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Cartesio NPCs ([personal profile] cartesio) wrote in [community profile] cartesianism2018-05-06 12:25 am

WEEK 0 — ARRIVAL



Week 0: Arrival
When you wake up you immediately feel something’s off. You sit on the bed and find it’s not your bed, and this isn’t your room either. You seem to be in a rather normal-looking motel room. To your side there’s a trunk, if you open it you’ll find a military uniform, the key to your room, a set of rules and a debit card. Don’t lose those items! Or do lose the rules, you'll find a brand new copy the next day under your pillow. There’s also a calendar on the wall, you can see today’s date. The year is unreadable, but the month and day are very clear:

March 28th

There it says ‘Meet the Sergeant at the Lodge, 9:00 AM’. There’s also a circle around March 31st, with the word ‘END’ scrawled there.

For now leaving your motel room would be a good choice. When you reach the lobby, you see the receptionist’s desk— no one’s manning it. There’s a rack filled with maps, marking several locations in the town.

There are also many strangers here – and you’re one more. For now it may be a good idea to take a map and explore the town.

After all, looks like you’re stuck here in the boonies for a while.

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theserpentsmiles: (The dreams you had are hard to remember)

name order consistency, what's that

[personal profile] theserpentsmiles 2018-05-07 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't remember... That's troubling.]

Do you remember anything weird right before you woke up here? Like an odd smell, or stomach pain, or anything? [Drugs? That would have to be it, right?]

It's nice to meet you, Kinomoto-san.
clearities: (pic#12014219)

it's a fake manner of existence, that's what.

[personal profile] clearities 2018-05-07 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
[It definitely is troubling to say the least, but she shakes her head.]

Same here, Shiota-kun! But no, I don't remember anything like that... and I think that Syaoran-kun would have done something about it if something like that did happen.
theserpentsmiles: (Default)

glad we agree!

[personal profile] theserpentsmiles 2018-05-07 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Do you mind if I ask where you were last?

[It...should have been really, really hard for anyone to reach Class E's classroom, much less get in, take him, and get back out again. Not to mention across country lines and even an ocean. Even if they were all exhausted enough to fall asleep at their desks.]

vague clear card spoilers, by the way!

[personal profile] clearities 2018-05-07 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
I was--

[Well, she can't tell the truth about the fact that she was in the sky.]

Right outside my house, with Syaoran-kun with me, in Tomoeda.
theserpentsmiles: (Set this pain up in flames)

[personal profile] theserpentsmiles 2018-05-07 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
And I was in my classroom, with the rest of my class and two teachers... It's up on a mountain away from the rest of campus, so it's not that easy to get to.

[He'll just. Avoid mentioning the barricades, mercenaries, the Shield of the Earth....it was an intense night.]

[personal profile] clearities 2018-05-07 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
I see... your class and teachers must be looking for you.

[Or at least, she hopes they are.]
theserpentsmiles: (Set this pain up in flames)

[personal profile] theserpentsmiles 2018-05-07 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
They should be. [He's going to pointedly not think about the possibility that they aren't.] I'm sure you have people looking for you, too.
clearities: (pic#12014219)

[personal profile] clearities 2018-05-07 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. Syaoran-kun is probably...

[She's certain that he's looking for her. There's no way that he isn't. But she also has a feeling that he's hurting himself for it, too-- that he's blaming himself for this happening to her to begin with.]
theserpentsmiles: (Do you ever wish you weren't a prisoner?)

[personal profile] theserpentsmiles 2018-05-07 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Then we should trust our friends to be here soon. Karma can't be stopped by just anyone.

[Or anyone at all, probably. There is a special place in hell for Karma Akabane.]

[personal profile] clearities 2018-05-07 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I trust that Syaoran-kun will come. He definitely will.