DEATH.

[nextnightmods]

DEATH

So you died. Again. Great job! The good news is, you can still come back to whatever semblance of life you had here in Beacon. Shortly after your death, your body will vanish, only to reappear a few days later, (now "alive",) on one of the pews in the church. The bad news is, you can't just do this forever.

Your first death is a freebie. Your character comes back just as they were, minus the injuries/conditions that killed them in the first place. Starting at their second death, however, characters will begin to experience consequences. They'll still come back, just not quite as they were before. Perhaps something's missing, or broken, or drastically changed. It can be a body part, a sense, an aspect of their personality. Whatever it is, something is wrong now. And as far as anyone knows, there's no way to fix it.

What's more, these effects continue to stack, growing worse each time a character dies. For example, after four deaths, that's three separate alterations, each one more serious than the last. The first consequence might be something small (e.g. a change in hair color), but the second will be a bit worse (e.g. colorblindness), and the third even worse (e.g. losing memories of friends from home), and so on.

In addition to these personal changes, characters may notice that their lanterns are beginning to look a little shabby as well. There's probably some sort of connection there.

Regardless of how many times a character has died, they will always revive in the church at least a day after their death. Typically, characters will revive 2-3 days after their death, but feel free to take liberties with the timing.

To report a death, please use the form below:

<b>player name:</b> <b>character:</b> <b>death number:</b> (how many times have they died?) <b>date of death:</b> <b>date of revival:</b> <b>manner of death:</b> <b>consequence:</b> (you are free to pick these yourselves, though they will need to be approved by the mods. you are also free to say "surprise me", and have the mods tailor something to your character, which you will then be able to approve.)

CHARACTER	DATE OF DEATH	MANNER OF DEATH	CONSEQUENCE
Rosinante Donquixote	07/05/2019	Broken lantern	First death freebie
Vanitas	07/16/2019	Killed by spirits	First death freebie
Daylight vis Lornlit	08/19/2019	Broken lantern	First death freebie
Davina Claire	09/08/2019	Cracked skull	First death freebie
Vanitas	11/26/2019	Killed by a spirit	Aquaphobia
Bucky Barnes/Soldat	11/25/2019	Blown up	First death freebie
Crowley	11/30/2019	Killed by spirits	First death freebie
M.K.	11/27/2019	Killed by spirits	First death freebie
Stone	12/01/2019	Fatal injuries	First death freebie
Rosinante Donquixote	12/05/2019	Killed by spirits	Ribcage is now an outie
Elena Gilbert	12/08/2019	Broken lantern	Recurring nightmares
Masaomi Kida	02/04/2020	Blood loss	First death freebie
Cao Pi	02/10/2020	Killed by a spirit	First death freebie
Will Ingram	02/10/2020	Killed by a spirit	First death freebie
Fjord	02/10/2020	Broken neck	Stiff shoulder when underwater
Bucky Barnes/Soldat	03/11/2020	Killed by a spirit	Voice in head, constant hunger
Dean Winchester	03/12/2020	Swallowed by the swamp	First death freebie
Castiel	03/12/2020	Swallowed by the swamp	First death freebie
Alisaie Leveilleur	03/11/2020	Killed by a spirit	First death freebie

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[vampirella]

player name: kitty
character: matt murdock
death number: 1
date of death: during the event
date of revival: a couple days later
manner of death: got torn apart trying to get elektra out of the parade
consequence: firstie gets to coast

[nextnightmods]

Congrats on the first death, Matt!

Perhaps it's just beginner's luck, but it seems the team at Solis' lab is able to successfully retrieve his lantern once the Parade moves on, sticks it in the machine, pores over some notes, and.... gets it right! The lantern repairs and Matt finds himself once again with all parts attached, even in the correct places! Phew.

He will wake up in Solis' Lab, unless any of the current lantern repair folks move him elsewhere before he regains consciousness - feel free to check with them on that particular detail.

[ultraviolents]

player name: carlee
character: elektra natchios
death number: 1
date of death: during the event
date of revival: a few days later
manner of death: got torn apart by the spirits that tore matt apart when she tried to kill them in retaliation
consequence: baby's first death! if she ends up getting an effect i'd prefer it be psychological, like nightmares or hallucinations, or something sensory, like she temporarily loses one.

[nextnightmods]

And like with Matt, her lantern was recovered successfully. The repair even seems to go pretty smoothly as the team at the lab does their best and hopes they've already mastered the machinery in the lab.

When she wakes up, everything does seem to be in order. Lantern looks good, no injuries, and oh good, her legs didn't even get switched and she still has human skin. Nice! As she prepares to walk back home, though, her lantern flickers a little, dimming just faintly, and in that moment she briefly flashes back to the visions of Matt being torn apart as the spirits rend chunks of flesh and organs from his body with teeth and claws.

But it passes quickly. She will occasionally flash back to this horrifying imagery for the next week, after which it fades and her lantern once again burns consistently.

[vampirella]

player name: kitty
character: carmilla
death number: 1. i mean... 2 i guess. 3 i guess???? but this is her first time dying HERE
date of death: during the event
date of revival: after the event
manner of death: danced to death
consequence: firstie gets to coast except not really except kinda bc i forgot to put in for this so whatever happened to her i don't get to use...

back so soon?

[catholicisms]

player name: kitty
character: matt murdock
death number: 2
date of death: during the beyond the sea event
date of revival: 3 days after
manner of death: light sucked out of his lantern, he and I quote, "never saw it coming"
consequence: As an effect I'd like his lantern to be unstable and occasionally just, get very dim and leave him weakened as a result.

[nextnightmods]

Back at the lab, the folks on lantern repair have a look at Matt's lantern. It's in good shape still, truly - aside from a little dent in a corner where it dropped to the ground on his death, but that's just cosmetic.

As it fills back up with light, recapturing that flame of life, it almost goes right back out again, and everyone holds their breaths. The tiny little ember, barely even there, glows faintly and then very slowly it regains its strength.

Matt will indeed find that sometimes the light will flicker and he'll feel lightheaded, hollow, gasping for air. But it does eventually come back. For now, anyway.

[scarsolderthanyou]

player name: Gail
character: Stone
death number: This will be number 2!
date of death: During the WE fight in the Beyond the Sea event
date of revival: 3 days after their return (Ashford is carrying his lantern back for him <3 )
manner of death: Decapitation by a World Eater, what a way to go
consequence: Surprise me!

cw: gore/body horror

[nextnightmods]

Three or so days after Stone's brutal and abrupt decapitation, he awakens in the church, his lantern newly-refilled with light. It seems like it takes a long time to fully come to, though - images are at first blurry, sounds are dulled, and the sharp taste of blood and death lingers in his mouth. He's nauseous, disoriented, and struggles to even think about standing.

But over the next hour or two, most of those symptoms slowly dissipate. And he's fine, he thinks - this feels all right. They did a good job, that lantern crew, just had sort of a rough landing.

Whether it's there in the church, looking out a window, or later, catching his reflection in a glass, the bathroom mirror, the surface of the lake - he'll notice immediately that something has changed. His reflection shows not one, but two of him. One Stone looks as expected. The other? His flesh is wet and rotting and blackened. His head lies torn from its neck, and dangles loosely at his shoulders from what tendons and tissue remain attached, and it knocks about if he twists and turns. The eyes bulge outward, the irises are filmy and lifeless. When he moves, the dead Stone moves too - but its motions are jerky, more like a puppet than a living creature. In either winged or groundling form, Stone now has a dead mirror twin who remains with him at all times - and yes, everyone else can see it too.

[callada]

player name: Lauren
character: Rosinante Donquixote
death number: god... this is 3 now
date of death: August 3
date of revival: August 6
manner of death: he was real hungry. the world eater got him in the end after all!
consequence: I THOUGHT OF SOMETHING so editing this - after having eaten so much, perhaps his sense of taste is just gone now.

[nextnightmods]

The crew at the lab manages to get Rosi's lantern back into working order in only a few hours. It helps that there was no damage to the lantern itself, and it was just the tummy rumblies that did him in.

Rosinante will find that everything is dulled in taste, though the unforgiving ache has blessedly faded. He won't feel constantly starving, but eating is not going to be much fun for him for the time being.

[390h]

player name: Molly
character: Hope
death number: 1!
date of death: 2/13
date of revival: 2/15
manner of death: SHOT THROUGH THE HEART AND YOU'RE TO BLAME
consequence: freebie! I wouldn't mind a light temporary thing though if you want.

[nextnightmods]

It's tough, this lantern repair thing, and currently Will is the only one with any real expertise at it remaining. He's good, but he's not perfect, and with fewer people remaining in Beacon these days (and therefore fewer people dying) he hasn't exactly been able to practice much either.

While he's able to get Hope's lantern lit back up, it has a couple new dents and scratches. Not bad! But for one week after Hope's return, she will occasionally feel as though there's something inside her trying to claw its way out through her chest.

Totally fine!

[flangirl]

player name: Daz
character: Pudding
death number: 1st
date of death: March 15
date of revival: March 17
manner of death: disembowelment
consequence: surprise me but please leave her still able to eat sfdhk

[nextnightmods]

Just to confirm, are you opting to forgo the first death freebie? Pudding can still take a temporary effect on account of imperfect lantern repair by whoever's doing the repairs, but she doesn't have to have a permanent effect on the first death - unless you'd like one!

[flangirl]

Whoops I forgot to put that didn't I - yes, I'd like to forgo the freebie!

[nextnightmods]

When Pudding awakes in the church, everything initially seems fine - well, relatively. Memories of how she met her end flash before her eyes. But there's good news! She's alive. That must mean someone survived long enough to get her lantern back to Solis' place and restore her. Does that mean... did they win?

The first time she looks at something reflective, though - or maybe someone has to see and tell her - she'll quickly discover what's wrong.

Her nose is gone.

Now, she can still smell (and taste) normally. But the actual flesh and cartilage that should have been a nose has vanished, leaving a hollow, dark gap and a small ridge of bone in the middle of her face.