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

[paciscere]

[ he shakes his head. ]

No, I'm not asking your name again. I'm asking you to tell me what your skills are. Why are you here? The so-called guestbook isn't terribly detailed [ or precise in some cases ] if I recall correctly.

[chiefminion]

I'm a mechanic. Anything that's machines's my turf. It's hard to explain further than that because it's easier to show, you know.

[He sounds really confident about that]

As to why I'm here...I suppose this is where that Sergeant people guy puts people after they're revived. My head was intact, reviving me would have been easy.

[He can only guess he even received a new brand body or something, because he's uninjured]

[paciscere]

[ well, that's new. ]

I'm afraid that's all gibberish to me. Can you explain? Ah, and before we get confused again, I'm referring to the part where you were... revived.

[ he knows about mechanics already! ]

[chiefminion]

Where I'm from, you can revive someone's brain. If that brain's placed in a new body made for this, it'll be like that person is back to life. You could even put the head in a jar and the person you revived would spend the rest of their existence as...a head in a jar.

[It's not common, but it's common knowledge]

[paciscere]

[ right. they'd discussed the possibility of the guests being from different worlds. ]

So you think that's what the Sergeant did for [ to ] you. Something like that is unnatural and dangerous where I'm from. The soul is quite fragile, easily tainted.

[ dead things should just stay dead, really. ]

Surely, there are consequences.

[chiefminion]

Trust me, I don't like it any more than you.

[But he doesn't see any other way he's alive, so...]

I don't think there are any, but...I guess I'll find out along the way. You see any stitches on my neck or something?

[He's wondering if the Sergeant put the head on a different body]

[paciscere]

You can't feel for them yourself? I would tell you, but your beard is in the way, and we can't be too sure, can we?

[chiefminion]

I couldn't find any, but I figured I should ask anyway. No harm in doublechecking. [So there really aren't any...stuff is weird and he really doesn't like this] Guess we have to stick around and wait for that guy to tell us what's going on.

[paciscere]

You mean the Sergeant? I haven't seen him around. Even if he were to tell us anything, I wouldn't trust any of it.

[chiefminion]

I know this type of person. He'll show up sooner or later to brag and monologue, even if it's a bunch of lies.

[paciscere]

Haha, you make him sound like a villain from some child's imagination. But it would be entertaining if he were that.

[chiefminion]

Pretty much all the 'villains' I know behave like they come from some child's imagination.

[...a very twisted imagination]

[paciscere]

Are you a hero then?

[chiefminion]

More like a resident of a world filled with mad scientists.

[And minion of one, unfortunately]

[paciscere]

Yes, they would have to be quite mad to dream of reviving lost souls. [ even matoba has his limits, apparently. ] I would say it's better for you to be here, but the situation hasn't really changed for you, has it?

[chiefminion]

At first I was glad, but that was before the murder thing was revealed. It did throw me off I wasn't in my world, but if I had to choose between staying here and returning there, I'd return immediately.

[Because he does have something to return to, his immediate behavior nonwithstanding]