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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[carbide]

[Olympia is...

Olympia is. She remembers being killed, and while she's heard of an immortal soul, she's never thought herself to be in possession of one. So she's understandably a bit surprised at her own continued existence.

She just lies there in her room for a while, wondering what she should do now, what she can do now.

Eventually she gets up and heads for the park. She felt comfortable there when she was alive, maybe it'll still work now.]

[kingbomber]

[ The park's one of the places Bakugou frequents, so he's there a little later than she is, but the point is he sees her, and his eyes narrow all the same. ]

Oi, you think you're gonna have it easy after that?

[carbide]

You will have to be more specific.

[She's responsible for a lot of shit, Bakky. For her the only parts of Friday that were unusual were the part where she had one (1) regret and the part where she died.]

[kingbomber]

Don't even start that bullshit with me.

[ He begins to close distance between them, but has his hands firmly planted on his hips. ]

Why would I have to be more specific? You fucked up and killed two people, remember?

[carbide]

[She doesn't move at all.]

I believe it may be three now. Oda attacked me in my cell and appears to have triggered my self-destruct mechanism.

[kingbomber]

You sayin' that on purpose to try to piss me off even more?

[ There's that unsettling feeling rising up in him again, as the blond stops, but only when he's closed that distance, looking at her with no small amount of discontent.

His hands also just fall to his sides. ]

[carbide]

No. Why would I do that?

[It's not like you're Clarisse!]

If you learned it later you would likely confront me again.

[kingbomber]

[ But, looks like Bakugou just assumed erroneously, however even so, he's ready to throw down now even as he 'accepts' her explanation. Part of him doesn't believe it, and the other part that does just doesn't care.

One of his hands goes to make a grab for her face, intending to try to let loose an explosion if he should be successful in the primary maneuver. ]

[carbide]

[Olympia makes no particular attempt to dodge. Apparently she left the concept of self-preservation in her cell.

Boom?]

[kingbomber]

[ ... Jeez, Olympia.

Well it's fine, at the very least Bakugou knows that even with machines, explosions don't mix very well. ]

What, feeling considerate enough to make this easy for me?

[ If she's not dodging his moves, he's going to move that hand to her neck to see about making an attempt with a series of explosions if she allows him to make contact again. ]

[carbide]

[No movement. Blast away if you want, it's not like waking up in bed will disrupt her busy schedule.]

There is no reason to do anything else now.

[kingbomber]

...You really think that? You're gonna be a useless piece of shit now?

[ This really isn't worth it, probably.

But how about trying to blast her straight into the pond, then? They're in the park and the pond's rather close by. ]

park

[integratedsoul]

[ It's logical enough that Olympia should be here - if there was a trial, there had to have been an execution. Cian knows this. She simply hadn't given it further thought, hadn't prepared herself for facing the robot girl.

So here she stands, deer in the headlights, desperately trying to sort how she even feels. Fear is part of it, certainly, but... ]

... why Millium?

[ ... is all that comes out of her mouth. ]

[carbide]

[If it helps, it's awkward for Olympia, too? She's never had to talk to someone she'd killed before.]

If she had been alive, I would have had to face her in the trial.

[integratedsoul]

Oh.

[ So that's it. That's all. Cian understands it, or at least she thinks she does (it smells of cowardice and Cian is a coward), but it's so benign and Millium is dead. ]

... you'll have to face her now.

[carbide]

[She's new at this, this thing where she cares what someone thinks of her. SHE IS NOT A FAN OF HOW IT IS SHAKING OUT, LET ME TELL YOU.]

I could avoid her. This town is likely large enough.

[integratedsoul]

[ That's true, Cian just hadn't thought of it yet. She pauses for a while. ]

Don't do that.

[ Maybe she's projecting here, but matter how awful something's been, Cian thinks that getting closure is better than being left alone to deal with it forever. ]

You probably can't do anything to apologize for this, but you owe it to her to answer for it.

[carbide]

She likely wants nothing to do with me. I would only be causing further stress for both of us.

Moreover, I do not know what to do.

[she literally has? no experience with this?]

[integratedsoul]

Coward.

[ This is probably the worst insult Cian has ever hurled towards anyone and it's not even because Olympia killed her - that is generally a big afterthought right now. ]

If she wants nothing to do with you, and I suppose it is likely, then she'll tell you herself. You made her face death. The least you can do is face her anger at least once.

[carbide]

[Olympia is all set to protest that she isn't actually capable of being afraid, but it seems clear that that isn't really the point.

She thinks for a moment.]

If I encounter her, I will speak to her.

[That's all she's willing to promise, and it's really all she can promise.]

[integratedsoul]

[ That... actually gets Cian to smile a little. ]

Good. That's all I am asking.

[carbide]

[For the briefest moment, Cian reminds Olympia of... well, someone she'll never see again.]

I had not intended to kill you, if that information holds significance to you.

[integratedsoul]

I know.

[ It was kind of her own fault for rushing in. Millium would have been killed in vain, even from Olympia's point of view, had Cian lived to tell the tale. ]

I'm not... really mad about that. I walked into it.

[carbide]

[I mean. It was definitely Olympia's fault for killing Millium in the first place? That's clearly the bad thing that happened here.

Her expression doesn't change, so we'll just have to pretend a quizzical look happened.]

But you would have every reason to be.

[integratedsoul]

I'm not really good at anger, I guess.

[ And she would defend that it isn't a personal flaw so much as a result of her upbringing, but that's details. ]

And I always figured I'd die here, weak as I am... I just... I kind of wanted it to be a more meaningful death.