What happens after a month?

[Zote]

I saw on a somewhere that the staff is only supposed to be on paid leave for a month. Does anything happen after a month? It would be weird if the game doesn't acknowledge it and nothing happens

[Fishy]

Nope, although it is acknowledged in places.

[Lactose Intolerant Volcano God]

There is a document you can find that has more detail about the paid staff leave and the conditions that would cause it to end.

[pelrun]

Don't worry about it. There's a painful pun about the term "in a timely manner" from the will, just look closely at the blackboard in the schoolhouse to find out more.

It's just an instance of the game and the narrative clashing a bit. (yay, ludo-narrative dissonance!)

[Civil Sky]

the staff are on paid leave for as long as simon wants to continue solving mt holly's mysteries.

after a certain point- unlocking the satellite dish and collecting all of the mailroom letters - the remaining staff begin leaving messages via staff announcements where they basically complain that they want to come back to work and that simon is taking so long they're going to offer hints directly.

[Zote]

Originally posted by Civil Sky:

the staff are on paid leave for as long as simon wants to continue solving mt holly's mysteries.

after a certain point- unlocking the satellite dish and collecting all of the mailroom letters - the remaining staff begin leaving messages via staff announcements where they basically complain that they want to come back to work and that simon is taking so long they're going to offer hints directly.

lmao they must really like their job if they still complain despite me giving them their payroll at the office

[Gorlom[Swe]]

Originally posted by Zote:

Originally posted by Civil Sky:

the staff are on paid leave for as long as simon wants to continue solving mt holly's mysteries.

after a certain point- unlocking the satellite dish and collecting all of the mailroom letters - the remaining staff begin leaving messages via staff announcements where they basically complain that they want to come back to work and that simon is taking so long they're going to offer hints directly.

lmao they must really like their job if they still complain despite me giving them their payroll at the office

errr... I think you have misunderstood what that does.
it's an automated system that distributes their pay in their quarters in the mansion. You are infact stealing their pay, rather than giving it to them.

[Zote]

Originally posted by GorlomSwe:

Originally posted by Zote:

lmao they must really like their job if they still complain despite me giving them their payroll at the office

errr... I think you have misunderstood what that does.
it's an automated system that distributes their pay in their quarters in the mansion. You are infact stealing their pay, rather than giving it to them.

no there's 2 options, one for distributing gold and one for the payroll. you can only give out the payroll once a week

[Gorlom[Swe]]

Originally posted by Zote:

Originally posted by GorlomSwe:

errr... I think you have misunderstood what that does.
it's an automated system that distributes their pay in their quarters in the mansion. You are infact stealing their pay, rather than giving it to them.

no there's 2 options, one for distributing gold and one for the payroll. you can only give out the payroll once a week

Yeah, I know there are 2 options.
Both of them takes money from the accounts used to pay employees. One just randomly spreads gold in the mansion taken from a bonuses account, the other deposits their pay directly in the maids quarters and the servants quarters along with a paystub. It's not sending out any gold electronically to wherever they are. It is an internal system that works without network connection.
Their pay while on indefiniet leave is handled by the lawyers mcguire mcguire and mcguire (or whatever). and is seperate from the normal functions of giving out pay.

[Zote]

Originally posted by GorlomSwe:

Originally posted by Zote:

no there's 2 options, one for distributing gold and one for the payroll. you can only give out the payroll once a week

Yeah, I know there are 2 options.
Both of them takes money from the accounts used to pay employees. One just randomly spreads gold in the mansion taken from a bonuses account, the other deposits their pay directly in the maids quarters and the servants quarters along with a paystub. It's not sending out any gold electronically to wherever they are. It is an internal system that works without network connection.
Their pay while on indefiniet leave is handled by the lawyers mcguire mcguire and mcguire (or whatever). and is seperate from the normal functions of giving out pay.

odd, I would've expected that the payroll is given out at some other building in the vicinity of the estate like in the bunker via the network since employees are kinda forced to get through a labyrinth just to secure their paycheck lol

[Gorlom[Swe]]

It's only Simon, for the sake of this test, that is forbidden to sleep in the mansion.
The servants will most likely sleep in their respective rooms.

It is also likely that Mrs. Babbage has greater control of how the Mansion turns out
Rudolph mentions to the chef in the electronic mail on the lab terminal, that he noticed some spikes on the days they drew both the freezer and the furnace. IIrc how that was worded seemed like they could draw rooms at will.

[Civil Sky]

i think no one has control over what rooms they have the option to draft, at least not any more or less than simon does.

which is to say, its more or less random, but there are tricks to more reliably get rooms you need. like the stars, the dice, the conservatory, the location within the mansion, etc.

in the case of the the chef and moore, its more that they have a room they need to draw for their job, and by circumstance of the draw those two rooms happened to be too close to another.