[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

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 her before the disappearance.
  hiii i'm fiend i like playing with tuoys and walking
  around aimlessly :]
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!

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 real

Anything else of note?

when i came out of fake i was dropped in the middle of nowhere.

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 though, 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.

im taking a hand-crafted gift for someone else and using it as my own

It still may be worth checking out.

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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