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[soulping]

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[soulping]

[you arrive at the fence - a gate, actually, with a gap wide enough for you and your team to slip through. Whether you attempt to squint through the darkness, or use the flashlight, you realize very quickly you’ve found yourself in a graveyard, and one that mother nature has decided to reclaim for herself.

The path you followed ends at the gates, grass and vines growing over what once was paved stone. Trees grow here and there, their trunks growing around gravestones and tombs, some through them, leaving behind broken stone. Roots twist up around old, stone benches, other gravestones, and lay over what once must have been light poles; nature was not gentle when it took back this place, and it shows. The only thing that seems to be left alone is a well, just within the reach of your flashlight.

But what’s even more disturbing are the open graves, some that even look as though they’ve been dug out recently. In fact, there’s one right next to the entrance and, peering in, you can see the decomposed remains of whoever was buried there.

Watch your step - who knows what would happen were you to trip and fall into one of them. The only visible way out is the way you came in, however the graveyard does extend beyond what you can see]

[feytality]

[squinting against the darkness since they apparently couldn't find a flashlight]

N-No way.... did someone dig up all these graves...?

[dirtdevil]

Watch your step.

[ he's going to hover very close in case she trips and he needs to grab her in a big hurry. ]

[feytality]

[she's sitting on Vash's shoulders, bro]

I'm fine....

[dirtdevil]

[ oh.

...he was totally talking to Vash, then. ]

[feytality]

[protect vash 2015]

[featherduster]

... We should re-bury them, if we can.

[feytality]

....I think so. We just have to be careful.

[featherduster]

[ Very slowly heading deeper into the graveyard, wary of stepping in anything he shouldn't. How many graves are uncovered? Is there anything to dig with?? ]

[soulping]

[there is a shovel, off to the side and sticking out of a mound of dirt]

[featherduster]

[ ... WELP ]

Hang on tight, boss.

[ > ACQUIRE: SHOVEL ]

[feytality]

[IS THERE ANOTHER SHOVEL AROUND....]

I guess I should get down...

[featherduster]

[ Good lord ]

Oh...

[sweatypalms]

[ peering into the nearest open grave...... ]

Eugh...

[ . . . kicks a rock down at the corpse.

just, y'know. to see if anything happens. ]

[soulping]

[RUDE!!

. . . nothing happens]

[sweatypalms]

[ well then, time to go peer in some more open graves, see if there's anything but rotting corpses in 'em. ]

[soulping]

[some of them are rotting; corpses that have been there for who knows how long, far past the point of smelling like death.

but others are fresher, as though they were recently buried. Dressed in their finest and laid into the ground to rest until someone came along and dug them back up]

[sweatypalms]

[ ah. poor dears.

well, whatever. he feels compelled to rebury them (FOR SOME REASON) but the others are already taking care of that.

gonna explore the further edges of the graveyard instead. how far out does this extend? ]

[soulping]

[much further than you can see from the entrance.

There's more graves out here, still more that have been disturbed. The air grows colder as you explore, and should he pause to lean over and investigate something . . .

He'll feel the brush of fingers, ever so light, against the back of his neck]

[sweatypalms]

[ --DA FUQ

whirls around to see who's there?! ]

[featherduster]

Yato!!

[sweatypalms]

[ EVERYTHING'S FINE, OFFICER ]

What?!

[featherduster]

[ Headlocks before you DISRESPECT THE DEAD anymore ]

Honestly...

[sweatypalms]

HEYYYY!

[featherduster]

[ Headlock intensifies ]

Behave yourself.