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foxhounds ([personal profile] foxhounds) wrote2015-08-02 07:46 pm

graveyard.



You remember dying. In fact, you remember the exact feeling and fear of how you died, and yet in the next moment, you're suddenly standing in a cold room. You're not sure how you got here at all, but it's as if you were suddenly put here the moment after you died. As you look around, the first thing you'll notice is that you're standing in front of an open casket.

And you're inside.

The corpse inside the casket is definitely you, and it's also definitely dead, which certainly makes this confusing. Luckily, here's someone here to explain. When you wake up, there's footsteps walking closer, and then a familiar face appears. Iván is here, or someone that looks very much like her is. All she starts off with is two simple words—

"You're dead."

Which would seem obvious, but she explains that you have been before you ever arrived to the island. The shipwreck and the island are't real, after all. This is purgatory, and the Hunt is a way to judge the souls of the living. People show their true nature when they're put in a stressful situation, so it was deemed that this was the way that these judgements would be passed. She explains that you'll know your fate when the game ends, but if you really can't wait that long, you could always ask, but hope isn't lost. After all, the "killers" are on your side. If they can win the game, then everyone can come back to life. They know this, and it's why they're fighting so hard to win. It's a shame that the odds don't seem to be in their favor, but that's also part of the Hunt.


Exploring your new surroundings, you'll realize that you're likely at the bottom of that giant sinkhole, at least if that light far above you is any indication. You no longer feel the need to eat or sleep anymore (technically, you never did, but the habits of being alive are hard to break), so it's a good thing there's enough to do while the game continues.

You can watch the proceedings of the Hunt in one room where there's plenty of comfortable couches to sit in and lounge, as well as a fully stocked bar, if you feel like indulging. Another room offers a game room with cards, billiards, and any other games you'd like to play in a group. If you ask your host nicely, she might provide more, but for now, there's not much to do other than to watch and wait for the Hunt to end.

playsboys: (whateva)

[personal profile] playsboys 2015-08-09 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, all of this is going way over Kashima's head and also it's been a really exhausting day and also she's not sure why exactly being judged in purgatory involves a monster ripping out her throat so WHATEVER SHE'S JUST NOT GOING TO THINK ABOUT IT ANYMORE FUCK YOU GAME]

Ahahaha, this sure is a weird dream! I knew I shouldn't have gone for that week-old sushi last night. I'd really like to wake up now, okay?
playsboys: (flirty)

[personal profile] playsboys 2015-08-09 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
My lady. [Kashima approaches the woman, princely smile and shoujo sparkles firmly in place, and sweeps her a bow.] If I may be so bold as to approach you with such a personal question, what shall I address you as? Surely someone as beautiful as you must have an equally lovely name to match.
loosetongue: (what a literal infant)

[personal profile] loosetongue 2015-08-09 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[This is not going over Alois' head and he is two steps away from actual catatonia for a whole host of reasons starting with "I don't want to die" and ending with "not yet anyway lol." But in the absence of... an audience... he's more or less just miserable.

However: company!!!!!]
Oh, it's you. What did you do?
playsboys: (the fuck is this)

[personal profile] playsboys 2015-08-09 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Eh? [give her a few seconds...]












A GHOST!!!
loosetongue: (fuck off from my box????)

[personal profile] loosetongue 2015-08-09 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ah....... why does that offend him]

Stupid! Speak for yourself!
loosetongue: (bleh)

[personal profile] loosetongue 2015-08-09 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[and then there's this shitlord]

Well, you might as well tell me what it's going to be for me in the end. I'm not going to wait for these morons!
playsboys: (frustrated)

[personal profile] playsboys 2015-08-09 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not a ghost! I can't fly or float through walls and I haven't had a tragic romance with a beautiful woman that forces my soul to wait for her until she can join me in Heaven!

...wait, can I fly? [Straining to lift off!!] No, I totally can't!
loosetongue: (choke on it)

[personal profile] loosetongue 2015-08-09 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Do you see me floating around? I can't do any of that nonsense either!

[Shaking his head like he's Aggravated he has to be the reasonable one here?? how] Stop it, you look like a fool.
playsboys: (what...)

[personal profile] playsboys 2015-08-09 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
What's the point of being a ghost if I can't even fly?! [SULKING FURIOUSLY]
loosetongue: (talk shit get hit)

[personal profile] loosetongue 2015-08-09 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Haunting, I suppose. But there's no one to haunt down here. [too bad...]
playsboys: (excited)

[personal profile] playsboys 2015-08-09 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Looking around the area curiously.] If I'm going to haunt someone, I want it to be a cute princess or Hori-senpai....

[Wait. Something odd about this whole conversation finally dawns on her.]

Princeling! You're alive! [Flinging herself joyfully at Alois and clutching him in a tight embrace no escape only suffocation now]
loosetongue: (oh damn)

[personal profile] loosetongue 2015-08-09 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah, he doesn't even have time to sass her questionable haunting choices... Promptly suffocated because he's Small, he sort of swats his hands at her and sputters but doesn't make any dedicated effort to get rid of her. Being dead.... is lonely... shut up]

Don't tell me you weren't listening. Don't-- pretend! I-- [he will cRY DON'T EMBARRASS HIM LIKE THAT]
loosetongue: (choke on it)

[personal profile] loosetongue 2015-08-09 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[here 2 please]

What do you mean? Do I believe in God, or what?
loosetongue: (talk shit get hit)

[personal profile] loosetongue 2015-08-09 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. I don't know, sort of? [The way children believe in fairies-- which, well. Here he is.] It's nice to think about.
playsboys: (blush)

[personal profile] playsboys 2015-08-09 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[she's already crying cOME JOIN HER IN SHOUJO HELL ALOIS]

I'll listen forever from now on, I promise! I'm just so glad you're not dead! [or well...not super dead dead or whatever they should use now]
loosetongue: (i put ur picture away)

[personal profile] loosetongue 2015-08-09 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh--that's honest surprise on his face. He clearly didn't expect anything more pleasant than 'the void,' so it takes him a moment before his next question comes out in a rush, like he's not sure if he wants to ask:]

Is anyone I-- [nnnooooope] Am I going to be alone up there?
playsboys: (well...)

[personal profile] playsboys 2015-08-09 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Dammit, she clearly should have flirted more with Ivan when she had the chance. Oh well, Kashima doesn't really have any interest in flirting with people who won't respond, so she straightens up and goes back to her normal cheerful tone of voice.]

I was wondering what happened to the other people on the ship with us if they didn't show up on the island. Are they still alive, or were they never there to begin with?