WEEK 2: April 8th - April 12th

[cartesio]

Second Week

Seven days have passed. Quite peaceful days, almost too peaceful. The town has welcomed you, excited to see tourists for the first time in many, many, many years. Some may have liked the peace, others may have been annoyed by it, but it was undeniable Cartesio seemed like such a nice and safe place it was hard to believe you had been told to kill each other.

But the threat is still up in the air. What's more: how much patience does the Sergeant have left?

Every time you take a look into the Lodge, you see the Sergeant. Lately he's looking more and more annoyed. Even though you can't see his face, you can feel he's getting frustrated. How long will it be before he lashes out and does something about these peaceful days?

Nobody in the town could suspect the harrowing times that'd befall Cartesio.

When you wake up on Sunday, you'll find new maps in the map rack and brochures on the table, showing places you hadn't noticed in the town before. Enjoy!

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[Welcome to the second week! If you want to contact the Sergeant, please post here!. Also please remember to submit your activity check!]

Comments

[cartesio]

[Your concern for safety and suspicious people being around is rather appropriate, Kino. This time it seems to be superfluous, because when you enter the rather cramped projection room, you find there's nobody inside.

It's clear as soon as you enter that you're expected to do something here, though. For example, the projection machine? It's stuck. The parts that hold the film reel have reels, but they keep advancing a bit, then going back. Malfunctioning projector!

The room is covered with discarded and empty film reels, leading towards a rack attached to the wall. There are only two left there, intact.

Finally, on the other side of the room, there's a small table, with a single drawer.

No sign from the Sergeant yet, or of whatever he expects you to do, though]

[burgerprince]

I've got this.

[Jughead moves over to the projection machine almost instinctively, and tries to fix it up. All that time working the drive-in, don't fail him now!]

[cartesio]

[Thank goodness you're here, Jughead! Someone with a delicate touch that won't shatter this machine in one fell swoop!

Peeking into the projection machine reveals there's something metallic between the film reels. Careful when taking it out, you don't want to mangle your fingers]

[burgerprince]

[With hands boasting of great projector experience, he tries to delicately pick out that thing jammed in there. Hopefully his fingers don't get mangled, he needs those to write.]

[cartesio]

[It's a close call, but your fingers are still intact, Jughead. Getting the object out shows it's a key, generic-looking key you'd find anywhere. Okay then!]

[burgerprince]

[Ok that's nice but now he has to set the film reels back into place because that's a priority.

Then look around the room for what this unlocks i GUESS]

[quickpersuader]

[HEY SUP JUGHEAD, Kino will walk over (persuader now holstered!) with a thin metal sheet thingy.]

This... isn't part of a projector, is it?

[burgerprince]

Nope. It's a key.

[How the hell it gets stuck in a projector, he doesn't know.

He holds it up, then flips it in his hand.]

What've you got there?

[silvertongueheir]

[Well, it seems everyone has things mostly handled here. Still, Franciscus looks pretty impressed at Jughead's key-handling skills.]

Nice job. Do you do that often?

[clearities]

[ While Sakura is in the back of the all of these taller older people, she does manage to see what Jughead is doing and just hoeeeee in awe. It's not helping, but it's clear that she's going to be really impressed if he does manage to fix the poor projection machine. ]

[burgerprince]

[He didn't let you down, Sakura.]

[doublelammy]

Dibs on the table thingy!

[And she beelines right over there, immediately moving to open up that drawer with her buttery hands.

For Aidios' sake, someone with clean hands please stop this child.]

[cartesio]

[Your buttery hands won't stop you from opening the drawer! And there's something inside! It's...

What's this thing...?

Whatever it is, it's very thin, almost paper-thin, and made of resistant steel. At least it's light]

[doublelammy]

Woooah, weird shiny metal thing. Check this out!

[LAST CHANCE TO SAVE METAL SHEET FROM BUTTER, GANG]

[quickpersuader]

Let me.

[Aaaand Kino will take that, finally holstering the persuader again. Anything notable now that Kino's holding it?]

[kingbomber]

[ He definitely didn't take it as Kino did, because he's not helpful like that but he probably saw it when it got passed to the other or something. ]

...And what the hell is that supposed to be?

[snideper]

[she's never stopped anyone from doing something stupid ever in her life and she's not about to start now but]

You've got some weird standards about getting food on your hands...

[quickpersuader]

[With a nod to Jughead, Kino goes to investigate the table drawer, persuader still in hand.]

[cartesio]

[Millium found something!]

[linearcrash]

[ He'll check out the rack. Is there anything about the reels here? Any words or anything? ]

[cartesio]

[The reels are unmarked. No name, no marks...perfectly generic reels, yet they were left here on the rack instead of thrown around. How curious]

Combine powers in Jughead's thread maybe after we know?

[linearcrash]

[ Very curious. He'll pull them off the rack and bring them over to the projector expert who is hopefully NOT mangling his hands.]

[cartesio]

[There are two reels. For convenience, Reel #1, and Reel #2.

You decide which one to view first!]

[pursuitofdeath]

[Huh. Alright. So what’s on this rack attached to the wall?]

[cartesio]

[These unmarked reels, Mr. Detective!]