Grey Hours

St. Agatha's Asylum keeps its residents past death — and every one of them wants to play a game.

You are the new night orderly. Each floor of the asylum gives you one grey day. Five residents wait in the dark, and each marks their post with a small red lamp. Walk up, press E, and they'll stake the materials they guard on a challenge: name the liar from a wall of patient records, repeat the candle verse, rewire the fuse box, deduce the doctor's safe, catch the spirits that slip through the walls.

Win, and what they guard is yours. Lose, and the daylight is simply gone.

When the light dies, the Underlift wakes. It weighs whatever you carry and offers you three charms — a Wax Bundle, a Patchwork Charm, a Grand Reliquary — built from your own satchel. Choose one. If its strength meets the mechanism's demand, the doors grind open onto the next floor. If it crumbles, the day begins again, and you keep what was not spent.

Descend through three floors — the Ward Halls, the Hollow Caves, and the Chapel Below — and St. Agatha's may let you leave. Probably.