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critter ([personal profile] gamehead) wrote2013-05-15 05:04 pm
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graveyard part 2

hunter's game the graveyard




You wake up in an unfamiliar cabin.

At first, it almost seems like you're in an entirely different place and that everything had been just a dream. The interior of the cabin looks nothing like the run-down, old-timey shacks that you had been living in before. Everything in here is sleek and modern, from the enormous flat-screen TV mounted on the wall to the fridge and mini-bars stocked with all your favorite foods. There aren't any individual rooms in here, just a common area large enough to house everyone comfortably, no matter how many more people join you...and there will be plenty more people joining you before the week is over.

Because if you look outside the window, it quickly becomes clear that not only are you still in Prayer's Pass, but that you are no longer among the realm of the living. Judging from the tombstones directly outside, you're now in what had been the abandoned broken-down cabin in the graveyard. The cabin's not all that changed; the world outside has gone completely grey and everything you see appears to be faded and blurry. The only things that remain sharp and in color are what's inside the cabin, including your fellow ghosts. Occasionally, people who are still alive may enter, but it's clear that what they're seeing is completely different from what you're seeing. The door's unlocked; however, a mysterious force prevents you from stepping beyond the threshold, no matter how hard you may try. After all, this cabin is a cage for the dead - a gilded one, perhaps, but a cage nonetheless.

On the flat-screen TV plays everything that is currently happening in the town. It will shut off once night starts...and something else will appear instead.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-22 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[She frowns a bit. Considering that Kanaya's blood is green, the purple blood shouldn't surprise her. But it does.

SCIENCE QUESTION TIME.]


I didn't realize your species engaged in hematophagy.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya in ivory, pointing out a problem with a raised arm and trying not to be petulant. (Dissatisfaction)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-22 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not a particularly widespread practice. As a rainbow drinker I'm kind of a special case. Incidentally my phosphorescence is a related, likewise rare trait.
Edited 2013-05-22 22:57 (UTC)

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-23 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Why are you referred to as a "rainbow drinker"?
speakveryclearly: Kanaya looking over at something, not entirely satisfied, flickering. (Calm)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-23 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Raises glass.]

Because the hemospectrum is a rainbow.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-23 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, so that's...

You're vampiric.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with a smirk, pulsating brightly. (Aroused)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-23 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I think that's your culture's term.

[Casually flashes fangs] These aren't a rainbow drinker thing, though, they're relatively normal troll teeth.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-23 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Ema leans in to get a closer look at the teeth, gives a small ahhhh in fascination, then sits up straight again.] I see...

[Despite wanting to keep grilling the poor kid (science!!), she holds out her beer instead.] Well, in that case, cheers. You learn something new every day, even when you're dead.

[She's seen weirder back in Mayfield.]
speakveryclearly: Kanaya looks down, eyes almost closed, at Eridan in a meadow. She is wearing short sleeves, his scarf, and green makeup. (Conciliatory)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-23 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Clinks glass!!]

I have to admit I almost like death more than life. It was undeath that I had before anyway. I was alive once, I wasn't hatched like this.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-23 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I'm almost inclined to agree with you. This is my first time being dead with any kind of memory of it, so it's the only data I have.

I'm curious about your situation, though. How were you hatched?

[Let's ignore the game and talk about more interesting things!]
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with raised eyebrows, nervously mouthing off to dispel something she would like to consider a really bad joke. (Caught Off Guard)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-23 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
If you want to be very technical I personally was cloned, but the normal mode for my species is closely analogous to the ant colony or bee hive's queen laying a multitude of eggs from which the young emerge.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-23 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
And how are the eggs fertilized? Similarly to how ants and bees go about reproduction?

[LEGIT CURIOSITY HERE.]
speakveryclearly: Someone holds Kanaya's chin in their hand; she looks over at them, eyes lidded, blushing slightly, brows raised. (Uncomfortable)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-23 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well, not exactly, there is, uh - socially greater similarity to viviparous beings in the practice of pairing off, and the results of that act are brought by drones to the mother grub - queen - and from there it proceeds in the same manner.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-23 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Really.

Your species is really fascinating, Kanaya. Definitely different from how humans--hell, any mammal I've heard of--reproduce.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with mercilessly raised eyebrows and a wide smirk on her teasing lips. (Smug)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-23 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
We're not mammals.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-23 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well, no. You can't be, given what you just told me.

But you have a lot of characteristics of a mammal. Quite frankly, our scientific classification system probably doesn't really have a place for you.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya talking calmly, possibly reiterating orders. Jade lipstick. (Words)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-23 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
I think I just happen to look a lot like one. This isn't fur, for instance. [Putting her hand in her hair.]