Lore / info they've learned: Pal has been doing a lot of investigating, both in mundane ways and necromancer ways, and our friendly neighborhood mods have been incredibly patient and helpful in explaining what he would find. So he has learned a lot!
- Everything in Wellstone appears to be extremely old, in the hundreds to thousands of years range. This includes objects found in the rifts, buildings, gravestones, and bones. Buildings in use tend to be younger than buildings not in use, though the exact age is hard to determine.
- Notably, though, the well in the graveyard is weird. It’s impossible to determine its age, and individual stones seem to be wildly different in age.
- Additionally, post-cycle reset, the age of all buildings fluctuates. For a few days, the ages seem to swing wildly: one thing will feel brand-new, another age-old, and then they'll switch the next day. After about a week, things settle, and they'll feel exactly like they did before.
- There are various traces of people (human and non-human) having been in Wellstone before! Many of the objects in the rifts seem to have belonged to them. They are a wide variety of ages, from children to elderly, and both human and non-human. In fact, it’s clear that there used to be a lot of life in Wellstone, and now it’s (almost) all dead, and everything reeks of death. Spoooooky.
- The ghosts that were actively haunting Staywell during Cycle 2 desperately want to communicate. They have told Palamedes and Cecelia that they do not come from Well and that the town will “end.” There are dozens, maybe hundreds of them, and they do not have names.
- The concierge (and presumably other NPCs) seem to be biologically normal humans. But something is off about them!
How did they figure this out? - Building/object age stuff Pal determined via his psychometric powers, which he began re-learning during Cycle 2 (ooc details here, here, and here) - Ghost stuff he learned while conducting a seance - Concierge stuff learned during this interrogation.
What else do they want to know? LITERALLY EVERYTHING. At this point, Pal is particularly interested in figuring out more about the people who were in Wellstone previously and what happened to them, as well as figuring out the nature and construction of Wellstone itself.
OOC or IC theories: At this point Pal suspects that - Lots of groups of people have been taken to Wellstone previously and they all eventually die - The NPCs were once people like them, but have been stripped of their person-ness - Wellstone itself is a pocket universe or bubble constructed by a powerful being who is doing experiments on them
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Lore / info they've learned:
Pal has been doing a lot of investigating, both in mundane ways and necromancer ways, and our friendly neighborhood mods have been incredibly patient and helpful in explaining what he would find. So he has learned a lot!
- Everything in Wellstone appears to be extremely old, in the hundreds to thousands of years range. This includes objects found in the rifts, buildings, gravestones, and bones. Buildings in use tend to be younger than buildings not in use, though the exact age is hard to determine.
- Notably, though, the well in the graveyard is weird. It’s impossible to determine its age, and individual stones seem to be wildly different in age.
- Additionally, post-cycle reset, the age of all buildings fluctuates. For a few days, the ages seem to swing wildly: one thing will feel brand-new, another age-old, and then they'll switch the next day. After about a week, things settle, and they'll feel exactly like they did before.
- There are various traces of people (human and non-human) having been in Wellstone before! Many of the objects in the rifts seem to have belonged to them. They are a wide variety of ages, from children to elderly, and both human and non-human. In fact, it’s clear that there used to be a lot of life in Wellstone, and now it’s (almost) all dead, and everything reeks of death. Spoooooky.
- The ghosts that were actively haunting Staywell during Cycle 2 desperately want to communicate. They have told Palamedes and Cecelia that they do not come from Well and that the town will “end.” There are dozens, maybe hundreds of them, and they do not have names.
- The concierge (and presumably other NPCs) seem to be biologically normal humans. But something is off about them!
How did they figure this out?
- Building/object age stuff Pal determined via his psychometric powers, which he began re-learning during Cycle 2 (ooc details here, here, and here)
- Ghost stuff he learned while conducting a seance
- Concierge stuff learned during this interrogation.
What else do they want to know?
LITERALLY EVERYTHING. At this point, Pal is particularly interested in figuring out more about the people who were in Wellstone previously and what happened to them, as well as figuring out the nature and construction of Wellstone itself.
OOC or IC theories:
At this point Pal suspects that
- Lots of groups of people have been taken to Wellstone previously and they all eventually die
- The NPCs were once people like them, but have been stripped of their person-ness
- Wellstone itself is a pocket universe or bubble constructed by a powerful being who is doing experiments on them