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The Universe's Secret/TUS is a
multi-genre roleplay site, of which Filtered Light is a division. If
you join TUS, you can participate in as many or as little roleplays as
you wish.
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.