Disaster Report Diaries (Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories) Part Ten

This is my exploration of the Disaster Report series, where I will chronicle my playthrough like a text-based Let’s Play. Now let’s continue Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories…

Back on a solo journey, Yuko Ichikawa had been ingratiated into a cult and sent out to recruit more people…

Since Asagao Crossing was absolutely packed, I wound up speaking to many people. One by one, I gave three of them words of comfort, then led them individually to Koyama and Omori, the pair who had inducted me. They gave me a White T-shirt & Jeans, so I put them on, and after delivering the third person, they congratulated me on meeting my quota.

However, someone who had been brought in was unhappy and angrily stormed out — only to be apprehended by two other White Coats. Sure, he’d called them a scam, and the newcomers all weak-minded, but I thought it was a little bit of overkill. They ushered me back inside and took me over to see Hakuyo, so that he could also congratulate me.

We had a one-to-one conversation, where he suggested that he knew that I thought of him as a con man. I decided to listen quietly, so he continued, saying that he had a favour to ask of me: would I take over as the leader of the White Coats?

I told him that it sounded like too much work, which disappointed him, but I wasn’t quite ready to move on. It was seven Moral Points for each person I brought to the White Coats, so I planned on milking that… Which I did, spending the next 25 minutes finding 17 more poor schlubs. By the end of it, I had a total of 205 Moral Points and 10 Immoral Points.

Returning to Hakuyo, I agreed to take over, receiving 100 Moral Points. This allowed me to access the magnificent safe in the office, where I found 30 million yen and a Sapphire Ring, both of which I took for myself. This gained me 250 Immoral Points, but made me quite rich.

It was finally time to sit at my new desk, where I prayed for the happiness of everyone in the world, then only for those who worshipped me. This gave me another 115 Moral Points, but they were one-time deals.

Leaving the White Coats’ feast once more, I headed to the street, and near the supply area, I found an executive trying to offload 1 million yen worth of stocks in Vestola, Kirishima’s company! I had offered to buy them straight from the jerk earlier, but he wasn’t interested. That’d show him, I now owned 100,000 shares!

Upon heading back down the stairs I encountered Koyama and Omori berating the man who had been grabbed earlier. They noticed me and apologised for their conduct, so I told them to release him and received 40 Moral Points. Doing so hesitantly, they waited for the man to clear the boxes from the stairs leading out (which I hadn’t noticed before), then shouted to the White Coats that I had betrayed them?!

I ran for it, dodging scattered groups as a tremor hit and I kept running. I arrived in Himawaricho, a residential neighbourhood, at 1:15 PM and found an injured elderly woman who asked me to help get her home. I gave her a piggyback ride a short distance down the street, but we were confronted by her daughter-in-law, Kyoko, who was hesitant to let her inside. Her husband came out and was aghast that his mother was injured, but Kyoko brow-beat him into submission.

Not wanting to cause her son further strife, the old woman asked me to take her to the hospital instead, which wasn’t too far away. This was to avoid causing her son and his wife trouble — I wondered why her son wasn’t the one carrying her there… but I agreed to do it and received two Moral Points.

As I rounded the nearby corner, a tremor caused a house to tilt and knock down a wall, but it missed me as I’d stopped walking. There was a gap in the road past the Hideriko Bookstore, but a collapsed roof allowed me to get across. Well, that was the plan, until I noticed that I could get inside the store through a broken upstairs window. I was still carrying the old woman as I explored the house and store, grabbing a Hoodie Outfit (which I put on) upstairs, and a Manga Kakyuo Compass downstairs. In the back room, I also stole 100,000 yen and received 20 Immoral Points.

On the stairs back up to the window, however, I noticed that I could check something. Everything went black, and I heard a voice say it wanted to play — just like at the apartment block…

Outside again, I proceeded across the roof and a tremor caused it to begin collapsing, but I got to safety in time, using a car to reach the ground of Stevia Shopping Street. A drugstore employee asked my passenger, Kiyo, what had happened and then gave me some Bandages. I then visited a bathroom in a nearby café, while Kiyo waited just outside, as I didn’t know when I’d be able to address my Slight Need.

Just outside was a kid behind a fence who was waving at us, so I went over to speak with them. It was Sei, Kiyo’s grandson! He knew a shortcut to the hospital and told us to follow him, but there was no way to reach him due to another gap in the road. So, I headed up some stairs towards a bar, intending to explore alternatives, when who should I see but my nemesis Kumazawa, the fake store manager! I was getting sick of him, no lie.

He had climbed out of a window, put his finger to his lips, then wandered off humming. Curious what he’d been up to, I went inside and found a cash register which had been forced open. There was also a new bag, a Furoshiki, with 35 spaces which I equipped, and a Hyottoko Mask.

Back outside, I followed Kumazawa’s route across a roof, a sign, and a truck to reach where Sei had been. I grabbed and equipped a Construction Site Helmet from a digger, then went down some steps into the ankle-deep river. I was glad to have changed into a skirt! Sei was waving, so I went over and followed him up some more stairs, where he told me to just turn right and find the hospital. He then ran ahead to reserve her space.

Someone who knew Kiyo spoke to us and offered to let us use his bicycle trailer (sans bike). With Kiyo seated in the trailer bed, I pulled her down the street only to find it blocked by traffic and a fallen building. So, I turned left and went as fast as I could as a tremor began and a tilted building began to wobble. It held, but a huge sign almost landed on me!

Moving along a side street, some windows exploded outwards before the building itself started to shift towards me! And that was before a tremor followed it! However, we found the hospital and I took Kiyo out of the trailer to carry her inside.

A nurse was outside and told us that they were too busy with more serious injuries, so I should go to the nearby town instead. There was a clinic at the shelter at Kuchinashi Elementary, so, of course, I agreed to take Kiyo, and she told Sei to go home. I grabbed some Thick-rimmed Glasses from the top of a car and left, but unfortunately, I had to leave the trailer behind, and carry the old lady…

Upon arrival, we were confronted as outsiders by someone who didn’t want to share the shelter’s resources with anyone from outside of town. I told him about the injured woman I was carrying, and he very reluctantly agreed to let us see the doctor.

We were turned away from the gym, due to being outsiders, and a helpful reception manager told me that the doctor was at the playground when I told her about Kiyo’s injury. When I finally reached the playground on the opposite side of the grounds, I was stopped by a guy named Danny, and told to sit while he called over the doctor.

I thanked Danny, glad to finally get that woman off of my back. The doctor, Nishi, came over, and it was the man who I had just freed from the White Coats! He checked Kiyo, diagnosing her broken leg and congratulating her on surviving so well with it. However, he was soon called for by locals, which meant that he had to give them his full attention. He did quickly explain that the people had become quite tribal, with locals sleeping in the gym and gathered cars, while outsiders had to sleep outdoors. Also, locals got the lion’s share of the food.

Danny introduced himself as an exchange student when the doctor left, and soon enough, it was time for dinner, as it was after 5:30 PM. Danny told me to go and line up, so I thanked him — but had a look around the grounds first. Around the back of the school was a man asking to buy things from me, so I sold him my Thick-rimmed Glasses, Hyottoko Mask, White T-shirt & Jeans, and Sapphire Ring for a total of 1,570,800 yen. My total cash on hand was 31,109,300 yen!

Around the side of the main school building was a chicken coop with a Chicken Compass inside, and I found an Elementary Schoolbag with 36 spaces just thrown in the trash. I sat on top of a climbing frame for a few moments before lining up. Some locals eventually pushed in front of me, then some “punks”, and so there was no food left when I reached the front. The reception manager apologised, and I shrugged it off.

When I got back to Charlie, I told him I had no food, and his friends Luang and Rowan (both also outsiders) complained that they were hungry. He suggested that we split up and try to find food, so I headed over to a couple next to a car, who hadn’t been there earlier, so they stood out. I told them that there might be food poisoning going around, hoping they’d throw the food away, but it just got me 10 Immoral Points. I asked them to share a little food, which they both refused — until they accidentally dropped a rice ball on the ground. They handed that over and laughed about how I had to eat it, as I’d asked for it and they’d given it over.

Over outside the gym, Rowan was being harassed by perverts wanting to grope her in exchange for food. I told them that I saw aliens, and while they were looking away we ran for it. She continued her search, so I wandered around until I found Danny being shouted at by an adult guarding their child. He accused Danny of trying to steal the kid’s snacks, which he denied, but got punched for it anyway.

I tried some encouraging words, and we rejoined the others to share what we had gathered…