GUEST SERVICES - PHOENIX

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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.

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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.

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[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.]

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[ 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.]

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Yes to all of the above?

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[A long, considering pause.]

Yes.

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[ 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?

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

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[ ..... hm. ]

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

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

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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.

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[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?

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Potential. [That's pretty straightforward.]

[slobjection]

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

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Observe it. [This is a circular question.]

[slobjection]

Just observe potential? Nothing more?

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...it is difficult to explain. [And perhaps not worth explaining.]

[slobjection]

[ hm. ]</small Would you say the house had an ability among the same lines.... or do you think it consumed to gain access to it? Maybe to be able to consume souls with potential?

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It has its own. [There's a shrug.] ...its ability absorbs to gain.

[slobjection]

What does it gain? Aside from satisfaction?

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...do you think it needs more than that? [Blue hasn't exactly been in the most friendly of moods to ask the house what the hell it's doing.]