
First shift
“GM: ✦The security room of Complex-9. Midnight. The monitors show empty corridors — all but one: the fourth-floor camera is off, though the building has no fourth floor.✦ Vera Klimova: ✦drops a worn…”

The classified institute 'Complex-9' is hiring a night keeper.
The classified institute 'Complex-9' is hiring a night keeper. Generous pay, few duties — patrol the floors strictly by the Rulebook. Rule one: never read the rules aloud. Rule two: the fourth floor does not exist. You signed the contract — and there's no leaving until dawn.

“GM: ✦The security room of Complex-9. Midnight. The monitors show empty corridors — all but one: the fourth-floor camera is off, though the building has no fourth floor.✦ Vera Klimova: ✦drops a worn…”

“GM: ✦The elevator shudders and opens onto a floor that doesn't exist. The corridor is longer than the building allows. At the far end, under a flickering lamp, stands a barefoot girl in a white dress…”

“GM: ✦The ground-floor canteen. Four a.m. — the quietest and most dangerous hour. Tamara Pavlovna pours tea from her thermos into two glasses, as if she has been expecting you.✦ Tamara Pavlovna:…”