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.

Links

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Room Assignments
Events
Locations
NPCs
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Comments

[tuffguy]

[ Bolin is ilkewise looking around with Osomatsu. He's got a rock floating beside him, just in case they need it ]

[cartesio]

[ No rocks necessary, boys. Though it will take some looking, something looks to be glinting toward the end of the parade route, hidden by some streamers decorating a gray building wall.

Investigate? ]

[tuffguy]

[ you'd have to rocks for brain to not think rocks aren't always necessary

but bolin catches sight of that and nudges Osomatsu before walking over. ]

Over there.

[relieable]

[hm. might as well. Osomatsu starts walking towards the glinting, then pushes aside the streamers]

[cartesio]

[ Upon moving the streamers aside, what you'll find is a human-sized puzzle-box, built into the wall.

All that's carved under it is this:

'Make 22 in the center.'

...There are no more instructions. ]

[tuffguy]

[ spins squares around until they get this ]

22 triangles in the center?

[cartesio]

[ For a moment, nothing happens. Then, smoke pours from the lines around the puzzle box...or, at least half of them. It seems the device needs another solution inputted, before it deactivates. ]

[tuffguy]

[ I'M SLAPPING THIS PUZZLE ]

Oh, come on!

[relieable]

[if triangles aren't the only answer, Osomatsu will spin the blocks until they are like this]

22 circles! C'mon!

[cartesio]

[ And smoke comes pouring out of the other side with a click.

The device is deactivated. Congratulations. ]

[relieable]

[fffffffffffffffffff. look at that. he did something right.

Osomatsu stares are the puzzle, then sighs. he turns to give Bolin a cautious thumbs up. so now they just have to... wait]

[tuffguy]

[ thumbs up back ]

I wonder if we got the hardest one, Osomatsu.

[relieable]

I wonder... Maybe we'll have to compare with the others!

[depending on how things turn out. there may be no time to gloat]

[tuffguy]

Let's just hope everyone else got theirs done in time...

[tuffguy]

[ stares at the puzzle ]

[tuffguy]

[ stares at oso ]

So. You got any ideas?

[relieable]

[you are looking at a dumbass, good sir. not only a dumbass, but a lazy dumbass]

Uh. No?

[this isn't like the easy microwave puzzle! he's going to have to... look at this one. a lot]

[tuffguy]

[ and i'm the dumb brother here. curse mako for getting all the brains while bolin got the good looks ]

There's... gotta be something?

[ just starts randomly turning the blocks ]

[relieable]

What if we try to get 22 triangles, or circles in the center...? [because the bigger lines don't seem to match up]

[tuffguy]

OOoh, yeah! That sounds like an idea!