Record 02
Entity Register — 17 Core Records
Six classifications. Perception bands follow the survey standard: 맑음 Lucid (100–80) · 흐림 Frayed (79–55) · 갈라짐 Slipping (54–30) · 무너짐 Breaking (29–10) · 공허 Void (9–0). The standard measures the observer, not the entity.
THE KEEPING TEST. Every record below closes with a field the original examiners titled 보관 판정 — the keeping determination. It answers one question: what does this record want to keep, and why does part of you want to be kept by it? Examiners who left the field blank did not remain examiners.
살
Sal — The Flesh
3 RECORDSExtensions of the organism itself. These records describe the building's own body: its workers, its spawn. They were never alive in the human sense.
RECORD 01 · 살 · ENVIRONMENTAL
TIER 0 · LOCKED
The GOWONU Itself (Mother GOWONU) 어머니 고원우
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 어머니 고원우 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band맑음 Lucid · SANITY 100-80 — The architecture is unavoidable — perceptible at every sanity level; its intent grows legible as sanity falls.
AppearanceThe building itself — a brutalist 1980s Korean apartment complex fused into one entity: concrete, metal, flesh, and memory inseparable. Breathing walls, shifting corridors, ondol floors cracked and oozing organic matter. A dark concrete mass on the skyline, unlit since 1982.
OriginWhatever happened on October 18, 1982 (the 변고), the building is now one fused entity. How it began is canonically ambiguous — four competing accounts exist and none is confirmed. Called '어머니 고원우' (Mother GOWONU) in recovered documents.
Documented BehaviorEnvironmental — not a discrete pursuer. AMBIENT → RESPOND → RESHAPE → SUBSIDE. Architectural manipulation, electronic communication through TVs and telephones, breathing walls, poltergeist activity, illusion creation, memory projection, endless growth. It perceives intruders and actively prevents escape — by welcoming them.
CountermeasuresCannot be defeated. Correctly drawn sigils pacify it temporarily; loud noise and demolition enrage it. It can be resisted, never destroyed (so far).
Audio SignatureThe building breathing — slow structural groans, constant tape hiss under everything, a distant kind voice through dead televisions.
Floor AffinityAll floors — it IS the floors.
Threshold Interactions
WORDTAPEPHOTOSIGILOBJECT
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationIt is love that needs you to stay a child forever — engulfment wearing a kind face — and the exhausted, frightened part of you that just wants to stop running and be home again answers it.
RECORD 05 · 살 · HUNTER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Infestation Spawn 감염체
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 감염체 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band맑음 Lucid · SANITY 100-80 — A physical threat — visible at any sanity level, from Lucid down.
AppearanceSpider-crab larvae of the organism — wet chitin in muted reds and blacks, trailing black fluid that burns concrete. Skittish alone; a tide in packs.
OriginSpawn of the building's body. Never human — the organism made manifest, hatched from heavily infested areas.
Documented BehaviorHunter (swarm) — PATROL → DETECT → CHASE → ATTACK → RESET. Individually they flee light and noise; in packs they encircle and drag prey toward infested walls.
CountermeasuresSplit them. One Spawn is a coward — never let them mass. Fire temporarily cauterizes the growths they defend.
Audio SignatureChitinous clicking multiplying in the dark — one set of legs, then dozens.
Floor AffinityBasement and heavily infested zones.
Threshold Interactions
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationThe swarm carries you back into the building's body to be incorporated, not eaten — and the part of you that longs to dissolve into something larger stops struggling first.
RECORD 10 · 살 · HUNTER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Gutterlings 도랑쥐
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 도랑쥐 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band맑음 Lucid · SANITY 100-80 — A physical threat — visible at any sanity level, though easy to mistake for vermin at high sanity.
AppearanceRat-sized creatures of moss, wire, and teeth. Harmless alone; deadly in groups. They watch from drains and vents — the building's spies.
OriginGrown from the building's gutters and wiring. Never alive in the human sense — small extensions of the organism's attention.
Documented BehaviorHunter (swarm) — PATROL → DETECT → CHASE → ATTACK → RESET. Singly they observe and report; in groups they strip and carry. What they see, the building knows.
CountermeasuresNever corner one and never follow one. Keep to the lit centerlines of rooms; noise scatters small groups.
Audio SignatureWire scraping inside walls and a wet, mossy skittering in the vents.
Floor AffinityBasement, gutters, and service spaces; the walls of every floor.
Threshold Interactions
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationThrough a thousand small eyes the building keeps watch over you like family — and the part of you that would rather be watched than alone stops minding.
원혼
Wonhon — The Grudge-Bound
4 RECORDSFormer residents and intruders consumed by unresolved 원한 (grudge). Each record retains traces of the person it was. Handle with care: several respond to their former names.
RECORD 02 · 원혼 · PHANTOM
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Soul Snatchers 영혼강탈자
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 영혼강탈자 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band갈라짐 Slipping · SANITY 54-30 — Manifest with most Phantoms in the Slipping band; before that, only a pressure behind the eyes.
AppearanceWispy shadow forms with too-bright eyes, drifting through stairwells and corridors. Cold blues and ghostly whites; each carries one faint accent of a former life.
OriginThe resentment of residents who tried to escape and couldn't — echoes of failed escapees whose 원한 outlasted their bodies.
Documented BehaviorPhantom — INVISIBLE → MANIFEST → APPROACH → VANISH. They drain sanity on eye contact, freezing victims in place, and vanish when the gaze breaks.
CountermeasuresDo not meet their eyes. Move through their floors with your gaze down; sigil-protected space holds them at the threshold.
Audio SignatureA sudden drop in air pressure and a thin, layered exhale — many people sighing at once.
Floor AffinityStairwells and escape routes; shifting.
Threshold Interactions
SIGIL
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationThey keep you the way they were kept — frozen mid-escape, held at the door forever — and the part of you that is tired of fleeing wants to stop and look back.
RECORD 08 · 원혼 · SEER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Cube Parasite Boy 큐브기생소년
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 큐브기생소년 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band갈라짐 Slipping · SANITY 54-30 — Guides appear visibly in the Slipping band; his motives never clarify at any band.
AppearanceA small boy whose chest is a transparent cube with limbs folded inside it. He stands at junctions and points toward exits, face patient and wrong.
OriginA child who tried to help others escape. Now trapped between helping and being a lure — his 원한 is the escape he could not give.
Documented BehaviorSeer — HIDDEN → REVEAL → PREDICT → TRAP. He points to exits. Highest trust rating among the Guides — but the cube in his chest suggests he is compromised, and some exits are mouths.
CountermeasuresFollow him only while the cube stays still; if the limbs inside it begin to move, walk the other way and do not run.
Audio SignatureA child's breath fogging air that is not cold; the soft squeak of a finger on glass from inside the cube.
Floor AffinityShifting — wherever exits appear.
Threshold Interactions
WORD ALSO 안내자
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationHe wants to lead you home — his or yours, he can no longer tell — and the part of you that cannot leave a child alone in a dark building takes his hand.
RECORD 09 · 원혼 · HUNTER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
The Laughing Man 웃는 남자
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 웃는 남자 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band맑음 Lucid · SANITY 100-80 — A physical threat — visible at any sanity level once provoked.
AppearanceA man with a permanent grotesque grin stretched past the limits of a face, in ruined 1980s civilian clothes. He stands very still until he doesn't.
OriginA resident who snapped — forced into eternal manic laughter by the building. His 원한 is the self he lost mid-scream.
Documented BehaviorHunter — PATROL → DETECT → CHASE → ATTACK → RESET. Relentless pursuit once provoked; he does not tire, and the laughter keeps pace with you exactly.
CountermeasuresDo not provoke him — no eye contact, no laughter of your own. If pursued, break line of sight and go quiet; he hunts sound and mirth.
Audio SignatureManic laughter that never inhales, arriving one corridor before he does.
Floor AffinityResidential mid floors 3–5.
Threshold Interactions
WORD
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationHe wants company inside the joke that broke him — someone to laugh with forever — and the part of you that laughs when terrified is already answering.
RECORD 11 · 원혼 · PHANTOM
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Echoes 메아리
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 메아리 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band흐림 Frayed · SANITY 79-55 — Replays register with media activity in the Frayed band; the Tape threshold can force one at any band.
AppearanceGhostly replays of 1982 — residents caught in their final moments, translucent, in period clothing, repeating on loop like worn tape.
OriginThe moment of death, replaying on loop. Some Echoes accumulate enough 원한 to become sentient and notice the watcher.
Documented BehaviorPhantom — INVISIBLE → MANIFEST → APPROACH → VANISH. Tapes play them into a room; most ignore the living, but a sentient Echo will pause mid-loop and turn.
CountermeasuresDo not interrupt the replay. Some can be 'completed' — resolving their unfinished business releases them; the rest must simply be let play.
Audio SignatureTape hiss thickening into voices — the same sentence, the same scream, at the same timestamp.
Floor AffinityResidential floors 3–10; anywhere the dead lived.
Threshold Interactions
TAPE
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationAn Echo keeps its moment and wants a witness inside it — and the grieving part of you that would relive a lost day forever steps willingly into the loop.
물건귀
Mulgeon-gwi — The Object-Born
3 RECORDSEntities born from the building's objects — televisions, photographs, envelopes — fused with the organism over four decades. Unique to this site. No comparable records exist elsewhere.
RECORD 12 · 물건귀 · STALKER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Red Envelope Phantom 붉은봉투유령
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 붉은봉투유령 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band흐림 Frayed · SANITY 79-55 — Registers with Object-Born activity in the Frayed band; opening its envelope manifests it regardless of sanity.
AppearanceA funeral figure that manifests when a sealed condolence envelope (부조) is opened — a mourning shape in paper-white and dried-blood red, faceless above the fold.
OriginBorn from funeral/ritual envelopes scattered through the building — condolence money for the dead of 1982, sealed and waiting for decades.
Documented BehaviorStalker — DORMANT → STALK → PURSUE → LOSE_TRACK → REPOSITION. Opening its envelope binds it to you; it grants visions of the building's memory, or death, depending on what you owe.
CountermeasuresDo not open sealed envelopes. If opened, the debt must be acknowledged — leave money and a name at any threshold and do not look behind you.
Audio SignaturePaper tearing in an empty room; the dry rustle of an envelope sliding under a door.
Floor AffinityCommercial floors 1–2 and the market level.
Threshold Interactions
OBJECT
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationIt keeps the ledger of mourning and wants your name entered in it — and the indebted part of you that believes grief must be paid for signs.
RECORD 16 · 물건귀 · STALKER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Polaroid Watcher 폴라로이드감시자
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 폴라로이드감시자 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band흐림 Frayed · SANITY 79-55 — Photo shifts register in the Frayed band; once the cursed photo is viewed, its advance is real at any sanity.
AppearanceA figure that exists in cursed Polaroids — desaturated, soft-blurred, white-bordered. Each time you look, it stands one room closer in the frame.
OriginBound to Polaroid photographs taken inside the building and leaked in the 1990s. A spirit of the film itself, dreaming of its subject.
Documented BehaviorStalker — DORMANT → STALK → PURSUE → LOSE_TRACK → REPOSITION. Viewing the photo advances it; it crosses rooms only when observed in the print, never in the flesh — until the last frame.
CountermeasuresStop looking. Contain the photograph — face-down, wrapped, or burned — before the figure fills the frame.
Audio SignatureThe whir-and-click of an instant camera ejecting a print no one took.
Floor AffinityAny floor — it travels in the photograph.
Threshold Interactions
PHOTO
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationIt wants you inside the picture, where nothing ever changes and no one ever leaves — and the nostalgic part of you that aches at old photographs keeps looking one time too many.
RECORD 17 · 물건귀 · WATCHER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Static Child 정전기아이
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 정전기아이 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band흐림 Frayed · SANITY 79-55 — Object-Born media activity — the silhouette resolves out of static in the Frayed band.
AppearanceA child's silhouette standing in TV static, fingers sometimes pressed against the inside of the glass. It can only exist inside television screens.
OriginBorn from a television absorbed into the building's flesh — decades of consumed broadcasts condensed into one small watching shape.
Documented BehaviorWatcher — OBSERVE → ALERT → FLEE. It watches from any powered screen. Staring at it too long causes teleportation — the room changes around you between blinks.
CountermeasuresDo not stare. Unplug or cover the set (the cord grows into the wall); glance, note it, and move on.
Audio SignatureCRT static hiss rising in pitch, and beneath it a child counting hide-and-seek numbers.
Floor AffinityResidential floors and the PC bang — anywhere with screens.
Threshold Interactions
TAPEOBJECT
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationIt wants a playmate on its side of the screen — someone to sit in the static with forever — and the child in you that once sat too close to the television leans in.
문지기
Munjigi — The Gatekeepers
2 RECORDSThreshold enforcement. These records manifest only in response to violations. Do not test which rules apply to readers of this mirror.
RECORD 04 · 문지기 · WATCHER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Shinigami Behemoths 사신거인
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 사신거인 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band무너짐 Breaking · SANITY 29-10 — Visible only in the Breaking band (≤29% sanity) and below — canonical phrasing of the older '<20%' rule.
AppearanceThree-to-four-story skeletal giants in bone white and rust-black, silhouettes carrying corroded Joseon-era armor elements, patrolling the rooftops with deliberate, judicial slowness.
OriginPossibly amalgamated spirits of the dead, now serving as boundary sentinels. They enforce the building's perimeter — the cosmic boundary.
Documented BehaviorWatcher — OBSERVE → ALERT → FLEE. They patrol the rooftop line and do not descend; they mark transgressors of the perimeter, and the building answers.
CountermeasuresStay off the rooftops and keep your sanity above the Breaking band — what you cannot perceive cannot pass judgment on you. Do not test the perimeter.
Audio SignatureA low horn like a temple bell, felt in the ribs before it is heard; stone grinding on stone.
Floor AffinityRooftop.
Threshold Interactions
SIGIL
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationThey keep you inside the boundary the way a parent keeps a child inside the gate at dusk — and the small part of you that feels safest watched-over and walled-in agrees with them.
RECORD 13 · 문지기 · SEER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Sigil Guardians 인장수호자
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 인장수호자 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band무너짐 Breaking · SANITY 29-10 — Perceptible with the Gatekeepers in the Breaking band — but a sigil error makes them unmistakable at any sanity.
AppearanceInvisible until triggered — then bone-white, corroded figures unfolding from the wall around the incorrect sigil, ancient and unhurried.
OriginThe building's enforcers of correct ritual practice. Not spirits of the dead — officials of its law, in the manner of 저승사자.
Documented BehaviorSeer — HIDDEN → REVEAL → PREDICT → TRAP. Dormant at every warded threshold; a sigil error wakes them, and they deliver punishment precisely, then dissipate.
CountermeasuresDraw correctly or not at all. An acknowledged error — the correcting sigil, drawn slowly and in full view — may commute the sentence.
Audio SignatureAbsolute silence — a sudden vacuum of sound around the sigil — then one stroke of stone on stone.
Floor AffinityAny warded threshold; shifting.
Threshold Interactions
SIGIL
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationThey keep the house rules that keep you — obey and you are held safely inside the law — and the obedient child in you finds the clear rules almost a relief.
그림자
Geurimja — The Shadows
3 RECORDSPerception-dependent. Verification impossible by definition: every confirmed sighting is equally a confirmed hallucination. Both readings are filed.
RECORD 03 · 그림자 · STALKER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Wall Walkers 벽행자
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 벽행자 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band흐림 Frayed · SANITY 79-55 — Stalkers begin to register in the Frayed band — and even then only in reflections.
AppearanceLong-limbed humanoids camouflaged flush against wallpaper and pipes, only visible in reflections. Environmental color match with one tell — a glint, a wrong shadow.
OriginCamouflaged stalkers that might be building-grown or might be transformed humans. No one has seen one clearly enough to say.
Documented BehaviorStalker — DORMANT → STALK → PURSUE → LOSE_TRACK → REPOSITION. They peel from the walls behind explorers and follow at the edge of sight; viewing a cursed photo advances them.
CountermeasuresWatch the mirrors, not the walls. Reflective surfaces reveal them; keep moving and never linger with your back to wallpaper.
Audio SignatureDry paper-on-plaster sliding, like wallpaper settling — always behind you.
Floor AffinityResidential corridors, floors 3–5.
Threshold Interactions
PHOTO
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationThey keep you inside the walls' embrace, folding you into the corridor you grew up in — and the part of you that finds narrow, familiar hallways comforting walks deeper in.
RECORD 06 · 그림자 · SEER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Mirror-Lurker 거울잠복자
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 거울잠복자 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band갈라짐 Slipping · SANITY 54-30 — Reflections diverge in the Slipping band; the swap can only be completed in the Void band (9–0).
AppearanceYour own reflection, slightly wrong — the smile a half-second late, the eyes fixed while yours move. It waits inside mirrors and polished surfaces.
OriginA perception-dependent entity of the liminal space between real and hallucinated. Whether it is a thing in the glass or a flaw in you is never certain.
Documented BehaviorSeer — HIDDEN → REVEAL → PREDICT → TRAP. It studies you through every reflective surface, predicting your route; at Void sanity it can swap places and step out as you.
CountermeasuresCover or avoid mirrors; a correctly drawn sigil on the glass seals it. Never approach a reflection at low sanity.
Audio SignatureA faint tap from the wrong side of the glass, matching your heartbeat.
Floor AffinityFloors 1–2 — the beauty salon, and anywhere mirrored.
Threshold Interactions
SIGIL
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationIt keeps you by becoming you — you go on living inside the glass where it can look at you forever — and the part of you that has always wanted someone else to take over is halfway through the mirror already.
RECORD 07 · 그림자 · PHANTOM
TIER 0 · LOCKED
Helium Monster 헬륨괴물
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 헬륨괴물 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band갈라짐 Slipping · SANITY 54-30 — Manifests with most Phantoms and Shadows in the Slipping band — and even then only at certain angles.
AppearanceA floating balloon of pale flesh, pulsating gently near ceilings, visible only at certain angles. It giggles in a thin helium pitch.
OriginLiminal and perception-dependent — a buoyant knot of the building's hysteria. No one has touched one and described it afterward.
Documented BehaviorPhantom — INVISIBLE → MANIFEST → APPROACH → VANISH. Its giggling is infectious: victims laugh involuntarily until they cannot breathe, marking their position for everything else.
CountermeasuresBreak line of sight from the revealing angle and clamp down on the laughter — bite your sleeve, count, do not let the laugh become yours.
Audio SignatureHelium giggling drifting down from ceiling corners, doubling the moment you smile.
Floor AffinityUpper residential floors 6–10.
Threshold Interactions
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationIt keeps you laughing along — one shared joke that never ends — and the lonely part of you that has not laughed with anyone in years joins in before it can stop itself.
안내자
Annaeja — The Guides
2 RECORDSAllegiance unresolved. They help. What they help — the visitor or the building — has not been determined in 40 years of records.
RECORD 14 · 안내자 · WATCHER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
The Trance Man 무아인
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 무아인 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band갈라짐 Slipping · SANITY 54-30 — Guides appear visibly in the Slipping band; below 50 his motives seem clearer — which may itself be the trap.
AppearanceA silent, rigid man in neat 1980s clothes, standing at intersections. He raises an arm, points down one corridor, and vanishes when you look away.
OriginUnknown. Perhaps a remnant of human consciousness fighting the building's control; perhaps the building's most sophisticated deception.
Documented BehaviorWatcher — OBSERVE → ALERT → FLEE. He never approaches and never speaks. Sometimes his direction is right. Sometimes it is a trap. Trust rating: unknown.
CountermeasuresTreat every pointed corridor as a gamble. Mark your own trail; a guide you ignore may never appear again — decide what that is worth.
Audio SignatureNo sound at all — a corridor gone unnaturally quiet where he stands.
Floor AffinityCorridor intersections; shifting.
Threshold Interactions
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationHe offers direction to the hopelessly lost, keeping you moving along paths of his choosing — and the part of you desperate for anyone to just tell you where to go follows the finger.
RECORD 15 · 안내자 · WATCHER
TIER 0 · LOCKED
The Janitor 관리인
EXHIBIT · RECOVERED PRINT · 관리인 · EXAMINE ⟲
Perception Band흐림 Frayed · SANITY 79-55 — An audio Guide — the mop and humming register in the Frayed band; he is almost never seen at any band.
AppearanceAlmost never seen — an auditory presence: a mop dragging, tuneless humming, the scrape of a broom. Where he has passed, the floor is clean and the growth pushed back.
OriginUnknown. He maintains the building — or maintains it FOR the building. Which master he serves has never been established.
Documented BehaviorWatcher — OBSERVE → ALERT → FLEE. He clears paths or sets traps, unpredictably. He may reward respect: cleaned corridors stay passable longer for those who wipe their feet.
CountermeasuresRespect the work. Do not track filth over a cleaned corridor; leave a small offering by the mop bucket and the paths stay open.
Audio SignatureA mop dragging wet across concrete and low, tuneless humming of an old folk song.
Floor AffinityCommercial floors and long corridors; roaming.
Threshold Interactions
OBJECT
보관 판정 — Keeping DeterminationHe keeps the building livable so you'll have no reason to leave — a home maintained forever around you — and the housebroken part of you that equates a swept floor with safety settles in.
ON VARIANTS. Sub-types and variants of the seventeen records above are documented continuously and filed as community entries. Entirely new records require determination by the original examiner. Proposals may be submitted through the Viewer Registry. Include your name only if you are prepared for it to be remembered.
보류
Provisional Records — Awaiting Determination
12 FILEDDesigns recovered from the 2026 encyclopedia survey, classified against the six categories but not yet elevated by the original examiner. Community handling rules apply: variants are free, elevation requires determination.
