WEEK 0 — MARCH 29, 30

[cartesio]

Week 0

You have been threatened by the Sergeant: if nobody dies before March 31st at noon, you, along with everyone else, will forfeit your lives. The Sergeant pushed everyone away from the Lodge, judging that had been enough interaction with his guests. So what now?

Will you submit to the Sergeant’s demands? Will you resist him and wait to see what happens? He wouldn’t be capable of killing you and everyone else, right?

Only time will tell.

The next day you'll find a newspaper at the motel lounge, telling you about today’s weather forecast with 100% accuracy. Looks like you can expect to find a newspaper every day to find out the weather and any other news about the town. It even includes something branded 'THE SHARK ALERT'. Who could that be directed to?

There's also a copy of yesterday's newspaper. There's nothing about the Sergeant or about your predicament, but there is something about your arrival to the town.

Cartesio is your world for the next four days, better make the most out of your time here.

OOC Note: The current IC:OOC ratio for the days is as follows: The 29th top-level covers Monday and Tuesday, while the 30th top-level is for Wednesday and Thursday.

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Comments

[doublelammy]

pre-announcement, ice cream parlor

[Worrying about this whole murder thing? Not Millium, no sir! Instead, she's over here gorging herself on almost certainly entirely too much ice cream.

These flavors cannot even remotely go together. Millium sure looks happy, though. She's swinging her feet from her chair as she muses out loud.]

This is the life~ I wish we could get a place like this in Trista! ...Or maybe in the capital, too, since I'm gonna have to go back to Gramps soon. Hm...

post-announcement, weapons shop

[Someone please stop this child from rummaging through absolutely everything. This cannot, in any way, be safe.]

This! Is gonna be! So! AWESOME!

[Moral hangups about the tasks? What are those?]

[snailedit]

[Mira squints from where she's been surveying the mass of flavors. Is that a pistachio, sherbet and coffee sundae? Man, she thinks Eric would have cried if he saw an ice cream monstrosity like that.]

Try not to get brain freeze.

[doublelammy]

[Don't knock it til you've tried it.]

Mm? [Millium looks over at Mira, spoon still hanging out of her mouth. She swallows her bite of ice cream before actually talking, thankfully.] From this? Eh, I'll be fine. [She grins.] It's gonna take more than this little thing to take me down!

[snailedit]

Really? What's your record?

[Mira should not be encouraging this.]

[doublelammy]

Like three of these before Jusis said I had to stop and refused to buy me any more.

[She is so proud of this.]

I totally coulda eaten more, though.

[snailedit]

Kid like you would feel pretty lucky getting an unlimited supply then. Well, whatever keeps your spirits up, I guess.

[They have to entertain the children somehow in murder town?!]

[doublelammy]

Sure do! [And she punctuates that with another bite.]

And what about you, huh?

[snailedit]

I'm holding up. It's pretty hard to get under my skin!

Though if you meant my ice cream record, it's nothing noteworthy. One pint is my max.

[doublelammy]

Y'know... now that you mention it, I'm not really sure which I meant. [She giggles a little at herself.] But both is always good!

But you too, huh? Everyone else keeps coming after me like "ohh, you need to be more careful" or "why aren't you more worried!" And I'm just here like "this place is neat and also full of ice cream."

[snailedit]

Really now... see, I figured you were just trying to be brave. Plenty of people are like that.

[Well, she's here having a conversation, so she'll finally serve herself another scoop. She'd tried the sea salt ice cream earlier, but this time she'll go for something fruitier.]

I met someone earlier who seemed like she'd be fine staying here though. As long as that Sergeant was gone... then again, he 'listens' to you. [She sounds amused. Look, she paid attention to all the people talking to him.]

[doublelammy]

Ehehe. Don't have to try. I've seen way scarier stuff than this place.

[Granted, as of this point, nothing here has been more than vague threats, so. Hindsight may be 20/20.]

Well, I mean. I don't wanna stay here. I wanna get back to class, and I wanna see everyone again.

[She pauses for a brief moment - it came naturally, but she seems surprised by even her own admission that school - and everyone there - came first. ...Ah, well.]

...And as for the Sargeant, I mean. It's not my fault I have the best ideas!

[Why think about problematic things when you can be weirdly thrilled about blowing stuff up, instead?]

weapons shop!

[paciscere]

[ this other child is definitely not stopping anyone from anything in this shop. ]

Do you mean how many weapons we're allowed? It's an impressive collection, to be sure.

[doublelammy]

[Who allowed this? Where are the babysitters?!]

Dunno! I didn't see anything in the rules, so I'm just goin' with as many as I can carry! Unless the plastic thingy runs out of mira first.

[paciscere]

[ ...? ]

Runs out of... "mira"?

[doublelammy]

Yeah! Y'know... mira? The shiny stuff you give to people when you wanna buy things?

[She's staring at him expectantly, because everyone should clearly know what her world's currency is!!]

[paciscere]

Yen, won, yuan. I know many names for currency around the world, but never that. Where are you from exactly?

[doublelammy]

Ummm... the Erebonian Empire? On the Zemurian continent? [She tilts her head.] Where are you from? 'Cause none of those sound familiar to me.

[paciscere]

[ huh, interesting. ]

There's no such continent where I'm from, and to my knowledge, there never has been. You're not lying, are you?

[doublelammy]

Nope. Lying's way too much work.

[She puts her hands behind her head.]

[paciscere]

It gets easier the more you do it. [ practice makes perfect, etc ] The Earth I know only has seven main continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. I'm from Asia, specifically the country of Japan.

[doublelammy]

Sure. Anything is. But you still gotta put in the work. If there's something I gotta lie about, I'd rather just punch whatever's causing the problem.

[Not the most solid of strategies, but it's hers.]

...Yeah, um. None of those are familiar to me. ...Oh! Asia and Japan, kind of! There are a couple people here from there! But those aren't places where I'm from.

weapon shop

[dvaita]

[ Concerned face. ]

Do you know how to use any of them? [ This would be slightly more imposing if he didn't look like a kid himself. ]

[doublelammy]

[She pops her head up with a manic grin.]

Some!

[And back to digging. Is that a reassuring answer...?]

[dvaita]

[ Yeah it really isn't. ]

...I can show you the ones you're not familiar with, if you want.

[doublelammy]

[That actually gets her full attention.]

Could you?! That'd be even more awesome...!

[If it were physically possible for people to sparkle with excitement, she would be right now.

Millium, following strange people with an offer to learn weapons is not the best way to not die... oh, well.]