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

[marmoron]

Maybe.

[He's quiet for a long moment.]

Maybe it's someone from Cartesio. Or one of the Sergeant's buddies.

[clearities]

Do you think I could ask him if he recognizes the name? I've spoken to him before... about his friends.

[marmoron]

Don't.

[That's a fast answer -- kinda snapped actually. After a beat:]

It may not be significant because the game didn't let you pick the character's names. Also I don't think it's a good idea to tell the Sergeant about anything relating to the ghosts.

[clearities]

I won't then, promise-- but did you say it was a game? What kind of game was it?

[marmoron]

[His tone softens again.]

It was a fighting game. Other than the fact that the game was playing by itself, it caught my attention because the two characters chosen were named Keith and Gabe. Gabe was a muscular character, I don't know if that was meant as some kind of clue or if the guy was compensating for something.

[clearities]

... Muscular, huh. I don't think I remember anyone that had muscles. But what did he look like? Besides the muscles. Gabe-san.

[marmoron]

Like your typical bodybuilder type. Tall.

[Gonna have to ping the gy mod about this later, pff.]

Dunno how important that is, but when "Gabe" won the round, they wrote people can vanish on their high score screen.

[clearities]

People can vanish...? Like how we can't find the other buildings and the people that are there?

[marmoron]

Maybe. Robert does a lot of vanishing in a sense, too.

[Slippery bastard.]

I don't know what they meant by it exactly. I can't telli if that's meant to be a warning or a clue.

[clearities]

Yeah... I don't know where he works, either.

[marmoron]

There's a lot that we still haven't worked out.

[Far too much, really. They've been here a month, they shouldn't still have so many of these questions, Keith thinks.]

Do you know any folks in town who are still willing to talk to you?

[clearities]

It's kind of difficult, really... [ To talk to any of them. But she tries. ] I could at least try.

[marmoron]

I know it's difficult.

[His personal experiences here have made that abundantly clear. And if they're willing to go smear Milium, there's no reason to think Sakura will have it any better. But surely Sakura must have it a little better than he does, considering people have been treating him like he spat in their cereal for a little longer than the others?]

But if you could... maybe we should ask one of them if they've heard of a Gabe. Just to be sure.

[clearities]

[ Sakura's quiet for a few moments before she nods. ] Alright. I'll ask.

[marmoron]

I appreciate it. Let me know how that goes.

[A beat.]

And if there's anything I can do for you,...let me know.

[clearities]

I will, but... you really don't have to. I want to help out, since we're all supposed to work together. We're stuck in the same situation, and we all really just want the same thing: to go home. So it's better to help each other than to work against each other.