Home Of Mischief & Mayhem

(You equip MEMORY OF TRAP.)

(The room is clear to you.) (You don't even need to turn off the lights.) (The bricks get pressed, the lock's code is inputted.)

(And... done.) (You got the key.)

Thank you, Loop.

[Me? You're thanking moi?]

[Why, I ought to be thanked every day for dealing with you Siffrins!] [...But why, in particular, am I being thanked this time?]

Is Loop talking to you?

(So dusk can't hear when Loop talks to you?)

[Yeah, I can choose to speak to multiple of you or just you if I want to.]

Ah, that makes sense, Loop.

(So that was said to both of you then.)

Loop, I thanked you because without your help, I wouldn't have been able to get that memory set up.

We never have to worry about needing to repeat this room's puzzles because of you.

[No! Genuine compliments?! Gross!!!] [Knock that off.]

(They're always doing that.) (Is it really so gross to care about someone?)

Let's go see Lupus' car, they've waited long enough for us.

(...Hrm.) (Okay, but it's different with him! It's not fair!)

SPLAT!

I got it!

(Lupus tugs onto both of your cloaks.)

Hey, Siffrents, wait.

What is it, Lulu?

I wanna show you my car... but you always go in there and sometimes you don't come out...

We'll be right back. It won't take long at all, okay?

...Okay. But you better not be lying.

We wouldn't, twinkle.

(Twinkle?) (Is that a nickname you can use for them?) (That's so... cute...)

(You ruffle their hair.) (It leaves their hat crooked.)

(...No Director.) (No glass screen.)

FORWARD EVENT ...AGAIN?

[Hold on, didn't I just send you away?]

[Clingy, how clingy!] [Why don't you go bother that other star if you want some company that badly?]

[...Anyway, there is nothing to report.] [The Traveler made it through floor one without any incidents.] [The Ghost didn't leave for the snack break, since the Garden is now closed.]

[Seems like everything is all hunky-dory, audience.]

Everyone, say “FROMAGE”!

Froma-

Wh-WHAT WAS THAT?!? (text skip)

(It's nice to have dusk in here with you for once.) (Despite this, holding the tomato bomb feels heavy.)

(...With your free hand, you grab dusk's.) (This hand has all his fingers. They interweave between all of yours.)

FORWARD EVENT

[And with that, the night continues on without anything to note.]

[The kid cooks them all a big happy dinner, and they get a good night's sleep. And then in the morning the Researcher refuses to speak on something.]

[Around and around it all goes in an endless repeating cycle.]

[There is no escape.] [There will never be an escape.]

[And yet, deeper you go.] [So audience, enjoy the show.]

WAIT!!!

Gwah!!! What? What is it?!? (text skip)

(You're at the death corridor again.) (You let Isabeau and Mirabelle discover the skeleton.) (You're supposed to distract Bonnie with a joke right now.)

(But... instead you wait silently before the scene allows you to approach.)

(So this is Halley, huh?)

(Technically, the corpse already had a name.) (But somehow, a nickname makes it more personal.)

(...You've been doing everything you can to avoid them.)

(Even now, you'd really rather not look at it.) (But still. You should. This could have easily been dusk.)

(You take out your silver coin.) (It's still with you, even through all these loops.) (The coin is worth now than it had before, when you first used it.)

(You bend down closer.) (You can't see any limbs with the rock in the way.)

(...You settle for placing it on top their cloak.)

We'll give them a proper burial tomorrow, Sif.