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

[agoreable]

[ Lovepon gives a nod to Misaki, extremely encouraged by the presence of another equally enraged person. ]

It's leading over there! We should all go together, it'll be safer this way.

[ And... more easy to commit acts of violence. ]

Right place this time

[theserpentsmiles]

[Don't mind Nagisa being Suddenly Here, he does that. He's got his sample.]

Calm down. Causing mass panic will only make things worse, and announcing your intentions isn't going to help find whoever did this.

[agoreable]

They should know what they deserve!! We'll get our hands on them soon enough, look, we'll find them this way!

[ Calming down..? Lovepon...? Unlikely. ]

[ayuzawa]

How can anyone be calm in a situation like this?!

[ BUT UH. WE'RE FOLLOWING THE TRAIL! that is a thing that is happening. ]

[cartesio]

[The trail continues until it ends...right at the edge of the town that's on that corner of the park. The trail turns into droplets, and there's nothing else.

No sign of who made this. Maybe they went away, frightened that Lovepon was clamoring for their execution? Or did they leave long ago, having done their plan?

Who knows. But they're not here anymore. Going further is unwise, given how it's the edge of the town. You'd be risking the Sergeant's punishment. Consider going back? Maybe the fire in the streets has been extinguished by now]

[theserpentsmiles]

[Nagisa is pretty calm. Does he need to force-calm? He'll do it!]

Um... I don't think they'll be at the end of the trail... [And sure enough the trail dwindles to nothing with no sign of the arsonist. Girls. Girls please.] And they probably heard you coming and left, even if they were here...

[agoreable]

[ Lovepon's hands form tight fists, but she calms down enough to give a response that is just loud speaking and not actual yelling. ]

But does they mean they're someone who's allowed to leave town? A sergeant's minion?

[theserpentsmiles]

Possibly - even likely. [She seems the type to run ahead without thinking...] It might not be, though. It could be an ordinary citizen, an outsider, or even one of the 'tourists'.

[Probably somehow tied back to the Sergeant, though....he needs to think about this. Specifically - what's the purpose?]

[cartesio]

[Returning to the motel is easy, and you don't see anyone suspicious. It's a bit unnerving how there's nobody you can blame immediately, but at least you can take solace on how it was all solved peacefully.

In front of the motel is the street where presumably the fire started. There's no trace of accelerants, and the asphalt is still hot. The townspeople are finally going away, the danger is over. Still...what could have caused it?

Maybe there's something in the cracked asphalt that could be a clue? It could have been caused by the fire, but if it wasn't...

Want to take a look?]

[alfin]

[ Fire having died down, Alfin is now examining places she couldn't before. This normally isn't something a princess would do, and she doesn't exactly have training in the matter... But that isn't going to stop her from trying her best! She bends down in front of the cracked asphalt, peering at (and inside) it curiously. ]

[cartesio]

[It's dark beneath the asphalt. If it wasn't because of the sun high in the sky, you wouldn't have seen anything.

But it's there: wiring. There's wiring underneath the streets.

Nothing unusual, really. After all, where else would underground wiring be? And now it's all melted and ruined, a shapeless puddle that doesn't even spark anymore.

Did the underground wiring cause the fires? Was it a mere unfortunate coincidence? How can a person tamper with underground wiring? Why would any of this happen in the first place?

Who knows. What's for sure is that there are no clues as to how that was possible.

All you know for sure is that there was a fire, and that it may have been worsened intentionally]