WEEK 3: April 15th - April 19th

[cartesio]

Third Week

The peaceful times are over. Moloch von Zinzer was murdered, and Nine was sentenced as his murderer. Everyone in Cartesio knows that.

Although life goes on, it seems the town of Cartesio isn't going to forget the tourists' transgressions. Not only they commited larceny in the cinema, they also murdered and executed in their town! It's no surprise their hospitality towards the visitors has cooled down considerably.

Not only they're maintaining a tense cordiality with them, they also have started talking behind the visitors' backs. All kinds of rumors are starting to sprout, yet nobody seems to be willing to say it to the tourists' faces. Talking directly to most passerby makes them distrustful, and nobody seems to want to be in close quarters alone with them.

It's only matter of time before the relationship between tourists and Cartesio starts degrading even further.

In the lobby of the motel there's a few more brochures, and the maps have been updated once again.

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EVENT

[cartesio]

[ When 10:00 PM rolls around, you might be lounging about in your motel room, or getting something to eat from the diner. And then, all of a sudden, you're not. In the blink of an eye, you find yourself somewhere else, but unlike last week you don’t have a roof over your head.

You're on a hill, staring directly at a bunch of metal stacks, a few of them giving off smoke, about a hundred feet in front of you. The whole place is surrounded by a fence, about eight feet tall. It's an oil refinery, and it appears to be the site of tonight’s...excitement.

Like last week, some of those you're trapped with stand around with you. You might want to put your heads together and figure out what's going on. Maybe the shovels stuck in a mound of recently moved dirt to your right would be a good start? ]

[doublelammy]

[. . .]

He didn't even give us food this time. Lame.

[anyway Millium has no idea what she's even looking at so time to wait for more people to wake up]

[robitussin]

I can’t even be surprised, but also, priorities.

[doublelammy]

I have great priorities. I'm gonna wind up getting yelled at in the paper and glared at all over town for this and I don't even get a free bucket of popcorn!

[snideper]

[Clarisse does not immediately fire off an arrow like last time because she knows what smoke is but, like, even as everyone is getting adjusted, she has an arrow nocked to her bow and starts to draw the string.

Like. Just in case.]

Ah, hell...

[someone else can play with shovels that's beneath her]

[clearities]

Where are we this time...?

[quickpersuader]

[Here we are again...

Kino notes the shovels, but glances around at their surroundings a bit further. Is the fence chain link, and therefore able to be seen through to better grasp their location? Or are there any other clues to be seen?]

[cartesio]

[ It is indeed a chain link fence! And, all of you are on the outside of it. It gives you a good look at the refinery, at least?

This doesn't seem to be too far out of town, judging by the lights in the distance, just beyond the refinery, but also strangely, you can't seem to get your barrings. Maybe those are some buildings off between some of the stacks, maybe you've seen them before? But it's impossible to know for sure. ]

[robitussin]

[...]

If we have to hop a fence to do anything, I’m going to be so mad.

[silvertongueheir]

[Is there any gate in the fence?]

[relieable]

[man, how did he get here? at least he knows what the smell is. Osomatsu's, uh... worked with oil before, don't ask questions about it. at least Totoko isn't here, he doesn't think]

I was having a good dinner. [just going to nudge one of the shovels with his foot]

[cartesio]

[ The shovel tips as Osomatsu nudges it. It's definitely fresh dirt he's dealing with. ]

[relieable]

[whoops! Osomatsu grabs the shovel before it falls, then looks at the dirt. he croches down and moves his fingers across it, pushing it around. is something buried here? or was it just moved?]

[icariot]

[Hawks was planning on actually getting some sleep tonight, so finding himself here is a bit of a bummer.

The oil rigs are new, that’s for sure. Hawks can’t say he’s seen any of this before. It only takes a moment before he flaps his wings to raise a couple feet in the air. Maybe some height will help him notice something useful?]

[cartesio]

[ He can't really see much to give them an idea of where they are, compared to the rest of the town, but he'll notice not many lights are coming from the factory. Maybe the majority of workers have gone home. ]

[icariot]

[considering it’s 10pm, the ones who went home totally have the right idea.

That begs the question why are there any lights on, though]

Why are there lights...?

[marmoron]

[....Alright, so one moment he was following some towns people around to see where all they were going and next he's randomly here. He missed this last time and as far as he's concerned this is potentially some new dangerous bullshit so his hands already reaching for a knife.]

What's happening,

[Glancing around at the others standing around.]

[clearities]

It's probably the Sergeant-san again... he did this last week, too.

[doublelammy]

Yeah, last week he dropped us off in the theater and had us break a bunch o' stuff n' solve puzzles to steal a thing.

He didn't even give us popcorn this time...

[protectandselfserve]

...

Do we have to do whatever he wants here? I'd really not end up in the papers for something embarrassing tomorrow.

[quickpersuader]

You can probably try to leave. It's not like we're stuck inside this time.

[amburere]

Once was enough? [ Dabi is also here not intending to help at all, hi5. ]

EVENT END

[cartesio]

[Thankfully, the way out of the refinery went smoothly. Passing through the hallways, in front of the vandalism everyone made, past the zen garden, and out of the terrain...

...just to find yourselves back into the motel lobby. The Sergeant is nowhere to be seen.

Maybe in the future you'll try to return to the refinery, for one reason or another. To see Rean, to apologize, to find answers. Unfortunately, you can't seem able to find the refinery.

But for now, all that remains is to sleep]

[carbide]

[Olympia just kind of sets Millium down on a chair in the lobby.]

[quickpersuader]

[Kino will stay if it seems like Millium or Sakura have anything to say, but barring that, Kino's gonna head to bed.]