So then it's not some kind of general telepathic field - I wondered if it might be the music doing it. It's just some of them. The main NPCs. Video game logic.

Either this whole place isn't real or some of these people only exist for our benefit. Rather unsettling whichever way you cut it, though it doesn't really seem to be some sort of Stepford thing. At the very least, there's no more than, oh, a thirty percent chance they'll suddenly all start trying to murdering us.