WEEK SEVEN: MINGLE

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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.

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Comments

[technocool]

[ squints dubiously ]

Don't tell me you're secretly a grandpa too.

[resumed]

I mean...not...exactly?

[sweats in being alive for 80+ years.]

[technocool]

[ jiiiiiiiiis ]


Time travel shenaigans [ ? ]

[resumed]

Does it really matter that much right now...?

[technocool]

It's more entertaining than thinking about the 'oh shit oh fuck tminus ten minutes to things blowing up spectacularly and likely not in the fun way' looming in the distance.

[resumed]

That's just every other day for me. [haha. but he sighs. ] But more like frozen in time.

[technocool]

You'd think with this being semi-normal by now, it wouldn't be so terrifying.

[ no you just have crippling anxiety, futaba]

So like in carbonite or like, bullshit oops! time dilation?

[resumed]

What even counts as normal at this point? [just a thought.] It's more like time was passing on the outside but not on the inside, so when we left 70 years had already gone by.

[technocool]

[ he's an old man.................... ]

That's definitely gotta be weird. Though given how this place's aesthetic is like, a hundred years old, maybe not.

[resumed]

[deadpan:]

The place I was locked in for so long was a different hotel.

[SO NO. THIS HAS BEEN WEIRD AND ANNOYING.]

[technocool]

[ she titters ]

You've gotta admit it's definitely got a similar vibe.

[resumed]

I don't know if I'd say it was that similar...unless you mean "creepy loop that won't let go." Then yeah.

[technocool]

Creepy hotel in which time moves really weird and when we go home it'll be months off?

[ ... ]

Though, I'm pretty sure we'll be months behind and not years ahead.

[resumed]

Time back where you're from wasn't moving, Futaba. You should slot right back where you came from once you leave this place.

[technocool]

That's gonna be so weird.......... I don't remember a single thing about what I was doing a couple months ago!

[resumed]

At all? [bad...] Maybe it won't be so hard to make some stuff up.