Week 5: April 29th - May 3rd

[cartesio]

Fifth Week

Everything's getting worse. Rose Nylund and Frasier Crane murdered Jughead Jones during the event Jughead worked so hard to organize. Given some of the townspeople were in attendance, it didn't give a good impression -- if the visitors did this when trying to be good people and get along with Cartesio, then how will they behave once they get into destroying everything? The cruel method of Jughead's death also left everyone quite horrified, too.

That may be why it's no surprise the town's quiet unrest is slowly turning into real, tangible fury.

During the week, from time to time stones break some of the windows of the motel, looking outside shows a random passerby running away. Graffiti is left on the walls: 'SEE IF YOU LIKE THIS' 'MURDERERS' 'YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY US ALL', and other similar messages. Some of the store owners hesitate when the visitors approach, but they don't refuse service because money is always nice.

The Sergeant's pervasive influence is starting to cover not only you, but also the entire town of Cartesio. After all, everything that's happening to you and the motel? It's the result of what you and the other visitors have done.

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

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

Comments

Investigation!

[quickpersuader]

[Wherever Kino is found today, she will be dressed in a brown coat over the black jacket. It looks too big on her, really, but she doesn't seem to mind.]

[Flower Shop - Investigation!]

[Kino will be spending some time here checking out all of the available plants. As mentioned during the trial, she does have some awareness to the type of things that can kill her on the road, but does that match with anything here...?

However, when the PCs find her, she will be drawn to the flowers in particular. Come take a look with her? The red lilies are beautiful...]

[Cinema]

[Kino actually sits through an entire film - some typical adventure one where rule of cool trumps reality in every way - and pops the very last of her popcorn into her mouth.]

...I don't think they had that much ammunition.

[Especially for that last battle.]

[Park]

[But, eventually, she'll just head right back here. This time, she does take some rocks and start tossing them in, but it's with less agitation than the last time. She even manages to skip a few.

Her outward demeanor is calm. But is that really the case after everything...?]

[cartesio]

[There's this really big greenhouse of the back, giving growing space to a lot of plants. Most of them are flowers -- very beautiful flowers, even species that aren't native to this area. How nice!

Although the amount of flytraps is kind of weird, but surely that's to avoid any harmful insects from eating the flowers.

That said, there's a corner of the greenhouse that doesn't seem to be stuff for sale...take a closer look?]

[quickpersuader]

[Of course she's gonna check that out!]

[cartesio]

[Most of the greenhouse is labelled with price tags and similar things. This part has lamps falling right onto flowerpots and planters, and the glass is draped with fabrics, perhaps to limit sunlight a bit?

The plants here are of the more harmful type. You were searching for plants that could be poisonous or toxic, Kino? There they are. At least they're not for sale, it's more for study.

Of special interest there's a large clay pot right in one corner, where an impressive bush is growing. To its side there's a few notes]

[quickpersuader]

[Definitely time to check out and memorize those notes, I'm sure there's only pleasant things to learn here.]

[cartesio]

["Thank you for your report. Try these ones, see how fast you can get them to grow. The medicine we developed with the other batch didn't lead anywhere, but it's only matter of time before we get a breakthrough. With me in charge, it's inevitable!

Serph is looking for useful materials in the junkyard. He'll bring you anything that could be of use. He will provide you of anything you need, if you can endure his demeanor. He's obnoxious, but at least he has intelligence.

We will continue researching.

---Faba.
Chief of the Research Division at Cartesio Clinic"

Looks like it's a friendly letter. Well, "friendly", because it's dripping disdain, but at least it's cooperative. Whoever this Faba is, he seems to be directing a few research efforts alongside the owners of this greenhouse.

That seems to be the most recent note. There's one that seems to be of earlier times, too]

[quickpersuader]

[Time to take a look at that one too. If we're nosing around, we might as well go all the way.]

[cartesio]

[My name is Faba, newly-minted chief of the Research Division in the hospital. I have a task for you.

My Pokemon found a lot of different berries. It's extraordinary, given how these aren't native to this area of the world. Actually, they're from the place I come from. Seeing them has given me a bright idea: I can use their properties to create medicine that could be used in humans! The name Faba shall be known as a pioneer in the field of medicine!

I have sent a few of these berries. Please try to make a berry plant grow, you shall be rewarded for your efforts if you succeed.

---Faba
Chief of the Research Division at Cartesio Clinic'

That one seems to be from a couple weeks ago.

For a bunch of guys that arrived with Sakura, Millium and Wayne, they sure seem to have gotten very productive lives, fitting for their skills and ambitions.

It's almost sad you and everyone else are now here, causing so much trouble to the town that welcomed them with open arms.

Take some Oran berries from the bush if you want, Kino, nobody's going to miss them.

Flower Shop investigation: complete]

[quickpersuader]

[Ok but do the orange berries have healing properties for humans, v important questions.

She's definitely surrepticiously slipping a couple in a pocket though.]

park

[robitussin]

[It's not rare for Natalie to frequent the park, and when she spots Kino, she slows to a stop.]

...Hey.

[Unlike her usual routine, she actually came to watch the execution this morning.]

[quickpersuader]

[Having attended the other executions before, Natalie's presence was unexpected. When Kino looks up, it's with a small nod of acknowledgement.]

Hello.

[A nod, and... a smile, if faint.]

[robitussin]

[There's a pause of decent length, before:]

...Is it fair to assume you didn't actually just miss?

[quickpersuader]

That's very fair.

[Those shots were precise, in their own way.]

[robitussin]

...Can I ask why?

[quickpersuader]

Because she asked for something quick and painless, and I was angry.

[Because that's not the death she gave Jughead at all.]

The places I shot matched his body. But she still had an easier time of it than he did.

[robitussin]

[For whatever reason, it's not as tempting to be angry at her as it was with Millium, but all the same...]

You shouldn't have, even if she deserved it.

[quickpersuader]

Why not?

cinema

[protectandselfserve]

Well, they didn't, but the plot provides when it results in a flashier narrative.

[because why not watch a dumb action movie?]

[quickpersuader]

[It's much flashier than the movies she's seen for sure, but still...]

It's a little more thrilling if you have to spend your ammunition carefully.

[protectandselfserve]

Depends on the kind of thrill you're looking at, I think. A pure power fantasy is all about unloading as much as you can, but if you're looking for tension... well, that's where ammo counting comes in.

[quickpersuader]

Unloading rounds like that feels more like overkill, really...

[But Kino's always had to keep track of ammunition or risk death.]

Do you usually watch movies like this where you're from?

[protectandselfserve]

Not usually. I tend to like lighter stuff, though sometimes you just get that itch to see a lot of guns blazing in highly improbable ways.

[quickpersuader]

What kind of lighter stuff?

[She's still listening, though she will take the time to turn and sit up a bit to look back at the projection window. The credits are rolling, so it's fine.]

[protectandselfserve]

I like comedy movies for the most part, really. Screwball stuff, not rom-coms. There was a really good one a while back set on an airplane that's probably my favorite...

[quickpersuader]

...That's a machine that can fly, right?