Floor 4 Notes (VoidInVoid)

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VoidInVoid's Floor 4 Notes - Released after Floor 4 on 3rd Nov 2021

These notes may not be comprehensive or ordered, as they represent the author's directly copied personal notes, with few or no edits made after the release of the relevant story entry.

Also be advised that these notes contain potential spoilers, though anything unused is mostly non-final and is here to serve as optional ideas for future authors to draw on.

Quick Notes (Floor 4)

 * The title, "Out Of Time", refers to the jazz-age, noir aesthetic, alluding to a comment Ashley makes in the nightclub. It also refers to the Overseer's time powers and to the changing personalities of the main characters as time goes on, that they need to finish before the gangster mentalities completely take over, unbeknownst to them.
 * There are no permanent personality additions or changes for the most part, but I did establish that Ogborth does not like being smaller than his proper size.
 * Ashley's replacement pince-nez don't have the same effect as her original glasses.
 * Dixon got past the previous floors by bending the rules and using his mechanical expertise to make or remodel a few defenses for himself. He never actually ate anyone since he never managed to "stomach" it, which is why he used a gun rather than his gut to threaten Nuon and kill the others at the end. To get past Floor 1, he tricked someone into eating their partner when there were only three of them left. I don't have a detailed explanation for Floor 2 since it seemed like the Jabbercock was a one-off challenge and that the floor might have a different trial each time. If it is a respawning monster, I'll think something up. Floor 3 was so gadget-focused that he had no problems.

Character Notes: Esther & the Aurori Family

 * The body-reshaping, clothes-changing, and architecture-modifying are not inherent to Fuega, but are abilities that come with her Overseer status. The time-manipulation and the usages of reflections to travel are inherent to Fuega and the gang to which she belongs.
 * Overseer Esther Fuega herself belongs to the Aurori Family, the infamous gang from my main series "The Farmer and The Knight". From her point of view, the Aurori Family has long been working for the Divine Siblings by managing organized crime as they expand their interests to other universes.
 * As any good Aurori Family member, Fuega is skilled at smuggling, lying, espionage, sneaking, assassinating, stealing, arson, and bribing. She's been working as the Overseer for Floor 4 for 4,305 years, but that amount really doesn't mean much to her. She got loaned to The Tower because she messed up smuggling a moon by running the wrong one.
 * The clown also works for the Aurori Family.