[ WEEK ONE ]

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WEEK ONE

CURRENT POPULATION: 40 It's a rather quaint town when you get down to it. At least, that's what the Sheriff would argue. Warm and dry in the mornings and afternoons with a brisk coolness in the evenings. The perfect type of weather to just sit out on your rocking chair and observe the comings and goings. ... Of course, there's not much in the way of comings and goings when there aren't any actual people here to watch. Nevertheless, don't let that get you down! The town is your oyster and those roosters won't stop crowing until everyone's out of bed. Up and at 'em, rise and shine, it's time to make the day yours! After all, there's nothing wrong with the town today and you might just want to savor it while it lasts. This post functions as the general mingle post for the week. Wanted Posters and other small events will be posted in top levels below. If there's any questions or requests, please send a PM or shoot a PP to robowest.

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[dubiousalignment]

[Anywhere

There are wanted posters everywhere. They're not 'most wanted', but they're like profiles about every resident around. Tarvek has been walking around, reading the posters and committing to memory everything that could seem useful, until he stumbles upon one that has his face.

What the hell]

"Tarek"?! They didn't even bother getting my name right! What's wrong with this place?!

[He's so incredibly offended about that. Look, they got everything else right, the least they could have done is write his name correctly! What kind of badly done kidnapping scheme is this?

Saloon

Tarvek is still messing with the playing piano. He presses a few keys, listens to the music it's automatically playing, and starts looking for a way to open it up. He has no tools, he wants to see if there's anything that could be of use]

saloon

[robitussin]

[She wanders in at some point and sees him looking around it as if for a way to open it, and she speaks up across the room.]

If you manage to break that somehow I am not going to be happy.

[dubiousalignment]

If I break it I'll rebuild it better than it was before. You have nothing to worry about, I'll examine this piano with surgical precision.

[robitussin]

What are you even examining it for in the first place? I doubt there are going to be any hidden mysteries in an instrument.

[dubiousalignment]

I'm looking for materials! If I can gather tools and enough pieces, I could build something that could be of help.

[Poor Tarvek hasn't realized his astoundingly excellent skills with machines has been tragically nerfed. He has noticed he's having a harder time than usual with his mental processes regarding science, but he's chalked it up to being tired]

[robitussin]

You don't think you could find something more useful in the hotel?

[dubiousalignment]

I already gathered everything that could be useful in the hotel, but there wasn't much. I'm starting to think everything is so old-fashioned because they didn't want any of us to have materials.

[robitussin]

Or because they have a John Wayne fetish. Also a strong possibility.

[dubiousalignment]

Who is John Wayne?

[IS THAT THE SHERIFF'S REAL NAME???]

[robitussin]

How do you not know who John... Oh, right, you're not from the same place.

[Presumably she at least accepted that at some point.]

Big star in a bunch of movies that took place in ridiculous settings like this.

[dubiousalignment]

[He's having a bit of a hard time processing there are so many different worlds, despite knowing it's possible]

Ah, you mean he's a character in a play. I see!

[There are plays with a thematic like this one, he's sure of it]

It'd be a strange source of inspiration. Western settings may not be the first choice anyone would make when it's about getting people to kill each other.

[hydrokinetics]

[He's cruising through town with his dog at his heels, and it's only when Tarvek speaks up that Percy stops to get a look at the post he's viewing.]

You want the short list or the long list of what's wrong here? [He reading the poster, too, but he's not absorbing most of it before he looks at Tarvek again.] That's a little reassuring. Means they aren't completely watching us, maybe.

[dubiousalignment]

Are you sure? I don't know about you, but in my case I can't have been taken away unless the Sheriff had accomplices watching me closely.

[hydrokinetics]

I said completely, not that they weren't. [There's clearly a difference.] If they aren't getting facts right there's still maybe a chance of using that to our advantage and not following along with the sheriff's game.

[dubiousalignment]

Are there any mistakes in your poster?

[What's his name? Uuuh...oh, Percy Jackson! The guy with all the signs of a troublemaker, according to the poster! With some luck it's a bit exaggerated because damn that was a lot of crimes]

[hydrokinetics]

Couple. [He can admit that, even if he won't admit what they are.] Did the Sheriff make these himself or you think his employers did?

[dubiousalignment]

Artificial beings like the Sheriff don't tend to do what they want. His employers must have ordered him to do it.

[That's...not what Percy asked, but yeah. It's likely the Sheriff made these himself, somehow]

It's a psychological thing, trying to make us paranoid and see everyone else as potential murderers.

[hydrokinetics]

[He raises an eyebrow.] Lots of experience with robots?

[It's all he can guess, but at the same time he gets what Tarvek means.] It might work if we didn't have time to talk to people and judge for ourselves, and, you know, we weren't kidnapped here against our will. [Just a thought.] Are you worried about any of these people?

[dubiousalignment]

Clanks are my specialty. [He says it with the confidence of someone who does know what he's talking about. He's excellent with mechanics and mechanical beings!]

Besides the Sheriff? I'm rather concerned about those who have 'murder' in their wanted posters. [And he knows very well that includes you, Percy] I'm not saying their posters are accurate, but if they had that written on their posters then the Sheriff must think of them as potential killers, at the very least.

[hydrokinetics]

I don't really know what that means, dude. [It's said with a little laugh, like he wouldn't mind an explanation but there's no promise he'd actually listen the whole way through either.]

The Sheriff might count murder as somebody accidentally pushing somebody and sending them over the edge of a cliff. I don't think his qualifications count much. [That is to say he knows that definitely includes him and he's very much not entertaining the idea of explaining that.]

[stentorian]

But did they get your "crime" right?

[Well, the dude wasn't disputing his name.]

[dubiousalignment]

My "crime" is not completely erroneous, but it's rather badly worded.

[It's making him sound like some kind of insurrectionist rebel]

[stentorian]

Interesting.

[He says that very slowly, as though savoring the taste of that word - or the mystery of a badly worded crime. Meanwhile, he makes no move to cover up his poster.]

Shall we expect you to defy the sheriff, at the very least?

[dubiousalignment]

...with all due respect, one can't simply 'defy' the Sheriff as if he was some kind of nanny.

[Yes, you may expect Tarvek to defy him, but he's not going to attempt to destroy him unless he's confident of what he's doing, and that moment isn't near yet]

I'm not going to play along his plans, but I'm not prepared yet for taking action against him.

[stentorian]

No one is. Not until we find out more.

[A shake of his head, in mild frustration. As much as Manfred wants to burn the sheriff's plans to the ground right now, he can't act carelessly.]