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.

Links

Graveyard FAQ
Living Community

Comments

[linearcrash]

Huh. [ The words are too small for him to see like this. But he'll trust her. ]

[theserpentsmiles]

They're pretty oldschool.... I'm not sure anyone back home has used these in ten years, maybe more. [Is there anything worth noting around the player? Or are we back to trying to find a way to play Stacey's Mom.]

[linearcrash]

We have t.v.s and radios, but... never anything like those.

[ Maybe they can find it on a record just for Keet. ]

[theserpentsmiles]

What do you use to record media, then? Did you skip right to discs, or...?

[linearcrash]

[ Nine just...shrugs. ]

Didn't really bother figuring it out, yo. Has to do with magic.

[cartesio]

[ The player is totally normal aside from being outdated. ]

[theserpentsmiles]

[Then let's explore the shop a little. What other machines are about for the haunting?]

[cartesio]

[ There's cassette players en masse! Also a vinyl record player, more TVs with video tape players... and the cash register of the store? If you want to get really creative. ]

[theserpentsmiles]

[CASH REGISTER that'll probably have buttons. Let's go. Ka-ching!]

[cartesio]

[ Hey, in response the 5 on the register ka-chings gently! ]

[theserpentsmiles]

[!!! We can totally be haunting multiple things at once. Time is fake.

Now what could a five mean..... He punches in a 7, a 4, and a 3, hoping they'll get "na", "shi", and "sa" out of that. Shi is the closest he can think of to gi and I'm too lazy to go looking for the number wordplay that can happen. Yay Japanese.]

[kingbomber]

[ HEY coming over here to this with the cash register. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Does the cash register goes from 0-9? And are there special characters on this one like some do have, like a "." key and such? ]

[cartesio]

[ Yes, 0-9 and a "." are there along with basic calculator functions. ]

[kingbomber]

[ So about trying some code, he's going for it - he was actually planning on using code to try to secretly communicate with Hawks someone if he didn't die but looks like he's going to be doing this now. Hopefully someone is going to be writing down the numbers, because wow. He's kind of actually not sure if anyone does know it, but a certain ASSHOLE is making things difficult.

So you know, he begins rapidly tapping the 0 and 1's to deliver the same message. So basically first half is the same sentence of his in previous message form:

"Good job not fucking everything over somehow so far"

Take a purposeful pause.

Then: "There was some kind of weird shit in the fire station's surveillance room that looked like some kind of code."

Another pause. AND THEN FINALLY...

The rest of the code except in just...1's and 0's, it's probably going to be a pain in the ass to figure it out as it is.

Then there's going to be another pause on his end.

Lastly, he's going to be entering in:

"r.schw" along with "clip, default" and "align" repeatedly also mostly in 1's and 0's but making sure to purposely place a period where appropriate for "r.schw" even if it's just numbers.

And then going to resist wanting to bang his head against the wall because doing this was painful. ]