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The Haunted Hotel
Having gotten rid of Freud, you and the glitches decided, out of boredom, to step into a wealthy-looking hotel nearby. As soon as you entered, you realized almost immediately that something was wrong. There wasn't a single living soul inside, the elevators weren't working, and many floors looked abandoned and semi-destroyed. You even began to worry whether ghosts haunted the place. Many laughed at this suggestion, but Goomer was in no mood for laughter. He shared your theory, swearing on his mother that someone had been following him from the very reception desk. Alas, no one listened to you—and everyone went on to explore the place further.
Having gotten rid of Freud, you and the glitches decided, out of boredom, to step into a wealthy-looking hotel nearby. As soon as you entered, you realized almost immediately that something was wrong. There wasn't a single living soul inside, the elevators weren't working, and many floors looked abandoned and semi-destroyed. You even began to worry whether ghosts haunted the place. Many laughed at this suggestion, but Goomer was in no mood for laughter. He shared your theory, swearing on his mother that someone had been following him from the very reception desk. Alas, no one listened to you—and everyone went on to explore the place further.
On the second floor of the hotel, you discovered a bar. Although it was covered in dust and many chairs looked like they'd be better left unsat upon, all the bottles of expensive alcohol were untouched. You decided not to linger there, but someone convinced Fragment to stay. When, after some indefinite amount of time, you—having lost your way in a labyrinth of corridors—accidentally came upon the bar again, you saw a large man trying to wake up a knocked-out Fragment, urging him to go to the roof and start catching pineapple pigeons. You simply shrugged and moved on to the next floors.
Having climbed to the fifth floor via the stairs, you were noticeably exhausted. Eh, Mom did say I should quit smoking... Breathing heavily, you peeked into the nearest room—and immediately let out a loud screech of surprise upon seeing the dead Ment sitting in an armchair. What was strange was that the deceased's face was absolutely peaceful, as if he had seen something beautiful before death. Fortunately, at your scream, an old man in a white coat appeared from nowhere, ran into the room, applied a plantain leaf to the neatly fatal wound in Ment's chest, and said loudly: “The doggy hurts, the kitty hurts, and let Mentik not hurt!” After these actions, Ment opened his eyes as if nothing had happened. When you asked him who had attacked him, he answered nothing, saying he had forgotten everything. And the strange old man in the coat had vanished without a trace...
Your misadventures did not end there. You decided that it was time to leave this place and hastily descended to the foyer, toward the exit. There was total silence, and none of your imaginary friends were there. Terrified, you ran toward the entrance doors with your eyes closed, screaming hysterically and pushing them with force. To your surprise, the doors were not locked—and no ghosts attacked you. You exhaled in relief, opened your eyes—and saw the body of Nephela lying on the asphalt. Around her, potato-inspectors were already circling, outlining her body in chalk and stretching yellow "Keep Out" tape in the air. To the question “What happened?”, the potatoes merely shrugged and replied that she simply fell and gave up the ghost, as if her time had simply run out. Then, other glitches ran out of the hotel doors and began asking the inspectors in chorus if they had seen who did it. “Who did it? The same one who spoke with Ivashchenko's voice in 2003, 2004, and 2005,” one potato replied. “You've got it all mixed up, you blockhead! Not the one who spoke, but the one who conducted the orchestra at that time!” countered his partner. Still understanding nothing, you sat on the asphalt, looking sadly at Nephela's corpse and thinking how boring, lonely, and bleak it would be without her. It was as if you were desperately clutching a piece of the past, and it had finally slipped from your hands, disappearing forever. With these thoughts, you returned to the real world, opening your eyes and suddenly starting to cough...
ACTIVE GLITCHES:
1. Morning
2. Crabby
4. Goomer
5. Mestearu
7. Crestfallen Ariake
8. Ment
9. Небо
11. Fragment
12. MasteR
13. Злобный Ящур
DECEASED GLITCHES:
3. WishmasteR
6. Нефела
10. Freud
