Concept
«Under ancient Tarraco, every gallery is a stratum of time. The stones are not mute, they are acoustic archives of everything that happened between them.»
1987. Oleguer, an archivist at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, receives a routine assignment: to document the expansion of a collapsed gallery under the Early Christian necropolis of Tarragona. What he finds beneath the first layers of sediment is anything but routine.
As he descends, the architecture changes. Visigothic tombs give way to Imperial Roman crypts, which in turn flow into Iberian cavities carved into the raw rock, predating the foundation of Tarraco itself.
And in total darkness, his field recorder captures sounds that should not exist. Voices praying in Latin. Metal scraping stone. A weeping that reverberates in frequencies that the limestone should not be able to preserve.
Mechanics
Sound bounces, absorbs, and deforms according to the geometry of each gallery. Each cavity has its acoustic signature. You will learn to interpret reverberation to orient yourself... until the echoes begin to contradict the architecture.
No minimaps. No GPS. Oleguer carries a field notebook, a compass, and an analog distance meter. Every documented crossroads is a lifeline. Every calculation error, a possible point of no return.
Continued exposure to darkness and acoustic dissonance deteriorates Oleguer’s perception. Visual shaders respond to your silent stress level: flickering walls, shadows suggesting shapes, distances that lie.
80s analog equipment. Slow and heavy movement. Managing flashlight batteries, recording tape, and chalk for marking walls is not a crafting system: it is the difference between returning or not.
Archive
TEASER_TARRAGONA_1987.MP4
SC_01_SARCOFAG
SC_02_INSCRIPTIO
Transmission
Receive Oleguer’s field notes. Development logs, early access dates, and classified project documents.