So in the human AU I imagine that the equivalent of recruiting darkners to go live in PlayerTown would be Kris, Susie and Ralsei recruiting people for the community center?? If that's the case, i think recruiting the equivalent to the secret bosses would be very fun. i imagine the gang comes across this old clown that's apparently an old friend of Seam's and tell him to go work in the community center. He works as the resident jester that gets into a lot of hijinks. I cant even imagine what spamton be like. The gang meets this weird little salesman and he gives dubious advice about how to take spade king down. Sorry for the long ask lol

yeah something like that! i imagine recruitment would be more like getting people to care abt this place and so it starts to see an increase of visitors, volunteers, and the like. which means the building gets repaired, more things become functioning and available, and the community grows stronger. i imagine castle city was once abt the size of hometown and then had some industries (like the auto industry coughcoughSPAMTONBIGSHOTAUTOScoughcough) make factories there which increased the population and grew the town to a small city. but there's still like a core group of residents who remember when the place was a lot smaller and tight-knit, which is why the community center becomes so important. if they lose the community center, they lose the last testament to this city's origin and the vibrant community it once held. that's what ralsei believes, at least.

i Do think it's incredibly hilarious for a bunch of teenagers to hire weird old men to work here tho. i think the secret boss battles would be more like just convincing a very weird man to bring his weirdness to this one place. but it's just Incredibly hard to convince them. jevil works in a traveling circus, so the difficulty there is getting ahold of him before the troupe leaves town. but then he'd be around for the carnival that queen throws!! and with spamton he's just a bit of a deadbeat?? idk. weird little man. he works as traveling salesman (even tho traveling salesmen aren't even a thing anymore) and also at an auto shop. but once you "recruit" him he volunteers at the community center and manages the lost and found!!!

(and by "manage" i mean "attempts to sell you the random crap people leave around the community center")

but i do think they'd also hold some kind of mysterious knowledge bc obvs that's their intrigue in the game. they're meta-bending goofballs who flew too close to the sun. idk i've been toying with the idea that there's this normal world but then every night when kris goes to sleep they have dreams abt the Real dark world, including everyone other than them being monsters. and it's rlly confusing and they don't know Why it keeps happening. but maybe these weird old men know abt it???? hmmmmmmmmm interesting interesting interesting....