions or concerns about this, don't hesitate to contact us.

We hope you have fun!

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I don’t particular care either way. I just don’t think it applies to me, so I won’t follow it.

[ it sounds pretty lighthearted but... if an equivalent of “buck up” was going to work it would have done so many, many years ago. ]

It's wise words for when you are stuck. I know you care in your own way, Shiraishi-san. I remember... you trying to help me.

[He turns though to begin trudging back up the beach, figuring Shiraishi will follow.]

Wiser words would be to not get stuck in the first place.

[ he does follow, at his own pace. ]

Mm. Hallucinations are concerning and you seemed completely clueless about the situation. Although I suppose the demon was fine, but you were feeling the impact of the drug.

[Shiraishi PLS.]

It was disorienting and strange. I... did not care for it. [Not like pot brownies at all.] Or the possession...

I was afraid... of being a corrupt sword, though I suppose I was.

[ wHAT. ]

You don't seem corrupted now. Still overly polite and sincere, as usual.

Mm. Elder brother... pulled the corruption out of me and, supposedly, destroyed it.

So I'm grateful. My spirit was freed, and I'm not longer suffering.

[It's like he doesn't even recognize the "overly" part of Shiraishi's sentence.]

[ hiza... pls. ]

The better phrasing might be "pulled you out of the corruption". It's almost like layers -- you were in there, and aware, but unable to do anything. The demon was controlling you in your body, but you yourself were still in there.

[He frowns, glances back at Shiraishi to make an attempt of something--he isn't sure, wry or weak--and then he looks away again. He wouldn't have wanted anyone else to exorcise him and, yet, he hated burdening Higekiri that way.

He motions to the buildings ahead of them.]

Everything is close together.

[ hey. he was being complementary. ]

Would you rather have remained that way, and at risk of killing him next?

[ it's blunt, but thats the point to it. It's not a bad thing, even if it was painful for him and his brother. ]

... Easily to navigate than the ship.

Yes.

[At first, he doesn't clarify, but then, to answer Shiraishi's earlier question he detoured around:]

No. I wouldn't have wanted that ever. I was so afraid... that would happen. I was afraid they wouldn't find it, and that later, I would hurt elder brother.

So there you go. Things happened as they happened, and I died not your brother. Best solution to a poor situation.

[ he just shrugs. higekiri lives, hizamaru is free, and shiraishi is just here but that's fair. ]

[Before Shiraishi even finishes, he's shaking his head. He stops so he can face Shiraishi rather than be turned away. His expression grows serious, firm.]

Please don't say that, Shiraishi-san. I am still pained it was your death. Even if that place is dangerous, I would rather you be alive. No matter where you are, I would want you to be alive.

If it wasn't this week, it might've been the next. My life is at the end of someone's strings most of the time.

[ He's still walking, it's fine. It's all fine. ]

Lots of people have mentioned the cinema here. And something about us all getting our own rooms?

I wouldn't have wanted that to happen to you any week, Shiraishi-san.

[IT ISN'T FINE. He has to continue on to keep up with Shiraishi who is still walking.]

There is a place for movies, yes. And-- [He points toward the apartments.] That is the building where you can have your own room.

If it was going to, it was going to.

[ IT'S. IT'S FINE. THIS IS FINE. ]

If the goal is to make sure that we're all dead, might as well make the beyond a little bit appealing. Individual rooms, free food -- why do the dead need to eat?

Because we will become hungry.

[Look. Sometimes Shiraishi is logical, sometimes a puppysword is innocently logical, too.]

Logically speaking? We're dead. We shouldn't be functioning at all -- just decomposing.

[ it's good logic, hiza's a good puppysword. ]

Perhaps we have reached Nirvana, Shiraishi-san. We have demolished the three poisons within us. But the form our spirit takes here still requires nourishment.

But that would mean there is no rebirth that awaits us after this.

I doubt this is anything like Nirvana.

[ he just waves a hand. ]

We're on a time limit here. I expect any Nirvana-like appearances will sour themselves the minute we pass it.

[Shiraishi is so sour.]

You are probably correct, Shiraishi-san. We'll see, but please have hope anyway. For us and the others.

[ Look. He has to balance out all this wide eyed sincerity somehow. ]

They're doing better than we give them credit for, right now. It'd be better to have a solid plan of what to do, but I don't think that's possible here.

Maybe they'll listen to those lyrics and get some sort of unity going in time to pull off the ritual.

[Better than what Shiraishi gives them credit for! Hizamaru is a very good boy who believes in everyone.]

They will know what to do, Shiraishi-san. They will figure it out. We will help them how we can on this side.

[ oh he thinks some of them will do fine. Others though... well.... not so much. ]

Not much else we can do, unless your idea of time well spent is constant movies and suntanning.

I'm sure there must be something we will be able to do on this side, something that will help them. Even here, we are not useless.

[Stop being such a Debbie Downer, Shiraishi, he's already sad as fuck.]

Our contact is limited but there should still be things we can do.

[ he can do want he wants don’t @ him!! ]

No one’s telling you you can’t sunbathe if that’s what you want to do, you know.

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