GRAVEYARD

[cartesio]

The other side...?

Have you started feeling at home in Cartesio yet? The town has offered you every hospitality that its citizens could think of. They love every corner of this town and they want you to feel the same. Have you accepted Cartesio into your heart yet?

Then it should be comforting to wake in your hotel room. A ceiling you have gotten used to, the warmth of a blanket surrounding you, your own breathing... and silence. All-encompassing silence.
It perseveres when you leave your room, it perseveres when you leave the hotel... Cartesio is quiet because there is nobody in Cartesio who could be making noise. It's a ghost town.

There is only you now, you think. And then, just as you've given up, a noise comes to your ears. A voice, unmistakably. It's time to follow it.

As of Week 5 you may see random objects and buildings of any size flicker. For milli-seconds they seem to glow on and off, blur around the edges, even distort a little. It only happens for a moment at a time, but it happens fairly often.

Welcome to the Cartesio Graveyard. Your character has woken up in a version of the town that is devoid of citizens, but there do seem to be a few people around. Time to explore the mysteries of the other side. For a more thorough OOC guide, we have compiled an FAQ.

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[odasaku]

[ oda's too exhausted to care about the fact that he's woken up back in his motel. for a moment, he wonders if his last moments were all a dream...but the memory of killing olympia is far too vivid for it not to be real.

clearly he's dead. everything else, though, he's not so sure.

but he'll start by leaving his motel room. he'll figure things out as they happen. ]

[silvertongueheir]

[Franciscus would be glaring at him if he had the energy.] I confessed in hopes no one else would do something like that.

[odasaku]

So much for murderer solidarity.

[ yes he's saying that with the flattest tone because, no, franciscus, you are not getting away so easily. ]

[silvertongueheir]

I wanted to be the sole murderer this week in the first place. [AND LOOK HOW WELL THAT WENT.]

[odasaku]

Did you never read my guestbook page?

[ skills: killing?????????????????????????? ]

[silvertongueheir]

I did. You hated her more than you hate killing, then?

[odasaku]

Maybe.

[ whether or not he hates killing, oda's not sure anymore. at this point, he thinks it's bordering more on indifference-- he's a killer, after all. it's in his blood. ]

If you want to make yourself feel better, though, I'm sure she must be somewhere. Try to kill her, if you want.

[burgerprince]

[Jughead really wasn't expecting this guy to turn up, all things considered.

Not knowing what the hell happened - he hadn't gone to the courtroom for the trial - he forces himself past hesitation to approach.]

You need a pamphlet?

[odasaku]

Oh. You're here, too.

[ well this version of hell is a little different than oda was thinking. jughead definitely doesn't deserve hell. ]

Is being dead so different?

[burgerprince]

[Yeah but he's stuck here with Clarisse but he must have done something.]

Surprisingly not. It's kind of one of the biggest things to adjust to.

[In his opinion, at least. He holds up a wrist and presses a finger to it.]

You even get a pulse.

[odasaku]

That's not so bad.

[ he's a little impressed himself when he checks his own pulse. ]

Although the fact that the afterlife looks like this is a bit of a downside, I guess.

[burgerprince]

Technically not the afterlife. More like a liminal space between living and not-living.

[Kind of.]

There are people here who didn't die, so that makes it a little complicated.

[odasaku]

People who didn't die? Like the ones that were brainwashed?

[integratedsoul]

[ Being dead is one thing. Not really unexpected. Seeing other people who died is, subsequently, also just what Cian thought would happen.

There's just one issue here. Oda isn't dead. So she just freezes and stares, unsure if he's just a fata morgana who can't hear her. ]

O-oda-san?

[odasaku]

[ oh.

oh.

oda freezes when he hears that voice, although the nervousness doesn't show very well on his face. he's never had to deal with this-- how does he talk to cian after what he did? ]

Cian.

[ well, that's a start. ]

[integratedsoul]

[ That confirms that he can hear and see her. Cian would have preferred if it wasn't so. Dying is easier when you think at least some of the people you care for are safe. She chews on her lip for a second, nervous. ]

... you're... here.

[odasaku]

I am.

[ it's a little strange for oda, especially when the last thing he remembers of cian is-- nothing as healthy and how she looks.

he tries not to think about it. ]

Dazai isn't.

[integratedsoul]

[ Cian breathes out slowly. Not quite a sigh of relief, but close enough. ]

At least there's that, then? What... what happened? You weren't... you weren't on the roof, so how did you...?

[linearcrash]

[ ??? Nine is in the lobby waiting for someone else when he sees him. ]

The hell are you doing here? Did you get killed after the trial, hey?

[odasaku]

I killed Olympia before the execution and got executed instead.

[ he'll just say that with the same amount of emotion that he usually has. ]

[linearcrash]

[ Issue being in deadland, you don't know how close people are on the other side.

Nine is going to cross his arms as he tilts his head. ]

Why the hell would you do that? You must have known that bastard wouldn't have made it easy, yo.

[odasaku]

I knew that.

[ again, he's not very moved by this fact. ]

She didn't deserve to live a second longer.

[linearcrash]

[ He'll look at him for a moment or two longer before nodding. Nine would have done the same. Walking over to put a hand on his shoulder to give it a pat. ]

Alright. Welcome to this side of Cartesio, yo. Ask whatever the hell you want now before I go find Fancy Pants.

[prayerwheel]

[ ...........???? ]

Oda? What...what are you doing here?

[ DID SOMEONE KILL HIM TOO? SHE DID NOT REMEMBER HIM BEING DEAD LAST TIME SHE CHECKED ]

[odasaku]

[ oh. while it's not as awkward as facing millium or cian, it still feels a little awkward, especially when she looks so concerned. ]

I killed Olympia.