![]() This resulted in the Revolution and the establishment of the Commune. Revachol was a city-state and the seat of an old imperial empire, which was ran to the ground by incompetent rulers, who cared little for their subjects. Now, Martinaise is but a bombed out ruin, filled with the most marginalized and desperate members of society. Once, it was a bustling harbor district in the capital of the world. You might later find out that she’s essentially homeless, living in the coal room of the building she’s hanging outside of.Ĭindy is just one of the many lost and drifting inhabitants of Martinaise, the worst off neighborhood in the city of Revachol. She also hates the detective, for he is a cop, and cops are pigs in this part of town, but Cindy will take pity on his artistic ineptitude and gives him a paintbrush. Mostly she hangs out on a balcony and talks about art. Cindy is met early on, throwing insults at a corporate representative who is nearby. Disco Elysium is a game haunted by possibility, of both what is to come, and what could have come, from the lost futures embedded in its past. ![]() While the graffiti is only a moment in the wider story of a game filled with many threads, it acts as a rare glimpse of hope in an otherwise depressing and exhausted world. How many died depends on the choices and abilities of the detective, who those playing the recently released Disco Elysium control. As the artist painted her graffiti, the paint mixed with the blood spilled onto the street that day. A few days prior a shootout occurred on the site between members of a local dockers’ union and mercenaries hired by their employer to break the ongoing strike. “Un jour je serai de retour près de toi,” French for “one day I will return to your side.” These words are painted in the streets of Martinaise, outside of a local hotel. One Day I Will Return To Your Side: Disco Elysium and HauntologyĬW: mention of drug abuse, alcoholism, suicide, depression.
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