Post by Memento Mori on Feb 20, 2022 2:45:21 GMT
Naicitrom Mortuary
Down in New Orleans Louisiana there was a place known for many things on the outskirts of town. There lies a graveyard with approximately a thousand five hundred bodies laid to rest there. This graveyard was surrounded by a swamp a merky domain that helped border the burial grounds. At the center of this graveyard was a house, a funeral home a mortuary and a general place of residence. For a hundred years it's been ran by the Naicitrom family. A hundred years ago it was thought to be ran by witches. Seventy years ago it was thought to be known for its generations of soldiers, lately it was thought quiet and normal. We know now though that the oldest daughter of the family was one Sugar Skull. A necromancer who was slain by Kore Smith during Sugar Skull's villainous behavior over in Duskburg. The villain was learned to have been a serial killer, who's family was dead.
Heading towards the gates of the graveyard opens to a field vast and surprisingly well kept. It's been two years sense the family was slain and yet someone or something has been keeping the place somewhat organized. It has a gloomy atmosphere of course, trees often skeletal vines that hug the older tombstones. It's not a place of beauty by most standards but it does have some "life" to it. But a graveyard is largely easy to know and understand the layout of, one might ask what stands out then to the surounding area.
To the left far end corner stands a tree that towers above the home and its suroundings. It seems unnaturally large and is in contrast to the suroundings healthy. Should one venture across the haunting grounds to get near it they will eventually find four ropes hanging from the branches, the ropes look more recently put there but the ropes themselves are older clearly and have seen use. Use by way of the nooose like formations the rope is tied in. In the front of the tree is four graves from some hundred plus years ago, the old masters of this house before the Naicitrom. What stands out though perhaps more so should one venture toward the tree is what lies behind it. Four freshly dug holes with four semi new caskets. The caskets though house only clues to who was there, the bodies are missing.
At the right hand side about mid way is a sort of mosolieum. A small building with large doors, doors of brass and with a skeletal design to them. The door knobs were a pair of skulls. This is where the Naicitrom family is buried, it opens to a tomb. Two stone caskets on either side the covers are open. Leading down the stairs goes into a large square room. Forty stone caskets around the room and all of them are open, only twenty though are marked with dates. If one looks though it's clear the whole room had been used to house bodies. And near the end is a door.
From behind the door is the sound of a scream or crying. Something beyond this skeletal door is at a crossroads of pain and despair. But the door doesn't have a handle of any kind it's been removed. Where one should be is a slot for a locket.
If one ventures to the center of the graveyard, towards the rickety withering home however they will see it light up. Something is moving inside that house. Said home while mostly a gray and brown dying thing is marked by color of police tape. The yellow placed over the doors and squaring off a small space before the porch. The tape is connected to the railing two tomb stones and a tree, in the center is a outline. The chalk used has obviously washed away but white lillys seem to mimic the outline that would have been there. From the outline of a body by means of flowers is streams of black and trenched earth. A body was dragged from here a bleeding body. That trail of old blood stains dug up earth and the occasional Lilly it leads to the swamp. What's at the end though one may need to explore...
Local News Broadcast
"Good Evening New Orleans. Tonight we have a new update on that old cemetery off the beaten trails. We have it on good authority that early this morning the accident by those taking bodies to Albazo Cemetary was no accident. The survivor in the passenger seat claims his coworker driving was trying to dodge a woman in the road. He doesn't remember much of the woman but he swears he saw a woman dressed in bone. His number is open to authorities should one want to ask more. While Robert Albazo grieves his coworker and brother Jim Albazo he doubts any will call though, he said to me and I quote.
"Why would cops bother questioning me? It's a accident and my brother wasn't liked. This town ain't had heroes sense Morgan and I doubt anyone cares about our haunted crap. It's all the big cities, the hexes here are nothing to the devils popping up and whatever else."
I for one don't believe him. Maybe the accident is a bore, but what if I told you the bodies being transported went missing? That's right there was four people being transported to the cemetery. These four people are the older brothers and sister of the first kills of Sugar Skull. That's right we know her first kills around eighteen years ago were remembered by their family. Now their relatives die and the bodies go missing? Clearly something is up.
a brief summary of who one might meet
Not The Dead
A roughly Six foot tall woman who's skin is dead and face a skull. A gem rests in her back a radiant sliver of a soul. This woman has the power to command the storm, and be a ghostly vessel no longer knowing the norm. She knew her daughters magic the best, but one must wonder what information was not laid to rest.
Not The Living
An eight foot tall thing once thought a man. He was the groundskeeper but now rest he can. Or maybe it's that the roots have taken his shape, vines to strangle his nape. Now more a being of swamp then flesh, his eyes are like jewels to compose this mesh. The land is his to command, he need not bones to stand.
Not A Ghost
Somewhere in the house is a gem. From that gem allows a woman to wander. She caries guns the rounds a ghostly reminder. Who she is seems clear in the face, but that lady was dead so what stands in her ghostly place?
Summary and ooc Junk
-From arrival the grave has a tree to investigate, a tomb to investigate, a missing body. And then there's also a home
-News reports an accident this morning of two coroners was do to a ghost. The bodies it had in the back were relatives of the original four kills of the villainous serial killer Sugar Skull. Those who might investigate the scene having access to the survivor of the crash.
-This rp is limited to Kore Silvaria and two other players
-Dont want to overly spoil the three undead mentioned. But I've a set idea for what they can do that I tried to tease. And there will only be those three outside of undead.
-while sure to be fighting its a bit more investigative focused. Do want people to join but this isn't the army of undead to just smash rp. That comes later?
-Have at least one(1) fun any non fun having lifeless husks will be made actual lifeless husks
-Remember my posts will be trying to drop clues, it's up to you to find them however. If don't investigate then probably won't get answers.