Week 3

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Three people are dead in the span of one day. Two of which did absolutely nothing to deserve their gruesome deaths. Hopefully, no matter how silly this hope is, it's the last of the deaths in this hotel.

But maybe it's not all bad now? When people awake this Sunday, they will find that the door for 225 is now open, and for some reason leads to a bunch of cool new rooms to explore! Maybe this would be a great opportunity to bond over each other to make sure no one else dies again.

And no one else will die again, right?

21 guests remain.]

[SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY]

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Comments

[hallotween]

Yeah, definitely. So, if you need an aspirin or cough syrup or anything, we can try to figure out what the right dose should be. But, hopefully nobody will need anything from this room.

[... should she ask]

Was this cat always here? [like she distinctly does not remember a cat.]

[stenchus_rodentus]

Dear child, if by some miracle my constitution falls prey to this squalor, the medicine I'll need is a good dose of laudanum--or the pure stuff if they got it.

[Victorian era medicine, Marnie. It's a ride.]

I believe she was a...recent addition. A gift, perhaps~

[hallotween]

...

Do you honestly think this place is going to give you opium? I mean, forget laudanum, they're not going to give us drugs! [LIKE LET'S JUST START THERE THERE IS A LOT TO UNPACK HERE]

[stenchus_rodentus]

...and why wouldn't they? I understand their medical understanding may be behind, but they must be savages to miss the benefits of opium.

[hallotween]

Because it's really addictive and can mess you up? Because it's basically illegal except for super strict production for really extreme medical needs? Because we figured this all out ages ago?

[stenchus_rodentus]

[Sounds fake.]

I understand that matters are handled differently in your...country of witchcraft, but Mousedom is the pinnacle of civilization. We perfected the science of coal, the art of phrenology, the ingeniousness of the gear!

So when we say cocaine and opium are medicine, we say it with the assurance of the greatest minds in the world.

[hallotween]

... Okay, in order: electricity, completely fake, do we even use gears for anything except clocks anymore?

[beat] What year is it?

[stenchus_rodentus]

Do you use electricity for everything?

I do believe the year is 1897, in case you require another lesson in the Gregorian calendar.

[hallotween]

... 1998.

It's 1998.

[stenchus_rodentus]

Of course, we're living in the future now.

The answer was so simple, how could I have missed it?

[Denial.]

[hallotween]

Well, to be completely accurate, we're not living in time at all. We're in a dimension completely outside of reality, so time doesn't really even exist the way we know it.

[he's. in denial about a lot of stuff, isn't it.]

[stenchus_rodentus]

That's rather nice assertion if you wish to continue living in delusion, but if you wish to join me reality is right outside my door.

[hallotween]

... You still think this whole thing is a hallucination, don't you.

[stenchus_rodentus]

Don't be absurd!

I prefer to see it as 'evidence of a temporary psychosis'.

[hallotween]

That's pretty much exactly the same thing?

[sighs] What is it gonna take to finally convince you? Three people are already dead!

[stenchus_rodentus]

Not at all.

People die everywhere, child. Our concern should be leaving.

[hallotween]

And acting the way you do is gonna help that... how, exactly?

[stenchus_rodentus]

By finding a way out. I don't know how simple you need this spelled out, I know you are a child.