[ the resort staff would, indeed, come running if tseng called them, but he absolutely will not. he would sooner die than let any of the resort staff inside his private quarters, which he's so painstakingly swept for bugs and mapped for every possible point of ingress. so, yes, tseng will host rufus, and will take care of the liquor and food himself, because another thing he doesn't trust them with is rufus, however difficult it is for him to look rufus in the eye right now.
there is something huge and unspoken between them, the size of an elphadunk, the shape of the president's desk. tseng can't be the one to acknowledge it, but he feels its presence, just like he knows rufus does too. it's fine. they won't talk about it. they've always been very good at not talking about it. ]
Yes, sir. This way.
[ there is a dining area, but tseng leads rufus past it and into the kitchen, which is the only space in the entire apartment that actually looks like it sees regular use. there are stools tucked up under a long counter, and tseng pulls one out for rufus to sit on while he goes for the liquor cabinet.
whiskey, neat. tseng has the good stuff, top shelf—a privilege of his rank. he pours rufus two fingers, then passes the glass over; he won't pour any for himself until he's done delivering his report. ]
The resort is fully self-contained without any means of egress. There is an enormous population of what the resort seems to consider "long-term guests," but the population of newer guests hovers somewhere between 100 and 150 to the best of my estimation. The means of selection and the mechanism used to retrieve those guests is as of yet unclear to me, as I have been unable to find the center of resort operations.
Every guest is assigned a rank and a suit on arrival. It is unknown how the ranks and suits are decided. Ranks do not seem to correlate to a guest's social standing in their origin world. Suits possibly correlate to certain inherent traits within each guest, but the evidence is anecdotal and self-reported. Ranks are mutable and can be changed either by a guest themselves or by another guest on their behalf; suits are unchanging, to the best of my knowledge.
There is an expectation that all guests engage in sexual activity regularly throughout their stay. Consequences for failure to participate include first a slow darkening of the guest's suit mark, as well as physical symptoms that seem to differ depending on the guest's suit. The activation of a suit seems to begin after two to four weeks without sex, and can be reversed by participating in sex.
[ and here he pauses, for any clarifying questions rufus may have. ]
no subject
there is something huge and unspoken between them, the size of an elphadunk, the shape of the president's desk. tseng can't be the one to acknowledge it, but he feels its presence, just like he knows rufus does too. it's fine. they won't talk about it. they've always been very good at not talking about it. ]
Yes, sir. This way.
[ there is a dining area, but tseng leads rufus past it and into the kitchen, which is the only space in the entire apartment that actually looks like it sees regular use. there are stools tucked up under a long counter, and tseng pulls one out for rufus to sit on while he goes for the liquor cabinet.
whiskey, neat. tseng has the good stuff, top shelf—a privilege of his rank. he pours rufus two fingers, then passes the glass over; he won't pour any for himself until he's done delivering his report. ]
The resort is fully self-contained without any means of egress. There is an enormous population of what the resort seems to consider "long-term guests," but the population of newer guests hovers somewhere between 100 and 150 to the best of my estimation. The means of selection and the mechanism used to retrieve those guests is as of yet unclear to me, as I have been unable to find the center of resort operations.
Every guest is assigned a rank and a suit on arrival. It is unknown how the ranks and suits are decided. Ranks do not seem to correlate to a guest's social standing in their origin world. Suits possibly correlate to certain inherent traits within each guest, but the evidence is anecdotal and self-reported. Ranks are mutable and can be changed either by a guest themselves or by another guest on their behalf; suits are unchanging, to the best of my knowledge.
There is an expectation that all guests engage in sexual activity regularly throughout their stay. Consequences for failure to participate include first a slow darkening of the guest's suit mark, as well as physical symptoms that seem to differ depending on the guest's suit. The activation of a suit seems to begin after two to four weeks without sex, and can be reversed by participating in sex.
[ and here he pauses, for any clarifying questions rufus may have. ]