"We can see your hand sticking through a wall."

"Bordel... This is insane."

It cautiously hops out of the way, now.

"Oh now it's out of the way altogether. Uh, hopefully it won't try to cut me off, though I will still be able to hear you even if it manages to stop you hearing me, okay?" Step forward -

"Holy shit. You just—that means—putain de merde..."

The slime "watches" her curiously.

"...would it have worked for us to try to talk to the skeletons? Only, I think people have tried to talk to monsters before..."

"The skeletons weren't real, also, I think it must - something like it's tracking that I'm following the real monsters and not the illusion ones." She steps "through the wall" and waves at the slime again.

Wave wave.

"But still, it is the dungeon that is causing the monsters to act, no? Slimes or illusions. Or, perhaps the dungeon does the illusions but the slimes are interacting with you independently of it now that they noticed you can see them?"

"Maybe? But also - were the skeletons interested in me at all?"

"Yeah. I had to intercept some that were coming for you."

"Huh. Well." She steps back "through" "the wall" so her party can see her.

"Well, what now?"

"You're our party leader."

"Yes, Philippe, I know. But what do we want to do as a party? We can still—run the dungeon. Even knowing that it is pretending for our sake and could be much harder. We would still level and get loot."

"I can see where all the loot is but probably not in a way that helps know in what order it wants to present it. Also that might be - provocative."

Philippe chews on his bottom lip thoughtfully but doesn't immediately say anything.

"Simone? Etienne?"

"I saw her walk through the wall. I am ready to do the dungeon or to stay here and watch the -" Wave wave.

"I don't think I want to chance it while it's acting - strangely, even if only she can see it acting strangely."

"And an opportunity to talk, really talk, with a dungeon like this... It is much more important than some power and loot."

"Very well. We will probably need to inform the people who manage the dungeon. ...not need to. We should? We probably should."

"The ladder is real, if you want to go up to get in touch."

"Philippe?"