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[unsaid]

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[unsaid]

There are other available to defend him from vore, most likely.

[preowned]

Yes...

[unsaid]

[takes tsuru's hand and gives it a gentle squeeze]

I found Gemini's shifting height to be curious as well.

[like wow that growth spurt]

[preowned]

Mm.

Like they are disguising themselves... despite the fact they already are.

[unsaid]

Hmm…

Has any present been able to convince the staff to remove their veils?

We have been here a number of weeks…

[preowned]

No one that I know of.

[ a pause, and he glances at the screen. ]

I will like to present a theory now, using this as backing. I believe that the staff aren't the original hotel staff, and are now acting like whoever came before them. I have no idea why. The reason why Gemini shifted their height is because whoever they replaced had a different one than them.

[technocool]

[ she looks like she just had an empathy ]

Is that why there's a super cursed daruma in virgo's room?!

[preowned]

There's a what?

[technocool]

Marie and I broke into Virgo's room last week!! The whole place is super duper weird as it was but I found a little doll that was cursed as heck in the back. It shake, rattled, and rolled like it was possessed!!

[preowned]

... I see.

[unsaid]

It remains possible. After all, those of us in previous experiences were able to reveal our faces as we pleased once bonds were forged with the guests. Yet now the staff remain adamant about not doing so.

[no unmasking…]

Though the question of why remains.

[preowned]

That...




is a good question.

[unsaid]

Hopefully more will become illuminated shortly.

We are entering our final weeks, after all.

[preowned]

Mm. We'll see... we should all take extra care to be careful.

[wisterin]

It does seem like the staff have to act or behave a certain way, doesn't it?

[ she's thinking. ]

I don't want to overthink it, but a staff member did make an offhand remark to me about how you never know who's watching.

[ which really could have been offhand but now it's time for paranoia. ]

[technocool]

Big brother.............

[wisterin]

[ ?

she is not modern enough for this reference. ]

[preowned]

Mm. It's probably best not to directly confront them about it, I think. One of the staff also said to me that we are being watched... but not always.

[unsaid]

[he nods at that]

There are certain aspects of their behavior - words, mannerisms, and such - that do not always appear to come naturally.

… they’re very cautious. It makes one wonder what their contracts of employment make look like, if even the owner of this location is bound by then.

[overruns]

I think they are being monitored to make ensure they are... doing their work.

When I spoke with one of them on a rather sensitive subject, they seemed nervous of the shadows.

[overruns]

[ he looks discomfited with this conversation ]

You... believe they are impersonating people? But this video tape seems candid, and they are not acting much differently from normal.

[unsaid]

[a blink]

... Dear Virgo did not utter a single expletive?

[overruns]

They did at the end. ...Virgo is also very capable of not using expletives, if you ask them not to.

[ which only dimitri does apparently ]

[preowned]

I have other reasons to believe this, but I can't really get into it. Cloud also came to the same conclusion that I did, also for similar reasons.

But I wouldn't say they're acting the same. Virgo definitely isn't. Why would Gemini fake their height around us?

[overruns]

Virgo is acting normally, based on what I have seen of them. ...Granted, I would consider them a friend, so perhaps they do not feel the need to act so... prickly around me.

I have wondered if they will be endangered if we realize who they are and spread their identities. One of them seemed rather nervous around shadows, when I started to tread into more tenuous topics, and others have rather explicitly asked me not to share too much regarding who they are.

Still, if you believe that they are not the original staff... Perhaps the ones who were originally hired were dangerous and locked in the realm of the dead, which has now been broken open. Something like that.