Season 1 / Vincent - "Memento Mori" [The First Trial Projection]

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Chula - Suzune These flowers aren’t being left for any particular grave, therefore it’s not taboo to pick some! She grabs a handful, and despite the dark and brooding vibe of the place, happily sits on the ground to gently weave them together.

As Suzune starts to pick some flowers, at first she's able to start doing what she's planned to do with the flower crown… However, after only a minute of her attempt, the flowers seem to begin wilting, becoming limp, dull, and lifeless. How unfortunate… It's far less pretty and is definitely struggling to stay together than it otherwise would have been now that the flowers themselves look so utterly dead.

…And then, something happens.

Out of the corner of your eyes you all spot something. Or perhaps… someone…? The pale, translucent apparition of a young pre-teen girl with light brown hair and warm golden eyes stands looking over the flowers and bending over to pick one with a look of joy on her face that gives everyone looking at her a sense of inner warmth. She giggles lightly and turns towards Suzune to hand it to with a smile on her face. But just as you might reach out to take it, her form flickers and vanishes as if she were never there at all, and the foreign feeling of warmth fades with her.

Though… Suzune still holds a pink rose in their hand now. It’s dry, certainly dead now rather than the still living ones growing all around you, and yet its form is perfectly preserved and beautiful still unlike the attempted flower crown. You’ll have to be careful not to let it crumble apart though, of course.

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Sylas Grey He turns around. Can he see who’s watching them?

A bit After the phenomenon you witnessed prior…

As you turn around and look between the statues for the source, you hear the faint, eerie sound of a baby crying and a woman sobbing. Out of the corner of all of your eyes, you think you see a pale, translucent woman for a moment sitting on one of the benches and holding something bloody in her arms, though you don’t get a good look at her, as by the time you turn to face her properly she’s gone, leaving something of a bitter feeling lingering in your mind before that too disappears.

Sylas Grey

Sylas shrieks in a comedically high-pitched fashion and tries to hide behind the nearest gravestone.

"OH FUCK THIS PLACE IS HAUNTED CAN I LEAVE PLEASE"

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Sylas Grey Sylas shrieks in a comedically high-pitched fashion and tries to hide behind the nearest gravestone.

“OH FUCK THIS PLACE IS HAUNTED CAN I LEAVE PLEASE”

Unfortunately, the nearest gravestones to him are also covered in blood and roses. Getting a bit messy there, sorry Sylas-

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Ellie Carter So she walks forward without too much mind to what the others are doing, stepping up to the wrought iron fence to see what lies past.

First of all, as she's walking through the flowers to get there (watching her step or not), Ellie notices this is occurring:

After a while of moving through the the roses as you traverse, you end up being pricked by the small thorns that cover the vines. It’s easy to ignore for a while, but it does get annoying after a time, and the scratches it leaves on bare skin are visible. Hopefully some of you have something covering your legs to prevent the worst of it.

…but then she gets to the gate in the end!

The tall wrought iron fence surrounds the entirety of the graveyard, with sharp intricately decorative spikes that look almost like intricate ornate daggers, in a pattern of exactly six sharp blades per section of fencing. The roses seem to be having no issue climbing the fencing, so maybe you can too? There’s certainly enough intricate footholds for it, even if the spacing of the sturdy bars are far too thin for a person to simply squeeze through. Though… it also seems as though there’s a plaque here along the fencing where a gate might have been leading to that gothic building just on the other side, though strangely you can read it from this side if you’d like.

Ellie Carter

It's not like her skirt is that short, stopping just above the knees, but it does mean her legs are left fairly vulnerable to the thorns. But hey, it's not like she's never crawled through a damn forest. Alright, she's going to read the plaque.

She hears Sylas, but, well. Yeah obviously this place is fucking haunted have you met Vincent

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Ellie Carter Alright, she’s going to read the plaque.

The plaque edges are ornate, but the surface itself is plain black with white lettering that almost glows in the moonlight overhead:

“CHURCHWELL FAMILY CEMETERY

The fate of all who lie here is not to rest”

Chula - Suzune Regardless, she carefully watched her step trying to navigate around the flower area to approach Ellie.

Watching your step certainly helps you avoid the worst of it, but every now and again there's still those pricks of pain as you inevitably bump up against some thorns! Maybe it's best to get used to it, it's not That bad after all.

Chula - Suzune

Ah…. The flowers. Well… She tried. A dried and dead flower could still make for a pretty flower crown, but it would still need to be completed before it died to work. This was no more than a wimpy headband at most. With a small sigh, she stood back to her feet when she's handed a flower by a girl with similar enough features to herself. Suzune blinked, holding the quickly dying rose, before flashing a small smile. What a sweet memory if it were accurate.

"… Looks like that's a no-go on the flower crowns, I'm afraid!! But that's ok!" Suzune placed the flower she was given behind her ear and posed triumphantly, before sliding one of her unused flowers behind Sylas's ear (standing on her tip-toes). Ellie was too far away and beyond some dangerous brambles to do the same. "Ellie-san?? You might want to like… pull those down first if you want to go further! Ummm… You can use my heel if you want?" She didn't carry a knife on-hand or anything to offer, but she'd heard stories of people using their heels as improvised weapons, and she didn't mind one being temporarily ruined for that.

… did she have her ribbon back, actually?

Regardless, she carefully watched her step trying to navigate around the flower area to approach Ellie.

Ellie Carter

Ellie is a girl who's good at getting used to things. She had started to ignore the pricks as they were happening and turns back to Suzune, waving a dismissive hand.

"Eh, don't worry about me, girl. It'll heal. Think we should climb the fence? I could probably manage."

Sylas Grey

Sylas wheezes as he smears blood all over himself by accident. This is not going well for him, a Certified Weenie.

"Why did this have to be so scary! I thought he seemed like a real well-adjusted guy!!"

I'm sorry. He's not being particularly helpful right now. He's going to go scamper and try to regroup with Ellie and Suzune.

Chula - Suzune

"'It'll heal' doesn't mean it doesn't hurt!! Hang on, just let me take care of this much. I'm capable enough!" Suzune takes off one shoe and uses the heel to pull away the thorns so they won't grab a her as she tries to reconvene with Ellie. The memory of pain of a projection would still remain even if the marks would not.

… Walking like this was awkward. She took off her other shoe. In exchange that meant she was stepping in blood here and there, but that was fine, she'd deal with it.

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Chula - Suzune Suzune takes off one shoe and uses the heel to pull away the thorns so they won’t grab a her as she tries to reconvene with Ellie.

It helps at least a bit, even if it's time consuming! But she gets over to Ellie at the gate eventually just fine. She sure has been stepping in blood though, alas.

Sylas Grey

After a moment of being scared, Sylas realises he's looking like a total scaredy-cat and has to regain his dignity somehow. But, hey, you know what he's actually good at? Physical things! And god knows he's climbed way too many fences in his life.

So he's gonna start climbing this bad boy. Look at him go.

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Sylas Grey So he’s gonna start climbing this bad boy. Look at him go.

At first, despite the difficulty getting a good grip that isn’t obstructed by thorny roses, it seems as though it might actually be possible to get up and over to the other side, especially given Sylas' good skill in climbing. But as Sylas rises higher, up to the sharp points nearer to the top, they realize that not only are the spikes at the top sharp, but their entire bladelike sides are razor sharp as well, unfortunately slicing their left hand hand slightly before you can pull back. Ow. It definitely seems like climbing is a Bad idea that won’t get you anywhere with the way the top of that fence works.

It’s not a terribly deep injury, at least- Just enough to draw a slight bit of blood. Though notably, it’s somehow just the top part of Sylas’s hand that hurts over their middle fingers, not the palm.

Ellie Carter

She's only a little annoyed Suzune didn't listen, but whatever, the sentiment is well intended.

"Hey, you don't gotta do all that! I said it's really not a big— aw, fuck, there he goes."

Sylas Grey

"Argh."

Well, look, he's a carpenter. He's not a stranger to getting his hand sliced up. But it's not a great idea to keep going, and he doesn't think Suzune would like getting her hands sliced up either. (Ellie, who knows? She seems like a real badass.) So he slides back down and shrugs sheepishly.

"IIIIIIIi don't think we can climb this, sorry," king you are bleeding

Chula - Suzune

Speaking of the blood that's now on her feet, though, Suzune takes a look at the blood, honing in on the general area. She could join them in climbing after she felt she got a thorough look around them.

… She couldn't lie, though. The sound of a baby crying had gotten to her a little bit, if nothing else. It made her homesick.

"Hey, Sylas-san, honey? We can like, hold hands if it help! You've seemed pretty spooked, so… I don't mind, you know?" With the thorny vines more out of the way, she moves both of her heels into one hand and tilts her head at him. But off he goes, over the fence. Well! At least she'd clear some of the thorns out of the way, right?

…. ACH TOO LATE FOR THAT. Fretting, she once again found herself examining his wounds. "Oh gosh, Oh… I requested some, like… first aid supplies but Sie-san told me it wouldn't be here immediately, so I…" What did she have she could even use? "Do you still have my ribbon, actually? We could use that for one hand, but the other…" She looked herself over for anything else she could use to help. Her jeans??? She could rip some of her jeans???

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Chula - Suzune Speaking of the blood that’s now on her feet, though, Suzune takes a look at the blood, honing in on the general area.

The blood covering the ground is spattered almost everywhere, though especially on and around each of the graves lying here, as well as on many of the pink flowers, though others have grown over top of the mess. Moving through the graveyard for long enough will undoubtedly stain you and your clothes red, but it’s at least better in some places than others. In fact… there’s almost something like a blood trail where the larger collection the blood has gathered, leading towards some of the less damaged graves further in.

Sylas Grey

"Don't worry about it, Miss Suzune! I'll be right. I've done a lot worse to my hands before." He gives her his best attempt at a smile. "You're real sweet, but you don't gotta rip anything else up."

Chula - Suzune

"Ah, but….!!" Ooooough…. if only. If only she had those supplies. "Ok, but… Be careful, alright? Try to not strain your hands too much! Let me know if you need anything at all."

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