The good news: Despite Monday being Halloween, the Author is now having pity on you. Come Monday morning, the fog clears, and instead of wherever you were in Silent Hill, you are now in a nice hotel room. The weather is fairly warm, for fall weather, clear, and sunny; it's beautiful and comfortable out.
As for where you are? You're now in the large city of Munich, Germany! Known as one of the most picturesque cities in Germany, it's home to a number of museums, including the massive museum of science and technology; centuries old cathedrals; the four hundred year old royal brewery, with biergarten restaurant; and a large park area with various gardens, ranging from European traditional gardens to a small Japanese garden with a teahouse. The streets are dotted with various restaurants, open-air cafes, shops, and fountains.
The population is back to the usual NPC's. For those new to here, there's certainly a busy city's worth of people, but there's …not really anything to stand out about them - they're all thoroughly generic and forgettable, to an unnatural extent, although harmless enough. They'll go about their business, do their jobs, and won't really acknowledge the characters outside of their routine business - shopkeepers will sell things, and maybe respond to inane small-talk, but that's about it. To psychics and the sensitive, they're … kind of not there; little more than props.
As for timing? The Author is, once again, playing hokey with dates! See, her run in October kind-of precluded another idea, and she's decided to just … get to it late.
That's right, you're getting to have a late Oktoberfest.
What this means, for those unfamiliar with it, is that the entire city is a big party. There's carnival rides, a farmer's market, and various street vendors. In just about any open square, there's large tents, stages, and tables set up; bands are playing everywhere, most of it roughly traditional and upbeat. There's food served everywhere, mostly typical German food - meat cutlets, various potato dishes, gravies, five hundred ways to cook pork, roasted chicken, pickled cabbage, bread puddings…
And yes, there is alcohol. While there's a definite emphasis on the local specialties - beer and certain kinds of spirits - other things can be had, mostly from more stable restaurants and bars; most of what you'll get in town is local-made beer, which's fairly rich and a good bit stronger than what you'd get in the US. The drinking age is 16 for beer and wine, 18 for spirits and harder liquor, although people who aren't obviously younger than that or who have someone older with them can get away with it anyway - the NPCs are pretty lax.
For the most part, people are intact and normal! However, this being more of a fluff plot, attempts at serious collateral damage or harming the NPC's will get a warning nerf of powers and/or disappearance of weapons; if people don't get the hint and attempt further violence against the environment or the NPC's, they'll find themselves treated to the kind of nerf you'd get from harassing the Bunny - which is up to MUN option, although common nerfs involve being turned into something small, cute, and harmless for 24 hours.
For the most part, violence against other characters is a sketchier area; you might get nerfed, you might not - it's basically MUN option.
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