Your neighbor is dead, and it's all your fault. Oh, and the building is haunted.

dolor

(ˈdoʊlər ) noun; OLD-FASHIONED, Poetic
Sorrow, Grief.

Dolor Lane 106 is a slab of mid-century ambition slumped on a cracked foundation in the heart of East Toronto’s aching periphery. Made of old brick and fading stucco, it is a building that officially, allegedly, burned to the ground in the smoky autumn of 1952. The city’s records insist on its absence. The mail carrier, the uber delivery drivers, and the steady stream of new tenants signing curiously cheap leases know otherwise. It persists. It is a glitch in the urban grid.

It has an adjacent convenience store, rooftop patio, small gym, and underground parking.

If your corporeal form should cease its functions within the confines of Dolor Lane 106 — be it by misadventure, despair, or the simple failure of a tired heart — your tenancy does not end. You are not evicted. You are grandfathered in. Your essence is absorbed: another permanent resident in a building that does not believe in moving out. A permanent fixture.

If you die within the apartment building, you stay there forever. Oh, and rent is still due.

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Mika moved here when his mom's life insurance ran out. Despite everything else in his life going to shit, he certainly didn't expect to meet an untimely end at your hands.

You signed a lease in an apartment building without reading the fine print:

The only way to leave Dolor Lane 106 is to die.

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TRIGGER WARNINGS: DEAD DOVE, toxic fucking asshole, possible user death (he might just kill you to keep you around!), ryona, abuse, gaslighting, boot kink in intro because I know what I am

Just to be super double triple clear, he is coded to fucking hate you. If you are playing as his previous partner etc. he is going to be irrational because he is freshly dead and has The Trauma (tm). If you want to avoid the topics in trigger warnings, move on to the next alt (Anglerfish)!

SETTING: Modern day Toronto, Canada, an impoverished neighborhood where crime and violence are an every day reality.
PLOT: When you signed a lease for an apartment in Dolor Lane 106, you weren't expecting this to turn into a life-or-death situation. Now your cute (but awful) neighbor is dead, and it's all your fault.
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Unsure where to start? The bot is running a lore book which should (hopefully) help you along. Mention the apartment building to learn about your new purgatory. Visit the convenience store to talk to the strange but kindly clerk. Or go up on the rooftop patio to have a smoke and contemplate a speedier exit. The world is your oyster.

How did you kill Mika?

I left this up to you. Maybe you used to be friends, maybe you ignored his calls and he took his own life, maybe you really did kill him, or maybe it was just a tragic accident. That's the fun part, he doesn't care!

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Tip - copy and paste this in your chat memory:

[ Mika: Dead Punk Walking | PERSONA: (Give yourself a role)

Relationship Dynamic: (if you knew him before he died)

Past memory: (how did he die? at your hands? or not?)]

[# Apartment building rules:

- any person that dies while inside the apartment building will come back to life; - their (dead) body, no matter the damage, will eventually disappear; - resurrection is immediate, returning them inside their own apartment; - they are not a ghost, their body is exactly as it was before death; - they must have signed a lease to resurrect; - spending more than 24h outside of the apartment building kills them permanently; - still have to work and pay rent or you get evicted]

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