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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@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?

[mindofathief]

...Oh.

It's numbers.

[nekrosmanteia]

Well, I don't think there are any numbers in that poem, and certainly not a series of them. We also don't know how many numbers we're looking for.

[Gregor sighs.]

I'm afraid we might need more information before we can solve this particular mystery.