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Vice Director ([personal profile] vicedirector) wrote in [community profile] sevenvirtues2016-02-09 10:05 am

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You awaken to blackness. Frightening, although familiar--this is the same terrible thing you narrowly avoided during your first trip into Lebensbaum. The pain of your death is still real, echoes of the wounds you suffered appearing on your skin. Inspecting your surroundings will tell you that you've woken up inside of the cooled, empty bonfire pit....and the town as it was is nowhere to be seen.

The sky is a whirlwind of blank, dark void. What previously acted as roadblocks on either side of the town seems to have moved upward, blocking out most of the sun's light. The street is barren, filled with piles of broken concrete, shattered glass, and smoking craters where many of the buildings used to be. Old bloodstains dot the pavement, mixing in with overturned cars and crumbling brick walls. Lebensbaum is a dead town, in more ways than one.

Except for the hotel. It stands, as dusty and abandoned as it ever was, but no worse for the wear. Scorch marks can be seen on the ground around it in a clear border, as though it had a barrier protecting it from whatever destroyed the village. If you venture inside, everything is in its place, as though the outside wasn't completely obliterated.

Concentrating will let you be able to see the living as they move around the hotel, going about their days--or perhaps doing something more sinister. It's only when they cross the scorched border that their already-flickering images fade from view entirely.

You're welcome to roam about. Doing so may even be beneficial, as you'll quickly discover that you aren't quite alone here.

Some additional points of reference, as asked:
References for the locked rooms
• No one will be wearing their talismans
• No one will feel hunger or thirst, though they can sleep if they wish
takanome: (Alarmed)

RINGZ (Week 8 Monday Morning)

[personal profile] takanome 2016-04-05 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[The sun rises. Some beams, poking through the void clouds, sparkle off the snow and shards of broken glass. It's another beautiful day, and Takao is having an excellent time. By which it is meant to say, this is hell, and he's in hell. Over the course of the trial discussion on the second day, anyone watching closely would see Takao frustrated with the proceedings, intermittently engaged in restless gestures - biting his lip, blowing strands of hair out from his face, getting the cricks out of his broken neck. When the new ghosts arrived in the evening he mustered up a smile for not much longer than it took to say "hello", and rather than a sign he was perking up, this is a gesture that took effort leaving him all the more depleted in the morning. At least they don't exactly have breakfast meetings so Takao doesn't have to impose himself on anyone else when he adds impatient pacing to the mix--

Well, that was the plan until he saw something really weird happening behind the hotel, and he's so confused that the tension saps out of his body.]


Why are we married to Poland?
smileleftbehind: (Nya?)

[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-05 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[The resident cat is rather pleased that he doesn't need to sleep in the room now, so he was enjoying napping in some sun when Poland's voice draws his attention. He head to the area and asks to the general gathering group,] What is married?
takanome: (Banter)

[personal profile] takanome 2016-04-05 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Have you ever heard of "dating"? Like, "romance"?

[Takao is guessing no but he should at least check to see if there's any foundation at all here.]
smileleftbehind: (lick)

[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-05 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Cheshire knows romance.
Edited 2016-04-05 02:43 (UTC)
takanome: (Explain)

[personal profile] takanome 2016-04-05 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well, when you have "romantic feelings" for someone after a long time, and you've grown up, you give them a ring and go, "I wanna be with you forever, sweetheart"! And they say okay, so you wear matching rings. That way everyone knows about it. You also move into the same house and probably raise kids.

[His eyebrows quirk.] There's other stuff, but I'd be really surprised if Poland wanted to do that.
smileleftbehind: (Nya?)

[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-05 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Why is Poland...? Poland barely ever spoke to Cheshire. [If ever.]
takanome: (Trick)

[personal profile] takanome 2016-04-05 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Same goes for Takao. [He shrugs.] She's doing it for literally everybody. Seriously???
smileleftbehind: (Nya?)

[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-05 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Why? [So weird.]
takanome: (Banter)

[personal profile] takanome 2016-04-05 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
I mean... I can understand why she wants to say she cares about all these people she barely knows, to show how important the group is to her, maybe. [Takao understands that feel. There are lots of people on Shutoku's boys basketball team. He doesn't know two-thirds of them by name but - before this game where it became so literal - he'd say he'd die on a battlefield for any teammate.] But... marriage?
smileleftbehind: (Nya?)

[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-05 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
She went on about this 'God' person too. Maybe she's crazy?
takanome: (Listen)

[personal profile] takanome 2016-04-05 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
...a lot of people believe in God. I don't know much about Him so I won't try to explain or anything, but it probably doesn't mean she's literally crazy.
smileleftbehind: (Nya?)

[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-05 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Really?

Do you know why he doesn't like people naked? [HE IS STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT.]

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keepshispride: (What does that even mean?)

Re: RINGZ (Week 8 Monday Morning)

[personal profile] keepshispride 2016-04-05 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Vegeta just looks super offended in Poland's direction.]

What does she mean, "no one cares"?! [She means exactly that, Vegeta.]
stupidly: (he ages 100 years a day)

[personal profile] stupidly 2016-04-05 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Ah...

[POLAND. Both touched but also like, why.]

...I don't think she meant any harm by it.
keepshispride: (Fucking humans)

[personal profile] keepshispride 2016-04-05 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
What the hell else am I supposed to think she meant? [Ugh. Poland, why. Forever why.] Me being married doesn't even have anything to do with it, why would I want to be married to her?
stupidly: (あ)

[personal profile] stupidly 2016-04-05 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think she actually wants to be married to you.

[WHICH SOUNDS VAGUELY INSULTING but he's trying to be reassuring here!!]
keepshispride: (Icecream.)

[personal profile] keepshispride 2016-04-05 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
She's been bizarrely obsessed with me from the start.

[But she probably is way too gay for that.]
stupidly: (now he's aging 500 years a day)

[personal profile] stupidly 2016-04-05 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
I think she just wanted to be your friend...

[Is this the world Vegeta comes from. A place where he can't even understand that friendship is friendship. Who will save Vegeta.]

Anyway, it's a sweet gesture.
keepshispride: (I used to kill people what happened)

[personal profile] keepshispride 2016-04-05 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Save Vegeta through the power of friendship, Gilbert, it's up to you. Shounen him into friendship. All of Vegeta's friends have been nearly murdered by him at some point so they're already off to a better start than that.]

How is this sweet?
takanome: (Disagree)

[personal profile] takanome 2016-04-05 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
I'm with Vegeta on this one... I mean, it'd be one thing if she said we'd be friends forever. Kinda weird since some of us never hung out, but whatever. Why married, though?

[PRESUMABLY BY NOW THIS HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO CHESHIRE. MARRIED IS NOT THE SAME THING AS FRIENDS. RIGHT?]
Edited (I noticed I said thought twice) 2016-04-05 02:12 (UTC)
stupidly: (smokes like a posterboy)

[personal profile] stupidly 2016-04-05 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[VEGETA YOU NEED TO JUST CALM YOUR MURDER BONER FOR .5 SECONDS--

But he'll do his best to shonen friendship an explanation out here OKAY.]


It's a symbolic marriage, in this case - not just Poland being frivolous. You heard that speech, right?

[A PAUSE for dramatic effect before he carries on. He's not sure if Poland meant to tell him this in confidence or not, but hey. They're all dead here, okay.]

She told me once that she had to marry the ocean twice. It sounds far-fetched and ridiculous, right? But then she explained it to me. She said that she was torn apart and her lands were taken, and she lost her access to the sea. Once the war was over, she married it to prove to her people that no matter what, she would always be able to get back what was hers. That happened twice, but she said if it happens again, she'd still marry the sea again to prove the same thing. So... I think that that's what she's doing here now, for us. It's symbolizing the fact that she's taken all of us up as something to fight for and protect, and her way of saying that she won't let us go.
keepshispride: (Are you serious right now?)

[personal profile] keepshispride 2016-04-05 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
[excuse you his murder boner is only half erect right now- I mean.

"Always be able to get back what was hers." Something about that apparently gets to Vegeta, judging from the strange expression that passes over his face.]


... So she's being stubborn.

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stardustreverie: (Laughing)

[personal profile] stardustreverie 2016-04-05 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh man..This is ACTUALLY hilarious. See Marisa laughing hysterically on the ground because this is just amazing. That and and she'll see Satori's response later so then she'll be laughing MORE. But for now...HILARITY.

...Even if she doesn't have a grave, nor a ring because details.
]
earie: (pic#9945504)

[personal profile] earie 2016-04-05 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sadie meanwhile is blushing and staring at her ring. ]

I bet nations are pretty rich, right?
disapproved: (this bride of scars)

[personal profile] disapproved 2016-04-05 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
But devoid in mental wealth, it seems.

[ here's morrigan being shady. she took her ring and pocketed it, but not because she wants to be married or anything!! she just likes jewelry. ]