GUEST SERVICES - ASH AND AKIRA

[cluedin]

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[survivaltricks]

[his mouth twitches]

Seems that way. Do you mind coming with us, Peach?

[cluedin]

[...hm.]

I guess so, but...you sure that's necessary?

[voidbreaker]

If we're about to see some shit, we might have some questions, Cobbler.

[ He tucks the little triangle in his pocket again, and then holds out an arm to her. ]

I'll carry you, if it gets you there.

[survivaltricks]

[Akira holds out his arm, too. PEACH GETS TOO BEAUTIFUL IKEMEN TO ESCORT TO THE PLAQUES]

I don't think we'll have to carry her. But Ash is right-- we might have more questions.

[cluedin]

[No!!! She's going to stay on the desk and pout.]

Can't those ones wait? [Peach, crying: I DONT WANT TO GO!!!]

[voidbreaker]

[ Up and at 'em Peachy girl. ]

And if we start pestering you for questions while you're busy somewhere else, it'll just be more of a pain later on. Get it over with.

[survivaltricks]

[PEACH PLZ]

[if Ash picks her up he is just gonna let that happen]

We'll do something nice for you afterwards. As thanks.

[cluedin]

[There's a disgruntled sound almost like a cat meowing in confusion despite the fact that Peach isn't a cat. Unfortunately, Ash has a good ten inches on her so she's forced to move.]

We're never too busy for guests! At least on Sundays through Thursdays... [This is her only protest which means they're 100% able to start carting her across the hall to the ballroom. Goodbye.] What questions would you even have about those?

[voidbreaker]

[ Letsa go, Peachio. ]

Yeah, but you're getting something out of it too now, thanks to generous McGee there. We win, you win, and your guest satisfication goes through the roof.

[ TO! THE! PLAQUES! ]

If we see something that makes no damn sense, for one.

[survivaltricks]

[jabs a finger at Ash. once they reach the plaques, he beelines towards Asch's first]

We don't know what we're going to find. We might need you to interpret for us.

[cluedin]

[TO THE PLAQUES...but she's making Ash carry her while she's giving them both a flat look. Once they're in the ballroom, she's letting them cart her toward Asch's plaque as she looks up at the wall.]

Do they really no longer make sense to you?

[voidbreaker]

People keep changing into monsters, Cobbler. Sense left the building a while ago. [ Okok. He's holding the little triangle up to his eye and looking at Asch's picture. ]

I mean. They flicker. Don't they flicker to you guys?

[survivaltricks]

[steps aside to let Ash do that]

The only ones that flicker are the ones of those who have died. Everyone else's seem stable.

[cluedin]

Well yes...[As Ash is doing that, he'll just hold the triangle up to his eye and see that the portrait stops flickering. It seems to stabilize to Asch's normal face.] Sometimes that just happens.

[voidbreaker]

[ He's gonna keep staring at it for a hot minute to see if it flickers at all during that time. ]

That ain't normal, Cobbler. Pictures don't flicker after someone dies.

[survivaltricks]

[after Ash has stared for a while, Akira will walk in front of him and wave. how does he look through the triangle-o-scope??]

I thought they were flickering because those people had died. Is that right?

[cluedin]

That's correct. [The portrait doesn't change back at all while Ash is looking through the triangle, but Akira will see it flickering. When Akira waves his hand in front of it...he's just waving his hand in front of it, nothing happens.] It's like you said. Sense left the building and stuff.

[voidbreaker]

[ Huh. ]

It doesn't flicker when you look through this. [ He takes a few steps down the line of plaques and stops at Nia's, holding the little triangle up to it again. ]

So... what. Is it showing things as they actually are? Or as they should be?

[survivaltricks]

[. . .]

[Akira is quiet when he next speaks]

. . . try looking at Meltryllis-san's next.

[cluedin]

[Look at that. Nia's happily smiling! With a fully intact head! If Ash looks at Melt's profile though he'll see that nothing has changed at all.]

That part's a little more difficult to interpret. [She frowns.] Master Blue doesn't always tell us what the tools around the mansion do, but usually people figure it out with trial and error.

[voidbreaker]

[ ash just pauses at nia for a fraction of a second too long, before moving on to melt. Then he lowers the triangle. ]

So. We keep poking things until it works. I can be persistent.

[ c'mon then ] If here’s a dead end, then we check the new floor. If you guys don’t know what this thing does, then someone’s gotta figure it out.

[survivaltricks]

[to Ash]

Nothing?

[of course it isn't that easy. . .]

Let's try the new floor, then. The music room.

[cluedin]

Why the music room? [She's not exactly objecting, but she's interested in the logic. Luckily for them, she'll begin walking on her own.]

[voidbreaker]

Nothing.

[ well then. Ash tucks the triangle — and his own hands — into his pockets. ]

... something you want to check there? I wouldn’t mind checking the games room myself. It kinda looks like a board game piece, doesn’t it?

[survivaltricks]

No, there's nothing in particular I want to see there. It was just the first room I thought of on the new floor.

[he is heading towards the stairwell now!!]

The game room is fine, too.