I don't imagine that everyone who reads this comic gets their lessons on how to handle interpersonal situations from it.

Regardless, I really wanted to point out that, no, it's usually not a good idea to respond how Ellen did.

Anyway, I find myself thinking about footstep noise.

The entrance to Hope's suite is below the stairs. If not for dimensional nonsense, the stairs would overlap a great deal with the first room. Because there is dimensional nonsense, however, the sound of those footsteps would have to bounce around and go through the entrance, and there wouldn't be footstep noises where the stairs and room (sort of) overlap.

But... The entrance to the room is the only part that "overlaps" with the outside reality... Sound clearly travels through that entrance, but the walls themselves are beyond the entrance. Sound from outside wouldn't vibrate through those walls, they'd have to come through the open entrance, so...

If every wall, floor, and ceiling is soundproofed, but there's an open door-sized opening, what does that do to sounds going in and out of the room? How soundproof, if at all, is it?

I'm writing this way too late at night to think through this properly. I just wanted to point out that the overlap with stairs was weird, but now I'm trying to figure out how interdimensional soundproofing works.

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- Tuesday EGSNP