Week 1 [Day 1-Day 3]

[calloperators]

[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

[hotlinenpcs]

Sure has.

[Said in a slightly too chipper tone of someone who's lived like this for far too long.]

They say talks are goin' on to stand down or whatever, but who knows how that'll go.

[iote]

And until then it's just...posturing, I suppose?

[you know he asked useful questions for like five minutes and now he is completely distracted with The Cold War Is Fucking Stupid

good job team]

[hotlinenpcs]

[Good Job! Beard nods solemnly.]

That's what most people figure. Like, wave around some big guns to show the rest of the world how big your guns are, and maybe they'll listen to you no matter what.

...

You know, you don't seem too informed on everything going on. Do you want the newspaper or something?

[iote]

...Yes, that would be appreciated.

[His entire life is such zero-context theater right now, Beard. Help him.

...His shit will be slightly more together eventually assuming he doesn't just fucking die, just. ...Thank god he didn't ask what a furry is?]

[hotlinenpcs]

[Beard turns around to get some newspapers from the magazine rack and hands them over to Michalis.]

No need to pay for these, my dude. Consider them on the house for now.

[...The newspapers are mostly, like, rumor tabloids and conspiracy theory related information. The cover story of one of the newspapers describes how Elvis married Bigfoot. Another one speculates that a recent security breach at Kennedy Space Center was the work of aliens. And that's not even getting to the advertisements....

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...And so on and so forth.]

[iote]

[shit man he kind of wants to go to a vampire seance-]

...The year on these is accurate, correct? 1989?

[...it has not occurred to him that he probably sounds like he has some sort of issue]

[hotlinenpcs]

Yeah, dude. 'Course it is. Otherwise, they wouldn't print it or something.

[Beard does not seem to have realized why this would be an issue.]

You have any other questions, sir?

[iote]

That will be sufficient for now.

[...]

You're a useful person. Try not to get murdered.

[NAILED IT.]