The city is a normal city in the eyes of the living, but the city itself is deeply connected to the dead, so you can say that the dead is dragged towards this place. In this case only the ones who left the living on their own choice by taking their life is dragged here. Of course there are lots of places like this but those who have taken their life within a specific radius are drawn to this place. And it's the same with other places of course. The reason why I stated that no one lived in this city before is that it would be really too much if only one person would see his/her parents/friends/enemies while trying to recover from making the wrong decision. So yeah if you believe in paradise this is basically the stop before you enter paradise, but in this case the outsiders return to earth to give life a shoot again and then if they live and do not take their life they will enter paradise or be reborn.Could you explain this city to me? I don't think I understand when you say no one lived in this city before they died. Did our ghostly characters gravitate to this one city for unknown reasons because you mention waking up as a ghost in the same place we died so that can't mean we died in that city.
The hallucinations are something that will happen at random times, I will not trigger them instead you yourself have to trigger them. The hallucinations happen when a outsider sees something that reminds them of their past, like if (I'll take my character just for example) Amelia sees someone that's attacked/bullied in a bathroom it will trigger her own memories. To others she won't move but in her head she will be the girl on the floor getting kicked, punched and getting her hair cut off. She will re-experience what happened in her head but after it's over she will just realize that it's just of the past and she will just be filled with pain and maybe she will collapse. But yeah what happens after the memory is triggered a outsider can either get panic attacks, start to cry, collapse on the spot. What will happen is your choice.When you say hallucinations, does that mean debilitating mental trauma akin to PTSD you're taking about where little memories trigger us to go into a panic attack of some sort?
Sleep is something that isn't necessary really, but if you've seen the tv show "Being Human" a ghost can sleep, but instead of being something which you can do by choice it will become addicting once you've started to sleep. Sometimes you will dream nice dreams, like what would've your future looked like if you didn't take your life, but since that is a delicate thread it can easily turn into a nightmare. So once you try, you cannot stop. But that's the only thing that connects us to the living, the outsiders do not need to eat nor use the bathroom. And they do not need to brush their teeth either. But yeah sleep is the only thing that's different than normal ghosts in stories.Nightmares. That implies we sleep. Do we need to sleep and other human bodily functions even as a ghost as well?
I actually were thinking hard about this yesterday, but no our appearance isn't changed after we die. But if we look at Gore's character Adrian, which is a man trapped in a woman's body, but when he's reborn it will be in his true gender, male. But yeah if our death affected our appearance Riane (Zarko Straadi's character) wouldn't look as pretty as she does in the picture.Will our deaths affect our appearance in any way or no?
The ghostly abilities they have are pretty much what a ghost have, so if you feel like being a douche: yes you can posses someone. You can also walk into a classroom take a whiteboard pencil and write things on the whiteboard that will totally creep out the students sitting in the classroom. You cannot walk through walls, but the tricky thing is that if a door is open just a little bit you can enter the building, but if the door is locked you cannot enter the building. And let me warn you, do not get trapped with a circle of salt around you, since you cannot move from that place because salt isn't a friend of ghosts.What ghostly abilities would we have other than no aging and weather not affecting us?
The city they are in is a normal city to the living, except what they don't know is that there are some outsiders roaming around and being douches if they feel like it. About the appearance, Riane herself can choose to look like a zombie or not, since they are ghosts they can decide if they want to show their zombie appearance or the "fine" appearance. So if you wanna make her into a walking ghost zombie it's okay^^ And about Ghost which @Ay-Ex also mentioned, I haven't seen that movie |D So I have no idea, but they are pretty much as what I've mentioned in the post before if I am unclear bash me and I'll try to explain better^^"@Yuomi:
I'm in the midst of writing my first post. It sounds like what you're saying here will change a few things. Do the characters end up in some kind of "City of the Dead?" I was kinda picturing their ghosts haunting the land of the living, like in Ghost or Sixth Sense. Also, Riane will look like her corpse, rather than a mental "body image" (i.e., like her picture)? Because, I'm imagining that her corpse would be pretty badly busted up after taking a fall onto craggy rocks and rapids from ~400 feet up. She'll be shambling like a zombeh, lol.
And about Ghost which @Ay-Ex also mentioned, I haven't seen that movie |D So I have no idea, but they are pretty much as what I've mentioned in the post before if I am unclear bash me and I'll try to explain better^^"