[ text ] @shadow; information compilation [ OPEN ]

[itsaname]

hello. i'm shadow moon.

[ He includes a picture of himself so that people can make the connection between name and face. It shows a serious man with gray eyes who clearly has no idea how to take selfies. It's something like this, only darker. He Tried. ]

i'm no one special. i spent most of my life not doing much. then i got sucked into a war i didn't fully understand. i lost everyone i cared about, and then i died.

i don't know if knowing more would've made a difference for me or not. there were a lot of things outside of my control. but knowledge can make a difference here.

i've seen discussion about sharing information, but i haven't seen anything compiled and distributed yet. so that's what i've tried to do. this isn't something i've got experience doing. i've probably missed things. there are probably things that haven't been shared at all. if you can add to this and help make it more accurate, please do.

DEATH
- we're dead, but we can die again. it's common enough that there's a permanent obituary section in the paper. resurrection isn't guaranteed: "life is finite."

- the dead return faster is the body is left alone.

- "an entity" revives the dead. it will only work in privacy; how it revives them is unknown.

- if you die more than once, you will come back wrong.

- the recently revived reappear in the church.

- your lantern is a part of you, and your life is tied to it. take care of it.

LIGHT & MAGIC
- the only sources of light are our lanterns, the bonfire, the lighthouse, the stars, and the moon.

- you can take torches from the bonfire. these can be used to light other things (candles, lamps, etc.).

- magic that should illuminate doesn't work right; other spells are unaffected.
- trying to create a fire only creates smoke.

OTHER BEINGS
- there aren't any animals here. aside from us, it looks like the only inhabitants are forest spirits.
- general policy with spirits: "respect them, and they shall respect you."
- some forest spirits will kill you with their hands.
- some forest spirits are friendly.

- known friendly ones: postmaster, ice cream guy, being beneath church.

- if you see food laying beside the trapdoor in the church, leave it. it's an offering.

- librarian's friendliness is 50-50.

- give it food. it's hungry. its presence is unnerving, but it didn't attack when it had opportunity.

- there were other people here before. they disappeared when the town was "reset." the only ones left are winters, dr. ingram, rastus, and the lighthouse keeper.

THE RIVER
- the river is dangerous for two reasons: its strong, unpredictable current, and something that lives in the water.

- the thing in the water will try to drag down those who cross. throw something in and it'll throw it back.

- it looks sort of like a person, and it'll try to eat you.

- there's a village on the other side of the river. people are working on building a bridge so we can access it (and whatever else might be over there) safely.

- there are remnants of a bridge upriver, but it needs repairs.

THE VILLAGE
- it has 20 houses, a park, a rec center, and a library.
- the library has all sorts of books.

THE LIGHTHOUSE
- approaching the lighthouse without "a large group that knows what they're doing" is suicide.
- the lighthouse keeper uses morse code to communicate. if you get too close, she'll tell you, "GO BACK".

- she communicates like this because she's not currently connected to the network.

MISCELLANEOUS
- there are sand dunes and cliffs past the river in the opposite direction from the lighthouse

- no signs of civilization so far

- the town hall holds no records.

[ AND WITH ALL THAT SAID, he adds: ]

some people consider information and knowledge to be currencies. they want to keep it and peddle it out at their own convenience. i think that in a place like this, that's a good way to get people killed. we all have our own unique strengths, weaknesses, experiences, and observations. if you know something that can help others, please speak up.

thanks.


(( ooc: SUP Y'ALL. this info is from public network posts/comments. shadow isn't the type to read through every single person's conversation, so there's stuff he's missed! please shove info his way and he'll add it in, or suggest other ways for him to format things, or whatever else you'd like to do. shadow is icly not the greatest at this, but He Cares and He's Trying. o9 ))

Comments

@priestess ⟪ text ⟫

[voktys]

The spirit guarding the library is not unfriendly, but they were ravenous with hunger. Perhaps visitors would do good in making it an offering of food when they come for their treasured books? They move in ways some might find unnerving, and it is hard to tell if them breathing down one's neck is a habit or something brought on by our surprise visit. They are entirely clad in white, so at least, they are easily recognisable when one does spot them. I will say they had a fair chance to attack us and did not so do.

The being residing beneath the church, the one who seems to be responsible for the resurrections, is kindly as well. Only one caught a glimpse of them so far, describing the part they saw as 'shadowy' and 'dark', but one with a name such as yours would hardly mind a shadow?

⟪ harrharr, she has attempted a jest! ⟫

They seem to prefer their privacy –– this reminds me, when one spots unattended food in the church closeby the trapdoor, it is meant for this spirit, who takes it only when there are no witnesses.

On the subject of beings in general... So far, they seem to keep to what Winters has told me: respect them, and they shall respect you. ⟪ that's a rephrasing, but the gist is the same. ⟫

[itsaname]

[ Shadow reads this all carefully — harrharr, what a jest she made! — and finds himself as reassured as he can be. He's not unfamiliar with gods and spirits, and he's not afraid of them. Anything that's malevolent — spirits, humans, or otherwise — can be a problem, but these beings just sound … different.

It's good to know that not everything's out to kill them. ]

that's a good policy. thank you for all of this.

[voktys]

It is no trouble. This place is not the first town of shades and such I have resided in.

Winters mentioned they carve out a 'niche' for themselves, in a way, in this world.

[itsaname]

[ He'd say something about the rest of the population being lucky that she's here to share her experience. But since being here means that she's dead, he decides to just. Stay quiet on that front. ]

do you think they're native to this place?

[voktys]

I believe so, or at least most of them are. At any rate, they seem to have their territories here that they consider a home of sorts. I wonder if perhaps some where brought or made here by others... 'tis never easy to tell in my own world, let alone in a strange, new one.

Do you have your own experiences with such beings?

apparently there's a 2/2 now

[voktys]

I heard of something of immediate interest to your collecting of information.

⟪ This is the story she relays. ⟫

1/2

[itsaname]

[ Shadow almost prefaces his reply by saying, "This is going to sound crazy." Then he reminds himself that they're all dead, and he leaves it out. ]

i met gods in my world, and other beings like them. i don't know how similar they are to the spirits here.

2/2

[itsaname]

[ Then he sees that next response. ]

jesus.

[ That's all he can think to say. He just stares at the message for a long time, stomach churning as he envisions the scene. He asks himself why again and again, and he wonders if that may be the very point.

Finally, he finishes the message: ]

i'll add this. thank you.

[voktys]

I thank you for compiling this information in such an orderly manner.

⦑ alright, here is the truth of it: she believes he was terribly lied to in his old world. there is but one true god, r'hllor, and there is the great other, his opponent, who brings naught but death and despair.

no more gods. only false ones. ⦒

I would have trouble trusting an earthly being that calls itself a god.

[itsaname]

it's no problem.

that's a smart attitude to have. a lot of them weren't very trustworthy.