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[ashioki]

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[gurge]

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[ashioki]

i'm busy

[gurge]

So be busy with me instead.

[ashioki]

[ no one should be allowed this amount of rizz wtf ]

i'm not going to your suite!

there's a theater at the mall, maybe someone could be convinced to play a godzilla movie instead...

[gurge]

Why? Nervous?

Okay, I'll go make some threats~ ♥

[ashioki]

[ he's not answering that! ]

you can just ask?!

[gurge]

I do some things for myself.

[ashioki]

don't bully a retail worker

what's your rank? i heard if you're high enough the staff here just do stuff for you anyway

[gurge]

You'd rather I bully you?

9, so not quite that high.

[ashioki]

why do you have to bully ANYBODY?

9 out of 13 is still pretty high...

[gurge]

I just told you, for myself. It's fun.
And let's be honest, fairly harmless. I wouldn't go overboard~.

[ probably. ]

There's still a big gap between that and royalty.
What's wrong? Jealous?

[ashioki]

[ hm. ]

if that's really the case then fine
bully me
hassling someone who actually works here will probably just make you a target and that's too much for my conscience

[ either way, it's a pain in the ass 😤 ]

no not really
i'm a 4 so it's not like i've got it the worst

[gurge]

I hope that's not a standing offer. You don't have much choice in that.

[ lol @ him eating these words literally next thread ]

Could be better...
What suit?

[ashioki]

you can do it till you piss me off

[ which is a silly stipulation to make considering 1) it would take very little, and 2) that likely wouldn't stop getou anyway. ]

hearts...
do the suits actually matter?

[gurge]

What're you like when you're pissed off? (◕‿◕||)

I'm not totally sure, to be honest, aside from the hands they make as you collect different ones and things like role assignments during the big games.
I thought at first maybe it had to do with a personality type or some kind of similar unifier, but I haven't been able to identify anything.

In actuality...
When I first arrived, I had a much smaller club marking on me, and I had some... extra issues at the time.
Hypothetically, the suits might have different effects on our bodies or minds.

[ashioki]

don't be weird

[ though that is perhaps one of the fastest ways to witness it for himself... ]

so you had a weird thing happen to you too when you first arrived? i've heard people say the hotel likes to give new people "gifts"
how long did yours last

[ because he's really fucking tired of his love rashes tbqh ]

so these things are another way to control us...?

[gurge]

What kind of weird?

Yeah. Both times, though this one has nothing to do with a suit.
A few weeks before it really died down, but now my new "blessing" seems to be permanent. Additionally, some are presumably permanently cursed from being exposed to certain parts of the resort.
I'm sure everything here is designed to influence us, at the very least.

[ashioki]

you know what kind of weird

yeah that makes sense...
it doesn't change you or anything, does it?

[ oushi has very quickly realized his biggest fear is losing all sense of himself, but he had thought given the hotel's somewhat basic premise it wouldn't ever have to come to that so long as he plays nice. ]

also wait
both times??

[gurge]

Strange place to make a demand like that.

I don't know. I was already changing before I got here.

[ he doesn't have to ask if he's nervous this time. maybe that's an improvement. ]

Yeah. I spent some time as a statue.

[ashioki]

learn to control yourself then??

oh
you can't tell the difference?

[ he doesn't mean it to sound accusatory, but it's hard to translate his genuine curiosity well. ]

a statue?
were you.... punished?

[gurge]

Just because it makes you feel something doesn't mean it's not in my control~.

[ "can't"? well... ]

More like I don't want to dodge my own accountability.
If these thoughts I'm having are mine, I need to be responsible for that, not use the resort as a scapegoat.

I don't know if it was a punishment or if it's just what happens here if one isn't "active" enough.

[ashioki]

[ —he...!!!

has no way of responding to that that isn't incriminating so he's going to ignore it and hope it goes away on its own. ]

that's a big "if" though, isn't it?
the way this place works... i haven't been here very long, but it seems like it's dead set on making you give in, or give up
and it'll use whatever it can against you to so it
so idk
i don't know the kind of stuff you're thinking
but it's something to keep in mind, you know?

[ "active"......... yeah. he gets that meaning loud and clear. ]

were you holding out in protest or something?

[ because oushi has a hard time believing that any inactivity of getou's is due to a lack of options. ]

[gurge]

Haha, gotcha.

Nothing I've faced here is more difficult than things I went through back home.
A different kind of hard, no wordplay intended, but still... easier.
So I don't think I can agree with your point.

[ ...hmm, what a dilemma... ]

For some reason, I don't want to lie to you...
Something personal. I'll leave it at that.

[ashioki]

[ well... it's not as if oushi really knows what this guy's going through. or what all he has to deal with back home. maybe he's being guilty of projecting here, but it still feels like to him that the guy is being a little harder on himself than he has to be.

it's not like any of this is any of his business anyway. he shouldn't pry. ]

what, do you think you're supposed to be stronger than all of it?

since you aren't a statue right now...
does that mean you're approaching things differently this time around?

[ apparently he can't help himself. ]

[gurge]

Stronger than this, at the very least.

Ha... nosy.

[ not a scold; he kinda likes it, as evidenced from the ready explanation — ]

I made better arrangements and focused on cultivating the few connections I had.
And a few more interesting people came along.