WEEK 1: April 2nd - April 6th

[cartesio]

Peace Week

Sunday must have been exhausting for you, maybe even upsetting. A new town, new faces and a an ominous order from a man without a face... who wouldn't be a little frightened? Hopefully, all of that is forgotten when you climb out from under your blankets this fine Monday. Rise and shine! A new morning is a new start!

If you make your way to the lounge, you will find a few copies of the local newspaper provided for your perusal. Once you go outdoors, you'll find the weather forecast 100% accurate. It's pretty impressive.

It seems that quiet mornings like this are going to be your everyday life now. Maybe you should see this whole stay as a vacation? Go out and explore the town, meet your fellow motel guests and meet the townspeople. They're sure to welcome you with a smile!

This week's special in the diner is lemon pie made with love (and a top-secret recipe)

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[Welcome to the peace week! This week there won't be a murder nor a task. Enjoy the peace while it lasts! If you want to contact the Sergeant, please post here!]

Comments

[marmoron]

[Keith is careful to look around fairly closely because he doesn't know if there'll ever be another opportunity to snoop around now that Nanette's decided (correctly) that he's trouble. He glances over the various labels. trying to move quickly before someone decides to come inside.

The padlock on the Case Records cabinet has him scowling around the room until he lays eyes on the keys on top of the desk. Noting the layer of dust on it, he does his best not to disturb that (though hm, why is it so dusty, are they short staffed?) then returns to the filing cabinet.

He'll snag the keys off the desk and start trying them out one by one on the padlock! Open sesame?]

[cartesio]

[Open sesame. The padlock opens without trouble once the right key is inserted, the padlock is in pretty good state. Once another confirmation this is something that's used frequently.

There are so many dates to check, Keith. Want to check newer records? Check further back?]

[marmoron]

[First, he'd like to check on the most recent case! Let's see what the official word on this was.]

[cartesio]

[Once Keith opens the cabinet with the most recent dates, he'll find it's filled with many sheets of paper that at first glance clearly are official police records, according to the logo on the corner. You can't see more unless you take them out.

In front of all of them there's a copy of the March 31st newspaper -- one no visitor had seen before:

'Gruesome murder at the park!'

What follows is a very short and not very informative article. Almost nothing can be obtained from it, except that the journalist immediately pointed fingers at the visitors -- after all, the victim is listed as a tourist. There's no more information about the victim.

Continue checking the filing cabinet?]

[marmoron]

[Well that at least corroborates what Sakura was sayign at the meeting, though it raises other questions.

Is there a name for this journalist and is the same one writing the articles they've been getting? And yes, he'll continue to look through the cabinet and remove any documents that seem important for a closer look!]

[cartesio]

[No name anywhere -- not on this one or on the newspaper copies everyone reads at the motel. The writing style is identical, though.

The documents you find indeed have Cartesio's local police logo on the corner, and from what you see, the documentation is authentic. It's a bit strange, though: most of it is empty.

There is a report about the murder at the park the newspaper was talking about, with all the gruesome details and description of evidence, and a big UNSOLVED -- but it's at the very bottom of the file. Above it, all the fields, all the places where something could be written, all the slots for past crime reports, everything is completely empty, untouched. There isn't even signs anything was erased]

[marmoron]

[Iiiiinteresting. Something to add to his conspiracy theory wall. He gives everything a quick scan, largely to make sure the deets match Sakura's report of the incident and then replaces the file. Looks like there's no mention of the Sergeant executing someone huh?

Time to check what the other files are looking like!]

[cartesio]

[Opening the rest of the padlocks on the crime report drawers isn't as easy. It takes a bit more of strength to turn the keys. Unlike the current one, all of the cabinets have a lot of dust inside. Other than documents, there's nothing.

And, just like in the current day, all the files are empty. All the files that are tucked into the drawers, organized in a way that'd make you think is something in them, have nothing written on them. The further into the past Keith goes, the older the filing cabinet he opens is, the more yellowed and brittle the paper is. In the very first one the format of the documents is different, a very early iteration of how it looks now in the present.

It seems like you won't find anything else of use.]

[marmoron]

[Great. This place reeks of shenanigans like he thought. There clearly has to be stuff written on these documents, it's just a matter of why he can't read it.

Seeing as these files seem less accessed, Keith willl just go ahead and borrow one of the papers -- one that looks newer, might reasonably pass for just a regular piece of paper they could get at the convenience store at a glance and folds it into his armor.

That done, he'll very carefully put everything else back the way it was before he entered the room. If there still aren't any signs of people approaching, he'll try and take a quick look to see if there's anything of note inside the dusty desk.]

[cartesio]

[Nope, nothing. The desk doesn't even have drawers.

Somewhere above you, on the second floor, you can hear steps. If Keith has good spatial orientation, he'll hear those steps are going towards the stairs.

Better run away, Keith!]

[marmoron]

[Oh shi-- did the alarm go off in response to something he specifically touched or did? Or did Nanette go full overkill on getting the entire station on his case, .gosh.

Either way, TIME TO RUN LIKE THE WIND.

He'll hightail it out of the police station now. Unless he gets stopped, Keith's not gonna stop running until he's got a few blocks between him and the building.]

[cartesio]

[See you, Keith!

Not too long after Keith left, Nanette descends back to the ground floor. A couple agents were behind her. She doesn't hesitate, she goes straight to the administrative offices. The moment one of those agents told her he had left the keys lying around, she decided to wait. Once she judged she had waited enough, they descended.

The sight of the padlocks left unlocked/left in ways she didn't remember tells her what she already suspected. She turns to the agents]

You, try taking fingerprints for evidence. You, find out everything you can about these tourists. I don't like this at all.

[Why would they be so interested in police records, even committing breaking and entering in the police station? Nanette's starting to suspect something's weird about these tourists.

End of exploration]