Would you speak with a queen? Or a cat? (AUDIENCE HALL)

[twinverses]

Need something? Want to complain more directly to your cute hosts or maybe you want to bargain with your memories? Maybe you just have a favor. Regardless, this is the place to do it! Just knock on the Audience Hall's door or just call for the Alices and they'll answer.

Of course, if you want to speak with a particular Alice just note that in your toplevel as long with the date and rough time it's happening. They can be contacted IC-ly throughout the day.

For the final week, in person meetings with the Storyteller (formerly known as the Cat) aren't possible. Alice, obviously, isn't talking to anyone either. However! The Storyteller can be called to talk throughout the castle so just say where you're yelling at her from.

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Comments

[twinverses]

That's where the castle is. It's... not a nice place outside of here especially if you're alive. Yeah... like that. They only really try to attack living kids...

[xxxx_me]

So we have to be dead to be safe?

...

Do your memories get taken away when you're dead?

[twinverses]

At least... I think so. There might be other ways. That's what Alice told me, anyway.

Also, no... not if you're out of the Nameless Forest. I think I just was gone for a very long time so I began to forget. I don't think you guys would go through that.

[xxxx_me]

...? Does dying mean you aren't in the Nameless Forest anymore?

[twinverses]

Mm. Yeah. She puts you in a safe place outside of it until the game is over. That's what he's in charge of.

[She stops--]

The one Ib saw, I mean. The monster that roared. He's friendly, though. She didn't have to kill her over that...

[xxxx_me]

[Uhhhhh...]

So you're just... holding our souls somewhere? And the monster guards them?

[twinverses]

Mister Roary is very friendly. He's doing us a favor, that's all.

[....look Alice is a good girl but hm. Hm.]

He's.. well, Alice said his title was the Father.

[xxxx_me]

He has a title?

[Wait.]

It makes it sound like he's an adult.

[twinverses]

Some monsters look and act like adults. I mean, witches are all old in stories, right? That doesn't mean they're actual adults. I dunno why Alice says that's his title. He never told me, either.

[xxxx_me]

...Does he look like a person?

[twinverses]

No... he's... like a giant, um. I'm not sure how to describe him? A lion? A dog? Both?

[She stops herself.]

Uh. But don't tell Alice I said that.

[xxxx_me]

[O-oh.]

...He sounds scary.

[twinverses]

He's really fluffy, though. He gives good piggy back rides.

[xxxx_me]

...Do you ride around on his back sometimes?

[Oops now he's sidetracked.]

[twinverses]

When he lets me! It's really fun... I think Alice gets jealous sometimes, hehe.

[xxxx_me]

He doesn't let her do it?

[twinverses]

I think she's jealous of him, not me.

[xxxx_me]

[...???]

She wants to give you a piggy back ride?

[twinverses]

[Poor Allen.]

Maybe? I don't think she could do it, though.

[xxxx_me]

So she's not that strong?

[twinverses]

She can carry me but...

]She gestures to herself.]

Have you ever tried giving a piggy back ride to someone your own size? It doesn't work very well...

[xxxx_me]

That's true...

She can't change her appearance or anything?

[twinverses]

She can turn into a cat and other people she doesn't really like changing into other people much. Same as I don't like going out of this room.

[xxxx_me]

So... she can, but she doesn't like to?

[twinverses]

Mm, yeah. I don't mind her being a cat but I don't really like her in other forms... it feels wrong. Like we're not the same.