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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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agoreable: (03. neutral)

[personal profile] agoreable 2018-05-06 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Currently, Lovepon is staring at the entrance to the Tavern, occasionally glancing back at the diner a little ways over. ]

It's like it's out of a movie, right?

[ This amount of stereotype seems like it would be so fake and media fabricated that you'd never find it in real life, or so Lovepon thought... ]
doublelammy: (☆ 9)

[personal profile] doublelammy 2018-05-06 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
...A movie? What's a "movie?"

[Sorry, those aren't... things in JRPG Germany. Millium tilts her head in confusion.]
agoreable: (14. listening)

[personal profile] agoreable 2018-05-07 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
... oh, a movie is a recording of motion and sound. It's like a play that you can watch as many times as you want without needing the actors again.

[ Lovepon tilts her head at the lack of knowledge, but chooses to explain rather than question why she has to explain to begin with. ]
doublelammy: (☆ 52)

[personal profile] doublelammy 2018-05-07 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, okay! We have something kinda like that, where we can record things to memory quartzes n' stuff, but I dunno if anyone's recorded anything like an entire play yet.

It does look more like a prop than anything, though. Can't imagine something like this out on the streets, even in the capital...
agoreable: (02. questioning)

[personal profile] agoreable 2018-05-07 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Excuse me, but where is that you're from? I've never heard of memory quartzes myself.

[ She's more curious than incredulous here. There's a lot of weird things out in the world, she's willing to bet on it, but this is very unfamiliar. ]
doublelammy: (☆ 53)

[personal profile] doublelammy 2018-05-07 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm from Erebonia! You?

[She says that like it's a place Lovepon should know. Granted, in her world, it is a huge empire, but...]
agoreable: (14. listening)

[personal profile] agoreable 2018-05-09 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
... Japan.

[ Lovepon just figured Erebonia is some kind of city or province abroad that she isn't familiar with... ]
doublelammy: (☆ 9)

[personal profile] doublelammy 2018-05-09 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
...Huh. I have absolutely no idea where that is.

[And for once she sounds genuinely kind of confused, rather than just dismissing it!]
agoreable: (03. neutral)

[personal profile] agoreable 2018-05-09 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
... I haven't heard of Erebonia either, so I suppose that makes sense. Japan is an island group in east asia.
doublelammy: (☆ 42)

[personal profile] doublelammy 2018-05-09 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Asia...? That's... not familiar, either. Zemuria ring any bells to you?
agoreable: (04. pout)

[personal profile] agoreable 2018-05-09 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
None at all...

We've really been spirited away, huh?
doublelammy: (☆ 7)

[personal profile] doublelammy 2018-05-10 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
...S-spirited?

[It has taken her this long to show any semblance of fear. And it is because of something that can be misconstrued as ghosts. Millium Orion, everyone!]