October Event Log (Purgatory. Closed to the Dead)

[kaisoumods]

Closed Log: Purgatory

Congrats on your untimely death! After you die, you will awaken in a very drab waiting room. The only other people in the waiting area seems to be the others who also died back on the Event Horizon. On the wall, there is a sign that reads: Welcome to Purgatory! Please take a number and wait while your soul is processed for its next destination. Thank you. Sure enough, under the sign there is one of those old number ticket machines.

From there, there is nothing to do but... wait! There are plenty of old chairs to sit in (some are even comfortable), along with stacks of magazines that are all discontinued. If you get hungry, there is a cabinet and fridge that is full of various discontinued snacks and drinks. Fancy yourself a New Coke or Pepsi Blue?

Finally, there is an old fashioned tv and antennae. You can use this either to watch some cancelled shows or watch a feed of what's going on back on the Event Horizon. You'll have to deal with adjusting the antenna regularly and bad reception though.

That's about it for purgatory though! Enjoy your stay.

[OOC: This is the log for all the characters that die during the October Horror plot! ]

Comments

Various days

[wiseoldbartender]

[The first time Husk arrives in purgatory, he looks at the sign, then at the ticket machine. He gives the ticket machine the finger.]

Naw. Fuck this. I know where I'm going, I've already been through this shit I don't-

[And just like that, he vanishes.

A while later- maybe it's only a few hours, maybe it's a day, who knows, time is weird here, he shows up again. This time, he's just gonna reach out and take whatever snack you've got held in your hands, taking a bite out of it.]

...This is gonna get real fuckin' annoying, real fuckin' fast.

[He manages a few bits of the snack and off he goes again. And so begins Husker Agapov's Continued Trips to Purgatory. He shows up a lot- sometimes he's there for a few moments, sometimes a couple hours- depending on how "dead" someone made him. Each time he has something to bitch about. It's clear he finds this continued dying game a major annoyance in his existence. The Event Horizon is a place where he's off his rocker, at least the waiting room gives him his sanity back. He'd rather stay here, thanks.

Eventually, though, he comes back and STAYS. He slumps in a chair with a sigh.]

Thank fuck. Hey, you think I can get air miles in this place? Nothin' fancy. Maybe enough to get a toaster oven or something.

day 2 onward

[conseqweinces]

[Wei Wuxian has died before. Painfully. Gruesomely. Been torn apart and had his name dragged through the muck he lived in as a child. Had his research used for acts on par with what he committed in his first past life.

So why did this time hurt the worst?

They couldn't have given him the liberty of silencing his consciousness this time, even.

Anyone else who comes in won't even find him sitting on any furniture. Just laying on the floor if not in a corner trying to make heads or tails of... fucking anything.

Wei Wuxian remembered dying. Wei Wuxian remembered being told what he did while Lan Zhan risked it all for him. But right now he's too broken by the image of his shijie's dying expression turned Miss Robin's to not fall back into his worst moments.]