First, you should know I was only given three questions I could ask. Just to reiterate, the person who answered them was Jin Mingming, who owns the Red Cardinal. I tried to get as much information out of her as I could, but she wasn't very forthcoming about certain topics. Or she'd say she could only guess, and didn't know the answers for sure.
But anyway, for my first question, I asked if she had a sense of what the resort takes from us. She'd said something before about some guests being considered more "valuable" than others, and I was curious about why that might be, too. I asked if our intimacy is what powers the resort, but she said it's not just that. She said, "What the resort takes from us is our fate. There are those who are destined to play a greater role in life, and they offer more for the resort to sustain itself on." Then she asked me to consider the difference between an emperor who commands a powerful nation, and a servant who dies young. Apparently someone like the emperor is more valuable.
I'm not completely sure why, to be honest. When I asked her to elaborate, she said that playing the 52 game "changes our fate" by making us "have such an intimate encounter with someone we never would've met before coming here." And that's how the resort gets its energy, supposedly. I'm not sure what that has to do with emperors and servants, but that's how it is.
For my next question, I asked what happens to guests who don't provide enough energy, and if there's any truth to the rumor that the ones who don't sleep around much get turned to stone. She said "some people do indeed turn to stone." But then she said "whether it happens to every guest, I don't know" and "it didn't happen to me even after I lost my usefulness because of a deal I made." I didn't think she'd tell me about the deal, so I didn't ask. But I do know it wasn't a deal she made with J. She said he's just about as powerless as she is.
For my last question, I asked why she was still here if the resort supposedly lets everyone go home after filling their so-called deck. She claimed that she did win her game, and that she could have gone home if she wanted, but that she used her wish to save her daughter's life. Apparently you only get one wish, and if you use it to save someone else, you're just stuck here forever.
That's all for now. I offered to do the quest again if she'd let me ask three more questions, but she didn't seem interested. Any thoughts on all this?
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First, you should know I was only given three questions I could ask. Just to reiterate, the person who answered them was Jin Mingming, who owns the Red Cardinal. I tried to get as much information out of her as I could, but she wasn't very forthcoming about certain topics. Or she'd say she could only guess, and didn't know the answers for sure.
But anyway, for my first question, I asked if she had a sense of what the resort takes from us. She'd said something before about some guests being considered more "valuable" than others, and I was curious about why that might be, too. I asked if our intimacy is what powers the resort, but she said it's not just that. She said, "What the resort takes from us is our fate. There are those who are destined to play a greater role in life, and they offer more for the resort to sustain itself on." Then she asked me to consider the difference between an emperor who commands a powerful nation, and a servant who dies young. Apparently someone like the emperor is more valuable.
I'm not completely sure why, to be honest. When I asked her to elaborate, she said that playing the 52 game "changes our fate" by making us "have such an intimate encounter with someone we never would've met before coming here." And that's how the resort gets its energy, supposedly. I'm not sure what that has to do with emperors and servants, but that's how it is.
For my next question, I asked what happens to guests who don't provide enough energy, and if there's any truth to the rumor that the ones who don't sleep around much get turned to stone. She said "some people do indeed turn to stone." But then she said "whether it happens to every guest, I don't know" and "it didn't happen to me even after I lost my usefulness because of a deal I made." I didn't think she'd tell me about the deal, so I didn't ask. But I do know it wasn't a deal she made with J. She said he's just about as powerless as she is.
For my last question, I asked why she was still here if the resort supposedly lets everyone go home after filling their so-called deck. She claimed that she did win her game, and that she could have gone home if she wanted, but that she used her wish to save her daughter's life. Apparently you only get one wish, and if you use it to save someone else, you're just stuck here forever.
That's all for now. I offered to do the quest again if she'd let me ask three more questions, but she didn't seem interested. Any thoughts on all this?