Voice; @Lucky

[mindofathief]

Hello? I just got into the Graveyard. The front gate's unlocked. It's not dangerous from what I've seen so far, and the graves are pretty neat to look at. I think the spirits are coming here with offerings. Can't say if that's true, but it's not entirely abandoned.

Oh, and I found a keypad on one of the tombs! There's something written on the tomb, but I don't know what language it's in. It could be a hint?

[He takes a photo of a metal grave with the following bit of poetry written on it:

¡Quién sostiene las luces que cruzan en la sombra
de esta mi densa soledad tan rara!

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@silent | voice

[callada]

A graveyard, huh? Where'd you find it?

[mindofathief]

Just past the pawnshop. [Towards the direction of the hospital, he doesn't add.] Not to far off, actually.

[callada]

[Ah, right - the map Will had provided to the network.]

Glad you got out there. Was it safe enough? The spirits seem all right?

[mindofathief]

I didn't see any in the graveyard.

But if they're not putting the flowers there, who else would it be?

[callada]

Oh, don't know. I expect it's them. Not sure why. I just was wondering if you ran into any that were the more hostile type. With the area so close to the main part of town, it's good to hear it wasn't full of trouble.

@ninelives; voice

[nekrosmanteia]

Are they offering at only one grave, or do they seem interested in all of them?

[Might as well figure out if the spirits have started a weird corpse cargo cult. And with no segue whatsoever:]

The language is Spanish, but I'm not even conversational in it, so take this with a grain of salt. It's something about lights that cross, a dense... something, and the last word's probably "rare". So... make of that what you will.

[mindofathief]

A couple of them, actually. [He has no clue if there is a weird cult here either. Surely that can’t be true.]

So a light...that could be just about anything important here. A dense darkness?

[nekrosmanteia]

Anything different about the ones they seem drawn to?

[Listen, anything is possible at this point.]

The word that means "dense" seems to be attached to the word "soledad". I doubt that means darkness, but to be honest, I have no idea. Just grasping at straws, it resembles both the Latin word for "sun" and the word "sole", as in singular.

Dense sun doesn't make much sense here. Dense singleness? Loneliness?

[He's suddenly very invested in this.]

[mindofathief]

Not really. I think most of them had some kind of trinket on them??

But that riddle...

Maybe "soledad" has to do with the sun, if the lines are about light, but what about the rest of the word? Sunlight?

[Duster will join in on attempting to translate Spanish.]

[nekrosmanteia]

Hm, well it's closer to sole than sun. The Latin for sun is actually—

[... Hmm. There's a connection he sure didn't make until now.]

Solis. Though it's often shortened to sol, because of the Roman deity of the same name. Is the keypad made up of numbers or letters?

@Grandmaster | Audio

[paletteswap]

Do they look to be graves of former residents or of the spirits themselves? Odd that for all their talk of what is death they'd honor those who had died.

[mindofathief]

The statues looked human enough. I doubt the spirits would leave anything behind when they die.

My best guess is that they saw people putting offerings and decided it looked fun.

[paletteswap]

They do seem to emulate us. A solid assumption.

I wonder if it's a remnant of before the world was in darkness. Those who've died here since - I don't know that any bodies have been recovered.

[mindofathief]

Have you ever...seen someone die? Does their body disappear?

I wondered if there's a reason why some people some back when their lanterns are fixed.

[paletteswap]

I've not witnessed it here, no. I did carry my brother's lantern after his death for a time but it was taken from me in the night in order to revive him.

@badeaux

[ultraviolents]

Neat to look at how?

[mindofathief]

They have statues on the graves. Not just of people, but I think of things they used to like in a past life, like books.

They're works of art, I tell you.

[ultraviolents]

On top of the headstones, you mean? Or were the statues themselves the graves?

[ either way, it's pretty interesting. ]

Did you notice any other inscriptions?

[mindofathief]

They were the graves. [Would be creepier if they moved around, but they're just not-sentient stone. It's a major relief.]

Nothing like this riddle. It's mostly names and dates of people who lived in Beacon. [...] A lot of them are from the 1970's.

[ultraviolents]

Anyone you recognized? [ any of them, she means, but she'll clarify if he needs her to. ]

@HK

[catholicisms]

It's Spanish. Sounds like a poem.

Roughly, "who keeps the lights that cross in the shadow of my strange solitude."

[mindofathief]

[Well that was more poetic than riddling.]

So...are they talking about ghosts? Someone else with a lantern?

[catholicisms]

Hard to say without a bit more context, but, maybe something like that. It was on a grave, you said?

[mindofathief]

Yeah. I was thinking it was a hint to the passcode, but now I’m not sure what number they could be talking about.

[catholicisms]

Passcode? How do you mean?

( Matt is blind, so he can't see the picture. )