Post by Lia chan on Apr 30, 2010 21:28:24 GMT -8
"This is your captain speaking. I hope you've enjoyed your passage. On behalf of the crew of the SS Nile, welcome to Elsewhere. The local temperature is 67 degrees with partly sunny skies and a westerly breeze. The local time is 3:48 p.m. All passagers must now disembark. This is the last and only stop."
~Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
Welcome to Elsewhere. You're dead.
The book Elsewhere is the story of a fifteen year old girl named Liz who dies. She finds herself on the S. S. Nile. She doesn't know what has happened to her or where she is going, but she discovers a row of stitches around her ear. Eventually, she is invited to an Observation Deck, where she steps up to a pair of binoculars and finds herself watching her own funeral.
When Liz arrives in Elsewhere, she meets her grandmother, Betty, who is now in her thirties. She died before Liz was born. Betty explains that in Elsewhere, everyone ages backwards, and then, as babies, are taken back to Earth via a river, and are reborn.
We are roleplaying ordinary people who have died.
Age: Age is measured like "15-5." This would be the age of a person who died at 20, has been dead for 5 years, and now is physically 15.
Birthday: Your birthday is now your death day. Whoot? I think so!