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[zen_en_vert]

My friend has vanished.

[Says Bruce, shortly, into the camera.]

I heard a rumour we were all supposed to come back from the dead here, but he hasn't. Either he's found a way home- and there is a way out of here. [And he didn't come back to tell them, which he doesn't like to think is like Tony, but honestly might be.] Or something killed him and we haven't found the body.

I know we don't know one another well yet, and it'll be hard to guess, but has anyone else noticed disappearances?

I for one am not done trying to break out of here.

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[64th]

Under pressure, anyone will choose to save themselves. [ why yes she is being a dick, how kind of you to notice. ]

[zen_en_vert]

You think that's true? About- say, Steve?

[64th]

[ no. ]

Steve is - [ she huffs. ] Most people aren't Steve.

[zen_en_vert]

This is one of our colleagues. And yes, Tony isn't Steve. None of us are entirely. But I trust him.

[64th]

Maybe they sent him home.

[zen_en_vert]

That's what I'm hoping.

[64th]

At least somebody got out.

[zen_en_vert]

And he has some medical complications that are probably far safer handled at home, so.

Have you noticed any disappearances?

[64th]

No. I haven't exactly made many friends. There's not a lot of people I'd notice if they went missing.

This used to happen in the hotel before I came here. Sometimes people came back, sometimes they didn't.

[zen_en_vert]

Right, I remember you saying-

Tell me more about the hotel?

[64th]

Well, there wasn't any staff. We had tablets, kind of like the cell phones they gave us here. New people showed up about every month or so. They were trying to break us - starving us, freezing us, hallucinations. The people who came back were kind of fucked up when they came back. Mentally. Sometimes physically. Myself included.

[zen_en_vert]

Is this place better, worse, or no different?