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

[odoruhinokaze]

Alrighty then.

[ 'Merely', eh. Okay that is admittedly better than what he expected. ]

So, say one of us kills someone else. We do what needs to be done, which means we pass your test and then you allow the rest to leave, guaranteed, right?

[cartesio]

I didn't say the act of killing meant you passed. There's one small, very insignificant caveat, but-- [He raises a hand to his ear] --right. Can't say anything about that.

[Besides...]

Anyway, you still have to live here until the end of the month -- four days. Schedule stuff, can't do anything about it.

Hope you didn't have anything urgent to do anywhere else.

[odoruhinokaze]

There's always a catch, isn't there?

[ Axel's onto you, Sergeant. He is so surprised (not). ]

So, if there's no guarantee that following what you say would work out, everyone might as well try to stage a rebellion and set everything on fire.

[ He snorts though. Luckily, he wasn't on a mission so less 'urgent' for now, but his absence he imagined wouldn't take well with the other members. The Superior would likely send someone to recover him and that shitshow would be hilarious. ]

[cartesio]

Would you dare?

[He steps away from the doors, as if he intends to get into a fisticuffs with everyone at once if necessary]

Do you dare to place everything on the line, knowing that failure means I have every reason to get rid of you?

I'd really rather not doing that, as hard as that may be to believe.

[odoruhinokaze]

[ Well, Axel had no idea his throw away comment made him sound so threatening. Though, it's not too much of a surprise. While he has no idea of the skill level regarding this man in the strictest of senses, he's pretty sure he could have the town in flames in a short amount of time.

Still. ]

Well, I imagine if you actually did want to get rid of me, you'd have killed me in my sleep. So I got the idea of that just fine, thank you very much.

Anyway, I would dare. When I feel like it, which happens to be not right now, but could be soon. Who knows?

But hey, you could ease the prospect of everyone turning against you rather quickly if you spill the beans on what exactly is that "caveat" of yours. Makes less trouble for all involved, right?

[cartesio]

[The Sergeant is kind of impatient right now, Axel! Apparently he expected resistance but not this much. And his hot-blooded temperament doesn't help staying calm

He didn't think it through as much as he should have, yeah]

I can't. I literally can't. My place is one filled with rules and conditions, I can't go around breaking them. If you're so anxious about finding out, then either do what I'm saying, or wait until someone does it.

[The prospect of everyone turning against him doesn't seem to worry him at all. The way he's making that sound it seems he's fully confident he'd prevail no matter what]

[odoruhinokaze]

[ Axel definitely picks up on that, raising a brow again for a moment. Then he gives a shrug. ]

Alright, alright. Got another question for you, big guy.

So even you have to follow the rules, huh? If you broke 'em would that mean you'd get straight up killed, someone replaces you, or what?

[ Might as well ask, since it seems to him that this is more complicated than he thought it might be. ]

[cartesio]

If I break the rules this whole thing will immediately be null and over.

As simple as that.

[odoruhinokaze]

[ Huh. ]

By any chance are you feeling rebellious right about now?

[ Axel that's not going to work and you know it. ]

[cartesio]

Absolutely not. I'm happy with what I have and what I'm doing. I have literally no reason to rebel.