( closed to @luck ) your turn to die: sou hiyori

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With varying vanities, from every part, they shift the moving toyshop of their heart.

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chapter one: the lost village

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It's too small and disorganized to be called a hotel. The set up suggests that a person had started to try to convert a large home into a place for visitors, odd for what would have been a veritable mansion in the old days. I's an old building, perhaps from the 1800s, with a dirt path that runs down the edge of the room and into to a hallway with tattered curtains hanging down, and a pair of steps that raises onto main room that's a clumsy and half-finished conversion. Their would-be sign in is little more than a block with a few pieces of yellowed parchment that crumbles when he tries to take it in hand

The centerpiece of the room is a sunken fireplace, the rope snapped and the shelf buried in the ashes, with doors to the north and south of it. The remaining wall is taken up by a set of stairs that lead up to a balcony, a a door visible from behind where a wood wall hides the lateral half. The sunken fireplace room has a handful of tattered partition screens and the remains of whatever cloth might have once been on the floor. Curiously, there's a small paper lantern hidden near a partition with a dim glow, though illuminates the room even less than a nightlight might have.

Hiyori finishes scanning the room before shaking his head, then rubbing one eye. This is a place that carries both history and death with it, with everything being ravaged and in a state of decay. His hand dips down before coming back up to rub his eye again once, twice, and he knows he's had his contact in for too long. He ignores that and instead squeezes Komaeda's hand in return, silent promise to fulfill his duty of caring for him. ]

... We won't be here long enough to need that, but we should see if there's one you can rest in if it comes to that.

[ He nods to him to signify that he'll let Komaeda take the lead in choosing the first room. North, south, the hallway or upstairs, he has no doubt that they'll find something. ]

That does remind me... I had the pleasure of speaking with a local folklorist about this area. He claims that there was a village which disappeared during a festival, and they consider it to be a cursed place. If you see a twin statue, you're to turn back and take measures to ensure it doesn't follow you... But outsiders will sometimes ignore their warnings and be spirited away.

[ The reasons for finding seem to range from a lack of attention to curiosity to an active interest in scouting out the location for its historical value and location. This area could be a wonderful vacation spot, and the few modern items in sight tell the story of those who came in without realizing only death would await them. But the efforts to convert it into a place for outsiders to rest seem to date back further... It's a bit odd, but but maybe such a secular village would just need to attract outsiders to repopulate. ]

... But there is one person who was able to escape.

[ He adds this last piece to assure his twin, as above all else he can't handle being trapped. But that person had found an exit they were looking for. Hiyori will find what he's looking for here too, he's sue of that. He hopes for it, wishes for it, is desperate for it.

He wants to go back. ]