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!

Comments

@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.

[mindofathief]

...I'm sorry.

[He may not have siblings, but Duster has seen the special kind of pain that comes from losing family.]

It does make me wonder if we are all ghosts who are barely able to keep solid.

[paletteswap]

I think if that were the case we wouldn't feel pain or bleed? But I admit everything here is so different than what I expected about death that anything may be possible.

[mindofathief]

If I were a ghost back home, I’d be all white and pass through walls. It make sense that ghost rules here are totally different.

[paletteswap]

The dead in my world are in a separate realm, which is somewhat similar to this, but there the contrast ends.

Do ghosts in your world truly look like that?

[He is definitely imagining Halloween sheet ghosts.]

[mindofathief]

[They are Halloween sheet ghosts.]

Pretty much. Most people don't stay behind when they die, but the ghosts in the castle are different.

They never talk about their past lives.

[paletteswap]

Hm.

They are confined there? I suppose in all worlds there's some aspect of the dead being trapped in a way. Much like we're tied to these lanterns and this area.

[mindofathief]

I...guess? I never really asked, but they can get trapped inside rooms. [It never made sense to him. They were herded into the kitchen and the bathroom...by physical, living soldiers? And they remained in there?] They just really like the old castle. Maybe it's because no one else is living there.

[paletteswap]

I was merely curious, it doesn't matter. Not here.

Let us know if someone is able to decipher how to open whatevers behind the keypad.

[mindofathief]

I will! We're all in this together.