15. You open the door and see ... the hotel's restaurant. Weird, you're not even on the right floor for that. Shadowy figures that look like the silhouettes of people you knew from your previous game are seated at a table, and they wave you over. Their mannerisms are just like you remember, though they can't speak. After you've eaten a meal with them you find yourself back in the hallway, disoriented, comfortably full, and a little homesick for the people you've just eaten with. Only four minutes have passed.
...Hmm. He blinks over to look for anyone nearby, and catching sight of Dimitri he waves him over. ]
I think my bad sense of direction turned me around. Does this look right to you?
[ Dokja's companion, a white nine-tailed fox, just peers over at Dimitri with a tilt of her head. She is equally clueless. ]
[ wow all these fancy pets. he doesn't really know how to approach a fox, so he keeps from reaching out for any scritches, answering with a headtilt right back. ]
...This is the restaurant, isn't it?
[ was it always behind this door? no... ]
Wait—
[ the dinner rush is here. but rather than other hotel guests, it's some of the same shades that he's seen in other rooms. wispy, incorporeal, hauntingly familiar. one of them seems to notice dokja and waves. ]
[ out in the sim room, the scenery is almost monochrome: it's a mountainside covered in snow, which stretches out in a vast field of white. near an outcrop of rocks, there's some ground cleared by a (fake) warm fire, where dimitri is sitting. ]
No, you're fine. [ especially when Jin, the white nine-tailed fox daemon, is already pouncing into a pile of snow close by. yeet. ] Some place from home?
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...Hmm. He blinks over to look for anyone nearby, and catching sight of Dimitri he waves him over. ]
I think my bad sense of direction turned me around. Does this look right to you?
[ Dokja's companion, a white nine-tailed fox, just peers over at Dimitri with a tilt of her head. She is equally clueless. ]
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...This is the restaurant, isn't it?
[ was it always behind this door? no... ]
Wait—
[ the dinner rush is here. but rather than other hotel guests, it's some of the same shades that he's seen in other rooms. wispy, incorporeal, hauntingly familiar. one of them seems to notice dokja and waves. ]
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[ Ah, yes, seeing those figures does have Dokja pause. If because he knows he does recognize some of them, that they look familiar to him.
By then, they're already in and that door is gone. They have nothing but the restaurant and their shaded friends. ]
I see... Guess we have no choice but to expect a meal.
[ Jin paces a bit beside him, sniffing in the direction of the shades. ]
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Did you want to use the room? I can go.
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No, you're fine. [ especially when Jin, the white nine-tailed fox daemon, is already pouncing into a pile of snow close by. yeet. ] Some place from home?
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Yes. This is what it looks like in our lands after the first snowfall. ...I am using it as a bit of distraction, I suppose.
[ from this weekend. ]
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...Voting an innocent out never feels good. [ a distraction is fair. ] Especially after we were able to figure out the last two trials.