Hotel Petrichor

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**Hotel Petrichor** (commonly abbreviated as **ホテぺト**, *HotePeto*) is the second installment of the Minecraft roleplay series BlackTales.

## Plot

### Episode 1

The story starts with a lightning strike and starts with **Broooock**'s perspective. Across from him is a man dressed in blue who appears to have just woken up as well. Broooock tries to move but finds he is restrained by a chain in the bathtub, while the man in blue was chained to the ground. The two of them ask each other who they are, and the man in blue introduces himself as **Kintoki**. With the both of them stuck, Broooock asks Kintoki if he has anything that could unlock the chain restraining them, but the only thing Kintoki had was a note and a room key.

Broooock tells Kintoki that he has a bath scoop filled with water, while Kintoki asks if Broooock can see the key in the gutter, and asks him if he could use the water from the scoop to make the key flow over to Kintoki. Broooock is hesitant and has doubts, but he obliges to Kintoki's plan and lets the water flow, letting Kintoki unlock his chain.

Before unlocking Broooock's chain, Kintoki asks him about his identity, but both of them seem to have memory loss and are unable to recall anything. After seeing that they both were in the same boat, Kintoki finally unlocks Broooock's chain which causes a secret door to slowly side open.

Leaving the secret room they were trapped in, the two venture into a new room that appears to be a living space. Both assumed that they were kidnapped and locked inside a secret room in a **house**. In the room they thought to be the living room were two umbrellas. By taking the umbrella, they were given instructions to **"Escape from this room and go to the Ground Floor."**

With the goal being to *escape,* the two inspected the room for clues. The door to the exit has a lock that requires them to enter *three* numbers. Broooock finds a button that when pressed would turn off the lights, showing glow-in-the-dark dots with the colors red, green, and blue. Kintoki notices that on top of the lock, there are dots with the colors red, green, and blue. This allows Broooock and Kintoki to be led to the conclusion that the three numbers for the lock on the door are the quantity of the different colored dots,

Broooock volunteers to count the red and green dots while Kintoki counts the blue dots. The final amount of the dots are two red dots, three green dots, and seven blue dots. This means that the password they have to enter to open the door is **237**, which is also the *number of the room* they are trapped in.

Exiting the room, the two see that they were trapped in a hotel room rather than a house. Walking further, the hotel's hallway was dominated by the color *light blue* and *white,* decorated with hydrangea plants and chandeliers. The two were fascinated at how luxurious and grand the hotel was before remembering that they were told to go to the Ground Floor. Going down the stairs to the Ground Floor, Broooock notices a big umbrella mark in the middle of the hotel lobby while Kintoki noticed a person below the stairs.

The person that Kintoki spotted is revealed to be **Smile** as we switch over to his perspective before he came to the hotel lobby. Just like Broooock, he woke up to the loud lightning strike. Unlike Broooock and Kintoki, he was not chained down and thus was able to wander around the foreign area carefully. Smile concludes he is in a hotel room seeing the room key he has and takes some time to admire the indoor hotel courtyard from the window. Noticing an umbrella in the middle of the room, he takes it and received the **same instructions** as Broooock and Kintoki. After taking the umbrella, he saw a briefcase on the table. By retrieving the leather briefcase, a part of his memories was recovered:

> ***"Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember now...
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> I make formulas for medicines and treat patients.
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> I am a **pharmacist.**
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> There was a patient that was suffering from weakening muscles caused by his old age. If I recall correctly, the medicine that I prescribed for him was called the **LONI formula**. It can be created by combining fine powders that have the color **red, blue, green, and yellow**. That medicine surely must be able to help the life of that patient."
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By retrieving a briefcase, Smile obtains a glass bottle and a formula book that is used to learn how to make the LONI formula and how to create the four powders mentioned in his recovered memory. Before trying to create the medicine, Smile attempts to open the exit door of the hotel room, but fails to due to his weak arms. Smile then concludes that the LONI formula will be able to help recover some muscle strength as it was made for a patient to recover from muscle weakness. If he were to take the medicine, Smile would surely have enough strength to open the door. After his failed attempt to leave, Smile enters the bathroom to fill the glass bottle with water. Conveniently, there are various plants scattered around the hotel room that can be processed into the powders Smile needs to make the LONI formula. By taking the plants Torch Flower, Orchid, and Crimson Mushroom, he was able to make the drugs lithium (red powder), Iogane (blue powder), and nickel (yellow powder). To craft oxygen (green powder), he has to mix Iogane and nickel, meaning that he has to create an additional pair of blue and yellow powder.

Using the brewing stand in the corner of the room, Smile places the water bottle in the stand to begin combining the powders. However, it seems that the powders can't be mixed one by one from the stand. Smile then uses the *crafting interface* to *create the LONI powder by combining all four powders*. It is then put into the stand as the brewing material, completing the LONI formula. Smile drinks the potion and regains his energy, now able to open the door and leave the room. Smile observes that the room he was in was room **No. 444** before losing his memory. He walks through the hallway of the hotel admiring its luxury just like Broooock and Kintoki before coming across an elevator. Riding the elevator down, he manages to reach the Ground Floor and walks to the lobby to find 5 umbrellas. Taking an umbrella gives a new instruction, which is **"Wait here."**

After a while, Smile sees Broooock and Kintoki coming down the stairs and introduces himself to the duo. The three of them decide to have a minor discussion due to their lack of information. Broooock asks Smile if he is a part of the hotel staff, to which he denies by telling the two that he is a customer. The Broooock and Kintoki then introduce themselves to Smile and tell Smile that neither of them remembers anything before waking up in the hotel, while Smile tells them that he was told to go to the Ground Floor, and he was already at the hotel room when he woke up.

Kintoki wonders if Smile had been trapped just like him and Broooock, but it was denied once again by Smile saying that he was in the hotel room when he woke up. The three of them proceed to agree that the situation is abnormal.

The episode ends with the trio seeing a blond man in dark garb coming their way.

### Episode 2

The episode begins with **Kiriyan** waking up in a room with distorted vision. The only thing he carries is a key to room **No. 973**. Going out of the room he woke up in, he finds the same umbrella Broooock, KIntoki, and Smile got from the previous episode that gave the same instructions. The room at the end of the hall contains an excessive amount of teapots all over the floor and any surface it could be on.

> "Spare pots? Is this a storage room? Surely you don't need this much, right?" - Kiriyan
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He then came to realize that he is in a bar, coming to an assumption that he might be drunk or hungover which would explain his wobbly vision. Exploring the bar, he came across the restrooms, nonchalantly entering the girl's toilet and opening all the stalls. In the men's restroom, there is a Holy Grail located on the sink. By retrieving the Holy Grail, a part of his memories was recovered:

> ***"Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember now...
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> I tell the tales of the Bible, and sometimes exorcise the evil.
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> I am a **Priest.**
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> This hotel is **overflowing with the energy of evil**. Especially the **theater located on the Ground Floor**, which has a **very powerful devil's energy coming out of it**. However, there is a **beautiful church** located on the third floor of this hotel. I wish that I could use that place to pray."
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Noticing that the water in the Holy Grail could be drunk, Kiriyan decides to try drinking it, leading to his vision distortion disappearing. Even though his problem is solved, there is a puzzle that he has to solve to get a key to the bar's door so he could get out. There are paintings and words written on the wall, scattered all across the bar.

Above the locked door is the word **"rewarD"** pointing to a key, two words below paintings which are **"liveD"** and **"staR"**, and a word near the pot's room writing **"stoP"**. The puzzle is solved by reading the word backward since the first alphabet of a word should be in the capital. By reading **rewarD** backward, it becomes **Drawer**, pointing that the key is in the drawer. Opening the drawer, Kiriyan was indeed rewarded with the bar's key, allowing him to escape to the room. The bar's name is revealed to be **SKY**.

Having no other place to go, Kiriyan only has the choice to ride the elevator to go to the Ground Floor. Arriving at the lobby, he meets the people from the previous episode. Kiriyan then introduces himself, before he and the three ask each other if they are staff of the hotel, in which the two party denies they are, but agreed on the fact that all of them awoken with no memories. Kiriyan tells the three that he is probably hungover, making Broooock mock him, saying that despite having the cross over his neck, he drinks and gets hungover.

After some time passes, another person arrives in the lobby, claiming to be a staff of the hotel. But it wasn't totally convincing.

> "I'm Hotel" -Sharken to everyone.
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The person that just arrived was **Sharken** as we switch onto his perspective before he arrived at the lobby. He woke up in **the kitchen** as the thunder rang. Inspecting the area, he found a picture of a cow with a key inside it. Desperate to get out, he retrieved a kitchen knife from the counter and recovered part of his memories:

> ***"Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember now...
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> I make meals and serve them to customers.
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> **I am a chef.**
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> I am the one in charge of the whole kitchen in this hotel.
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> "I dirtied the sheet again! Even though human blood is hard to wash."
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> Before it is found by the owner, I need to bring it to the linen room."
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Obtaining the umbrella, he received the same instruction as the rest of the members. At first, he tried to barge out of the room with his knife, before actually trying to look for actual ways. He saw a door that was covered in ice and a note that writes: **"When fresh meat is received, it must be refrigerated right away."**

There is another item in the kitchen that can be retrieved, which is a rolling pin. For some reason, Sharken started to try to cut carrots, thinking it might be a way out. After that, he threw his knife into the stove, expecting it to be a heated knife and could melt the frozen door, but that is not the way. Finally, he can melt the door by setting the rolling pin on fire.

Inside the frozen door is a freezer for fresh meat. By using the knife, he can get the key out from the insides of a cow and escape from the kitchen. Outside of the kitchen is the hotel's restaurant, and exiting the restaurant, Sharken was met with the elevator. With the same goal of going to the Ground Floor as the other members, he rides the elevator down to the lobby and meets the rest of the group.

Despite losing his memory, he confidently tells the group that he is a staff, leading to the group mocking him over his clueless nature, despite being a staff. The other members then introduce themselves to him, while he tells the rest that he is a chef, and he has no other memories other than that. When Sharken takes the last umbrella, a man dressed in light blue appeared at the counter.

The episode ends with the man in light blue greeting the guests.

### Episode 3

The episode starts with the man in light blue (played by Nakamu) greeting all of the members, saying that he has a message that has yet to be informed to the guests when they check in.

> "Then first, let's start with the hotel's leaflet. By looking at the front, please take the leaflets available on the rack on your right side, one for each person. It will be the only object to give you information about this hotel, so do give it at least one read. Then, let us continue. I would like to explain the "key" that each of you has in your possession. At this hotel, you're able to exchange your keys. If by any chance you are not taking a liking to the room you're staying at, you can exchange your keys at the "Key Exchanging Counter" next to the elevator by changing the key name to the room that you would like, then the person in charge will exchange your keys as soon as possible."
> -Nakamu to the rest.
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Finishing his explanation about the hotel, he asks the guest if they have any complaints about the hotel right now, to which the guests responded that everything is okay for now. The man then continues speaking, warning the guests of a *storm that is raining down over the whole neighborhood,* saying that with its state right now, it has a chance of not ending even after a week. But then he tells the guests to calm down because this is a hotel and hopes the guests could enjoy their stay in "Hotel Petrichor". After finishing his explanation, he then permits himself as he disappears, and the guests are left alone again.

With the man gone, umbrellas appear at two different paths, as if telling the guests to split into two teams. Sharken, Broooock, and Kiriyan go to the right side, while Kintoki and Smile go to the left side. When Kiriyan takes the umbrella, an instruction appears on his screen: **"Follow the hints, and aim for a certain room."**

Kiriyan and Sharken proceed to read the leaflet they received while Broooock takes a note off the floor.

The note that Broooock picks up just now reads: **"Look at the door with the blue sun."**, which starts their quest.

The group proceeds to look at the entrance door because it is the door mentioned in the notes. Broooock goes to the length of climbing the hydrangea plants, then the group goes to the top of the lobby to get a better view, but still, nothing happened. The next hint was found by Broooock when he approaches the door: **"Go pass the gate surrounded by purple."**. At first, Broooock pointed to the gate to his left, but Smile seemed to have found their hint by accident when he was trying to pass the right gate.

The next hint is: **"Follow the path of a black snake with five heads and stop at an upside-down pillar."**. It was solved by Broooock when he looks over to the waiting line. When the so-called f\*\*king priest and useless chef group back up with him, they all go through the waiting line and look for the upside-down pillar next. It was found by Kiriyan containing the hint: **"Following the road, go straight past the rope and door."**. By going straight, the three are headed to the Staff Only room.

Inside the room is another hint: **"Go through the door that has two different colors of lights hanging, go left and look for 'sea'."**. By following the instruction, the team was led towards a painting of a beach. On the painting was a hint that writes: **"While looking at the blue box, go to where the needle is pointing to, and go through the door that appeared in your sight first."**. Kiriyan then proceeds to crabwalk and heads towards the door in the hallway when another hint appears on the wall: **"Go down the stair, become a star, and stand below the light."**

Opening the door below the stairs, the team was led into a huge theater. Standing below the light in the middle of the stage shows a new hint: **"Go through the double doors, follow the road and turn left four times, pass the darkness and look down the stage."**. By exiting the theater and following the road, it circles them back to the theater, but this time, the screen turns on while showing the text: **"This room is behind the biggest and vibrant umbrella."**. The teams then go to check out the big umbrella symbol located in the lobby, when they hear sounds coming out from a room called the **Projector Room.**

The team then starts to think about how they should go in. Kiriyan tries to go in through the wall but fails as Sharken cheers him on. With that, they go back to the theater to find more hints, but there was nothing besides **a weird hole below the stage**. After a little pondering, Kiriyan suggests that they *change their key into the Projector Room's key.* Broooock then tries to change his key's name from the key for room 318 to the Projector Room as Kiriyan suggested. Unexpectedly, the door to the Projector Room opened, leaving the rest of the team worried about the hotel's security. Inside the room is a notebook, that is taken by Broooock as he recovered parts of his memories:

> ***"Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember now...
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> I dig out the truth and expose it to the crowd.
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> **I am a journalist**
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> If I can expose this suspicious hotel's true nature, there is no doubt that it would be a sensational article to write. If I take more pictures of proof, the article's credibility should increase.
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> **Hmm... Where did I put my camera?**"
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The note itself writes:

> The hotel's rumour: "**Missing guests**"
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> * No trace
> * Ask the hotel for information -> X
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> According to neighborhood
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> * The amount of trash thrown by the hotel is little
> * The sound of the trash processing is loud
> * A large **incinerator** inside the hotel?
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> **Where did most of the missing guests go?**
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Reading the note, Broooock seemed to be shocked and passed it to Kiriyan even before he read it properly, which left Kiriyan to have the same reaction. Kiriyan then passed it to Sharken but changed his mind because Sharken is a staff member, but it was too late. Kiriyan was worried that he passed the note to the wrong person, but because Sharken also had the same reaction as the others, he was relieved.

Because the three finished their task, the perspective switched over to Smile and Kintoki's perspective. By taking the umbrella, they received the instruction to **"Find the name of a painting in the GALLERY."**

Arriving at the gallery, the two inspected all the paintings inside the gallery, with Kintoki saying that his arts are better. Smile asks if he paints, but Kintoki replies vaguely with a No. In the middle of the gallery, there is a huge painting with an empty title. Smile tells Kintoki that if they look from afar, it's a brush, but enters the painting's title as "Ancient Rome", but nothing happens, so the answer is wrong.

The puzzle can be solved by looking at the art in the gallery to be forming alphabets. For example on the picture, the painting's placement seemed to form the alphabet "B". It starts simple, with the alphabet "R" next, but to get the rest of the alphabet, they need to look at the front and back of the painting and put them together, getting "U", "S", and "H". By writing **BRUSH** as the painting's title, Kintoki received a brush, and a part of his memories are recovered:

> ***"Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember now...
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> I pursue and draw beautiful art.
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> **I am a painter.**
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> I came to this hotel before when I was invited to establish a business with it. "The facility for workers looks the same as all other guest rooms. Tell them that '**Unused things are in room number 428'**" If I'm not wrong, the former owner told me that with pride on his face."
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With their task completed, the two headed back to the lobby, but on their way, they met with the other three members. The three tell Kintoki and Smile about the information they received about the hotel, saying that this hotel is dangerous. Sharken tells the other member that he realized there is no one in this hotel beside them, while Kintoki agrees, indicating that the guests going missing might be true, Broooock suggested that the guests might be hidden inside a secret room like the one he and Kintoki was stuck at. In the middle of the discussion, a bell rang as an announcement spoke:

> "For all the people staying in this Hotel, this bell hints at the arrival of the night, and announces the bedtime of this hotel. To not cause a bother to other guests, please hurry and take a rest in your rooms. As for the five guests on the Ground Floor, the 3rd floor's rooms are all open, so feel free to stay and rest in whichever room you like."
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The members then all rode the elevator together to the 3rd floor. After arriving, they all choose their room, following the announcer's instructions. Broooock chooses the room **366**, while Sharken chooses the room across Broooock, which is **305**. The members say goodnight to each other before going into their rooms to sleep.

The episode ends by showing water flooding into the hotel through an open elevator.

### Episode 4

The episode begins from Kintoki's perspective, waking up in the morning. Looking back at his memory, he highlights the number 428 room being used to store unused stuff. Exiting his room, he took an umbrella outside his room as he meets the priest across from him. The umbrella instructs them to **"Find the incinerator"**. Kintoki tells Kiriyan that he remembered he was a painter and tries to paint over Kiriyan's dress.

We then switch our perspective to Broooock, waking up to a big yawn from Kiriyan.

> "I can hear something from the walls..." - Broooock
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Noting that the walls are thin, he walks away from the wall Kiriyan's room was at and recalls the memory he retrieved yesterday. Talking to himself, he had a feeling that the hotel is dangerous from when he was locked inside a hidden room, and it's abnormal that there is only one staff in the hotel (Nakamu), while wondering why Sharken would lose his memories if he was also a staff just like the one in the receptionist desk. In the end, he concludes that his goal, for now, is to try and write an article and find the camera he lost.

Going out of his room, he met up with the two that went out earlier than him. Kiriyan reported to Broooock that Kintoki is a painter, while Broooock tells them that he is going to write an article and that, he needs his camera first. The two ask Broooock about his profession. When they said if he was a journalist, Broooock warns the two that it's probably not good if he was exposed as a journalist (possibly telling them to keep it to themselves). They then continue their talks while walking through the hallway, when Kiriyan informed Kintoki that Kintoki had forgotten to lock his room and he had to go back to lock the door.

The members all regrouped back when Sharken and Smile finally came to them. With everyone present, they started discussing what to do next. Kiriyan shares his thoughts starting from the notebook they found yesterday about a suspicious incinerator. Because their task now is to find the incinerator, he proclaims the whole team to be a "hotel detective", and they shall go to the incinerator room and solve the mysteries.

In front of the elevator they are planning to ride, the members read the leaflet one more time for a hint of where the incinerator room is. Broooock proposes the idea of the incinerator being at the hole under the theater stage on the Ground Floor. Due to that, the members then tried to ride the elevator to the Ground Floor, but a notice appeared instead, saying that **the floor is inaccessible right now.**

The members had no choice but to go to the second floor instead. By going down the stairs, Broooock realised that the *entire* Ground Floor is flooded by water. An announcement then rang:

> "This is an announcement to all the guests staying. Due to the impact of a lightning strike, water is now flowing inside the hotel. The flood has now reached the back of the Ground Floor. To prevent more water from leaking into the hotel, all the doors will be closed and locked. In addition, please be informed that floors that are impacted by the flood cannot be reached with the elevator. Due to the pouring rain that had lasted for days, we are also unable to repair the damage that caused the flood to flow in. We sincerely apologize for the trouble that we have caused to the guests."
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Due to the flood, this means the theater cannot be accessed and they have to think of another way. It is at this time that Kintoki starts telling the others about the information he got from his memory. He informed the others that he had come here before, and was told by the owner that a room for employers and the room for guests look the same, meaning that the said room is camouflaged. He then continues, telling the other members about room number 428 which he is told to go to if he has something he doesn't need.

The member then goes to the number 428 room, following Kintoki's hints. At first impression, it looks like a completely normal room, just missing a bed. But, opening the door further reveals an **incinerator** that was mentioned in the notebook. Taking the umbrella in the room leads to another instruction: **"Decipher the words on the towels, then go to the name of the place mentioned."** . Near the incinerator, there was a jam and a dirty towel. The dirty towel picked up by Smile has a description: **"Oil stained. I don't know any more than that."**

As for Sharken, he picked up a green jam that recovered his memories:

> ***"Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember again...
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> Inside me, there was a bloodthirsty murderer.
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> To be precise... "There is".
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> "Rather than a meal coated in poison, meeting your end in a blue hotel with splattered red is much more modest and interesting, isn't it?"
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> The doublets number room that is connected to the Linen room, I hate it because it makes me feel like the demon inside me is being impaled."
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Kiriyan asks Sharken if he the chef has been here before because of the jam, but Sharken said that he doesn't know and so, they moved on to discussing how they could wash off the stain in the towel. The first try is to wash it off with the flood's water, but it of course doesn't work. Due to the lack of information, Sharken realized that he had to share the memory that he recovered, informing them that there is a **linen room**, and that it is located inside a room with doubled numbers (eg: 111, 222, 333). While proceeding, Sharken gives the members another hint about which room it could be, while being careful to not reveal that there is a *devil* inside him. He gives an excuse that he has *a bad memory of the place.* Arriving at the 6th floor, the team had trouble trying to find room number 666, but it turns out to be a room without a name. It could be proven to be room number 666 because it could only be opened using a key with the number 666. The room, unlike any other rooms, continues in a straight line. Opening the last door reveals the linen room. Inside the room, they received more towels with the description: **"Towel that has an alphabet written on it."** and three cleaning agents: **detergent for sheets, detergent for oil stain", and bleach**. By putting the oil-stained towel and the detergent for oil stains into to laundry, they were able to wash away the stain that covers the alphabet on the towel.

> "It's shockingly white!" - Kiriyan.
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Across the laundry, there are towels stained with the color red. They picked it up and then continued looking around the room when they found a place to hang the towel. By hanging the towel, they can see the alphabet written on the towels.

When Sharken took a closer look at one of the red-stained towels, it had an **iron smell**, indicating that it is blood, while Kintoki notices that the stain colors are different. One of them is darker red while another one of it is lighter. It turns out that they each have their own skills of telling because of their profession. The **darker red** has the **smell of an iron**, while the **lighter red** (according to Kintoki) is an **oil paint** and has the **smell of oil** (according to Sharken). With that information, the members went to wash the lighter red towel with oil stain detergent, but it doesn't work. In the end, the stain was removed by mixing *bleach to remove the color stain* and *oil detergent for the oil.* As for the one with the iron smell, it can be removed only by using bleach.

With all the towels clean, hanging all the towels presented them with the word "**Church"** and "**Key=Cross**". By changing the key name to **"cross"**, they can enter the church located on the 3rd floor.

The episode ended with all 5 guests entering the church.

### Episode 5

The episode begins with everyone entering the church, taking the umbrellas located on the paths. Each of them seemed to have their own tasks, but we can see Broooock's task being **"Take your camera that is located inside a courtyard where the evil lives."**. On the chair at the front, a cross was picked up by Kiriyan, and parts of his memories are recovered.

> "***Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember again...
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> There is a believer that regularly speaks about his worry
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> It is almost always caused by the energy of evil.
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> With only the cross, it’s not enough to completely purge the evil spirit away, but it is enough to fight it away and open a safe path to be walked.
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> While I could be said to be an exorcist, I could not remember the way to make the holy water nor the way to perform an exorcism using it…
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> Ah... Please forgive me..."
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Kiriyan then simplifies the memories that he retrieved to the rest. Broooock tells Kiriyan that he dropped his camera in the courtyard that is filled with evil energy. With Broooock's statement, they look for the courtyard located near the church. Arriving at the courtyard, Kiriyan warns the others of the overflowing energy of the evil at the courtyard's pond, but no one believed him because they could not see it. Kiriyan thought they would need the holy water to proceed, but he has forgotten how to create it. He also tells the others that he probably drank the holy water from the holy grail he held. The group mocks him for his actions and tells him to go over to the confession room.

> "What sins have you committed?"
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> "I forgot how to create the holy water and I drank something that seems like the holy water."
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> "I see, then, it's better that you quit being a priest."
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> "www..." -Kintoki and Kiriyan.
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Kiriyan then decides that they need to go on without the holy water and tells the rest that if it's to fight it away, he can do it with only the cross. Leading the way with the cross, they reached the end of the pond alongside Broooock, who retrieves his camera, and recovers another part of his memories:

> "***Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember again...
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> Besides just writing an article for this hotel, getting pictures as proof is essential as well. Using my beloved camera, I would like to take pictures of five places.
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> * A picture of the hotel's owner's hidden house
> * A picture of one's last dining table picture
> * A picture of "The Blue Cave"
> * A picture of a facility related to luck
> * A picture of a facility related to dance
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> With this, I should be able to write the article."
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Getting his camera back, Broooock then takes a picture of the church's hall. The four members lined up for a picture, but the camera deletes everyone's presence from the picture. Together with the camera, Broooock received a picture:

The picture has a word written in blue translating to: **Hidden?**

Searching through the church, the item found is a painting tool that belonged to Kintoki. By retrieving it, Kintoki recovered another part of his memory:

> "***Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember again...
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> The painting called BRUSH that is exhibited in the gallery is without a doubt **one of my works.**
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> At the celebration of the hotel's establishment, it's a gift for my acquaintance.
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> The work itself is one of the four.
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> With him gone, there have been false rumors spreading about my works, about it being a **"Cursed Art"**.
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> I have to **find my arts** scattered around the hotel and **destroy them.**
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> To protect his feelings."
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Kintoki then summarizes the memories he recovered, cutting off the part where he has to destroy the paintings that are found. Kiriyan asked if he needed to find the painting to take them back. The question was answered vaguely by Kintoki, pretending as if he hasn't retrieved his memory about what to do with the paintings.

In the middle of the discussion, the same bell as yesterday rang, with the same announcement sounding, except for the last few parts, that the five guests can stay on the **fourth floor** today, rather than the **third.** The five then rode the elevator to the fourth floor and enter their rooms to sleep like yesterday. Except Kintoki, that quietly goes back into the elevator and started heading toward the ground floor.

Entering the gallery, Kintoki gazes at his painting before using his paintbrush to smear the painting with blue paint, ruining the art. After he completed his task, he goes back to his room to sleep, just in time before Sharken passes through his room.

Switching to Sharken's perspective, he was running all over the hall to check if everyone was asleep. After confirming everyone was asleep, he then enters his room to sleep. When Sharken woke up, he was in a maze where walls were made of skulls and a dirt floor similar to the French catacombs. Looking around, he notices the tall and wide ceiling, indicating that this strange maze was very large. Walking forwards, he picks up an umbrella that gives him the instructions: "**Find a word, group up as 5 people and say it out loud together.**"

Everyone's perspectives were then shown to show their confused reaction, they were supposed to be asleep in the hotel, and most thought it was a dream. Kiriyan and Kintoki meet each other and decide to stick together to find the others while Broooock arrives at an area with an incomplete beacon altar. Sharken would soon arrive at the incomplete beacon by himself, as Broooock scares him with a "boo". Sharken then informs Broooock that he came there because of the compass he had pointed to the direction of the beacon.

On the other side, Smile found Kintoki and Kiriyan, then they began making their way toward the beacon. With everyone together, Kiriyan and Sharken tell the others they found **bone blocks.** It is the block they need to activate the beacon. With the compass, everyone scattered out to search for the bone blocks. Broooock has the last block, but Sharken sets up a plan to hide it and tells everyone that he couldn't find it. When everyone came back, they do as that, making everyone discuss which part of the maze hasn't been explored. While everyone was distracted by the discussion, Broooock places the last bone block into the beacon's altar.

With the beacon activated, all of the members gained a jump boost, allowing them to jump up the walls. Walking on top of the walls, they could see alphabet letters that are built on top of the walls.

By finding all the letters, the word that could be formed is **"DREAM"**.

When everyone said the word out loud together, the ceiling started to collapse. The group began to panic, trying to figure out what to do before the ceiling rubble collapses onto them. Kiriyan points out an area that looks like one of the hotel's hallways with a door. Everyone quickly rushes to the door only to see that it doesn't open by normal means.

Upon noticing the sign above the door that with the word "Dream" the group repeats the word out loud which causes the door to open.

The episode ended with everyone entering a door with a sign above it that writes **"Dream"**.

### Episode 6

The episode begins with everyone entering a door with the sign "Dream" above it in Kiriyan's perspective. Entering the door leads him back to the real world. When he tried to open the door, it was shut tight due to the flood already reaching the fourth floor. Looking for another way to get out, Kiriyan founds a ladder that leads him to the fifth floor, meeting Kintoki and Sharken that is already on the fifth floor. After everyone arrives, they took the umbrella in front of the elevator and received the instruction to "**Go to the hall**".

They then discussed the dream they saw last night about the maze together before they go to do their task. Broooock said that Sharken was scared by his prank in the dream, but Sharken denied that he was.

> "Okay, then the dreams are different!" -Kiriyan
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By looking at the map, the hall is the opposite side from the elevator (EV:left, hall:right, refer to hotel leaflet at Ep.3). Arriving in front of the hall, there is a sign that writes out "**EQUAL**", which seems to be the hall's name. Broooock takes a picture of the hall's entrance, possibly completing the task to take a picture of something relating to dance. Sharken tried to stand in his way, but the camera managed to erase him from existence again.

The members can enter the hall by changing the key's name to **EQUAL.** Inside the hall, there are instructions: **"Explore this floor and complete the hall"**. On the left side, there is a *mirror* that shows them what the current hall is missing. The things they need to fix are *the position of the tables, a different colored hydrangea, missing piece of cake, bushes, a picture of a room and an empty flower pot*. The white hydrangea is painted blue by Kintoki, making it the same color as the hall at the mirror, while Smile puts the missing flower in the pot.

The members then pointed out a measuring cylinder. It is an object that belonged to Smile. By retrieving the cylinder, Smile recovered parts of his memories:

> "***Retrieved Memories***
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> I remember again...
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> In the middle of all patients who are saved by my medicine, there is a patient who was born with weak sight.
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> The medicine I prescribed for them at that time is a medicine that can be created by mixing powders that are 7 letters long, called the WOL potion.
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> It makes more amount of light entering the eye, making it possible to see in the dark.
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> ...There is a medicine that makes it so your voice can reach from far away, and it has a similar recipe to that. (WOL potion)
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> ...But I don't think I need to remember that for now."
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The members then all spread out to explore the floor. but they noticed that the toilet is dark. Inside the toilet, there is a bush that they need to complete the hall, but it is **too dark** that it can't be taken out of the toilet. After that, Kiriyan calls everyone to group up because he found a notebook that belonged to a certain explorer:

> "The treasure that I have been searching for until the end, I heard from my hometown that it is located in the far southeast.
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> The regret the fact that I wasn't able to search it out with my own hands.
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> At the very least, I want to stay in the room in the hotel which is the closest to the treasure.
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> If I'm not wrong, the room has the **same number as 1 stack** inside it."
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With the hint of **1 stack,** the members concluded that it was a room with number 64 in it. Because they are told to explore the floor, it might be **564.** After they finished discussing Kiriyan's notebook, Smile tells the others that he can create a medicine that lets them see in the dark from the memories he recovered. The other didn't trust him, possibly suspecting it to be poison. Smile then says that he would drink it himself and go on his way to create the potion.

The others then follow him to his room, **444**. Smile started gathering the material he needed to make the WOL potion. With the hint that it is 7 letters long, Smile uses Oxygine, Lothium, and Wolfram powder to create the WOL powder. While waiting for the potion to brew, the others realised that the hallway of the fourth floor is filled with water, but the courtyard wasn't, making them question how it works.

After the potion is done, Smile drinks it himself since the others refused to. With the potion giving him Night Vision, he can take the bush from the toilet. With the bush done, Kiriyan decides to read the notebook properly to the members. Looking at the map, they travelled to the room located on the southeast of the floor. The mentioned room had no numbers written on its sign.

They managed to enter the room with the key 564. Inside the room, they found another bush, and Kintoki realises that the room that has no number had its number written inside the room. Using his camera, Broooock managed to see multiple room numbers that is located on the other side. The numbers are **535** and **550**.

They found nothing inside 535. but a notebook of a mathematician was found in room number 550.

> "A notebook of a certain mathematician
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> This room is very unsettling.
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> Truth be told, it really is.
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> The room on the other side has "X and = together" so it should be better.
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> I'll request to change my room."
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After reading the note, Broooock goes to look at the other room with his camera, catching a glimpse of **527**, before Smile pointed out a room at the left side of the floor. It is different from the other rooms due to the bed being green. Broooock got the number of the room with his camera, which is **576.**
Entering the 576 room. it seems to be the room in which pictures were hung on the hall, so Broooock stood on the site and readies his camera. He tells Smile and Sharken who are standing on the bed to move away, but that only caused Kiriyan and Kintoki to join in later. Broooock takes the picture anyway, with the camera erasing the four people who are supposed to be in the photo once again.

> "Nice~ (angry), I'm removing you all!! (angry)" -Broooock.
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Everyone then goes back to the hall to put what they have retrieved, which are 2 bushes and the picture Broooock has just taken. They then continue exploring, going inside room number **547** next, which has a cake on its table. The group thinks that they would need to find a knife, but little did they know, Sharken has it hidden the entire time. Kiriyan doesn't believe that Sharken had a knife until Sharken pulled it out and almost gutted KIiryan's life out of him.

Sharken then cuts the cake with his knife with everyone staring at him. While Kiriyan and Sharken interact, the journalist, Broooock decides it would be a fun video to show in his article and films it. After obtaining the cake slice, everyone goes back to the hall to put the cake. Now that everything is done, it leaves only the room that the mathematician mentioned, leaving them no choice but to discuss it now.

With only the hint "X and = together" and the first number being 5, the group thought they have to find "x". In the end, Sharken managed to find out that it is "**multiplication**" instead of "**x**". The room number is solved to be **515**, because **5**x**1**=**5.** Entering 515, they managed to get the last bush that they needed to complete the hall. The members then all go back to the hall to put the bush and hang the picture. Despite everything already being in place, nothing happened.

The door that leads to the other side opens when they closed the door, meaning that even the door has to be Equal.

When they entered the door, the glass that separated the right and left side of the hall has disappeared, and the book on the bench can be opened. The owner of the book is a certain dealer and the book writes:

> "Be careful of **SEVEN** at **7F.**"
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After the members all know of the note's content, the bell rang, indicating that it's time for them to go back to their room and sleep. This time, the 7th floor's rooms are open. Looking at the 7F's map, there are only **4 rooms**, meaning that there is not enough room. While everyone already picks their room, it leaves Kiriyan and Sharken the only ones who hasn't picked a room. Sharken then found a room with the number 754 as he runs to the key exchanging counter together with Kiriyan.

> "Don't run in the hallway!!!" -Kiriyan to Sharken.
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Despite his call, it doesn't stop Sharken from travelling *as fast as a bullet train* across the hallway and to his bedroom. Kiriyan tells Sharken to sleep at the restaurant, but when Kiriyan entered 754, Sharken was already sleeping on the bed. This leaves Kiriyan worried that he has no room, before Smile came over to him and tells him that he has two beds in his room. Kiriyan snaps at Smile saying that he should've said it faster, while Smile excuses himself by telling Kiriyan that he thought everyone had twin beds.

The episode ends with Kiriyan complaining that he had to sleep in the same room with a pharmacist that he doesn't know.

## Trivia

* Petrichor is a pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.
* The note that Kintoki and Broooock are carrying writes: あいつは**かくしごと**を, which can mean three things. However this can probably be narrowed to two after the latest episodes. The bolded hiragana reads as **kakushigoto**, which can mean 描く仕事 (kakushigoto, drawing job) and 書く仕事 (kakushigoto, writing job). The last meaning is 隠し事 (kakushigoto, hidden job).
* The DayDream Circus poster can be seen stuck on the locker in the staffroom.
* Despite Sharken saying that he is going to sleep in room 305 in episode 3, he comes out of room 301 in the following episode.
* The "dream" maze is assumed to be beneath the theater. By looking closely through the hole, a whitish structure is visible. This structure is presumable the beacon.