faentasy | GRAVEYARD PT. II

GRAVEYARD

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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Literally the majority of the living were in Tenn's group He was also one of the people who decided that we shouldn't kill the traitors even if we proved it was them

Oh maybe he can befriend them too.

I don't think befriending was the goal But he said their information was more useful alive than dead

Well, he still has two of them. I'm sure he can be super friendly with Yuri or whatever.

[...ah. Suga touches the now-intact rose pin on his chest.]

We had no way of knowing that, didn't we? Our only sources of information were the trials, the newly dead like yourself telling us things of any importance, Tenn's letter, which we know by now that he was probably under some kind of restrictions like we were so as not to put Ferry at risk.

When the best information we can get is "discussions about the traitors were shut down very quickly" I think that's a fair assumption to make that you were ignoring us.

[ suga is getting liam's very withering teacher look because the ic salt is real ]

[ BUT ALSO YOU KNOW WHAT, liam is just going to crumple a piece of paper and throw it at the floor because tenn. why. traitors are traitors for a reason!!!!! ]

[withering look back]

1. Why would we have discussions about the traitors in front of the traitors 2. Raven was in the group that was privately discussing the traitors and how to prove their identity

We weren't asking for you to discuss traitors in front of them, we were asking for at least some kind of acknowledgment that some kind of work or attempt was being done. Unless you're telling me that's too demanding of you.

[ do not try to out-glare him, suga. you are going to lose, he has out-glared and scared the shit out of college aged gremlins, ]

Moriarty-san please don't scare my boyfriend. He's just defending his team--I'm sure they worked hard, they just didn't know how to relay their messages to us.

[ WHO'S SIDE IS HE ON? suga's side. ]

[buddy he has seen some shit]

Then you need to talk to the person who wrote the letters because it WAS being done and we ASSUMED that the person with the role to talk to the dead would keep them informed

Suga stop picking fights!

I'm not picking fights I'm just telling him who he should be yelling at next round of letters

Look we're all kind of annoyed here. It's been a hellish six weeks for all of us so... it's fine.

[grump grump grump at least direct your salt over lack of communication to the guy whose job specifically is communication]

[ Coughs politely because can we not, right now? ]

Can we also not assume we're all a hive mind over there and over here? Because it's not like we were very united in... what we wanted to convey at all.

As you can see, there was and is an information imbalance.

...I agree with Miss Asahina. At least there doesn't seem to be a huge point in trying to rectify it now. So let's just accept it happened and keep moving? We don't have much time left.

[ He wasn't happy to hear it either, but there's not much else they can do about it now. ]

[ yeah there's still a glare ongoing but, there's also going to be a sudden burst of killing intent that is being directed at both suga and c-ta (sorry, guilt by association) because william is MAD and honestly that's an achievement because no one has probably actually seen him actually mad, probably????? ]

Duly noted.

[ his tone is EXTREMELY chilly. the conversation is going to end here before he says something that he's going to regret in front of crime son because cold fury is the most lethal motivator here tbh ]

[ ....

he glances at moriarty with a guilty expression, but he won't say anything yet. ]

[Rubbing the back of his head... This is already blowing up, but-]

Yeah, I shoulda mentioned the private meetings too. That was my mistake. Can ya stop throwin' Tenn under the bus now?

[grumpy silence]

[Grumpy sigh in response!!]

That would have been useful to mention last week before the letters went out.

[ far too pleasant ]

[Sorry William but your first mistake was thinking Raven is useful.

In all seriousness-]

I didn't intentionally withhold it or anything... There was just so much goin' on ta keep track of! It slipped my mind, okay?!

[ are we just blaming tenn now because tenn was the one that told william that raven was useful??? ]

[ anyway. still unimpressed. ]

Of all the times for it to slip your mind, especially with us trying to narrow down their identities last week...

[ angry muttering. ]

[Leave Tenn alone he's trying his best!!]

Ta be fair, I did offer up the same things I mentioned ta Tenn's group when you guys asked fer my thoughts.

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