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Anything useful in our rooms are fake.

[ He... Seems overly irritated about that, but doesn't elaborate. ]

If he lets you.

Yeah, that seems like the kind of thing that whoever brought us here would do.

[he says, as if he knows anything about their motivations. he already doesn't like them so anything that annoys him is now "something they would do".

more importantly, he's going to carefully hold a hand out to this wolf to see if it might be amenable to petting.]

It's not like how-to books would be overly useful to us in this situation.

[ (joonghyuk voice) dumb

Niah sniffs hand and seems chill about it. Pets may be had. ]

Videogames are also not useful.

Maybe we'll conveniently find a "how to get out of the sketchy contract you signed to save the life of a loved one and go home with no problems" book.

[deeply sarcastic, but he's going to immediately distract himself from his salt by petting this wolf.]

Aw... What's their name?

I wouldn't be surprised if it said something like "rip up the contract" to null it.

[ Frowning... It sounds so simple. Anyway, he looks over to Rupert and Niah. ]

His name is Niah.

And then in the end we'd find out it was locked in a place we had no way of reaching so we had no way to do that. Yeah, that seems about right.

[smiling at this wolf!]

Is he your... [give him a second to remember the name] Uh - your daemon? Or just a pet?

Locked away until we break in.

[ Violence is the answer. He looks at Niah. ]

Someone here told you about daemons?

Yeah, fingers crossed.

[breaking and entering is fine under certain circumstances!! but, he nods.]

Yep! Both Kaeya and Hua Cheng did.

Then you know what they are.

[ It's quiz time. ]

Yeah! They're kind of tied to you, right? I think Kaeya said they were extensions of your souls...? And that you shared emotions with them. Or at least, that he did before he was brought here, even though it doesn't work quite the same in the hotel. Either way - it sounds pretty cool!

Yes, that would be right. We were dragged into a universe where in one of its worlds, lifeforce manifests as daemons. They're a bit different now due to the hotel.

[ Which he dislikes. ]

Your setting didn't have strange gimmicks? Like... This camp.

[ Which has him frown. ]

Well... I bet it's nice to have him here anyways! He seems really sweet.

[and as such, the petting will continue. he glances at yjh as he talks, though.]

Um, how are we defining strange gimmicks? Because it was definitely a strange place, but I don't know if it was gimmicky.

[ Niah will continue to allow. Rupert seems like a good boy and doesn’t deserve a bite.

Joonghyuk pulls out a book. ]

Themes… You can consider it the setting if it’s easier.

[ Shows book cover. It is fae. ]

Such as fairy kingdom, mystical forest, whatever else.

Oh - it was a school. They had classes for us and everything, although I've been told that the classes were... unusual, to say the least.

[he remembers cats 2019 once again and looks tired]

[ Joonghyuk being like.. Murder? In a school? Sure, I guess, but classes?? ]

… You look like you’re remembering something. Something bad.

Cats...

[he says, gravely, without any further explanation.]

[ …????? He’s so confused. ]

Cats?

The movie. Have you seen it? Don't try to find out about it if you haven't seen it.

[save yourself yjh]

… I think… I’ve heard of it. But if I remember correctly, it was a musical.

[ That moment when apocalyptic events prevent Cats (2019) from happening because ORV takes place in 2018. ]

I mean, people definitely sang. But I wish they hadn't.

[he has aged]

... People were most likely dying in this school you had to attend, but you are thinking about how poorly done Cats was.

[ help

he sees the age, but still ]

I mean, you asked me about quirks, I assumed you already knew about the other part. Obviously it's infinitely worse.

[ ... Well. Rupert isn't wrong, so he lets it go. ]

School life then... With classes where you watch bad movies.

[ Is that right? ]

Yeah... Anyone who died got sent to a place called daycare.

[bad]

[ ................... ]

Daycare.

[ OH HE HATES THAT SO MUCH ]

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