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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millium's messing-stuff-up monday

[doublelammy]

[junkyard]

[Early in the day, the tiny blue hurricane can be found digging around in the junkyard. It... looks like she's collecting knives.

Why is she collecting knives? This can't be a good thing.]


[motel, various rooms]

[Later in the day, once Millium has amassed a worrying collection of rusty knives, she makes her way back to the hotel to do what her ghost brethren have done before her.

She makes her way into rooms 2, 8, 19, and 30, and begins hacking up the walls in some attempt at messages. She manages to break a couple of knives in doing so – hooray, rust! – but that's all right, she has more.

In room 2, she "writes" the following: KEET

In room 8 (and in which we pretend the emojis are just crudely "drawn" outlines): we r ok ♥🐰

In room 19, she carves a rather poor rendition of a cherry blossom into the wall.

In room 30, she's once again "drawing." This time: 🐰🐟

Once she's done, she'll go around collecting the broken knife bits she's left around and deposit her horde back in the junkyard.]


[wildcard]

[Barring anything else, she'll just be Generally Around today, for whoever she didn't run into yesterday. Or, hell, even people she did. She's not going to turn down most people's company.

She may or may not have an extremely questionable number of knives with her when you find her, though.]

motel (he's here to help or boss around)

[linearcrash]

[ He's showing up late with coffee, and hears the sound of the knives. He finds her finishing up KEET on the wall. ]

Whoa. Thought it was Short Stuff, but instead it's our Mastermind in here.

[ Teasing as he inspects what she's up to. ]

Hey, you might want to write it a bunch of times, yo. It won't show up unless you make the damage huge.

[doublelammy]

Stabbing a message into the wall isn't huge enough...?

[She blinks owlishly, then seems to accept it.]

...What if we put it somewhere else? Somewhere bigger.

[linearcrash]

Yeah, I mean a lot of the stuff Nagisa left you guys didn't really transfer.

[ Like Azura's room. ]

Might have to write it a bunch of times, yo. Or we can try doing it huge. [ Let's just look up at the ceiling and he points. ]

[doublelammy]

[She is entirely too excited about that idea.]

Oh my gosh, can you get me up there? He'd freak right out.

[theserpentsmiles]

[Speak of the devil. Nagisa does a double-take, then...]

I didn't even consider the ceiling!

[linearcrash]

[ Nine grins and then knees down. Go ahead and get up.

Then he hears Nagisa. ]

That's why I'm around, yo. I can think of the extra places.

[ He's a think tank! Only... not... ]

She wants to send messages to Keet.

[doublelammy]

Well, more like, I just wanna write "KEET" really big where he can't avoid it. 'Cause it drives him crazy and he'll totally know it was me.

[theserpentsmiles]

If we can find a way to send actual words...that would be really useful!

[Let Nagisa find the practical justifications for shenanigans.]

[linearcrash]

[ Just going to grab Millium and pick her up then. ]

Yeah, that would be a whole lot better than all of of that other stuff, hey.

[ Can she reach? Does he need to climb the bed too? ]

[doublelammy]

[She's probably gonna need that extra boost if they wanna drive this knife in real deep. Which, naturally, they do. That's not gonna stop her from trying to stab the ceiling right now, though, because what is knife safety even.

The other option here is to add Nagisa to this human ladder.]

Yeah! And then maybe they can send us words back an' we won't have to use stupid songs or games?

Let's say the park

[carbide]

[A questionable number of knives us a good thing to have with you when encountering Olympia. She's not sure she's ready for this conversation, but it doesn't seem like that will change anytime soon, either.]

Millium.

[She makes sure to approach her slowly, without making any sudden moves, like she's trying not to provoke some predatory animal.]

[doublelammy]

[Guess who found out exactly who killed her yesterday? THIS KID!

She freezes when Olympia approaches, clutching at the edges of her hat a little tighter, knuckles going a little whiter. The hat contains a disturbing number of knives.]

...Olympia.

[She... doesn't really sound angry.

Disappointed, perhaps. Perhaps that's worse.]

...Hiya.

[carbide]

[This is somehow even worse than she expected. Olympia can't even properly identify the emotion Millium is showing. She just knows it isn't how she used to look at her.

Maybe hiding forever was the better choice.]

Cian thought I should speak with you once.

[doublelammy]

I mean, yeah. You kinda at least owe me an explanation as to why you killed me.

[Listen, Olympia. Murder is a great way to ruin friendships.]

[carbide]

[I mean. She knows that now.]

King Seyfried. The motive offered an opportunity to guarantee he would be alive, even if he had died already. It was impossible not to take it.

[doublelammy]

...and it was me 'cause you thought I'd figure you out. That's what Franzy said, anyway.

[She can't look Olympia in the eyes, because, well. That's not wrong. But...]

Is he your most important person, then?

[carbide]

Yes. My entire existence is devoted to him.

[This is the part where she'd describe their relationship, except even if she fully understood the different types of human relationships she wouldn't really be able to slot this into one.]

That was not the only reason it was you.

[doublelammy]

[Millium can understand that. After all, she owes her existence to someone, too, and owes who she is now to others entirely. But the difference between her and Olympia is that at the end of the day, Millium is human enough to start making her own judgement calls.

Millium has seen enough of Olympia to question whether or not she has that same luxury.]

...Then why?

[carbide]

[Olympia's more human than she realizes, but she's still not quite human.]

You would have looked at me the same way you did when I was suspected of killing Bakugou.

[doublelammy]

[Most archaisms aren't capable of arguing against their orders. The Divine Knights, they might be – she's heard Valimar's mannerisms become less stilted during their travels, but... where on that spectrum does Olympia fall? Millium doesn't know.]

...huh? What d'you...

[So, the way she's been looking at Olympia now, more or less?]

...You killed me so I couldn't be mad at you?

[carbide]

[Yeah, her cunning plan seems to have had a flaw.]

So you could not distrust me, and so your chest would not hurt.

[doublelammy]

[Millium just stares at her for a moment, quiet. Judging.]

...Yeah, well. Great job you did with that, although I guess neither of us expected to just wind up here after all o' that.

[She sighs.]

Y'know I can't just forgive you for this n' put it behind us, right?

[carbide]

I know.

[Not in the Armoroad route, anyway.

She turns away.]

Do you want me to stay away from you?

[doublelammy]

That's not gonna make it better. ...I mean, no matter how we look at this, nothin's gonna just magically fix things.

But I don't need to be one more bit o' wood on the fire when we already have Clarisse n' Bakky here. So.

It's not like your word means anythin' at this point, but it's all we got, so I can play pretend.

Promise me you'll never do anything like that again. Not to me, not to anyone else here. ...'Cept Clarisse, you can do whatever you want to Clarisse. [millium why are you like this] And if I need your help for somethin', you'll be on my side, no questions asked.