Week 7: May 13th - May 17th

[cartesio]

Seventh Week

The tense truce that had covered Cartesio was over. The town, feeling betrayed after having given a chance to the outsiders, pushed back. Enraged, they started getting even more daring, starting to get into the tourists' only safe haven: their motel rooms. They don't manage to break in, but it's not unusual to hear thumping on the doors, someone trying to get in. The windows are almost perpetually broken, there's so much graffiti on the ground floor of the motel, both inside and outside, it's hard to know what each one is saying. Can't be anything good, that's the only thing that's certain. The lounge's furniture has been tore to pieces, the lobby only has the guestbook intact, and the planters in middle of the motel are broken, the soil and plants strewn around.

The residents of Cartesio are near their breaking point. The despair, fury, and desire to get rid of the outsiders so everyone can return to their peaceful lives, have covered the town. It won't take long before they reach their breaking point, and if they do...what will happen to the visitors?

The Sergeant's grip on the town is total, and next week is the one marked as END. It seems like there's no way out, like the Sergeant won.

But you can't lose hope. You have to remember: now that you're on your darkest hour, the only way lef to go is upwards. Things can get better, you have to make it happen!

In the lobby of the motel there's a few more brochures, and the maps have been updated once again. Don't mind that some of them have been damaged in one of the attacks on the motel.

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Comments

[quickpersuader]

I think I was able to make contact with the dead. I carved letters into Nine's room and made stab marks on each of the angles of the letters to see if that was enough "damage" for "damage transfer" - and I woke up to indents in my wall.

[She sets down a piece of paper with the indentations copied and the lines between them drawn out.]

In my original message to them, I told them that the Sergeant might have a plan for the dead, both townspeople and tourists. He's doing something to make the bodies "go away" and he told me his plans are not my concern when I asked.

Besides that, he has some kind of relationship with his boss that forced him into this role. It didn't even seem to occur to him that he was pressed into it until I asked. He said we have more choice than him because we can actually leave this place - he has to stay. He also implied there wouldn't be a reason for this if they could just return, but he claimed up again.

[Whew. Okay.]

As for the device... we should weigh our options. Will having the townspeople on our side be useful if we decide to go against the Sergeant, to make up for whatever extra control he gains over the refinery?

[clearities]

[ this is definitely... a lot of information, not gonna lie, but. hm. ] I think it might be nice to have the others on our side, but I'm worried about the people working at the refinery if he does get control of it... [ even if Natalie said that the Sergeant told her that they won't get hurt -- at least not physically -- she's still concerned about the emotional part of it. ] And I don't know if letting him further his plans would be good, especially if it might deal with everyone that's died so far.

[robitussin]

[She thinks about that for a moment, tilting her head.]

He told me that they'd start blaming him. That doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be on our side.