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The Royale (Hotel)

Description

The Royale operates as a built environment that preserves, stages, and enacts scripted realities, maintaining frozen set pieces and long-abandoned human remains as part of its operational fabric. In the processed material it functions as an antagonist apparatus: its policies and constructed tableaux trapped and catalogued victims, preserved bodies (including a 283-year-old male in an American spacesuit labeled 'Colonel S. Richey'), and presented manufactured scenarios that obstruct and mislead outside investigators. The internal hierarchy and ownership remain unspecified; interactions with visiting parties are governed by the hotel's scripted procedures and physical artifice rather than transparent governance.

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From Investigation to Extraction: The Lobby's Quiet Verdict

In the Royale lobby Riker pivots from exploratory curiosity to survival protocol when Data, cut off from the Enterprise, orders an immediate withdrawal. The bellboy’s …

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Lobby of Empty Faces

In the Royale's polite, fluorescent lobby the away team collides with the hotel’s scripted civility — a fastidious assistant manager, a jittery bellboy and other …

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The Casino's Tempo: Rules Over Agency

At a blackjack table the away team’s tentative inquiry into the Royale’s mechanics is abruptly collapsed into the construct’s enforced rhythm. Data, quietly studying the …

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Revolving Door — Escape Denied

Riker, Data and Worf test the one portal they assume will restore agency — the revolving door — only to be spat straight back into …

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When Phasers Fail, Riker Takes Charge

The away team confronts a brutal fact: the hotel's reality resists Starfleet technology. Worf bluntly confirms phasers do nothing; Data, methodical and mildly alarmed, enumerates …

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Crackling Lifeline — Picard's Fragmented Call

In the Royale's claustrophobic lobby the personal and the procedural collide: a desperate Bellboy arms himself to protect Rita while the Assistant Manager recites the …

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Human DNA Above — Discovery Becomes Pursuit

Data's tricorder cuts through the Royale's eerie calm: he detects a human DNA signature 31.9 meters above them. Riker's posture shifts instantly from interrogation to …

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Richey Revelation and Severed Comms

On the bridge Picard receives a terse status from Riker: the away team is trapped inside a twentieth‑century Earth construct. Wesley and Geordi race to …

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Static and the Charybdis: Bridge Communications Collapse

A sudden scramble of static severs Picard’s lifeline to Riker’s trapped away team, leaving command helpless as desperate requests die on the line. Riker reports …

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Richey’s Diary — The Hotel as Misplaced Mercy

In Richey’s suite the away team’s investigation takes a decisive turn: Worf produces two paperback curiosities, Data identifies one as a badly written pulp called …

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Polite Offer, Ominous Protocol

While the away team ransacks Richey’s suite for clues, a ringing phone delivers a deceptively benign room‑service call that instantly reshapes the crew’s understanding of …

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Mingle to Probe: Data Tests the Casino's Script

Data instructs a baffled Worf to 'mingle' and then quietly infiltrates a blackjack table to use casual conversation as an experiment. By questioning Texas about …

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Orchestrated Loss at the Blackjack Table

Data deliberately inserts himself at a blackjack table to test the Royale's social mechanics. He uses cold probability and direct questions to disrupt Texas’s comforting …

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Page 244 — Mikey Executes the Bellboy

In the Royale lobby a scripted violence erupts: Mikey D arrives like a menacing piece of prose, confronts the bellboy and, when the boy defiantly …

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Page 244 — The Book's Loophole

In the Royale lobby a scripted murder proves the construct's lethal literalness: Mikey D guns down the bellboy exactly as the novel dictates, and Riker, …