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[highestheim]

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week 2: friday

[highestheim]

[ ...well. it's friday, and they're both alive, if the invoice is to be believed. it's probably a little later in the morning when hope returns to the guest rooms, and it's with a sort of trepidation that he knocks on harrow's door. ]

Harrowhark? It's Hope. Are you there?

[outsidebones]

[she will open her door. welcome to her room full of bones; it's very creepy in here.]

...I'm alive and well, but I did have a dream. I suppose we already knew the simulation room was related.

[highestheim]

[ this would unsettle him much more if he wasn't already kind of acquainted with harrow. it's fine. ]

... I see. [ beat ] We didn't end up in the library, by the way. We were in the cemetery instead.

[ LOOKS AWAY... ]

[outsidebones]

You, too? You were buried?

[highestheim]

No, not this time. We...were above ground. [ ... ] We got the sense that there would be a lot of people in the library, so we decided to find an alternate location.

I'm not entirely sure why Claude decided there.

[outsidebones]

Well, it would make sense to me. In the morning, if anyone else was buried, you could help them.

Did you happen to see Rupert?

[highestheim]

[ he nods after thinking about harrow's logic for a moment, but... ]

Rupert...? No, why? Did you see him in your dream?

[outsidebones]

...No. The dream was about a barber who was killing people and turning them into meat pies. But Rupert apparently woke up buried today.

[highestheim]

[ he. does not comment on the dream just yet. that is very much a later problem. ]

...That might disprove my theory about the buried people being a hint toward Clementine and her intolerance for zombies, then.

[outsidebones]

I thought so, too, but apparently not.

crawls back in here like the zombies theyre talking about

[highestheim]

One more thing to keep in mind about the underlying secrets of this place.

[ . . . ]

Your room is very unique. [ beat ] It suits you.

[ ?????? ]

[outsidebones]

Oh. Thank you...is it not quite what I'm used to, but the decor is pleasing.

[highestheim]

What do you mean, not quite used to? [ beat ] Ah, do you mean you're not used to staying in a single room for long stays?

[outsidebones]

It is a bit more...ornate than what I am accustomed to.

[highestheim]

I would argue that your taste in general is rather ornate...

[ he probably wants to say something closer to "quirky" or "eccentric" or "bony" but he is a very nice man. ]

But that's the whole idea behind the designs of these rooms, isn't it? That it's a reflection of our... not so much ideal comforts, but something trying to approximate it.

[outsidebones]

I am literally a nun.

[the word you are looking for is extra.]

I think so; meant to feel comfortable but also a bit...special.

[highestheim]

Oh. I see.

[ ... everything about his body language says "neat! anyway," ]

What sorts of lodging did you have in your previous game? Were they personal in any way, or more uniform in nature?