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Cartesio NPCs ([personal profile] cartesio) wrote in [community profile] cartesianism2018-11-11 11:28 am

Week 7: May 13th - May 17th


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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[Welcome to the seventh week! If you want to contact the Sergeant, please post here!. Also please remember to submit your activity check!]
marmoron: marmoron (brb dying)

[personal profile] marmoron 2018-11-12 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's chased off the NPCs with Cosmo as an intimidation tactic so he can have a few minutes of peace and quiet in the motel lounge. He's just gotten settled in with the newspaper KINDA DREADING IT IMMENSELY ACTUALLY, but... maybe there'll be something useful in there.

Nope. Just more routine embarrassment. Time to put his head on the table.
].

"Used to be known as Keith" ....?

[What the hell are they all calling him now then.....]
quickpersuader: (started far)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-11-12 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Room]

[For once, Kino has her door cracked open as she looks at the indentations on her wall. There's several scraps of crumpled up papers littering her bed with different possible solutions, but eventually...

She sets aside her notepad and strides up to the indentations, drawing lines between the indentations before settling back to look over her work.
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Is that it...?

[Hopefully the NPCs don't get too rowdy outside. They get chocolate coins thrown at their faces for their troubles. So might you, if you aren't careful.]

[Nine's Room]

[This time, Kino writes another message using the same method as before, carving the words and then carving deeper indentations into any angles that will better hint to what the letter is. As a result, the wall now reads:]

HOW STOP SAR FROM ACT? -KINO

[She keeps the door shut as she works, but once again she can be seen exiting it, knife still in hand - though she folds it up once she's out.]

[Ice Rink]

[And, for a bit of fun... Kino can be found here later in the day, staring out at the expanse of ice.]

Hmm... Have you ever ice skated before?

[Seems like it could be interesting.]
clearities: (pic#12014212)

ice rink

[personal profile] clearities 2018-11-12 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't, [ because this is manga Sakura and not the anime ] but it shouldn't be too different from roller blading...
quickpersuader: (While someone)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-11-12 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Rollerblading?

[Haven't done that one either.]

[personal profile] clearities 2018-11-12 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmhm. You use rollerskates to move around.

[personal profile] clearities 2018-11-12 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
The best way to explain them is that they're like... shoes? But with wheels on them.
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-11-13 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
...

[Shoes... with wheels, huh.]

I can already hear Hermes making fun of me...

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marmoron: by request of the icon creator, pls do not take (appraising)

Kino's room!

[personal profile] marmoron 2018-11-13 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Keith's a little surprised to see her door isn't shut, so he'll just peer inside to see if she's ok and that this isn't some super understated cry for help.]

...Kino?
quickpersuader: (Because we can)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-11-13 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[She turns quickly, a golden coin already in hand - but stops when she sees who it is.]

Oh, Keith. Actually, it's probably good for you to see this too.

[She nods at the walls.]

I think I was able to make contact.
marmoron: marmoron (the hell am i looking at)

[personal profile] marmoron 2018-11-13 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
You were?

]Oh my god can they actually be made to channel their energies in ways that don't involve building embarrassing shit in the park?? He's going inside her room and shutting the door closed behind him.]

How? What're they saying?
quickpersuader: (However many)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-11-13 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Last week on Thursday I carved words into the walls of Nine's room.

[She'll pick up the pad of paper again, writing out: "Sarge's plan might involve dead townspeople + tourists" with dots along each angle in the characters.]

I also made deep stab marks on all of the angles, since I wasn't sure what would count as "damage" for a "damage transfer." It looks like it worked.

[And nodding to the wall again, message displayed.]
marmoron: by request of the icon creator, pls do not take (neutral)

[personal profile] marmoron 2018-11-13 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[...Ah, so that's what "damage transfers" was about. Though in that context he has to wonder what the fuck is going on with Olympia and her freaking arms if they're somehow able to use her spare limbs as material to send over to their side of things. For now, he shelves the thought.

He glances at the wall as Kino indicates it, brow furrowed.
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How far did you get in figuring this one out?

[A beat.]

There a reason you didn't try just carving in whole letters? They seem to be able to do that just fine.
quickpersuader: (into a night when)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-11-13 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
I did carve out the letters. The stab marks were just to make sure. But if they copied me and only the indents came through, maybe it's a good thing I did that... it might mean carving the letters doesn't work.

[But as for the figuring it out part, she just gestures to the lines drawn between the dots. Take a look yourself, Keith.]
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[personal profile] marmoron 2018-11-16 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a pause.]

Letters do get through though. [A beat.] Not all of them, but I'm pretty sure Millium scratched "EET" on my ceiling.

[He'll glance back over at Kino's handiwork, contemplating.]

And have you seen that stuff at the park?

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robitussin: (pic#12531896)

ice rink

[personal profile] robitussin 2018-11-13 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She's seen this place before, but her restlessness has her wandering, and she happens to wander in when Kino asks.]

...It's been a while. Why?
quickpersuader: (turns into a cloud)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-11-13 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I've just been wondering about it. I've never tried it before.
robitussin: (pic#12583124)

[personal profile] robitussin 2018-11-13 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[She pauses, tilting her head.]

I'm probably not good enough at it to teach you. Sorry.
quickpersuader: (clouds)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-11-14 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Is it that hard to learn?
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[personal profile] robitussin 2018-11-15 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
...What I mean is that I am probably going to fall over a few times if I try, and I'd like to avoid that.
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-11-15 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kino gives a small smile.]

Then you can watch me instead.

[...If she can get it functional again. Let's see, where are the zambonis...?]
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[personal profile] robitussin 2018-11-16 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, about that...]

You're gonna go with it looking like that?

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