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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Sunday

[prayerwheel]

[ Ah.

When Azura wakes up she's not entirely sure what happened. She was fighting Franciscus, and she felt herself slip on something, and she fell, and her head was splitting--

.....

She's dead, isn't she? She'd prepared herself for possible death ever since she started fighting a war, but this...isn't what she expected would happen.

Nor did she expect to see her room covered in blood. Seriously, fuck you guys. Azura shrieks and bolts out of her room at top speed. ]

[linearcrash]

[ The shriek has him racing over to see what is going on and who is screaming like that.

When he sees Azura, he skids to a stop. ]

Oh, hey. What's wrong?

[ Yeeeah he already forgot what was waiting for her in her room. ]

[prayerwheel]

--Nine?

[ okay, well, that answers that. the ghosts are definitely real. and here. and she is...a ghost now?

Azura kind of. Looks at him, and then back at her room, and. Gestures wildly??? ]

[linearcrash]

Yeah, it's me.

[ He'll hold out his hand. Look, no bars in the way this time. She can also feel that he's warm and has a pulse if she feels up to it.

Then he'll look at her room. Then it hits him. ]

Oh. Oh yeah. Guess we should have cleaned that up, huh?

[ WHOOPS ]

[prayerwheel]

[ She's a little hesitant, but hey--pulse and all. Huh. That's not like any ghost she's ever encountered, before. Maybe they appear alive-ish to themselves? ]

...you did this?

[ a pause. and she lets go of his hand. ]

This is like--were you the one who disturbed Keith's room as well?

[linearcrash]

[ He looks away for a moment or two. Does he want to sell out short stuff? ]

I suggested your room, yeah. I thought you'd get what was going on. Turns out that we have to do a whole hell lot of damage on this side for a small amount to turn up over there.

[ And then trying to think about which room was Keith's... ]

I think Clarisse suggested that one. We tried moving all of his extra boxes around and into his room, too.

[prayerwheel]

...well. I suppose that answers that. You all scared us quite a bit.

[ Her shoulders droop, the adrenaline fading. ]

Gods, is this what the afterlife truly is? Being stuck in this town?

[ That's. Really depressing, actually. ]

[linearcrash]

Huh? Really? [ Looking around for a moment to see if he can spot Nagisa. ] I guess blood would be a little weird, yo. Short Stuff had a good explanation for it though.

[ It made a lot more sense coming from him at least. ]

I don't know if its the afterlife or just a...shadow of the other town? Another one linked to that one? It's weird as hell, yo. But it's definitely not normal

[ Nine has been dead before and it was nothing like this. ]

[prayerwheel]

Do you not think walls covered in blood and scratch marks would not concern anyone? I don't know if I should feel honored or worried that you chose me to communicate with first...

[ nine come on ]

I imagine you all have had a great deal of free time on your hands...is there anything of note you've discovered, here?

[ you can just tl;dr her ]

[linearcrash]

[ Just pouting in his own way by crossing his arms and looking away. ]

It's because writing stuff or moving things around doesn't work. Being destructive as hell seems to do something though...

[ They were trying so hard but it's a bunch of teens hanging with a teenaged assassin.

Sure there are some adults but... look at them. ]

The police files are all blank before all of this shit started with Sakura's group, yo. Pretty sure this town is fake and everyone is hypnotized or something? Also the inside of the lodge is exactly like Sarge's face. It's freak as hell, yo.

[prayerwheel]

[ she has some stuff to say, but then-- ]

Pardon, his face?

[ what ]

[linearcrash]

[ Indicating his face. ]

Yeah, you know with all of the black smoke shit? That. The doors are still busted so you can go peek in, but I wouldn't recommend going in far, yo. Or alone.

[ Also... get shoes first gurl ]