"Thank you!" Chelsea calls to the hostess, and she whisks Panacea upstairs.

Oh no they hate her!!!!!

"What's going on?"

"Her mom does not exist. She's some kind of cape. I don't actually think she's hostile, that or she spoofs me but not well enough to fool me about her mom, but I don't know what she's doing here."

"Oh."

... Panacea's first instinct is that they should call her mom. Which is just about the least helpful instinct, for so many reasons. 

"Yeah. So I guess we could leave, this can't be the only nice bed-and-breakfast in the state."

"Do you have any idea how she found us in the first place?"

"Not a clue."

"I can probably figure out a lot more about what's going on if I can touch her, but that sounds risky.... Normally I will just call for backup in a situation like this but that's not really an option..."

"Yeah, it's just you and me."

"I could try making something to knock her out? I'm not sure if that would help."

"It'd cover our getaway, if we're getting away, but it wouldn't explain how she found us or what she wants."

"I can probably get her to tell us?"

"How?"

"By changing her brain so she explains herself? It's hard to explain in words, but it's not actually that difficult to do."

"Sounds good. I don't have control quite that fine, and usually I wouldn't exactly want it, but this is - strange."

"I'll need to touch her - I can fill the inn with spores that will knock everyone out?"

"That'd work. Maybe at night, so no one falls over and they're just all sleeping very soundly."

"Okay."

Hrm... probably Kenzie shouldn't knock on Panacea and Cherish's door like she planned on doing. She already spooked them earlier and their plan sounds like it will work just as well and they'll probably feel safer with it than with her surprising them. But this means she has hours and hours of time on her own... well, there's plenty of tinkering to be done with her moving in. Her lab isn't exactly portable so reassembling it from the parts she brought is almost as challenging as building it in the first place, and she's got plenty of ideas for improvements. She can reroute the optical laser cord through the same waveform computer as the auditory data goes through and...

... oh wow it's dark already, and she's not in bed, which would defeat the whole point of their plan. In to bed she goes, playing herself a recording she fabricated of Chelsea and Panacea singing her a lullaby. She's just so excited to meet them for real.

Chelsea peeks in on a different fellow resident to make sure the spores are working.

This guy is very thoroughly asleep, and having some wild dreams.

In that case she and Panacea should look in on the kid. She seems emotionally matchy enough with the other asleep folks?

Yep, she's fast asleep, having trippy dreams.

Chelsea does the obvious things like not opening the door with her bare hands and rolling an ottoman in there first to check for traps but once it's as clear as she can reasonably make it, Panacea can go do her thing.