Question 1

The first night

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GM: ✦Your new flat, the first night. Boxes unpacked, the old fridge humming in the kitchen. 23:58. You're almost asleep when someone knocks — three slow, polite raps. The peephole shows an empty hallway. The knocking repeats — now from inside the hallway closet. And immediately — a hurried whisper through the wall from flat 43.✦
Yuna: ✦whispering through the wall, fast and desperate✦ Don't open. Y...

Question 2

The fourth floor

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GM: ✦The old elevator with its clouded mirror. You're coming home past midnight. Your floor button is lit, but the cab creaks upward and stops at the fourth. The doors open onto a corridor you don't remember: every other lamp is dead, a child's bicycle leans against the wall, and at the far end, by a door marked '44', a figure stands with its back to you. Below, on the stairs, the concierge climbs...

Question 3

The ground-floor reading

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GM: ✦Aisulu's ground-floor flat: windows draped in heavy cloth, the smell of wormwood and smoke, bundles of herbs and darkened charms along the walls. On the table, on a velvet cloth, lies a sheep's shoulder blade webbed with fire cracks. Aisulu studies the bone for a long time, then looks at you — and past you.✦
Aisulu: ✦tracing the cracks with a finger, eyes down✦ Sit. Not there — over there, ba...