VIP BUSINESS LOUNGE

The channel topic is blunt: secure channel for business talks with other club officers; assign the $$$ key to grant access and revoke it when done. On April 15 Mugen removes Ricochet's key while he steps away and explains that he will not be able to see message history. Access control was not decoration. The room was deliberately compartmentalized.

April 15 diplomacy around 7s gives early UL foreign-policy language in plain English: we remain neutral; fight only when attacked first. Mugen discusses resuming a soft sell in World Chat and says eating smaller clubs is not the priority. Any merger invitation should be gentle rather than telling a weaker club to leave its small dying home for the stronger one.

When Ricochet warns that continuing attacks may push him into full club war, Mugen draws the boundary: she can support him from the background but will not risk open war for UL. Then she closes the diplomatic doctrine with We baby after all uwu. Serious boundary, house voice intact.

The GodTier discussion is real due diligence. Mugen brings Pride and Anthos in to separate current members from inherited reputation, ask who actually participated in prior toxicity, compare sources, and consider individual intake rather than wholesale absorption. Pride proposes a probationary period with rules. Mugen says she has no intention of purging half the existing membership for theirs; Pride answers that UL protects its own first.

Mugen explicitly frames the GT meeting as preemptive. The merge may never happen; the point is to verify history before a crisis forces a decision. The habit is visible years before UL's later governance paperwork: check sources, protect current people, establish terms, and try not to discover the problem after it has already set the curtains on fire.

By December the mostly dormant business room is temporarily repurposed because voice/audio is inconvenient. Mugen and a pooled Deleted User spend roughly five hours coordinating a cooperative cooking game — ingredients, chopping, plates, scores — before realizing how long they have been playing. Snow later enters with the heck zepp lol, which suggests Zepp for this scene but does not override the known pooled Deleted User warning.