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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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[Muttering.] Does anyone here know sign language?

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What about using the music to send messages through morse code?

[Hmm.] We could probably draw out the dots and dashes as well. Or film ourselves with lights of some sort. [First let's see if drawings transfer over.]

Hey, that's smart! [ A beat. ] What the hell is morse code?

An encoding of letters through dots and dashes. There's many ways to represent it. I suppose for the music players we could simply play the song at longer and shorter intervals.

Huh. [ He wants to ask about who the hell would have come up with a thing with dots and dashes but...

more important priorities. ]

Think anyone knows it? Kino?

We can start with something simple. "Do you copy," perhaps. And see if anyone responds.

I know morse code pretty well, if we need to use that.

[Because assassin.]

[A nod as he looks at the screen.] I think we can try that now.

[ well, oda will try it out with a simple message. he presses the play and stop buttons in order to code the following message with the noise.

.... . .-.. .-.. ---

'hello' ]

[ There is success! After a short pause where the music runs uninterrupted, the poor Beatles stutter back to Oda!

-.- .. -. --- / --- ... --- / .... .. ]

"Kino oso hi".... It's working. What messages do we need to send? [He's ready to make like a telegraph.]

I think we can tell them what you guys have figured out if we abbreviate it enough.

[ or maybe not abbreviate it at all? oda trusts that kino is a smart cookie. ]

[...] Tell them congratulations on saving the parade.

[He nods at both Oda and Franciscus, then thinks for a moment.]

I'd like to keep things short for time and ease's sake....

[.--. .- .-. .- -.. . / -.-. --- -. --. .-. .- - ... / ... .. -- / - .... . --- .-. -.--]

I'll try that for now.

[ The second part of that... is lost to static. ]

Damnit, what's censoring those messages...?

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[It takes him a bit, but he gets it.] It works! Alright, I'll let them know about the buildings flickering.

[-... .-.. -.. --. ... / ..-. .-.. -.-. -.- .-. / --. .-.. - -.-. ....]

[ Well... -... .-.. -.. --. ... goes without a hitch, but once Franciscus tries to put in the rest, there is only consistent static noise from the player before the song resumes. H u h. ]

Oh come on! That can't have been too long! [He mutters as he tries putting in ...- .-. / . .-. .-. --- .-.]

[ Yeah that gets... more static.

Meanwhile from the other end, the message .-- .... .. -.-. .... / -... .-.. -.. --. ... goes through without a hitch. ]

Ugh... [Maybe if he condenses it down as much as possible...? .- .-.. .-.. / .--. .-. - ... / -.. ... .- .--. .-. / .-. . .- .--. .-.]

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Mhm. [ he nods ] Not everyone knows about it but hopefully one of them do. That way we can talk to them without actually needing to talk.

[ Okay he comes in hearing that and he assumes somehow they're able to show themselves but it looks like talking is not an option. So he leaves, and then comes back at some point with some pieces of paper and pen. ]

... if we're going to show something off in video to try to communicate, what about writing shit on pieces of paper and holding it up?

Unfortunately, it seems to end up grainy as well.