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Waking up back at the board, Jesse realized she was trapped in a loop. Attempting to skip chores failed when Trench locked his door.
After repeating tasks to obtain the Director's mail, I entered Trench's office, discovering Trench opened the slide projector, before Dylan shot Trench in a reality-bending cutscene.
Jesse snapped out of the weird dream only to find herself right back in the office room in front of the board. She began talking to herself, noting that she couldn't feel anything.
I checked the board for tasks and saw the same routine: deliver mail and scan forms. Jesse's internal monologue sounded like someone trapped in a nightmare, desperately asking why this wasn't ending.
Refusing to do all those tedious chores again, I tried running straight to the Director's office to see if anything had changed. On the way, reality began to warp around me; people were floating in mid-air and acting erratically.
I ran into Ahti the Janitor again outside the Director's office. He encouraged me to keep trying, reassuring me that I was getting closer.
However, when I reached the Director's door, it was locked. I knocked, and Trench yelled from inside, asking what I wanted and commanding me to go away without bothering him. With all the other doors locked as well, I was stranded.
Even though the main objective still read "Clean the Siphons," a Hiss soldier suddenly appeared in the hallway. Oddly, he didn't attack me, and the surrounding office workers didn't seem bothered by his presence at all.
Moving further, I caught sight of Dylan on the other side of a glass wall. Knowing he was key to progressing, I tried to reach him, but there was no way through the glass.
Realizing I had to play along with the office routine to break the loop, I went back to doing chores. I started by tidying up coffee mugs, then moved over to scanning forms, hoping to regain control.
As I worked, I noticed the coffee cups kept reappearing on desks. Eventually, scanning enough forms yielded the Director's mail, the exact item I needed.
With the mail in hand, I rushed back to the Director's office, hoping Trench would let me in this time. Sure enough, the door was open. As I stepped inside, Trench was talking frantically about being invaded.
He revealed his plan, mentioning he would take the slide projector down to the Nostalgia Department, turn it on, and let the Hiss in to fix everything, claiming he could hear others plotting against him.
It became clear that I was witnessing events from before the initial outbreak happened.
I placed the Director's mail on his desk and reached over to pick up the item on the opposite side of the table. Another cinematic cutscene triggered instantly. This time, Trench was the victim; Dylan held him at gunpoint.
Jesse realized the truth: it was Trench who had turned on the slide projector and let the Hiss inside, reminding herself that the Hiss was the true enemy.
The sequence distorted further as Dylan transformed into Trench, then into Jesse herself, ending with the shifting figure smiling creepily into the void.
To be Continued...
"Be Good, Think Good and Do Good"