Week 1 [Day 1-Day 3]

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[After a long stressful day like this has been, maybe you want to curl up in bed and try to sleep this whole thing off, or maybe you stay up all night desperately trying to find a way out of this town. Whether it be asking the cops for help, trying to steal a car, or just simply trying to walk out of town, you will unfortunately find your attempts to escape fruitless.

Even with it being obvious something strange is going on, no one has shown their face yet to even hint that they're the ones behind it. And you have no idea if or when they will.

However, in the very least you have a whole town to explore, and at the start of each day, and the beginning of every night, no matter where you are, you'll suddenly hear a radio crackle to life. Whether this is comforting or unsettling? Well, that's up to you to decide.

Just have a good time and try not think about the letter you got earlier, okay?]

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[ DAY 1 (SUNDAY) || NIGHT 1 (MONDAY) || DAY 2 (TUESDAY) || NIGHT 2 (WEDNESDAY) || DAY 3 (THURSDAY) ]
((OOC: Welcome to Week 1 of Hotline! As you can probably tell by the fact that Day 2 and beyond are frozen, we will have no grace week so we can get right into the murder!

And if you want to investigate the town, you just need to write INVESTIGATION in your header! Have fun ;) ))

Comments

[iote]

It might.

[...]

Maria is also too young to remember when things were particularly bad for our people. She just knows she grew up with Minerva and I playing with her often and spending all our time with her, so she wouldn't hear about it or know that something was particularly wrong. I imagine that's why she remembers it so fondly.

[advancements]

I understand. The youngest is usually sheltered from those sorts of things. I imagine it was difficult for her when she realized how bad things were.

[iote]

I imagine she knows on some level, but even now the only one of us that remembers exactly what happened is me. Minerva doesn't remember the incident very well, simply that there was one, and she was told after the fact; Maria... I never laid everything out for her.

[advancements]

It's natural to want to protect her from things like that. We tried to keep Elise from seeing the darker sides of Nohr for as long as we could, but even then she eventually learned. Corrin was kept locked away in the Northern Fortress, so she was left unaware for a long time as well.

[iote]

...Why were you keeping your sister locked up in a fortress?

[advancements]

We weren't. We tried repeatedly to get Father to change his mind and allow her to live with us. Corrin is... not our sister by blood; she was kidnapped and couldn't remember any of her life before joining us. Camilla and I knew she wasn't our sister, but Father told us to treat her as such, and we chose to look after her. She's just as much my sister as Camilla and Elise are, even though the circumstances of her being there were terrible.

[fire emblem: fates is a clusterfuck]

[iote]

...So your father simply stole a child.

[WHICH YOU GUYS APPARENTLY DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH, BUT THE FORTRESS THING IS A LITTLE AWKWARD???]

[advancements]

...Yes.

[...]

It's... complicated.

[listen. he doesn't want to get into the slime monster power hour over here. oh my god he's still trying to come to terms with that.]

[iote]

[don't say it, michalis. don't. don't. don't. no one needs you to say it and saying it won't accomplish anything so maybe just- ]

I begin to see why removing him was likely for the best.

[ohhhhhh for fuck's sake]

[advancements]

[ohhhhh my god, you just have no tact, do you...]

It was. The world is a better place with him gone.

[ALL VERY TRUE BUT WOW THIS IS AWKWARD]

[iote]

[nope! why?]

At least you don't deny it.

[...shit like that is probably why.]

[advancements]

[oh my god.]

Of course I don't. I will always do what I can for Nohr, and this was what we had to do.

[it was a lot easier with him being a literal slime monster though, tbh]

[iote]

I would think you would also do it for your sister.

[because dude? dude.]

[advancements]

I thought that went without saying.

[CORRIN DID NOT DESERVE ANY OF THAT.]

[iote]

Perhaps, perhaps not. It's an interesting thing, what people are willing to justify to themselves.

[advancements]

What do you mean?

[iote]

Do you take offense to it...?

[he's going to get himself slapped by somebody one of these days]

[advancements]

I'm curious where you were going with that.

[it's fine. he probably won't slap you!!]

[iote]

I imagine it likewise goes without saying that not all rulers are just...? I find myself unwilling to assume that you are simply because you recognize the injustices of another.

[advancements]

Of course. I'd be surprised if you believed that without seeing it.

[iote]

So it would be wisest to not assume that I would know why you chose to do anything.

[advancements]

Fair enough.

[He'll go ahead and put the pool cue back.]

It was nice talking with you. [sort... of...] I look forward to sparring with you whenever we find suitable weapons.

[iote]

...Yes, likewise.

[He isn't exactly sorry for anything he's said, so we're all just going to have to live with this.]