[ 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

[itsaname]

that's good to hear. do you still have the drawing? maybe someone else can make sense of it.

if we're going to be their neighbors, it couldn't hurt. we'd have to find a spare tablet for them.

[sunborne]

I was thinking of asking Winters for one! We're room buddies so, hopefully, we can chat about it proper real soon. Everyone's been super busy and I can't blame them.

And errr sorry I don't have the drawing. :( The drawing was made on the back of a drawing I made for them, so I feel like it'll be rude to take it back. Not nice to be a charity swapper, you know?

[itsaname]

good idea. i hope he can help.

and that's fine. wouldn't have wanted you to risk damaging relations with the forest spirits.

[ It's a joke. And it's also not. ]

[sunborne]

I definitely don't want to do that! D: Not being able to get the chance to make friends with them would suck.

We're all in this together, right? So we gotta work together and get through it. I like to think that should include the forest spirits.

[itsaname]

yeah. that's a good way to look at it. [ He thinks of the squabbling gods and he adds: ] they might need us as much as we need them.

[sunborne]

That's what I was thinking too!

Scratch their back and they scratch ours and stuff. Doesn't hurt to try. What else can we do here besides sit in town and stuff? Gotta tackle the great unknown and see what's there.

[itsaname]

[ Shadow, who only wanted to live a quiet life with his wife, smiles a little ruefully at that. ]

is that something you do a lot? tackling the unknown?

[sunborne]

Yeah! It's why I decided to do a full round around the stars. It's something my parents did when they commanded the Lornful Light and they helped loads of people. :D I want to be like them since they've done so many cool things like help with the Legacy War and brought back the Wandering Wonders and all sorts of cool stuff.

[ after a few seconds after he sends his message, daylight ends up sending the following flurry: ]

Oh. Sorry about that.

I keep forgetting that a lot of these names and terms don't make a lot of sense to people not from my world. :(

That's kind of awkward.

[itsaname]

[ They are indeed completely foreign terms to Shadow. But he reads the message all the same, and he draws what meaning he can from the context. ]

it's okay. i'm sure the same can be said for my world.

maybe you can teach people?

[sunborne]

[ if only mr. shadow could hear the noise daylight just made at his suggestion.

it'll be hard to explain it but it's a pure !!!! sound. ]

Oh! That's a really neat idea!! :D

You'd really think the others here would be interested in that sort of thing? That could be a cool activity to do with everyone, actually. List terms from our world and if someone asks, we can explain it! [ a neato icebreaker, if he could say so himself. ]