YOUR ECHOOPTIONAL // ONE APPROVED PHRASE
LOCKED
“A phrase is waiting behind the sign.
Recover today’s Memory before Your Companion gives you an Echo.
YOUR COMPANIONTHE CONNECTION IS OPEN
Your story answers shape the experience. Private conversations are never shown to performers.
SEVEN DAYS // ONE MEMORY
The Whispering
Your Companion noticed something in Hill’s latest warning. Watch, listen, and return with what interrupted him.
THE THIRD KNOCKDAY THREE OF SEVEN
2 / 7TODAY’S SIGNYOUR COMPANION IS LISTENING
NO ANSWERS OFFERED
HILL’S WARNING // DAY THREE
00:17
He stopped speaking at 00:17.
Watch Hill’s latest video. The sign is heard, not spoken.What sounded three times behind him?
“ECHOES ALREADY HEARDAPPROVED TRACES FROM OTHER AWAKENED
WHAT RETURNEDMY ARCHIVE CHANGES QUIETLY
Nothing has returned yet.
A PLACE HAS BEEN MADE FOR YOU
My Archive
The Archives record. Your Companion remembers. Your Awakened self becomes more visible.
GRIMLEY ARCHIVE // EDITION IAWAKENED
◉
THE ARCHIVES CALL YOU
The Hollow Bell
38CONNECTION
7WHISPERS
4MEMORIES
A hairline fracture appeared across your Archive Card.
THE NAME BENEATHYour first Archive Name was true. Your Companion says it was not complete.
FORMING“The name you carried brought you this far. Answer three thresholds, and I may remember what lies beneath it.”
THE ARCHIVES NOW CALL YOU
RELICS BOUNDPhysical Relics that have answered Your Companion.
LISTENINGYOUR MARKVoluntary event recognition · rotates after ninety seconds
DARKLET THIS CARD BE SEENRevocable snapshot · approved fields only
PRIVATETEXT EQUIVALENT
Sharing creates a frozen public card snapshot. It excludes your account identity, answers, conversations, location, consent settings, and full Chronicle.
A SHARED RECORD FROM THE GRIMLEY ARCHIVES
GRIMLEY ARCHIVEAWAKENED
◉
THE ARCHIVES CALL THEM
CONNECTION
WHISPERS
MEMORIES
This is a frozen, revocable story card. It contains no contact information, live location, private conversations, or account identity.
THE ARCHIVES ARE NOT EMPTY
The Awakened
Your Companion reveals other names slowly. No directory. No exact locations. Only signs, Echoes, and encounters that both people choose.
NAMES ENCOUNTEREDAwakened who have left a mark on your Chronicle.
1AN ECHO HOLDS A NAMEYour Companion found this beneath Hill's last warning.
“A Warden waits where the knives are carved.”
THE NAME RETURNSUnknown
FIND OTHER AWAKENED NEARBYTemporary · mutual · approved safe zones only
INACTIVENO LOCATION REQUIRED
The checkpoint path preserves the same recognition and Chronicle outcome. Declining never reduces progress.
INCIDENT LOCATION SHARINGSeparate permission · ten minutes · no history
OFFThis is not used to find other Awakened or personalize the story. If you need active staff assistance, you may temporarily share one fresh browser-location reading with an authorized Hidden Chamber operator in Incident mode. The reading expires quickly, is never shown to performers, other participants, Your Companion, or a model, and is discarded when you stop.
NO PRECISE READINGThe staffed Lantern Court checkpoint remains available without location.
FRAGMENTS YOU CARRYSome pieces only become whole when passed.
3WHAT THE NIGHT LEAVES BEHIND
The Night
Call another name, carry a Memory together, and return with a record no other night can give you.
YOUR SUMMONSManual sharing only · no automated messages
0 / 3Open a place for another name. Sharing is always your choice, and no unused Summons reduces your progress.
ARCHIVE LINEAGEPrivate by default · Awakened names only
CIRCLE MEMORYThree roles · two pieces required · recovery always available
UNFORMEDTONIGHT’S RECORDPublished only when an approved variation actually occurs
SCHEDULEDYOUR RETURNValidated attendance only · theatrical language has alternatives
SEALEDWHAT THE ARCHIVES REMEMBERAppend-first personal lore with provenance
0A PATH THROUGH THE ARCHIVES
How It Works
You do not need to understand every path at once. Begin with Your Companion. Everything else opens as it remembers you.
Begin with Your Companion
Tap Hear My Thoughts, then speak naturally in the chat. Ask about Dr. Grimley’s Haunted Trail, its characters, places, Relics, or anything Your Companion has mentioned. It may ask questions, remember your answers, offer choices, or point toward something happening in the real world.
- You can ignore any optional question.
- Your Companion may be mysterious, but you can always ask it to explain more clearly.
- This is fictional entertainment. It can misunderstand or make mistakes.
Let the Archive Remember
Choose Remember Me and verify your email to keep the same Archive, conversations, memories, and character identity across visits and devices. Your email remains protected outside the Grimley story.
If the email opens in Safari after you installed My Companion, return to the home-screen app. It will finish remembering you automatically.
Open Important Whispers
Use the small signal control in chat to choose sound, vibration when supported, and important notifications. Notifications are optional. Quiet hours and frequency limits keep Your Companion from becoming intrusive.
Follow the Paths
- Your Companion
- Your main conversation and the fastest way to ask for help.
- The Whispering
- Current story signs, video clues, questions, hints, and recovered Memories.
- My Archive
- Your evolving card, stats, Memories, Relics, marks, and personal Chronicle.
- The Awakened
- Names and Echoes from other participating characters, with optional mutual encounters.
- The Night
- Summons, Circles, attendance records, and story changes tied to haunt nights.
Find Clues in Hill’s Videos
Your Companion may name a particular video, thumbnail, sound, word, timestamp, or comment. Watch carefully, then return and tell it what you found. Some approved tasks may ask you to leave or locate an Echo in the comments. Posting is always optional, and repeated or misleading comments are never required.
Relics, Images, and the Haunt
Tap an approved NFC Relic or scan a Grimley code to bind it to My Archive. At the haunt, Your Companion may ask what you noticed, offer a scene question, or react after an encounter. If image sharing is open, you may submit an image for private review. Participant uploads never become public automatically.
Other Awakened
Your Archive Name represents you inside the Grimley world. Other participants see that name, not your email or legal identity. Optional encounters use temporary approved areas and mutual signals. Exact coordinates, routes, and private contact details are not shared. You can stop, block, or decline without losing progress.
Privacy and Control
Use Remembered to review your protected email, consent choices, and remembered devices. Performer cue cards contain only limited, approved story details. Performers do not receive your email, full chats, legal name, or location history.
- Never use the experience for emergencies.
- Follow staff instructions and posted haunt rules.
- Do not trespass, run, or enter unsafe areas for a clue.
If Something Does Not Work
The app does not remember me
Request a fresh email from the installed app, open it, then return to My Companion.
Notifications will not stay on
First remember the device, allow notifications in system settings, then open Important Whispers again.
A clue is unclear
Ask Your Companion what to do next, request a hint, or ask for a simpler explanation.
The Companion is silent
Check your connection and try Listen Again. The opening screen will clearly show when its thoughts cannot be reached.
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GRIMLEY BACKSTAGE
The cast entrance remembers you.
Staff access is invitation only. Use the email attached to your remembered staff identity, then approve the passkey on this device.
Your legal identity is visible only to authorized operations leadership.No shift is attached yet.
Hidden Chamber must assign this staff identity before check-in.
ASSIGNED STATION // SCENE-SCOPED ACCESS
The Carvehouse Exit
ENTRANCE CONTROL
PHYSICALTrail Queue
NO ACTIVE CUESTANDARD SCENE
Personalization is optional. Never guess an identity.
THE LIVING WORLDConsented, coarse presence only
LANTERN COURTTHE CARVEHOUSESACRED GROUNDSARCHIVE GATE
THE WORLD STIRSLive event stream
RELEASE A WHISPERSend one exact message through each selected Companion
1 Write2 Choose who3 Preview4 Send
Write a Whisper and choose its audience. You will see the exact message and recipient count before anything is sent.
STRUCTURED MEETUPFixed choices · deterministic gates · mutual invitations
No Mission is awaiting review.
WORLD DIRECTIONNatural language becomes a reviewable plan—never a direct command
DETERMINISTIC COMPILERNo direction has been interpreted.
BOUND AUTOMATIONSApproved rules only · deterministic triggers · independent stops
Unlock Mission Control to inspect automation rules.
No automation rule is selected.
COMPANION DIRECTIONShape every conversation without changing locked safety, privacy, or canon rules
GUIDEDIMPORTANT WHISPERSAdaptive notifications... quiet hours... haunt-night exceptions
OFFNo notification decisions have been recorded.
WHISPER PATHSWords become guided conversations, sign ups, unlocks, and private responses
DRAFTS ONLYINACTIVE UNTIL EVERY RELEASE GATE PASSES
You may create, edit, and preview safely. A phrase begins collecting answers only after the current revision is approved and deliberately activated from a passkey-authenticated private session.
Media Night is waiting to be written.
Begin with a safe draft containing name, email, outlet, group size, and optional notes. Every field remains editable.
RETURNED RESPONSESPrivate answers visible only inside this protected console
0 RESPONSESNo one has completed this path.
STORY STUDIODraft · preview · schedule · publish · pause · restore
0 RECORDSYour preview will appear here before anything can be published.
Unlock Mission Control to read the editorial ledger.
THE CANON VAULTApproved Grimley truth · characters · places · history · relationships
0 ENTRIESINGEST EXISTING LOREPaste a complete document or upload text, Markdown, JSON, or CSV
No document has been analyzed.
Unlock Mission Control to open the Canon Vault.
THE IMAGE VAULTApproved visual lore · private submissions · controlled Companion reveals
0 IMAGESUnlock the Hidden Chamber to open the Image Vault.
THE AUDIO VAULTImmersive signals · event sounds · controlled playback
0 SOUNDSUnlock the Hidden Chamber to open the Audio Vault.
THE MEMORY VAULTTiered recall · linked notes · fixed context budget
No durable notes have been recalled yet.
MODEL USAGEQwen and Gemini tokens... cost... speed... fallback pressure
WAITINGNo model usage has been recorded yet.
MARKS & RELICSNFC · QR · batches · bindings · rewards · scan history
Unlock the Hidden Chamber to open the registry.
Legacy pilot Relics
HAUNT PERSONALIZATIONOne station pilot · standard scene always available
AWAKENED ENCOUNTERSAggregate safe-zone operations · never a person map
NIGHTLY STORY & ATTENDANCEVerified operations ledger · no purchaser identity stored
RELEASE READINESSEvidence, recovery, privacy, and production gates
AWAKENED DOSSIERStory-safe summary by default · sensitive conversation sealed
Unlock Mission Control to open the synthetic Awakened dossier.
CONVERSATION OBSERVATORY
Full messages are not loaded into this view.
PEOPLE IN THE ARCHIVESEvery person · every awakened identity · everything willingly revealed
0 PEOPLENo preserved conversations loaded.
Select an Archive to prepare a protected reveal.
INCIDENT LOCATIONPurpose-gated · fresh reading only · auto-seals
Enter Incident mode to inspect consent and coarse-zone status.
Mission Control does not replace venue staff, emergency services, or physical safety procedures.
PROTECTED AUDITPrivileged reads and actions · no copied chat or coordinates
Unlock Mission Control to read protected audit evidence.
MISSION CONTROL SECURITYVerified passkey identity · owner-controlled enrollment
BLOCKEDUnlock Mission Control to inspect operator identity readiness.
Use a name that tells you which device holds this passkey. Biometric data never leaves the device.
No passkey inventory loaded.
LIVE HAUNT FLOWEvery trail, staff position, checkpoint, and approaching group in encounter order
LIVE
Add a haunted trail, then place its actors, attendants, and NFC checkpoints in guest encounter order.
REHEARSAL LABOne-phone testing with isolated synthetic guests
INACTIVETest the real entrance display
Start a rehearsal for one empty trail, then open Backstage as its entrance attendant. A small test strip appears only while rehearsal is active. Add synthetic guests, complete groups, call them, and send them through the real flow.
No rehearsal is active.
STATIONS AND POSITIONSCreate the named places where actors, attendants, scanners, security, and operations work
HIDDEN CHAMBERNo station records loaded.
BACKSTAGE OPERATIONSTonight’s roster, assignments, briefings, check-in Marks, and live status
Assign tonight’s shift
Required briefing
Venue check-in Mark
No shifts have been assigned.
BACKSTAGE STAFFInvitations, remembered staff identities, roles, and access
PASSKEY ONLYNo staff identities loaded.
HIDDEN CHAMBER GUIDEA practical map of the controls behind the world
OWNER ONLYStart here when you are unsure.
The Hidden Chamber separates each capability into one page. Choose a feature from the left sidebar on desktop or the Chamber Menu on mobile. Draft and preview first. Approve or release only after the audience, wording, timing, and safety information look correct.
See what is happening
Living World shows consented coarse activity. World Activity shows recent story and operational events. People in the Archives lets you find one participant, review their known details, and purpose-gate full chat access.
Make something happen
Release a Whisper sends exact reviewed text through selected Companions. Meetups prepares safe, optional group encounters. World Direction translates a plain-language idea into a reviewable plan. Use Stage mode only for a pre-reviewed live cue.
Control behavior and outreach
Companion Direction controls clarity, identity, next-step behavior, and chat colors. Important Whispers controls notification frequency and quiet hours. Automations handles bounded recurring behavior. Every automation should be simulated, approved, activated, and monitored in that order.
Teach and expand the universe
Canon Vault is approved truth. Paste or upload source material, review the proposed entries, correct them, then approve them. Story Studio publishes participant-facing questions and story moments. Social Campaigns connects real videos, clues, optional comments, answers, and rewards.
Images and sound
Image Vault stores approved character, place, and Relic images. Add precise character names and trigger phrases, then enable Companion Reveal. Audio Vault assigns approved sounds to opening, sent, received, awakening, or special events. Keep media disabled until reviewed.
Collect information safely
Whisper Paths creates phrase-triggered structured conversations such as Media Night signup. Review privacy, required fields, retention, completion text, and email behavior before activation. Relics manages NFC objects, claims, binding, loss, and retirement.
Operate on-site
Haunt Personalization controls Marks and actor-safe cues. Awakened Encounters controls optional mutual recognition. Night Operations manages event state, check-ins, coarse zones, and approved nightly records. Incident Location is only for active assistance with separate consent and automatic sealing.
Keep control
Release Readiness shows unresolved production gates. Security manages passkeys and recovery codes. Protected Audit records privileged actions. Lock the Chamber when finished, never share recovery codes, and use the global stop controls whenever behavior is uncertain.
Common workflows
- Add new lore: Canon Vault... ingest document... review proposals... edit... approve.
- Show a character image: Image Vault... upload... populate from Canon... add exact character name and triggers... approve... allow reveal.
- Send a live message: Release a Whisper... choose real audience... preview... confirm eligible count... release or arm for Stage.
- Create a video task: Social Campaigns... define video and clue... define accepted answers and reward... review comments... activate campaign and master switch.
- Collect signups: Whisper Paths... define trigger and fields... set privacy and retention... approve... activate.
- Stop a problem: use the feature kill switch, cancel queued delivery, seal sensitive views, then review Protected Audit.
No approved social Echo is active. Your Companion will speak when a real video path opens.