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[ Daniel wakes up in his hotel room in the village of Altstadt. He is definitely in Altstadt, and certainly not in a room in Wonderland which has styled itself to look exactly the same. And, it logically follows, this room is definitely not broadcasting a video of him without his knowledge or consent.

THAT ESTABLISHED,

Daniel springs out of a restless sleep and sits up on the edge of his bed, blinking in the morning light. It must be earlier than it looks, because nobody has come to knock him up, and he definitely asked to be knocked up at 7am promptly. He was very clear in asking to be knocked up.

They'd better not have forgotten. Might they have done? This is sort of a ghetto guest-house, if you want his honest opinion. There's not even a bell he can ring to call a servant.

Okay, Daniel doesn't have time to be annoyed by the inconveniences of rural life. His thoughts are too full of the last leg of his journey, which will be undertaken today, to the castle where he might finally find some safety -- so he stands up quickly, steps away from the bed. Lacking a clock, he just assumes he's late, and starts to undress hurriedly out of his woolen cap and night-shirt.

The network is still definitely not there, but if it were, it would probably now be broadcasting an early Victorian strip tease. ]

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No, actually I think it's the perfect time to tell you to turn it off. That or put your clothes back on. Either one's fine with me.

[Greed does not particularly care why the twitchy guy is twitchy. He just wants to not have to look at his butt.]

[ This hallucination is talking a lot more than they usually do. That probably wouldn't be a good sign if he was allowing himself to think about it. ]

Pay it no mind, Daniel. [ Yes, he's pep-talking himself. Shut up.

He does start to pull on an undershirt, hastily, followed by suspenders for his drawers, because hey don't you use suspenders on your underwear? But hi butt is still visible. ]

Hey! I'm talking to you!

[R U D E.]

[ ...

Daniel glances at the room's door, to make sure it's closed and not about to be opened.

Then he goes over to the screen and, working on the theory that it's a moving painting, tries to turn it around to face the wall. He is as unsuccessful as you might imagine. ]

[Hold on. Does he not know how to turn it off?

Not that that's any excuse for ignoring him, or for being inconsiderate with his undressing, but still, Greed sounds a little less annoyed when he says:]

There's probably a switch or a button or something.

For an image?

[ Okay, so Daniel wasn't going to reply to the hallucination in case he encouraged it, but a painting with a switch is just nonsensical enough to surprise him into an answer.

Yes, he has great priorities, why do you ask? ]

Oh, now you talk to me? [But it's almost teasing now, because now he kind of gets the reason why.] You must be new. It's something they have here, like a radio with pictures. Only problem is, they like to turn on at the wrong times. Like just now.

[ Okay, so, usually by now the vision would have gone away. And he wouldn't be holding a conversation with it. Uh.

Now, Daniel is a reasonable and rational guy, he's not going to go jumping to such irrational conclusions as 'it's because of the creepy Orb!' or 'there's a magical painting in this hotel!!!'. There's probably a reasonable and rational explanation for this weird thing.

After several worried moments, he says quickly: ]

I'm sorry, I haven't been sleeping well.

[ Because justifying yourself to your own hallucination is SUPER REASONABLE AND RATIONAL

And then he starts throwing his clothes on again, as if the act of dressing is a race. At least his butt's going away now? ]

Well, I guess I'll count that as a win...

[Greed's got basically what he wanted, so he just rolls his eyes at twitchy guy's obvious cluelessness and turns off his own radio-thing. The screen goes dark, which may or may not make Daniel feel any better.]

[ Well, that's one way to make a first impression.

Daniel notices fairly quickly when the screen goes blank, leaving behind what for all intents and purposes just looks like an odd little picture frame with no picture. And that is a little reassuring, because he has a lot on his schedule today and none of it involves going any madder than he absolutely needs to be, ah ha ha ha HA HA ha /gross sobbing

He allows himself to sigh a sigh of relief. ]

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