WEEK 0 — ARRIVAL

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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 28^th
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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March 28^th
March 29^th
March 30^th

Comments

[snailedit]

Maybe... oh, nice bullseye. [Mira will at least comment, since she didn't wind up quite making one herself. It's not a specialization of hers by any means, though she doesn't dislike archery.]

My relatives would be at a similar loss money-wise. And anyway, if he wants payment then it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to give us debit cards on top of that.

[paciscere]

You were close yourself earlier. I have experience with archery, so consider it a cheap advantage.

[ was there some praise in there? or was that an insult? ]

Ha, he could always track what we buy and tag that in with the ransom.

[snailedit]

Well, that'd be annoying. I guess I shouldn't buy that enormous bouquet!

[She hasn't actually seen an enormous bouquet yet, but the flower shop seems like the most pointlessly extravagant way to blow money in this town other than amassing a big weapons cache.]

So, archery, huh? Do you actually go hunting like that?

[paciscere]

Oh, no, you should. After all, there's no guarantee we'll be paying them back. Or should I say: I don't intent to pay them back - not in the monetary sense.

[ basically: use their money because why not? ]

Of a sort, though I don't hunt animals.

[ but some youkai are just as dumb, so is there really a difference? ]

[snailedit]

Fair enough. My working assumption is they won't care either way...

[Maybe she'll still get some for shits and giggles if it looks like they'll be stuck here for any longer than the morning, though. She'll need a lot of S&G to not become bored to tears in a place like this.

Hunting but not animals is very interesting for now, though.]

...Is this The Most Dangerous Game?

[paciscere]

Is there a limit on how much we can spend, I wonder. That ice cream parlor looks like it would be fun to own.

[ haha matoba no... ]

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.

[snailedit]

You like sweets? Somehow you didn't seem the type.

[Not that she's debating. It's probably the best thing in town.]

Just a short story about a person who's being hunted for sport. I was joking.

[paciscere]

Hmm. [ does he like sweets? sure. ] It's more than I'm not picky.

[ meaning he's just greedy. ]

Ahaha, I guess if I said that, some might believe me because they think I'm capable of being that cruel - but no, it's my job to protect people actually. I hunt whatever haunts them.

[snailedit]

You mean... like a ghost or a demon?

[That's not so much cruel as it is strange! And she's never heard of archery factoring into something like that anyway.]

[paciscere]

It's more accurate to say spirits - or youkai. Things that were never human in the first place.