"Or changing anything at all," Apolo said with a small frown. His gaze briefly wandered to the nearest intercom in the sun room. "Not that I have a lot of personal experience with this place yet, but...well, the nurses don't seem to be acknowledging the I.R.I.S. system at all. Actually, they're just going along with it like it's business as usual."
If the messages were anything to go by, then the automated system was probably something left from before they started abducting people against their will. After all, why would they need to go through the effort of selling the idea of this place to people they could just kidnap anyway? At some point, something had possibly happened to make the institute deviate from its original purpose. Was it the rivalry that had supposedly existed between the Head Doctor and Alec Doyle? Or did that only make the consequences of the split even more drastic than they would have been otherwise?
"Either they're under orders from someone to act like nothing's wrong," which was just ridiculous, since it was obvious that something was, "or the brainwashing stuff is true, and the staff are, er, somehow being tricked to do their jobs no matter what happens." Which was just plain uncomfortable to think about.
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"Or changing anything at all," Apolo said with a small frown. His gaze briefly wandered to the nearest intercom in the sun room. "Not that I have a lot of personal experience with this place yet, but...well, the nurses don't seem to be acknowledging the I.R.I.S. system at all. Actually, they're just going along with it like it's business as usual."
If the messages were anything to go by, then the automated system was probably something left from before they started abducting people against their will. After all, why would they need to go through the effort of selling the idea of this place to people they could just kidnap anyway? At some point, something had possibly happened to make the institute deviate from its original purpose. Was it the rivalry that had supposedly existed between the Head Doctor and Alec Doyle? Or did that only make the consequences of the split even more drastic than they would have been otherwise?
"Either they're under orders from someone to act like nothing's wrong," which was just ridiculous, since it was obvious that something was, "or the brainwashing stuff is true, and the staff are, er, somehow being tricked to do their jobs no matter what happens." Which was just plain uncomfortable to think about.