[FROM THE OUTSIDE-IN]
[how did we get here?]

MEMO7A - dealing-with-(interrogator/interloper/troublemaker)

I want answers, creature.

answers to what?? you can't just barge in here and drag me to a dimly lit room expecting me to be compliant with your... whatever you have going on here

You know more about The Jouse than you lead on, surely.

i didn't even know this was a part of it

We're not doing this.

well, an introduction would be a good start maybe??

Fine, though I doubt you're unfamiliar with me.

i have no idea who you are

My name is Kim, I was close to who you may know as "The Owner" before her disappearance.

hiii i'm fiend i like playing with tuoys and walking around aimlessly :]

...Sure. From what I've come to understand, some circumstances led to you somehow gettng wrapped up in all of this.

Were you or were you not inside The Jouse at the time of her vanishing?

i might've been... honestly, i've been trying to understand this whole predicament myself.

"Might've..." you're not very helpful, you know that?

nah i'm just messing with you i was totally there

Okay... what happened after she disappeared?

well nothing at first, but eventually the walls shifted and lead me to a variant i hadn't seen before

New variant... very interesting. Tell me more.

it was a whole thing involving some keys that beamed some knowledge into my brain and let me understand the jouse's existence. pretty tragic, honestly... i almost feel bad for it, but i've resigned to the fact that there is nothing i can do about it.

What did they say?

we can check it out after the interrogation, kim

I'm not the one being pressed, Fiend.

I've noticed that peculiar key hanging off your bag. It didn't happen to use those, did it?

no they were rusty and brittle, broke after one use. i got this at the end in a room labelled "core."

Interesting... the core of The Jouse?

maybe, though there wasn't much variation in its design compared to other variants ive been through. it seemed like a red herring, though the key is definitely real

Anything else of note?

when i came out of fake i was dropped in the middle of nowhere and had to find my way back here, just to see the entrance to second layer was behind a locked door now... the purplekey opened it, so it might be intentional?

Weird.

You know, there were no signs of The Jouse wanting to let anybody know of its nature aside from her. Why would it take a liking to you? Is it just a "right person at the right time" sort of thing?

could be! wouldn't be surprised, really...

though to be honest, i haven't gone through much of second layer, just the first floor. something about that place feels really ominous

How so?

like there's something there that isn't for me, like im taking a hand-crafted gift for someone else and using it as my own

It still may be worth checking out, you know. With that new variant, who knows whether or not it stopped there?

fair point... are we done here?

I suppose, I got what I needed.

I'll be leaving now, thank you for your cooperation, Fiend.

okay... see you around, kim?

Very likely.

♪ — tape-recorder
original: Oh, Hi - corru.works

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