"Okay. Thanks." She notes this on her phone, because it might become relevant at some point. What with how bribing death himself is a thing. It is therefore important to keep track of who death himself is, and how to bribe him or her. "And if I were to want to meet the Grim Reaper, how would I do that?"

"The best way to do it would be to witness a death, such as your own."

She walked into that one.

"That would be an easy way to set up the meeting, wouldn't it," she says dryly. "Anywhere I could meet Grim outside of death related incidents?"

"He has instructed us to summon him should you win a game of chance against one of us by a sufficiently wide margin, on days of the Thinned Festiveil."

Strangely specific and arbitrary, but okay.

"When is the Thinned Festiveil?"

"On days when the veil between this world and the Great Beyond is thin, such as today."

"Okay. Thanks. Can I have your phone number in case I have any more death related questions?"

"Certainly." He recites it for her.

She adds it to her phone! He is is in there as 'Roman the Grimtern,' which is very memorable.

"Thanks for answering my questions! It was nice meeting you. Have a good festival."

And now it's time to go dive into some pink glowing water to see what being a ghost is like.

Here is the bog. Is she going to just walk into it?

She'll spin change into a bikini first. But otherwise: yep. Why does trying to defeat death himself involve so many questionable choices around strange liquids?

Who knows!

Once she steps in, she definitely feels something. Some kind of... something. Like a tug at her skin, like something wants to reach inside her and pull her out.

Creepy and unpleasant! She doesn't like it!! Even if being a ghost isn't that bad, she's not doing this again.

But yes, she does want to know what being dead is like before she properly starts imbibing strange liquids, so. Tolerating this for now. Eugh.

It feels very strange. She can feel the water both touching her skin and going through her, and she can intrinsically feel that she has the ability to decide how much of each of those things is happening at a given time.

This is both more and less unpleasant than she was expecting! More unpleasant in that she finds water going through her gross and icky and it needs to stop yesterday, less unpleasant because aside from that, once she tells the water to quit it, it's... fine? Kind of like holding her breath, except easier and not at all like that, maybe. She can probably tolerate it, but it's really not preferable to being alive, she thinks. Either way: getting out of this strange pink liquid right now, so she doesn't have to keep firmly telling it that it should not intersect with her body at all.

She's noticing a certain level of - not quite numbness, exactly, but some kind of deadening of her sense of touch. Also the complete lack of any temperature sense, which will probably get old at some point, but for now is fine.

But she can float, so that's pretty cool.

She floats back over to the Tarot Reader, the ghost, and the Grimtern.

"How long does this last? It's not bad exactly, just, kind of... I think I prefer being fully alive."

"About a day?"

"Ah. Okay. Thank you."

Nnnnnnnghhh. Okay, well. Being a ghost. It's fine, as long as she doesn't let liquids inhabit the same space she's in? She might have an extra opinion or two about this eventually as she tries it out, but right now her opinion circuits are still screaming a little over water having intersected with her and sloshed unpleasantly inside her no, no, think about other things.

"Do you know anyone with a lot of gardening experience?" she asks; this nonsequitur would probably confuse normal people, but with the way Sims are in this world, she doesn't expect them to care. It makes sense to her, though; this fate is, like, fine? But she thinks she'd still rather avoid it if it's as easy as strategic flower picking.

"Not really."

"Oh. Okay. Thanks anyway. Is there a local library nearby?"

Because, clearly, the thing to do is to instead go check the library for books on gardening, which might hold answers. She could in theory just Siimgle gardening tips, but: she likes libraries. She doesn't actively remember being in one, and wants to fix that. And maybe there will be a book or two that isn't terrible in there.

"The Ravenwood Central Library is that way," says the Grimtern, pointing.

"Thanks!" she says, and then floats off to go to visit the library. ... At least this way she won't have trouble getting to things on the top shelf. Not that she's.... ever needed to get any books from the top shelf. Hm.

The library is just as goth as the rest of the town, and the bookshelves do go really high.

Cool! She's going to investigate books about gardening. Specifically, she's looking for books about death flowers; where their seeds can be found or acquired, how they're grown, care techniques, that sort of thing. And if this involves floating up to the tall shelves for the sake of book retrieval, she is fine with this.

Good luck! Let us know how that goes.