GUEST SERVICES - PHOENIX

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Comments

[slobjection]

[ hmm.... ]

This place does seem resistant to property damage. Is it more vulnerable around the source?

[cluedin]

Not exactly. The source is the strongest. That's the problem.

[slobjection]

... I see. Then how do we get through to it, especially without powers?

[cluedin]

Being without powers makes you more powerful. Less for the house to prey on. [A nod. They definitely put some thought into that.] You're resourceful.

[slobjection]

[ honestly the only supernatural ability phoenix has is his magatama... (which would have been extremely useful), so he can't relate. ]

Sure, but it makes it inconvenient to wreck horrible murder houses without powers.

Separating you two... would that be done at the "source", too?

[cluedin]

Powers make it more convenient to die faster. [So we go the long way.] I believe it would be done at the source. Don't let the source deceive you.

[slobjection]

[ phoenix agrees... ]

I'm guessing the source will probably throw its strongest illusions at us, yet, when or if we get there.

[ hopefully going to be an if. i really wish this pc was post-break in god ]

[cluedin]

Yes...among other things. The source is more powerful than any of you may think.

[RIP.]

[slobjection]

I already think it's pretty powerful, so that's not a good sign.

[ .... ]

How can we prepare?

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[Hm...]

How do you know what is the truth?

[slobjection]

In my lawyer days... I would flounder, slam desks, point fingers, and bluff, until I eventually uncovered it.

Nowadays.... well, the path to the truth isn't always the most straightforward one. Making this bunch understand that is a whole other ballgame.

[cluedin]

[Well Phoenix isn't wrong, so Blue nods.]

...the answer to the truth may not be simple. Or singular. [Maybe being less straightforward will help them.]

[slobjection]

[ it will not.... ]

So there are multiple ways to get to the core? Or multiple ways to see through its attack? Or multiple truths?

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Yes. [This is said as a definite and not at all like they think that might be confusing.]

[slobjection]

Yes to all of the above?

[cluedin]

[A long, considering pause.]

Yes.

[slobjection]

[ hmmm ]

My theory is that the room of req-- is a good way to the source. Would you say I'm on the right track?

[ multiples.... ]

Multiple truths... Do we have to uncover what the house actually is in order to see past its illusions?

[cluedin]

Yes. [They don't seem that concerned in telling Phoenix that. The yes also seems to apply to both questions.]

[slobjection]

[ ..... hm. ]

Was it something else before it absorbed you? And now it's evolved? It always appeared as a house, right...?

[cluedin]

Always. [There's a nod because yes the house was always a house. And yet...] We are similar. It has always been this way.

[slobjection]

I do remember you mentioning that. But what I'm wondering is why it wanted to absorb you into itself.... My assumption would be for your powers, but I still don't really know what those are, or if that's all it is.

.... Except for magical mail. I know about the magical mail.

[cluedin]

[Hm. That's not quite right, but they don't really address that and instead decide to focus on one question at a time.]

I observe souls.

[slobjection]

[ the memory had the house monch cronching blue, what else is phoenix supposed to take away from that!! ]

For what?

[cluedin]

Potential. [That's pretty straightforward.]

[slobjection]

... Huh. Before all this, what would you do when you saw it?