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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
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[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-05 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Why is Poland...? Poland barely ever spoke to Cheshire. [If ever.]
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[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???
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[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-05 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Why? [So weird.]
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[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?
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[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-05 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
She went on about this 'God' person too. Maybe she's crazy?
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[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.
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[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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[personal profile] takanome 2016-04-06 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Takao takes a long second to think about this. He is pretty sure that the actual answer in Christianity is that being naked is like having sex, which you should only do after marriage. However, he's already decided not to talk about sex in front of Cheshire - Takao certainly hopes that Poland doesn't intend to have sex with them, they're sixteen for Christ's sake. And besides, he doesn't remember for sure, he's never read the Bible, this is all just gleaned from glimpses of appropriative anime like Evangelion.]

No, I'm not sure.

[He said. You know, like a liar.]
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[personal profile] smileleftbehind 2016-04-06 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Cheshire doesn't understand at all.