Ten Floors

You work nights at the Corvina, ten floors of apartments on Lantern Rise. From 23:00 to 06:00 the desk is yours: parcels that rattle or smell of dry ice, a lift that stays wherever you left it, phone calls about radiators, a grey cat with one folded ear.

Fourteen residents live above you, and each of them has a story that runs across the season and ends one of three ways. A night is a short queue of small jobs and conversations, about ten minutes, and the residents remember a late parcel. What you say changes who talks to whom. Cards you pin on the noticeboard get read, and scribbled on. The landings fill up with what you caused.

Every ride goes in the brass log book. Every night at 03:12 the car goes up to seven on its own. Nobody lives on seven.

Thirty nights, forty-five endings to collect across seasons, a one-night story each day built from the date, and a desk radio tuned to Night Frequency. The free browser demo has the first three nights and the one-night story.

Controls: mouse. Click a task to do it, click to read on, click a choice. Escape pauses.

The story text was written with AI assistance. The music is generated with ACE-Step from original prompts and is disclosed as AI-generated sound.

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