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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[cartesio]

[ There's a variety of hiding spaces indeed! With all the vehicles around, there are plenty of dark corners. The cars and planes are all unlocked as well, so Clarisse could take up residence in any of those.

What will it be first? Car, plane, some dark spot among the power tools? ]

[snideper]

[hm hmmmmm she doesn't understand what the fuck the planes are in the slightest so first order of business is going to be climbing in one of those, one part out of curiosity and one part to make sure they aren't keeping any secrets that could emerge and attempt to kill her in the middle of her escapades. this is a genuine concern. why is she like this]

[cartesio]

[ Nothing will attack her, what a lucky day! Clarisse finds herself in a cozy two-seat plane and the cockpit is as comfortable as it gets for something of this size.

As mysterious as the control panel of the plane might be, none of its buttons and switches do anything right now. There's only one thing that's powered on and it is the navigation system screen, which is showing something very unlike a map.

Lines of code are running over the monitor at medium speed. The majority of it is gibberish to anyone not educated in coding language, but the letters clar show up a surprising amount. ]

[snideper]

[she...has absolutely no idea what to do with this......... no fucking clue at all. this doesn't even register as a weird future thing, it's just the same as any other language she doesn't understand?? javascript and german are basically the same thing. this could be just lines of german text. that's where she's at. something about the "clar" again and again sets her on edge, though...

Presumably spending some time just randomly mashing buttons and levers isn't going to do anything but we should all know full well that it won't stop her? If there are any pedals or steering wheels or whatever else makes planes actually, like, do their job, she's going to hit and press all those, too...]

[cartesio]

[ It may be quite fortunate that none of the controls or pedals do anything - else Clarisse might have had an uncomfortable experience with moving vehicles. As is, nothing in the cockpit has any meaningful effect no matter how much it is pushed or pulled at. Likewise, the code is unimpressed by Clarisse's effort and continues running over the monitor peacefully.

No matter how long she tries, nothing is going to happen here. ]

[snideper]

[boring and disconcerting all at once!! don't like that!!!!

she's gonna take a few moments to examine all the shadowy corners and parts of the plane, too, going under seats and crawling through any compartments she might be able to find and access, juuust for the sake of being thorough.]

[cartesio]

[ Thoroughly unsuccessful in finding anything of interest, sorry. Might want to go check out something else next. ]

[snideper]

[Tragic. Actually she's going to find her way into another plane next if possible; she just wants to see if it's got the same setup and the same infinitely-running fuckin gibberish whatever with "clar" appearing in it again and again?]

[cartesio]

[ This one got the same set-up, but the navigation system is showing only static and no code! ]

[snideper]

[MMM. REAL WEIRD. makes a mental note of where that plane she was in earlier is, and goes about her business.

After fruitlessly putzing around inside some planes just for the sake of it, then, Clarisse repeats the same process with the cars. Either she forgets how the door handles work for a solid minute or so or just straight up crawls in through an open window if one is available, due to who she is as a person, but she's IN THE CAR NOW WHAT'S GOING ON]

[cartesio]

[ Car stuff! Pretty regular, not that Clarrisse would really know. Nothing in the car will turn on, not even the radio. Lame.

But there is one sound that's... hm. Weird. Like a pulsing coming from under the hood of the car? ]

[snideper]

[........hm.





all right first things first is there something in the car or immediately nearby she can take as an improvised bludgeoning weapon in case, if and when she opens the hood, something tries to jump out at her.

this almost definitely isn't actually a concern. sorry that she's like this.]

[cartesio]

[ There's nothing inside the car, but looking around a bit, Clarisse can find a crowbar leaning against a wall. That's good enough hopefully? ]

[snideper]

[it'll do! i'm sorry about who she is as a person because obviously as long as she has a lever she's not going to fucking open the thing with her hands, she's opening the hood with the crowbar like an ASSHOLE and immediately jumping back READY TO SWING in case something does come at her i'm SORRY]

[cartesio]

[ Well, good thing nobody exists on this end who is going to make much of a fuss about damages. The hood of the car is opened easily and Clarisse is safe from any sneak attacks here.

Looking into the car reveals... an engine. Clarisse might not know, but that is what's to be expected from a car. Only that this particular engine is consistently changing size, pulsing between 'far too small for the car' and 'still too small'. It's a grotesque image that resembles a heartbeat. ]

[snideper]

[.........

hits it with the crowbar

like, lightly, though. light while still definitely being a hit.]

[cartesio]

[ First there's a metallic CLANK and nothing else - then as the next pulse of the engine begins, the crowbar starts flickering at the spot where it is touching the metal. Hm. Bad. ]

[snideper]

[DROPS THE CROWBAR ON THE GROUND. SHE'S NOT DOING THIS SHIT AGAIN NO SIR!! does it at least stop flickering......]

[cartesio]

[ Removing it from the engine stops the flickering immediately. Phew. ]

[snideper]

[taking her weapon back then!! are...are other cars like this...... she's gonna pry open another hood or two open?]