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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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snailedit: (profile)

[personal profile] snailedit 2018-05-06 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You're from out of the country, huh?

[Mira crosses her arms as she muses out loud.]

This could still be part of Nevada, where I was last... though it's almost weirder if that's the case, [she mutters the last bit.]
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[personal profile] theserpentsmiles 2018-05-06 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Japan.

[Nevada... He doesn't know the rural parts of America well. Only sort of, from a couple of pictures and books. This isn't good, getting back to Japan would be much easier from a city.]

Weirder how?
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[personal profile] snailedit 2018-05-07 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well, because the last I remember, it was New Years' Day, not towards the end of March. I was planning to go back home just then, so there's no reason to still be here if it's true. But randomly winding up in the US from Japan has to be even weirder.
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[personal profile] theserpentsmiles 2018-05-07 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Huh...? New Years? It was the twelfth of March, last I knew...

[This. This paints a very foreboding image.]
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[personal profile] snailedit 2018-05-07 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
So I'm missing a lot more time than you, but you're still a bit off...

[If he had just said it was the 28th for him, she would think that there had just been more to the time tricks at the underground shelter than she was informed of. But this is rather strange now.]
theserpentsmiles: (This one goes to the castaways)

[personal profile] theserpentsmiles 2018-05-07 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
It seems so... [Karasuma-sensei and his classmates have to be trying to find him. Right? It's been less than a month, so it's alright that they haven't found him yet. Unless they've all been taken elsewhere, too.

It wouldn't surprise him a bit.]

We should see if anyone else has a discrepancy, and how much of one. Maybe we can figure something out based on that.