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.

Links

Graveyard FAQ
Living Community

Comments

[silvertongueheir]

[He nods.] I assume this is where all the dead have gone. I heard about the messages you sent.

[theserpentsmiles]

They're here, too. I'm pretty sure I'm not dead - I know it might just be denial since I'm missing two weeks, but I have no memory of dying or getting killed, or any sense that I did.

[He's an assassin, he'd know these things.]

Were there any that you needed clarification on? We're limited in what we can send to the other side.

[silvertongueheir]

How exactly did you damage the lodge? People were assuming you meant damaging the darkness directly, and that the damage transferred to the Sergeant.

[theserpentsmiles]

I wasn't present for it, so I only know second-hand, but Bakugou-san blasted some of the walls down. Did that not carry over?

[Damage transfers.]

[silvertongueheir]

[He shakes his head.] We didn't see anything like that on our end. What about the hole in the fire station? Were you responsible for that?

[theserpentsmiles]

[He nods; based on the timing and the paper...]

I'm pretty sure that was Bakugou-san too. The walls in some of the motel bedrooms was me. [It was his blood.] The damage to the chapel from that side carried over to this one, too.

[silvertongueheir]

Were you trying to send any messages in particular, or was it just random destruction?

[theserpentsmiles]

With the walls, I was mostly going for something like "we're here". Make it obvious there were still non-townsfolk present other than you all. I wasn't totally sure it'd work, so I didn't try to say anything complicated.

[It's. Also why blood. Go big or go home, and they kind of can't go home.]

[silvertongueheir]

Well, you got us considering the existence of ghosts, at least. [So...score?]

[theserpentsmiles]

[He'll take it!]

It seems like there are limits involved, though - any destruction we cause on this end is less over there. [You do not want to see Keith's room on this end. Or maybe you do.]

[silvertongueheir]

[Oh. Well that sounds bad.] I see. Have you found any places that seem closed off to the living?

[theserpentsmiles]

Everywhere's unlocked now...all the residences, and "door is blown off" counts as unlocked, for the Lodge. I've noticed buildings take a while to show up, though...like, there's a flower shop and a library now, they weren't always here.

[In other words: map updates at the same time on both sides.]

[silvertongueheir]

The flower shop appeared for us last week.

[theserpentsmiles]

Same as us, then... I'm starting to put a theory together but there's no hard evidence yet.

We might need to work quickly, though.

[silvertongueheir]

[He nods.] The Sergeant's already stated a two-month deadline for the living to earn their freedom.