WEEK 0 — ARRIVAL

[cartesio]

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.

Links

IC Rules
Room Assignments
Locations
Tasks (LOCKED currently)

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

Comments

[londonstar]

Observe rule five.

[ he's already read the rules back and forth, forth and back. they're not too difficult to understand, but that doesn't mean that they're not unsettling in the least. ]

Violence is outlawed, but only against the residents and the Sergeant. I wouldn't be surprised if this includes murder. We, however, are most likely not included in this room. Therefore, it's clear that the police are not there to protect us, but the citizens.

[ he sighs, his expression grave. ] It is terrible situation.

[agoreable]

We're not citizens here, that's true, but we're still people! Letting us be killed is criminal in and of itself. They shouldn't call themselves police if they allow that kind of thing.

[ Lovepon has no great appreciation for police in and of itself, but this is just violating the very premise of a police force. It makes no sense. ]

[londonstar]

[ as a magus, waver's quite indifferent about the police but he can't help but silently agree with her. this is bullshit, but there's nothing they can do. ]

Unfortunately, I don't think our rules matter much to this "Sergeant". The police obviously work for him, too.

[agoreable]

... I don't care one way or another if the law is the same here as elsewhere, or even if we get stuck here. I just want to be safe. And if we aren't, then we need to find a way to make it so.

[ Normally she'd start talking about execution right about now, but in this shadow-y mass of people who are doing them wrong, she's lacking a realistic target... ]