It's all happened before...

[grimgrinningghosts]

[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.]

Comments

[tadaishi]

Okay, sure. Just...just leave it at that, then.

[He did not intend the words to sound the way they did!]

[lusito]

[Hee Hee. Should Joshua tell him... nah, it's funnier if he doesn't know--]

So you were saying something about having a younger brother?

[Look at him, kindly offering an out to change the conversation, isn't that nice of him...]

[tadaishi]

[A nice gesture, but he has not been redeemed yet.]

Yeah...he's about your age, like I said. You might get along with him, if he were here.

[They both think of themselves as omniscient, after all.]

[lusito]

Really? That's quite a shame that he's not here then. I suppose I'll have to do with you instead, hm?

[tadaishi]

I suppose so.

[Brat.]

I wouldn't want him to be here. I don't know much about this place, but I have a bad feeling about it.

[lusito]

Given the amount of dust and lack of hotel staff, I would be surprised if someone didn't have a bad feeling about all this.

[tadaishi]

I'm not sure if I'd even like it if there were staff. They might be as decrepit as the rest of the place.

[Or ghosts, even.]

[lusito]

Decrepit or not, someone has to be responsible for checking all of us into this particular hotel.

[Even if it might be kidnapping ghosts?]

[tadaishi]

Or we checked ourselves in and don't remember it.

[lusito]

My, that might be more alarming by comparison, don't you think?

[tadaishi]

I'd take memory loss over kidnapping, honestly.

[lusito]

Really? I would take kidnapping over memory loss: to lose your memories is to lose a part of your true self.

[tadaishi]

Good point. But in this case, it's only slight memory loss.

[lusito]

How can you be so certain of that? There's no way of telling just how much of our memories have been tampered with: it could be as small as checking into a hotel, or something more that has yet to be discovered.

[tadaishi]

I can't. I'm only going by what I know so far.