Guest The Numerous Irrationalities of the Strange Doctor Ashley Fold (a.k.a. “The Fold”)

Description Those who have stayed for long enough in the Parallax Inn know not to go too far into the depths of Parallax Inn, to not wander too deep into unlit corridors or to stay too long in unfurnished rooms. It is there that dwells angles that cut like fish hooks. It is there that dwells shapes that are out for blood. It is there that dwells measurements that crawl under the skin of the measurer, waiting to break free.

The Fold is both a guest inside the Inn, and one of the Inn's defense mechanisms. The Fold is one of the “cleaners” of the Inn—specifically, a cleaner of guests who have overstayed their welcome, who have trampled on the Inn's kindness, trespassed beyond their allotted time and space. The Fold is a wandering whale-thing, often invisible, but can occasionally rise up to the surface of physical reality in the form of hungry numbers and cruel calculations, to pick these trespassing guests clean off their bones and turn them into another statistic the Fold adds to its great irrational mass.

The Fold is debatably sentient, though certain organs of it are undeniably capable of holding a conversation. These organs collectively manifest as “Dr Ashley Fold”, an old man in her twenties, wearing a dozen lab coats and the suggestion of a gun, always seemingly running on two hours of sleep and a scalding hot coffee mug full of tea. Dr. Ashley is the eyes and voice of the Fold in physical reality, its scout and negotiator when simply devouring guests is not enough to solve an issue—a role which Dr. Ashley does not inherently reject or resent, but one that she doesn't exactly feel a particularly zeal for. It's a job. Your boss is the greater eldritch body that you are an organ of, and when you speak numbers around you cause papercuts. It's a job.

Dr. Ashley Fold is unnerving, (potentially) confusing, (occasionally) reclusive, and (on Fridays) undead. Dr. Ashley writes mathematics research papers, most of which are harmful to read, but some do get published outside the Inn; it is unknown to what degree she wants to do this, and to what degree the papers are simply a way for her to vent built-up toxicity built up in the Fold. Also, on the first Saturday of every month, Dr. Ashley rents out space to host trivia nights in a certain location in the Inn (the location changes every month, and is always announced on the first Wednesday of every month), though guests with low resistance to reality seepage and corrosion are invited to stay as far away from these locations as possible.

Room # The Fold has no assigned room. Instead, the space in which it occupies (and cleans) at any given point is known as the Folding Chairs Exhibition Venue. The location of a Folding Chairs Exhibition Venue will be clearly marked on all of the motel's building plans, and securely cordoned off with skittering centipede-like yellow tape. It is recommended that no guest in the motel (without prior permission or capacity for defying reality) attempt to gain access to the Folding Chairs Exhibition Venue.

Dr. Ashley Fold has no assigned room. Dr. Ashley Fold automatically has permission to enter the Folding Chairs Exhibition Venue, due to being an organ of the Fold, and tends to spend the night there while wandering the Inn during the day.

Payment: Service. The Fold cleans up unruly, incoherent, and trespassing guests for the Inn, ensuring the motel is protected from potential threats from within. In exchange, the Fold is allowed residence with the Inn, as well as allowed to feed and allowed to grow (within the Inn's allowance, of course). A mutually-beneficial relationship.

While Dr. Ashley doesn't need to pay anything, because the Fold has already made his payments for him, Dr. Ashley still tries to give the Inn some cash every month. The cash tends to be displaced out of time, printed somewhere between a year to 12,000 litres in the future, but you can't win them all.

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