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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Graveyard FAQ
Living Community

Comments

[snideper]

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is

there a copy machine or something she can kick???? what is THE MOST IMMEDIATELY PRESENT PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY]

[cartesio]

[ There's a copy machine in a corner, but it's behaving entirely innocently. In fact, it's turned off.

The two microfiche readers meanwhile are powered up and displaying newspaper clippings. ]

[linearcrash]

[ THE HELL ARE THESE.

What newspaper clippings are there? ]

[cartesio]

[ A page with three articles is booted up on both readers.

Currently it is zoomed in on the start of the first article, so proper reading may require some shifting around. ]

[linearcrash]

[ Alright. Let's shift them around and read them. At least.. it's zoomed in so he doesn't have to pull things out to read... ]

Huh. It's just boring as hell articles, yo.

[carbide]

[Olympia is reading over his shoulder. She's heard the word "rude" before but she doesn't see why she should care about it.]

The second one seems to be very old.

[doublelammy]

[Millium is peering, too. ...She may have had to squirrel her way up Nine's back in order to do this.]

...And now she can't make pie at all anymore...

[linearcrash]

[ S'up naked murder roomba. Nine is just going to shrug off his blazer to put it on her shoulders. ]

Hey, you should at least put something on, yo. Weren't you always wearing something?

[ Did the robo shame get burnt away with her outfit? ]

[silvertongueheir]

Perhaps they can see what words we focus on.

[odasaku]

Can we write on it?

[linearcrash]

[ Let's zoom in on the HI in the word machine ]

[yonosoymaria]

I... gasoline expands with heat? Enough to overflow sealed tanks?

[1917 Man (Who Has Never Maintained His Own Car) Focuses On Entirely The Wrong Thing, Asks Thin Air A Question. Full article is available for subscribers only. He only got a quick glimpse while the viewer was moving....]

[silvertongueheir]

[Franciscus is going to skim through the other reader, before zooming in on the word "here" in the third article. He then takes a step back to see if anything changes.]

[cartesio]

[ There is a long-ish pause in which nothing happens, but just when Franciscus might lose his patience, the zoom shifts.

It focuses on the letters hi from the word 'something' in the first article. ]

[silvertongueheir]

[Oh, good. He does another quick skim before zooming in on the "Fran" in "Frank," the "mil" in "Family," and the "ol" in "old" from the second article; the "ba" in "bag" from the third article; and the "9" in one of the dates.]

[cartesio]

[ In response, the zoom goes to the second article and first focuses on the word good and then on the start of the word management. ]

[silvertongueheir]

[...is that meant to be a statement or a question? He'll just turn to actually giving them information.]

I'm going to let them know about the weather control machine.

["Weather" from the first article, "machine" from the third article, "J" from "Johnson" in the first article, "un" from "unmixed" in the first article, and "k" from "work" in the first article.]

[snideper]

[rude. NOT THAT SHE'S HERE TO BE HELPFUL, BUT RUDE!!!]

[snideper]

[eehhhhhh Nine and Franciscus are already over here trying to examine them and what does she care about the living so she's

gonna go kick the copy machine



actually the thing she does is start like she's gonna kick it but doesn't follow through once her foot's swung back and glares at the copy machine like it might bite her

[linearcrash]

[ He's being climbed on by Millium, but he will look over at her. ???? ???? ?]

Hey, what's up with you?

[snideper]

Shut up.

[clarisse that's NOT HOW YOU ANSWER CONVERSATIONAL QUESTIONS]

[linearcrash]

It's a copying machine, yo.

[ Like she didn't just say shut up. ]

You might actually have fun with that one.

[ What if Clarisse copies her foot or middle finger to throw all over ]

[kingbomber]

[ He heard that, and he scoffs. ]

Clearly she can't figure out how to actually be useful so you might as well just pretend she doesn't exist.

[kingbomber]

[ Is there anything else on those readers or just the newspaper clippings, even if he pokes at one of them with a finger and such to try to make it scroll or however these work. ]

[cartesio]

[ These articles are the only things on the microfiche inserted into the machine at this time. ]