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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Comments

[marmoron]

[Yeah. Okay. Camera down. Quietly too. He's not ... annoyed by this. Incredible.]

Got the other cameras too?

[Keith's moving in, armor flash light on. What's the inside of the refinery looking like?]

Did that note say where to spray paint?

[Anyone??]

[relieable]

It just said to give the inside of the refinery a makeover.

[marmoron]

That supposed to mean every room, every floor?

[CHRIST SARGE WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS....]

[relieable]

[a shrug here. he doesn't know, but he's going to start shaking his spray can to get it ready.

he's got red. you want red, too, Keith?]

[marmoron]

Clear and helpful as always.

[Red's a mighty fine color, heck yeah.

He doesn't actually have his own can of spray paint cuz uh... he saw a fence and just... kinda climbed it to scope things out while everyone else was crowded around the buried box. Hrm.]

[relieable]

[he found the note at least! without meaning to...]

Here! [he tosses the spray can to Keith because he wants to go help those magic earth and plant people]

[marmoron]

[He catches the can and grins.]

Thanks.

[Finally, he'll actually holster the gun and give the can an extra shake for good measure. He turns to face the wall and... you know what? Despite everything, all the breaking and entering, snooping around and whatnot? Keith isn't exactly big on vandalism for the sake of vandalism and he's at a tiny bit of a loss of what he's even supposed to be spray painting here.

In fact, he just kinda... ends up holding the nozzle on the can down for about five seconds, spray painting the exact same spot on the wall without moving his arm or anything.

That's it. That's his masterpiece.]

[cartesio]

[ Funnily enough, there aren't any other cameras...at least that he can see, around here. Maybe they only have a few angles covered?

In any case. Along with the pipes, Keith will notice a few things are kind of strange in here.

Most notably, there are catwalks above them but they all seem to lead to nowhere? Like someone neatly cut them, rotated them, and just set them back. They just stay there, perfectly undisturbed, even though they probably shouldn't work like that. ]

[marmoron]

Weird.

[He's just going to shine the light up overhead for everyone to see these Escher catwalks.

There anyway to climb up to them to see what up/take a closer look?]

[cartesio]

[ There's some stairs, a few feet to your right! Looks like you can get up to them, but definitely not cross.

However... There's some wenches and a display that matches the layout of the catwalks, right in front of it. Maybe you can do something with this? ]

[marmoron]

[Oh great, A puzzle. Keith LOVES puzzles. Again, thanks for nothing, Sarge???

He's going to head to the display to see what to do here to try and presumably move the catwalks so that he can get up the stairs and then walk across to the other side.

Tapping the display. Tapping a wench. Let's see how you're supposed to move this stuff around.]

[quickpersuader]

[Kino makes their way over to take a look at the display and tries a solution??]

[cartesio]

[The catwalks move. Slowly, the sound of moving machinery fills the rooms, the catwalks soon forming two paths for everyone to cross. On the catwalk nearest to them there's a collection of tools. Pipes, wrenches, rocks, and many other similar objects.

And at the end of the catwalks, a large machine.

Looks like the implication is clear.

One of the wrenches has a note:

Get it done, leave the building, and I'll take you back]

[robitussin]

[Hmm...

Time to head that way and take a closer look at the machine!]

[doublelammy]

[+1 sassy lost child]

[carbide]

[...Olympia might be positioning herself between Millium and the center of the machine.]

[cartesio]

[Seems to be some kind of...large machine. From the inside there's a lot of gurgling and gears spinning. Pipes come out of the top, spreading throughout the rest of the building. This thing's receiving crude, and the end result falls down chutes into other parts of the building.

Seems to be a rather important part of the interior of the refinery. No wonder you're being told to do this]

[robitussin]

...Okay, vandalism is one thing, but I feel like messing with this could seriously fuck things up for people.

[carbide]

[This looks like something that has a reasonable chance of blowing up when it's vandalized.

...

What? Are you expecting Olympia to vocalize that thought or something? Don't be silly.]

[doublelammy]

Umm...

This kinda stuff, it's dangerous, isn't it? Like... explodey-fiery-dangerous?

[silvertongueheir]

Ah. So this was his true intention. [Franciscus follows the group, but hangs back.]

[relieable]

[what's wrong, Frankie?]

This? You mean... messing with the machine?

[icariot]

[Once hes sure there aren’t any cameras in range, Hawks is going to check out the catwalks that are up there. Magic rearranging walkways like Harry Potter mean nothing to Mighty Wings like these.]

[cartesio]

[ Besides the exact layout, Hawks will notice these are definitely defying gravity. They lead from the stairs to what looks to be another display, though one that shows...the individual pipes? This looks like an important machine. A...main control.

Something that seems to control the refinery itself. ]

[snideper]

[She just sort of makes a soft, if harsh, noise of acknowledgement in response. Not sure if she's annoyed by the fact that she hasn't annoyed Keith or not??

But even though she's still real iffy on what, exactly, a camera is, she's got her eye out for any other hints of light or just, other things she can shoot with arrows in general as they go...]