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

[quickpersuader]

Persuaders like these are available to everyone. I'd prefer if you fire, it's with purpose.

[Getting a favor out of it is good, too.]

Anyway, I'll be going. Where did you plan to go next?

[doublelammy]

Yeah. That's my goal, so don't worry about that.

Umm... prolly just back to the motel. I've been pretty tired today, so I was gonna try to wind down n' turn in early. You?

[quickpersuader]

I should probably feed the chicken... [Though Kino looks considerably less enthused about this.] I'll go to the diner and ask for something, I guess.

[doublelammy]

...

The chicken?

[Okay, forget Millium's previous plans, she's wholly invested in this now.]

[quickpersuader]

Yeah, I found one in my room after last night.

[doublelammy]

[Millium is way more excited about this than Kino is...]

Can I come with you? I wanna see!

[quickpersuader]

Okay.

[It is not hard to be more excited about this than Kino. Off to the diner it is! But not for much really, just some kind of dish that comes with veggies on the side. The cold looks are new, but not really the sort of thing to faze Kino at this point.]

[doublelammy]

[Millium's been dismissing the cold looks all day. Admittedly, she's been too tired to notice for most of the day, and right now she's too excited about the prospect of getting to see the chicken to pay much attention.

She follows right at Kino's heels. Is the chicken the pet, or is Millium...?]

[quickpersuader]

[Kino treats Millium better than the pet, honestly...

They return to the motel, and sure enough, there's a hen there, probably tied by the leg to a nearby tree or something for want of a way to keep the thing from wandering off. Kino dumps the food in front of it, and it gets to eating.]

Still not sure what I want to do with it.

[doublelammy]

[Millium knows what she wants to do with it.

She immediately drops to her knees beside the bird, watching it peck at the food in utter fascination.]

Aaaa~ hey there, little buddy~!

[She glances back at Kino, not at all aware of what "what I want to do" could mean.]

Does she have a name yet?

[quickpersuader]

Hmmm...

[Let Kino think about that for a minute.]

...Yakitori?

[Kino had that once. It was pretty good.]

[doublelammy]

[Oh, Kino. You're so lucky Millium has no idea what that is.]

Aww... that's cute! Hiya, Yakitori!

[Operation Pet the Chicken: Commence]

[quickpersuader]

[Please ask someone else what it means one day, Millium.

Anyway this chicken hasn't ever felt threatened in its life, so it is perfectly fine with getting pets.]

You like animals?

[doublelammy]

[Watch, Millium's gonna find out from Sakura or something and she will be so mad.

Pet pet pet~!]

Hee, yeah. I don't really get to get up close n' personal with 'em when I'm working.

[She says some other things, but since it's all cooing baby talk toward the chicken and how cute it is, it's not really worth notating here.]

[quickpersuader]

[Sorry Millium, but Kino has priorities here.]

You would probably like the country where everyone gets a pet, then.

[doublelammy]

[So does Millium! And since she has essentially unlimited free food already, her priorities are CUTE THINGS.]

Aaaa~ yeah, I'd love that!! Gramps won't let me have one, 'cause I'm out on missions too often to take care of it and he's way too busy to help out...

[quickpersuader]

In that country, everyone gets to pick an animal to take care of as a pet when they turn ten. It was supposed to encourage empathy and things like that.

[Still, there's another mild smile. At least someone's having fun here.]

[doublelammy]

Any kind of animal?

[Millium goes a little wide-eyed at the idea... someone please stop her.]

[quickpersuader]

Anything from an approved list, but I saw many people with all kinds of animals while I stayed there.

That's where I got this chicken, I think.

[doublelammy]

[Wait, so this is a chicken from Kino's world? Then that means...]

Oh, so did Sarge give you Yakitori back for yesterday?

[quickpersuader]

I guess so...

[Strange as it may be.]

I wouldn't have thought it was possible.

[doublelammy]

Huh? Why not? I mean, he brought all of us here. Don't see why he couldn't bring our things n' our pets, too.

[quickpersuader]

Well...

That's because I ate it. I had it for dinner after I left the country.

[And yet here it is, enjoying those pets.]

1/2

[doublelammy]

2/2

[doublelammy]

Y-y-you killed her and ate her?! B-but she's so cute!

[Millium might be trying to become a protective shield for Yakitori now.]