foolishmortals | It's all happened before...

[You wake up in a plush bed, well rested but very confused. As you become more conscious, one thing becomes abundantly clear: this is not your room, nor does this look like any bedroom you’ve ever been in before. It’s relatively clean room, but immediately something feels… off about all of this.

When you start exploring, a thing you’ll soon notice is that on the bedside table, there is a room key sitting ontop of a neatly typed note.]

Dear hotel guests,

We cordially invite you to come to the downstairs library at noon for an important meeting regarding your stay in the Hollywood Tower Hotel. Before then, we invite you to make full use of the amenities this hotel has provided for you.

On behalf of the hotel staff, we dearly hope you enjoy your stay in this marvelous hotel.

-HTH Management

[But, as you leave the comfort of your new bedroom, any hope that you somehow booked a hotel room the previous night and just forgot is immediately dashed. It looks like this hotel hasn’t been cleaned in decades, and despite the mention of hotel staff in your note, there doesn’t appear to be anyone working here.

Not to say that you’re alone, however. As you explore the hotel, you’ll soon find that there are 23 others in the exact same situation as you: confused and with no memory of how they got here. And to make matters worse, if the bios you stumble upon in the dining area is anything to go by, this clearly isn't just a freak accident.

Get comfy, because you are all in for a wild ride.]

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[the past few days she's had means she barely even blinks at the talking duck.]

Sorry! [she says, not sounding sorry at all.

all the songs are still playing.]

... I don't know how long they all go on for.

Didn't anybody ever teach you to not press strange buttons?

[C'MON it's like exploring 101. He guesses he's glad that nothing exploded? But the headache he's developing is pretty bad.]

It's never really come up before? It's not like you come across strange buttons every day.

... Unless, are there a lot of strange buttons in your life?

Enough that I know you don't just go around pressing them willy-nilly.

[fair enough, though, not everyone is constantly dealing with high-tech gear in equally high-risk situations. it's kind of a unique career.]

I wasn't doing it willy-nilly! I knew exactly what I was doing! [that makes it worse]

So you think giving everybody else a headache is funny, huh? Is that it?

[clearly we've got a problem child™ here]

Oh, come on, it's not that bad! Look, most of them are already ending!

[maybe change the subject...]

Your song is pretty cool. [there, surely flattery will work.] You have to be some kind of celebrity to have a whole song written about you.

[you are absolutely right, flattery will work. however, you've also unleashed the gates of hell so congrats!]

A celebrity...? Oh, sure! Yeah, everybody knows me. Surprised you've never heard of me before.

[she glances back at the bios, hoping that maybe she has actually heard of him... but. nope. nothing. what now?]

Well, maybe you're a little before my time or something! [... wait shit that sounds like she's calling him old.] Or, maybe even after! My tastes run a little old-fashioned. ["old" meaning "ancient"]

[potential problem child™ or not, she's got good senses at least.]

Well, I have been taking a break recently. From, uh, famous stuff, and all that. Autograph signing. And things. Yeah, you'd have to be a real big fan to even know I exist!

[he's sort of not lying?]

What kinds of adventures did you go on? Discovering hidden places in desolate jungles, looking for cursed artifacts in ancient temples?

All sorts! You name it, we did it! Scrooge has got a whole collection of cursed artifacts!

...

Scrooge.

Yes. My... sidekick. Scrooge.

[c'mon work with him here]

As in, Ebeneezer?

...As in McDuck. Scrooge McDuck.

[There's no way anybody doesn't know Scrooge.]

Multi-trillionaire Scrooge McDuck?

Wait, his first name is Scrooge? What kind of terrible parents name their kid after Scrooge!

...Named after who?

[Scrooge is the only... well, Scrooge that he knows of. If anything, people would be named after him, not the other way around. Actually, scratch that, Scrooge would probably sue them for trying to take his name.]

Ebeneezer Scrooge? A Christmas Carol? Tiny Tim and a Christmas go-- [wait not that part] and "God bless us, every one?" That Scrooge?

[Shrug? What the hell is a Tiny Tim]

Never heard of it.

How have you not heard of one of the most famous works of literature ever? What, did someone come up with that name without thinking of the most miserly character to ever exist?

Well, he is a miser...

[But he doesn't know how he's never heard of it if it's apparently that big of a deal? Enter self-doubt and the seeds of a minor existential crisis.]

Maybe they named the book character after him!

The book was written in the mid-1800s.

Scrooge was born in the mid-1800s.

[Probably.]

So, what, Charles Dickens named his famously old character after a random baby he met? [IS THIS THE STORY WE'RE GOING WITH]

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