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The Fifteen Strangers Mods ([personal profile] strangerpeople) wrote in [community profile] 15corpses2023-05-10 04:41 pm

at once short of life, and long of sorrow.

[You are dead.




Well, obviously. You remember how you died. It was...not fun, to say the least. But hey, at least you're off that ship, right?

Except...you don't know exactly where you are now. It seems like a house, but if it is, it's...a work in progress. Most of the rooms are empty, and your steps echo up through the marble columns and down faint mosaics on the tiled floor. The few windows you find have a green light gleaming through them; you can't really see anything beyond the eerie light.

It feels like you're in a temple of some kind. The columns and mosaics seem to indicate it is something like that-it's certainly reminiscent of something out of an ancient culture, perhaps even one you're familiar with. For some reason, though, it's clear someone-or something-lives here. One of the rooms to the south is stuffed with pizza boxes. Another, larger room has a makeshift futon in one of the corners. There are imprints of multiple footsteps all through the dusty floors as you look around, many of them leading to a small alcove to the west. And-

and there's a giant van. Just. hanging out there. Completely out of place with the seemingly ancient decor. And inside, there is the sound of light snoring.



Ok then. You're apparently not alone in death, after all.]

((OoC: Map for reference.))
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cw: suicide and death

[personal profile] jinglebros 2023-07-17 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
It's not my first death. I've heard of others... and I've died so many times in the loops... but they never kept hurting like this. I've shot myself, suffocated myself, hung myself. I've poisoned myself, I've been taken apart, even once in a loop I was murdered. But nothing hurt like this.

It still hurts. It's not phantom pains.

Something's wrong.
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[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-07-17 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[...Well then. That actually gets him to widen his eyes, looking over in concern.]

Because the ship itself killed you? But why would that follow you down here?
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[personal profile] jinglebros 2023-07-17 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know.

And I don't even know where Hubert is, he should have shown up by now! This would be worth it if I could see him!

[ He leans against Moriarty now, shivering. ]
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[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-07-17 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
....My, I suppose seeing this old man isn't enough for you, hm?

[He'll just make an exaggeratedly sad face, bringing up his hands to 'weep.']

Sob, sob. Oh, how truly lonely I am...!

[...Look, he's at least trying to take Aoi's mind off of it in...his own way.]
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[personal profile] jinglebros 2023-07-17 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aoi can't help but smile a little at that. ]

No, I missed you a lot. I'm glad to see you.

It was the one thing I looked forward to when I knew I was dying.
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[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-07-17 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[He stops, before giving a laugh - though it's a little mirthless.]

I would have preferred you stay alive, but I suppose I'm grateful to have given a little light at the end of the path, no matter how faint.

[After a moment, he sighs.]

Hubert is most likely fine - if he is not here, then he may still be with the living, somehow. Zack appears to have somehow also avoided coming down here as well.
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[personal profile] jinglebros 2023-07-17 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Zack what?

[ Aoi frowns. ]

He came back to life once before we killed him for good. He couldn't have done it again, right?
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[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-07-17 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
....I have my suspicions about him, honestly.

[...]

I believe his true identity is Zagreus, son of Hades and Persephone. At least, I got confirmation from the sheep that oversees each death here, as it was looking for him.

[The sheep is PROBABLY also a god too, and given the sleepiness....but would Hypnos really be down here looking over the dead? That's why he's not voicing it, tbh.]