WEEK 3 MINGLE

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WEEK 3

Week three opens like the other two weeks, but when you wake up, you know there's been a change in the area. At first, nothing is wrong - but when you look at any window, you aren't greeted with the cheery sight of the outside - instead, there's just a cold, harsh blackness. Trying to leave out the doors is impossible, too - if you try, you just find yourself back on the couches in the lobby. On top of that....The Staff are beginning to act even stranger, their glitching out becoming more obvious. Sometimes, they seemingly go blank mid sentence and walk away, as if they were reset, and slur or stutter their words.

The weather is...well, non-existent, except for the courtyard, which is still pleasantly snowy. There is still music playing in the halls, and the cover songs continue with some low-key music for the week.

On Monday morning, another memory is returned to everyone. Another piece to the puzzle, one step closer to finding the truth of this place. Yet, it doesn't seem like you're any closer to solving this...

And time still ticks onwards, regardless if you're ready or not.


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Comments

[tacticalespionageaction]

[Snake frowns.]

What do you mean? You've been seeing things differently now you're dead?

[resortghosts]

Indeed. Ever since I died, beyond the boundaries of the Resort has been nothing but darkness. No weather, no slopes, no forest. It seems you are all seeing what we saw, now.

[tacticalespionageaction]

[Hnnrrhhhhh.]

So none of that was real, huh?

[This was all moving from any realm of belief at such a speed it's hard to keep up with.]

Any idea what it means?

[resortghosts]

I think it was part of this organism's camouflage, an illusion to keep prey immersed. Now the Resort is... distracted. Too distracted to keep up appearances and keep the Staff functioning properly. But why? Where is its attention being diverted to?

[tacticalespionageaction]

[Speaking about this place as a living thing was a strange adjustment to make, but he can roll with it.]

If it's acting like an animal, then...

[Considering the natural order of things, there's one conclusion that comes to attention the most.]

Could it be it's not at the top of the food chain?

[resortghosts]

That's a good theory, Mr. Snake. If the Resort were being chased by a predator of its own.... well... There's always something bigger and badder out there, isn't there?

[tacticalespionageaction]

Makes enough sense. Living things just want to survive. The only reason it'd give up its prey is if there was another threat out there.

[Hrrrnnnh.]

Could give us an opening for getting out of here...if we can avoid becoming next on the menu.

[resortghosts]

I still don't know what the Resort actually eats. If it wanted our bodies, it wouldn't be feeding them to the rats.

[tacticalespionageaction]

Maybe it wants our souls.

[Is he joking?? He's not even sure himself.]

[resortghosts]

[Stickynote invisibly handed to Snake]

then too bad they've missed their chance :/

[tacticalespionageaction]

Maybe it'll spit you out.

[resortghosts]

If it wanted that, you wouldn't be speaking to us ghosts.

Unless --

The Resort is unable to digest foreign souls like ours.

cw: emeto mention

[tacticalespionageaction]

I hope we're giving it a hell of a tummyache.

[Maybe it'll throw them all up if they irritate it enough.]

If that's the case, it explains why you guys are still around. We still don't have any explanation for that, do we?

[resortghosts]

Not a one! But I couldn't digest the barghest's spirit energy either. Maybe we're all just incompatible?

[tacticalespionageaction]

You couldn't digest it?

[That requires some explanation.]

[resortghosts]

I told you I wasn't human, yes? I am a Hollow, a certain kind of corrupted human spirit that feeds on other souls. Usually I can digest just about any kind of soul.

[tacticalespionageaction]

When did you try?

[Not that it matters too much but god if he isn't curious.]

[resortghosts]

Mmm... the morning that I died.

[tacticalespionageaction]

[...]

You were killed by Jorogumo, right? How did you come into contact with the Barghest?

[resortghosts]

Indirectly, though the Apprentice's wounds.

[tacticalespionageaction]

How does that work?

[resortghosts]

He was attacked some time before we even arrived here. The beast left traces of itself in his wounds.

[tacticalespionageaction]

And that's all you needed?

[resortghosts]

Indeed.

... There was a good bit more than I would have expected from those kinds of wounds, though. And the fact that it managed to persist despite the Apprentice's significant spiritual power.

[tacticalespionageaction]

And what does that mean?