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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Comments

[integratedsoul]

[ Cian looks absolutely delighted at this and that's because she is. Reading Oda's writing is the first happy thing she has to look forward to now that she's died and she will focus all her energy on that happy anticipation. ]

I'll be so happy to read it!!

We do have books, but only very positive books. Everything from the past that is violent or too sad needs a special clearance to be accessed. There's nothing upsetting out there. So everything just reads a bit shallow. I don't read a lot because of that.

[ It just makes her sad to think how much her presumed-dead friend would have hated those stories. ]

[odasaku]

That sounds...

[ a bit boring, he catches himself from saying. even if she calls it shallow, he's not sure how she must feel about that. and he doesn't want to be rude either.

so he'll choose another way to say it. ]

That sounds like something Dazai would hate.

[integratedsoul]

[ That makes Cian giggle. ]

He really would, wouldn't he? And rightfully so.

[ Then she adds in a quieter voice: ] I'd gotten really used to it myself, but it's nice being surrounded by people who see the flaws again.

[odasaku]

Is everyone really alright with that where you’re from?

[ oda blinks, surprised. cian’s place is starting to sound like some of the dystopia novels he’s read in the past... ]

renewing suicide cw, just in case

[integratedsoul]

Either they grew up into it or they are afraid of the alternative... The world was pretty badly off before society came to be like this. The older people still remember.

And the kids... Well, most of them are okay with it. Kids like Miach, Tuan or me, who want to die... They exist but they're a small minority. If you try to die, they put you through very heavy therapy and usually that's the end of it.

It was, for me, for the most part. If I hadn't gotten here, I'd probably have comfortably lived in that superficial world forever and I'd have been fine.

[ She pauses a little. ]

It's a better world than Cartesio for sure. Nobody has to die. Just...

[ She shuffles her feet on the floor a little, awkward. ]

I don't think I actually cared for anyone in it. Not... really. Not like here.