20 November 2023
Monday. A question from the gamesmasters, which I have decided to answer in writing, at length.
What happens to the pairs who dig their way out of my coffins? They think they are free. They brush off the soil, they blink at the light, they go home and tell their friends. And then, some time later, they wake up in my padded cell, cuffed, and a cheerful voice welcomes them back.
That is the order I would choose. The burial, then the treatment. Buried Alive, then Asylum. One leads to the other the way soup leads to the main course.
I am told, however, that guests may play them any way round they like, or play only one, and that both rooms make perfect sense on their own. I find this unbearably relaxed. But I accept that a new patient does not need to have been buried first. It merely helps.
For the record, Asylum also takes larger parties than the coffins, up to four. The padded cell is roomier. I am generous like that.
— U.
