May 25th - Final Day

[cartesio]

Final Investigation

It's Friday. It's the last day marked in your calendar. Presumably, the few without medals will leave at some point today, and the rest...you're not sure what'll happen to you, but it'll be what the Sergeant wants.

How to defy him when you have so little time left?

Whatever plan you had today, it's guaranteed it won't go like expected. Early in the morning, the ground rumble slightly, and something pops in the sky. Fireworks! One after another, blasts from firework spread through the sky. Many of the residents of Cartesio come to the street, gathering and making all the noise they can.

It's a very radical change of behavior, compared to the once peaceful demeanor they had, and then the hostile behavior showed towards the visitors, but now they're making hubbub and causing disorder. Everyone does it spontaneously, and nobody's approaching the motel at all.

At least none of the townspeople.

Not long after that started, you may hear the noise of horns and whistles from vehicles, right outside the motel. Go take a look?

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[clearities]

[ guess we're splitting up and Sakura is going to be preparing herself by taking out her key and calling out: Release! in a whisper to turn it into a staff. just going to check in for any magical or supernatural/ghostly pings ofc as she stays close to the others ]

[cartesio]

[ Diligent as always. Sakura will find no magical or supernatural pings. ]

[clearities]

[ well that's good to know! anyway, is there anything that Sakura can find on the ground level up here, given that she's one of the smaller ones in the group? or direct her to a place that isn't being checked, that's cool, too. what do we got. ]

[cartesio]

[ Nothing that quite sticks out other than the monitors that Natalie's investigating, but there's a plate on one of the doors, that'd make it look appealing to investigate.

LABORATORY it reads. ]

[clearities]

Ho~e? [ it's a soft sound instead of something loud and while she's clutching her staff really tightly in case something happens, let's just. try pushing that door and see if it opens. ]

[cartesio]

[ It opens! To a tidy, lovely laboratory. No one inside, but there's some nice early 2000's computers monitors, a little clutter on the counters, some scientific pictures on the walls... This place has certainly been used. ]

[clearities]

[ hm. there's something to be debated about doing in here for a moment, but let's check things out first before making that decision. so some clarifications! what kind of scientific photos are we talking about here? and, if she checks the clutter on the counters, what is she going to find? ]

[cartesio]

[ The photos are...interesting. They're all brain scans of some kind. If she counts them, she'll find about sixty.

Each is marked with a subject name (Subject A, Subject B, so on and so forth until it loops around to AA, AB, etc.) and a date. All of them, notably, are dated before you arrived here. ]

[clearities]

[ that's.... cool, i guess. just going to take those, i suppose aaaand. what's on the computer monitors? ]

[cartesio]

[ Aaaaand the monitors don't...turn on. Hm. That seems like an oversight.

If Sakura's keen on looking through that clutter still, there's something interesting there, however. ]

[clearities]

[ weird.

but yes, let's check that clutter! what do we got. ]

[cartesio]

[ A photograph of the town of Cartesio! It's an overhead shot, but even from a small glance, Sakura will be able to tell something's different from the town she knows. ]

[clearities]

[ LET'S COMPARE!

what's missing that isn't in the town she remembers or what's in the photo that she's never seen? ]

[relieable]

[hey! a laboratory! Osomatsu is here now, after checking the other room. while Sakura's checking out the clutter, what else is there in here to investigate? how about the computers...]

[robitussin]

[As Natalie heads in, she sticks close to Sakura, and she's glancing around the area as she does so. It's clear from her expression how wary she is.]

[cartesio]

[ As you climb the stairs, what you'll probably notice first is the monitors on the walls of the upstairs corridor. They look a little out of place, probably, but all they transmit is static.

The corridor itself, while a little dusty, fits with the outside decor. It just seems that you're walking through a vacation lodge, monitors aside. ]

[robitussin]

[If she approaches the monitors and gives them a glance over, will she find any way to change their controls or what they're displaying?]

[cartesio]

[ No. There's no controls on them whatsoever, just a broken feed. Weird. ]

[robitussin]

[Weird indeed.

Is there anything else of note in the corridor itself, before she heads into one of the rooms?]

[cartesio]

[ No, nothing else to look at here.

You've got a few rooms to choose from, though most of them seem pretty boring. She'll find a few sitting rooms that resemble Osomatsu's find, a few that resemble the corridors.

It's worth noting, however, that every room has a monitor, and in all the clean and tidy rooms, every monitor broadcasts a broken feed, just like the corridors'. ]

[robitussin]

[Do any of them have any wires or cords that might lead to a central location they're all plugged into?]

[cartesio]

[ Not a single one. They're just mounted on the walls, no cords or wires in sight. ]

[robitussin]

[Can she move one to see if there's anything behind it?]

[cartesio]

[ No. They're mounted on the wall pretty well. ]

[robitussin]

[At that, she'll return to the corridor to see if she notices anything else that draws her attention, including any other rooms that might seem different.]