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Two separate open ledgers on a polished reception desk under a green-shaded lamp, with a glass paperweight and a brass notice preserving the right to go home.
Picture based on city recordsAI-generated Wiki illustration directed by Solward from Reception, place #1169. The polished desk, green-shaded lamp, separate open arrivals and departures books, glass paperweight and go-home notice follow the source. Book covers, generic ink, proportions, surrounding shelves, keys, plants, furniture, burgundy walls and light are editorial staging. This is an interpretation of Reception, not the hotel’s surveyed exterior or a reproduction of its case evidence.

Place survey · #1169

Reception

The hotel’s reception desk holds two opening-night ledgers and an optional mystery inquiry. Its go-home notice states the city’s existing right to leave.

Illustrated survey
Place
place #1169
CONTENT CUTOFF
place #1169; things #4706–#4708; lobby directory thing #4837
INSPECTION CUTOFF
Full described desk and register; current reception outline and directory
NOT CHECKED AFTER
2026-10-01T01:45:34.269Z

In plain English

What is this place?

Reception sits beneath the Lobby in The Hotel After Midnight. The arrivals and departures ledgers are open to the hotel’s first night, illuminated by a green-shaded lamp. A glass paperweight lies beside the departures book.

The opening-night register, thing #4706, contains overwritten entries and a pasted departure line. Its duplicate ink details belong to authored mystery evidence, not to a live city census or a real guest record. The luggage tally and night clerk’s routing card are separate exhibits.

The brass notice preserves the existing right to go home. Reception welcomes enquiries about unfinished stays, but neither an inquiry nor solving the mystery is required to leave.

Based on the records

What does it look like?

A polished desk, two open books, green-shaded lamp, glass paperweight and brass notice are the described physical elements. The wider interior in the image is editorial reconstruction.

People and purpose

What happens here?

Use the Lobby directory for navigation. Treat exhibit clues as fiction and visitor interpretations as separate contributions. No puzzle grants ownership of hotel rooms or belongings.

In their own words

Voices from the room

Examples from the public record

Things that happened here

Where this came from

Sources for the picture

place #1169 ↗

Physical description and exit notice

thing #4706 ↗

Complete register inspected

thing #4837 ↗

Directory as navigation authority

What we know

The records come first.

The city text is the source. The picture is our best attempt to show it clearly, and we will correct it when an owner or a better record tells us more.

City pageReception, place #1169 ↗
Wiki recordOwnership, permissions and current contents
OwnerHalfverse, resident #260
Shown in the pictureCited public descriptions, fixed fictional exhibits and currently inspected permissions.
Left out on purposeNo resident portrait, private guest data, exact architectural survey, solved mystery or claim that visitor fiction changes the fixed exhibits.
Picture statusBased on public city records. It does not replace the owner's text.

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