Ugh, welcome wagon shit. Well at least you're not being annoying in trying to deny that you're dead.

[which he did for the first few months he was here, whoops. despite, you know, overwhelming evidence pointing towards it.]

No special abilities work here at first. It's most likely because of the program that controls reality in this place. They might come back, but I've yet to hear about that happening in less than two months.

And don't expect any decent answers out of the NPCs.