Death

[pumpkinhollow]

Death

Won't You Spare Me Over for Another Year?

In the sacred texts of Pumpkin Hollow's local religion, it is written that when it is your time to die, you will be greeted by the goddess of winter. She will invite you onto her black funeral carriage and take you into the afterlife, in her realm beyond the veil between the tangible and the spirit worlds. She will tell you stories of your loved ones, recount with you the history of your life, and ask you to tell her what you have learned. By the time the carriage reaches your destination, it is said that you will know exactly what sort of afterlife you have earned.

However, for the last five years, death's carriage has arrived for no one in Pumpkin Hollow. The reason is unclear, but this strange phenomenon has both spared the people of Pumpkin Hollow from the island's curse and condemned them to it indefinitely. Whenever someone dies anywhere on Marrow Isle or in the dark ring of ocean surrounding it, they come back to life sometime later.

Should you die on Marrow Isle, you will become a ghost for at least 24 hours. During this time, you will be invisible, inaudible, and incorporeal to living residents and will struggle to communicate through normal means. You may be able to engage in rudimentary poltergeist activity such as moving small objects or seek out someone with a strong sixth sense in order to get your point across. If there are other ghosts around, you can also talk to them. After the 24 hour mark, you will return to your body at the following break of dawn.

Resurrection isn't without its problems. For one, your body will not be where you left it. You will return to life in a random place on the island and sometimes you will be missing personal items which may or may not resurface elsewhere. Additionally, you will have some kind of marking on your body that reflects the offending injury. How intense or subtle it is will vary.

Upon your death, please fill out the brief Death Certificate below! All that we need is your name, your cause of death, and your resurrection event. The last entry can be just about anything sufficiently inconvenient, such as waking up in a remote location, in an embarrassing or frightening situation, or without some of your gear. You can also say "Surprise me!" and a mod will create one for you. We have a few clever ideas up our sleeves occasionally!

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May your lantern always be lit, and happy adventuring!

CODED BY TESSISAMESS

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Questions?

[pumpkinhollow]

Any questions about death in Pumpkin Hollow can go right here!

Death Certificates

[pumpkinhollow]

Submit all Death Certificates here!

Ianto Jones, Death The First XD

[needmetodoanyattacking]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Ianto Jones
Cause of Death: Murder by the Pine Devil
Resurrection Event: Surprise me. Bonus points for absurdity. :P

Another bites the dust

[woocas]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Lucas Kovach
Cause of Death: Falling from a great height
Resurrection Event: Make him suffer a bit (embarrassing)!

Re: Death Certificates

[prise_de_fer]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Mo'rtajha Tykha
Cause of Death: The Pine Devil nibbling on her gibblets
Resurrection Event: I humbly request that Mort wakes up in a tree somewhere and has to call the fire department to come get her down.

1st ride on the carousel...

[batteryacid]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Eddie Kaspbrak
Cause of Death: Fatally attacked during the bedlam of Parade Day.
Resurrection Event: Eddie is found in the early morning, slightly more than 24 hours after his death -- just above the high tide line on the beach. There's a... baby sea turtle (???) crawling on him, and it scoots away when whoever found him shakes Eddie awake. Eddie is missing his glasses, pocket knife, and right shoe.
(Moderators, please feel free to add to the consequences if appropriate.)

You want a lore drop? Eddie drew 'Go directly to the Macroverse' (do not pass Go, do not collect 200 dollars Brass).

2nd go 'round...

[batteryacid]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Eddie Kaspbrak
Cause of Death: Allowed Lord Erik Osborne to drain all of his blood (voluntarily)
Resurrection Event: Early evening, anyone who is out in the forest close to Northwest Hollow is going to hear a lot of "Ow, fuck, ow, shit, fucking birds!" and may even get a visual of Eddie's pasty self, clad only in boxers, as he is chased by a flock of magpies. They keep swooping and pecking at him as he runs barefoot through forest and field for his farmhouse.

(Swooping Season, for Eddie only, as suggested by Vox -- so Eddie is being pestered by birds. I rolled a D8 and it came up a four so I'm being mean and saying Eddie has to put up with this for four in-game days.)

For anyone curious, the effort was a success.

Lord Osborne First Death (here)

[lordoftheozarks]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Lord Erik Osborne
Cause of Death: Elsie killed him at his request during the dancing curse (backdated) with a knife
Resurrection Event: He wakes in his bed wearing the most hideous pair of pink plaid pajamas possible and he has no other pairs to change into.

Re: Death Certificates

[graveling]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Angel
Cause of Death: Hole-in-One in Knife Throwing
Resurrection Event: For some reason, Angel will have a habit of waking up in sacred spaces and absolutely glowing for the first hour he's up. Now, this might mean up in the rafters of the church or in Elsie's Tree (or in a pile of leaves right below it, echoing his first time rising). Or, if there's some other undiscovered holy location, perhaps plunk me there?

First Death (October; Pumpkinfest Part 2)

[restingslasherface]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: "Slasher Face" Jean
Cause of Death: Mission-critical suicide
Resurrection Event: Upon waking and no sooner, a skull & crossbones and a single tally mark burn their way onto Jean's cheek, leaving behind a blackened scar that will never heal. Each death hereafter adds another tally mark.

First Aid, First Death

[lovinglefthand]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: First Aid
Cause of Death: Being first frozen by the Misfortune Teller, and then superheated by River's hellfire, causing his body to break apart and his spark to go out.
Resurrection Event: Surprise me!

Lord Erik Osborne | Second Death

[lordoftheozarks]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Lord Erik Osborne
Cause of Death: Mercy killed by Chris during a duel to the death at the carnival.
Resurrection Event: Surprise me!

Hawkeye | First Death

[notinflictthem]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Hawkeye Pierce
Cause of Death: Donated his own liver while he was still alive. A full decade before Leonid Rogozov, if you're keeping count.
Resurrection Event: Wakes back up in his apartment on the couch. For the next day, both of his hands have a noticeable and distinct tremor.

uh-oh, sisters!

[apocryphalarchivist]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Jon Sims
Cause of Death: Blunt force trauma after getting inflicted with the Stygian Awakening and causing Problems for Eddie
Resurrection Event: Surprise me!

Re: Death Certificates

[thelatechrisfreeman]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Chris Freeman
Cause of Death: Killed by Erik (who turned into his Beast form) after the train derailment
Resurrection Event: The most embarrassing thing would be to wake up in Neil West's front yard, and I leave it to the mods to otherwise elaborate.

[graveling]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Angel
Cause of Death: Cave-in
Resurrection Event: Waking up in a forgotten closet or back room of the temple, glowing. Even if he goes back to look for the pitchfork he brought to the cave, it is gone.

César Salazar, 1st Death

[pineapplesalmon]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: César Salazar
Cause of Death: Vika freezing him to death (with bonus postmortem decapitation)
Resurrection Event: He's new so somewhere he can find his way back easily enough (boy's still wound up/stressed from canon) even if he needs some help getting home, please!

Bart Torgal: death by squish

[theresalwaystheview]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Bart Torgal
Cause of Death: Stepped on by the Pine Devil and then eaten
Resurrection Event: Bart might wake up somewhere in the snow, or perhaps in one of the clinics with no recollection of how he'd gotten there, but as a result of the treatment of his body postmortem he is going to keep that hollow feeling.

Magne Hikiishi, Death By BOOM

[sistermagnetic]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Magne Hikiishi
Cause of Death: Picked a fight with a robot and accidentally detonated her divine winter-powered core
Resurrection Event: IDK Make it silly! The aftermath was resolved fairly peacefully after all.

Vika | First Death

[lastofthefirst]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Our Vikas
Cause of Death: Killed by a power cascade in a fight with Magne, which caused a divine explosion
Resurrection Event: Vika's "bad" eye, typically covered by her hair, becomes unmelting ice; she will have to style her hair differently, or it will freeze and shatter.

She awakens in the temple and finds herself unable to leave it for 24 additional hours. All attempts to do so put her back in front of Mortanne's altar as if she'd fallen off the level and been respawned.

Tarantulas | this kills the spider

[tisnotthehouse]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Tarantulas
Cause of Death: Torn apart to stop his rampage by Vika and Amaterasu
Resurrection Event: Tarantulas is trapped in spider-form for a week, preventing him from wearing normal clothes or using many of his tools. He may also encounter social difficulties due to being a giant fucking spider.

Ryja's First Death

[maskedstarbunny]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Ryja Featherfists
Cause of Death: Eaten! <3
Resurrection Event: Ryja comes back with an insatiable hunger for a week, maybe? Unless you have a better idea! Wait no better idea, Ryja comes back inescapably *cold* for a week.

ava:0 death:1

[decohere]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: ava starr
Cause of Death: succumbing to molecular disequilibrium
Resurrection Event: no clue, surprise me

[lovinglefthand]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: First Aid
Cause of Death: Electrical short during the flood; spark was fully submerged and "drowned" soon afterwards.
Resurrection Event: Wakes up in the captain's cabin of the Stag Beetle and is immediately bugged. Further consequences are left to the discretion of the mods <3

First death

[lovethyneighb_or]

Death Certificate

Name of Pumpkin Hollow Resident: Father Mulcahy
Cause of Death: Starvation/dehydration
Resurrection Event: Mulcahy’s eyesight is considerably worse for about the next day.