Event Post: Ghosts That We Know

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Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the Ghosts That We Know event
Where: All over the city!
When: June 21st-29th
Warnings: Emotional trauma, ghost murder, long slow deaths

It's been awhile since something really awful happened. Or maybe it hasn't - maybe you had a really awful day just yesterday. Don't worry! Things can always get worse. And they sure will, because when you awaken on June 21st, you'll find yourself haunted.

Maybe it's a relative, someone who raised you and loved you deeply. Maybe it's a friend, someone close to your heart. Maybe it's a former - or current - lover, someone you've given your affection to. Maybe a mentor, a coworker, a person who doesn't even know you love them. Whoever they are, they're someone who matters very much to you - and now you're seeing them where you shouldn't. They're haunting you, taking each step alongside you, and they're exactly like the one you love.

Over time, you'll feel yourself growing weaker as the ghost gains strength. Being able to see your loved ones again is a double-edged sword, because they're sucking the life from you. What are you going to do? Die, so that they can live? Or kill them to preserve your own life? And what do they want you to do?

By the 26th, the ghosts will have taken enough energy from you to be solid. That means you won't be the only one who can interact with them anymore - and maybe your friends here have opinions of their own about what should happen to that ghost draining your life away. But hopefully someone will do something, or else you'll die along with your ghost on the final day of the event.

Hey, didn't we get a few psychologists here in our cave city? Man, you guys are gonna be booked up after this one.

► This log covers June 21st-29th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you can't bring yourself to murder someone you love, no one else is around to lend a hand, and you die - please let us know here.

Comments

[sheathes]

To fear is only natural. [ She sighs as she increases her own pace. ] You are far too kind, Irisviel.

[ It's painful, watching Irisviel go through all this. It was painful in the past, with Guinevere, and now history is repeating itself in more ways than one; before her eyes and in her heart both. ]

I cannot force your hand. But know that I will carry the burden for you, and gladly. [ As much as anyone can ever be 'glad' for such a thing. There is so much else she cannot spare Irisviel from, so this small act will have to suffice. ] Think what you will of me, be it monster or fiend. You would not be the first to curse my name. [ But it would hurt more than most. ]

[ritualized]

I won't curse your name, Saber. [She smiles, and for all the exhaustion and pain in her movement and her heart, there's an attempt at reassurance there. Saber is hurting, too, and Irisviel feels the same amount of sadness and pity for her in return. Saber being so selfless, she knows that she won't think of herself at all.

After breaking eye contact, her posture briefly goes cold.]

But I'll stop you. [If Ilya has to leave them, can't it be in her mother's arms? Perhaps it's selfish for Irisviel to think that will give her some comfort, and can she still hold rage in her heart for that half-dreamed murder, when her actions are basically the same.]

[sheathes]

[ She nods, but: ]

And yet I cannot let you die. I will not. [ There's a difference, even if the result is the same. ] It is my duty as your Servant to value your life above all else. Just as it is your right as my Master to stop me.

[ It's implicit in her words: that Irisviel will have to use a command seal, if things come to that. She'll give her as much time as she can; but in the end, she will have to act. ]