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🛎 ([personal profile] guestservices) wrote in [community profile] suitedreams2022-07-24 05:18 pm

WEEK SEVEN: MINGLE






W̴͍̎E̴̝̊E̸͚͝K̸͕̿ SEVEN: MINGLE

(18 ḡ̴̻u̷͌͜ê̴̯s̶̢͑t̵̻͝s̴̡̐ ̴c̴h̴e̶c̴k̷e̶d̸ ̶i̴n̴)


Good morning, esteemed guests.

Ha. Hahaha.

As you awaken on Monday, you’ll find that things are just as they were the night before. The kitchen will serve piping hot breakfast during the morning hours, the pool’s been stocked with fresh towels and the gardens are open for anyone who wishes to spend some time among nature. However, should you explore a bit, you’ll find that a few new changes have been made to the hotel itself.

Your room service menus are still on your desks if you wish to browse before leaving for the day.

The front door no longer spins endlessly, for one thing. Should you make an attempt to exit the hotel, you will find yourself entering a new location.

In addition, should you enter the elevator you will find...nothing? There are no new buttons. However, if you look on the Mezzanine you will find a few new areas to peruse. These rooms are still locked from the outside, but perhaps you may ask politely and be granted access. In addition, as you explore the hotel you will find that you have now lost access to certain rooms. How odd.

The portraits from the week before continue to hang in various parts of the hallways and in the rooms themselves, continuing to depict innocuous scenes. Like before, if you linger just a touch too long, you'll soon find that you and whomever you're with will be lost in a swirl of shadows and pulled directly into the portrait itself. You will have to find your way out just like before.

Strangely, however, you no longer have that connection with the person you are with. You're no longer in sync, unable to feel their thoughts or movement or really even have to cooperate. Instead, regardless of where you are in the hotel whether it's inside a portrait, a door, or even your own room, you will begin to experience a feeling of numbness. Perhaps it starts in your body, the inability to feel pain or the touch of someone's hand. Maybe it infiltrates your emotions, quieting everything you've been feeling lately to an even, neutral stance. After a while, you may become so numb you feel yourself fading away entirely, a limb slowly being erased, but you can quickly snap back if someone addresses you.

Try to keep yourselves grounded, everyone.

Finally, for those of you with a spare ticket in your pocket, feel free to visit the Starlight Gift Shop, stocked with new items for this week.



shaft: (war » g65)

[personal profile] shaft 2022-07-26 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ it goes right through him! she cannot touch his bones ]

Is this part of it?
outsidebones: (the bones are their money)

[personal profile] outsidebones 2022-07-26 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't expect this. I thought we'd be bringing you back more permanently.
shaft: (war » g12)

[personal profile] shaft 2022-07-26 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
... Yes. I do have to wonder if this satisfies the requirement of being at the lobby "alive" for the end of the game.
outsidebones: (💀 in their world bones equals dollars)

[personal profile] outsidebones 2022-07-26 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I am a bit of a stickler for terminology and I would say no, albeit in a unique position where it would be easy to re-alive you?

The only difficult aspect of resurrection is when souls are separated from the realm of the living. The journey back is circuitous and invites unwanted attention. If you have ever seen a man possessed by twenty insane and ravenous ghosts at once, you would not try it.

But if your souls are here it's only a matter of repairing any damage or decay to your body or growing a new one and then jump starting it...

I can at least make a skeleton and try to put you inside it. It will be fully articulable so you won't miss having meat.
shaft: (war » g53)

[personal profile] shaft 2022-07-26 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ claude, internally: all of life's pleasures come with having meat ]

Interesting. Do you have access to your powers to test this? Though if it's limited use, you'd be better off saving it for danger.
outsidebones: (💀 metacarpals)

[personal profile] outsidebones 2022-07-26 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. I have power to test it, but I don't intend to use them now. I'm saving them for a last resort.
shaft: (war » a80)

[personal profile] shaft 2022-07-26 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
What about my body in the grave? That can't be fixed up?
outsidebones: (and to make things less weird)

[personal profile] outsidebones 2022-07-26 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It can, but it isn't something I can do right now. The power I got back is only a small portion of my skill as a bone adept, and certainly no flesh magic.