The ghostly side of the veil appears almost like the living side, but with a few exceptions:
-The sun, moon, and stars are never visible. Their light levels are, but the sky is always overcast.
-Moving objects in the living world vanish from the ghost world. There’s no traffic on the streets, no mysteriously levitating objects, etc. But there are parked cars.
-Electricity does not function.
-Items and locations that change quickly do so in real time - so the grocery store always has today’s food stocked on the shelves, and the newspaper stands show the day’s paper.
-Items and locations that change slowly retain some ‘memory.’ So demolished buildings will flicker in and out of existence, renovations will appear and disappear, etc.
-Ghosts who cannot pass through solid objects need either to wait until someone opens doors for them, to use poltergeist telekinesis, or to very heavily emotionally invest themselves in the item changing its state in the ghost world.
-In general, emotion is key to ghostly existence. Strong emotion thins the veil between the worlds, keeps ghosts existing, provides them with something to occupy their time when they do not sleep or eat and only rarely have company. Little wonder that ghosts usually wind up emotionally volatile...
SOME NOTES ON DEATHSIDE...
-The sun, moon, and stars are never visible. Their light levels are, but the sky is always overcast.
-Moving objects in the living world vanish from the ghost world. There’s no traffic on the streets, no mysteriously levitating objects, etc. But there are parked cars.
-Electricity does not function.
-Items and locations that change quickly do so in real time - so the grocery store always has today’s food stocked on the shelves, and the newspaper stands show the day’s paper.
-Items and locations that change slowly retain some ‘memory.’ So demolished buildings will flicker in and out of existence, renovations will appear and disappear, etc.
-Ghosts who cannot pass through solid objects need either to wait until someone opens doors for them, to use poltergeist telekinesis, or to very heavily emotionally invest themselves in the item changing its state in the ghost world.
-In general, emotion is key to ghostly existence. Strong emotion thins the veil between the worlds, keeps ghosts existing, provides them with something to occupy their time when they do not sleep or eat and only rarely have company. Little wonder that ghosts usually wind up emotionally volatile...