GRAVEYARD PT. II

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The world is black. And then you blink at your plate.

A portion of your favorite dish greets your eyes, albeit in a form you may never have seen it in before. Encased in a thick, wobbling layer of multi-colored gelatin, the food you know and love now sits suspended in its protein-based enclosure as an eccentric re-imagining of the dish. Furthermore, it only takes a glance to see that the rest of the dining table's spread shares this same theme, as every single dish, sweet or savory, finds itself victim to a jiggling Jell-o jail.

Still, you won't have much time to take this all in before a quiet, high-pitched giggling makes its way to your ears, only crescendoing in volume the longer you sit in this oh-so-familiar dining room. It doesn't take much to find the source of the sound either; unlike the other side, this place is absolutely teeming with fairies to the point where the fluttering of their iridescent wings is clearly audible behind the din of their laughter. As you come to your senses, dozens and dozens of beady eyes watch with their tiny faces stretched out in a wide grin, before speaking in unison.

"Welcome, we can't wait to serve you!"

As the fairies erupt in raucous laughter all around you, at least one more thing is readily apparent: however you met your end, your body is completely whole again. You also have company at the table with you, although whether it's desirable company or not may depend on the circumstances surrounding your death.

In any case, there's nothing stopping anyone from leaving the dining room and roaming freely as usual, and most of the same areas that were available to you on the other side are still present here, albeit with some differences. And though your life may have been stolen from you, it still looks like you have a part in this tale, somehow, someway.

So, will you let your story finish here, or will you write your own ending?

[Welcome to the Graveyard! This is part 2 of the GY post for Weeks 6 and 7. The previous post for Weeks 2-5 is linked above. Please also view the GY doc linked above for a full rundown of the basics. You may also still submit for items and gacha rolls using the GY shop post.]

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INVESTIGATION/EXPLORATION RESULTS

[mathodical]

[ please share any important info about void-chan here thank u ]

A group of us met Ferry at the peach museum, where we were tasked to retrieve one of the crystals [ and here he'll gesture at the crystal currently on the table ] that is holding the place together with some kind of magic. As you can see, it's not glowing now, but when we retrieved it it still had a faint glow. Nageki and I took a look at the crystal under a magnifying glass and can confirm that it was--

[ there is a grimace here, but liam is going to push through because this is Important. ]

... a corpse of a child. Rika mentioned in our last gathering that there had been the images of children in the ice maze, so when Nageki and I took a trip over there to confirm... one of the children in the ice maze matched the corpse in the crystal.

Another thing to note that unlike other attempts to retrieve such crystals, this one was protected by a giant worm - it was the first time we'd seen the crystal protected relatively heavily. Thankfully, it seemed to unravel into thread when it was met with salt, so my suggestion still stands - if you can bring salt with you wherever you go, please do. Best to be prepared for any eventuality.

... If what Ferry says is correct, as well as the map that we found, there should be one final crystal.

[laytorest]

[Did anyone want bones? No? Too bad, we're getting bones that appear to be from a single hand provided by Yor. The forearm bone seems... long? For a human hand. And too many pieces are missing to determine which hand it is.]

I found this at the bottom of a well when C-ta, Riku, Morgan, Raven and I were looking around. It, um...

[Looking around nervously.]

When I used my magnifying glass on it, the fingers... look like needles. I would like to know if Lucifer thinks it resembles the... mirror creature?

[libirdian]

...Needles? Like the ones you carry, Miss Yor?

[ he may or may not have a very skewed idea of needles now ]

[laytorest]

Like sewing needles!

[So. Kind of yes, actually?]

[libirdian]

I'm not sure why they'd look like needles through a magnifying glass... But things around here have been unraveling into cloth?

[oversaw]

[ give him a second here to look at it. once again he searches the database that is his brain to find the perfect word

and then he throws it out ]

Yes, this hand is gnarly.

[mearry]

Does he even know what gnarly means...........

[oversaw]

[ ?? ]

Are you all right, C-ta?

[laytorest]

Then... if this is one of its hands, should we... do something about it? Everything else that dies turns into crystals.

[oversaw]

I'm not sure. If it would make everyone feel safer, we could surround it with a circle of salt.

[ that might help?? maybe?? ]

[foxetious]

If "everythin' else that dies turns into crystals" but this hand is still here [it's bone, but not crystal, that's "here" in a manner of speaking], perhaps some salt would do it some good. Wouldn't want it ta do somethin' to someone, if it's not fully dead, right?

[libirdian]

A group of us also checked the white void at the shrine with a magnifying glass...but none of us could see anything else. Everything was simply magnified.

[goldencave]

[ Hi, Norton's looking really freaked out by the magnifying glass thing. ]

Wait, the crystal was a WHAT?!

[mathodical]

[ that's valid, liam and nageki thought they were both hallucinating when they saw it and that was with no alcohol involved ]

More accurately, it showed a boy sleeping, but considering what Morgan told us last week about our corpses turning into crystals...

I'm fairly certain that it's a corpse.

[goldencave]

[ . . . Norton. Just. Buries his face in his hands. ]

Oh god, how can this get any worse...

[mearry]

That's insane. Could that kid have been one of the previous victims of this...thing?

[libirdian]

I agree... Ferry did say there were multiple games, right? Maybe they were a part of that.

[mearry]

…So that’s how we’ll end up.

[ …? ]

But what will happen to our souls? I mean, I don’t see any ghosts.

[lastreward]

Eaten, maybe?

[libirdian]

Not necessarily. We still have things to do.

[ Just hmming a bit until he continues. ]

Well, the children in the maze were rather ghostlike.

[reallyfishy]

[COOL, CHILD CORPSES. This is totally fine!!

Raven will uh...produce his crystal chunks.]

Our group ended up travelin' through a tear in the candy area. It took us to a whole 'nother place- a forest at night. We found a house along a dirt trail, includin' a well and some, uh...graves. I'm guessin' they had ta be graves from the setup. Three of 'em were marked, but I couldn't read 'em. These were buried there instead of bones.

[He'll hand them over since he kind of wants nothing to do with them right now.]

The unmarked grave had nothin' in it.

[mearry]

Do we have an extra magnifying glass? I know we looked at the bigger crystal but what about these?

[libirdian]

I still have two left, if anybirdie wants to check something right now?

[oversaw]

[ nothing to add but extreme "..." at the child corpse ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[honestly a mood]