The Unfinished Symphony

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Purpose / Function

Originally built to serve travelers visiting Harjanta, the hotel remains a favorite among businesspeople, tourists, honeymooners, and aging couples on romantic escapes. Its upper floors provide luxury, privacy, and spectacular views, while the lower levels deliver comfort with practical ease. Though it operates as a standard hotel, many believe the building was meant for more... what, exactly, remains unknown.

Design

The lobby features dark mahogany check-in desks and a wrap-around grand staircase that blends elegance with practicality. Marble flooring and tall ceilings add to the sense of grandeur. The restaurant, attached to the main floor, offers rich wooden paneling, candlelight ambiance, panoramic windows. Guest room vary by floor:

  • Floors 1-5: Standard rooms, each with a bed, desk, chair, bathroom, snack bark, and Lyminal Display.
  • Floors 6-7: Larger rooms with improved decor, balconies, and upgraded amenities.
  • Floors 8-9: Luxe suites with living spaces, separate bedrooms, premium bath fixtures.
  • Floor 10: The Penthouse, self-contained, with two bedrooms, full kitchen, dining area, and panoramic lounge.

Entries

Main Entry: Grand revolving door with reinforced glass and decorative steel trim.

Emergency Exits: Five side and back doors on the main floor (three in lobby, two in restaurant).

Room Access: Each room has a reinforced door with magickal and physical locks, and at least one window with fire escape access.

Vertical Movement: Elevators reach all floors: a central staircase wraps alongside them.

Sensory & Appearance

What a person sees upon entering depends on what room they are entering. When first entering the hotel, one enters the lobby on the main floor one is greeted with a smiling host/hostess at the check in/check out desk of a dark wood (mahogany from Earth) that no one has a name for but is still lovingly cared for. The floors are marble and there are flowers in various vases scattered throughout scent the air sweetly while providing a splash of color against the white walls.

Entering the restaurant, one will find the walls a dark brown, but it doesn't feel overly dark, not with the soft lighting, the candles, and the large windows that let inexcellent views, no matter the time of day. There are plenty of tables, both for intimate dinner for two and large enough for a business group. There's also a bar one can avail themselves of. Music is soft and fits for both romance and business.

Every room has a bed, bathroom, a chair, a desk, a Luminal Display (once they were available), and a snack/drink bar. This is the limit of what the first 5 floors of rooms get. As one gets to the higher levels, one gets more amenities. When one get the penthouse on the 10th floor, one gets a living room area with couches and rug, a deluxe sized bathroom, two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a dining room.

Denizens

Staff: Hotel Manager, Hosts/Hostesses, Bellhops, Housekeeping, Maintenance, Kitchen Staff (Baristas, Bartenders, Chefs, Dishwashers), Event Planners.

Guests: Business travelers, couples, honeymooners, tourists. Faces change regularly, with only a few longer-term stays.

Rumor: A retired composer is said to live in one of the top-floor suites under a false name, seeking to finish his final piece.

Contents & Furnishings

Rooms contain:

  • Comfortable beds with luxurious linens
  • Hand-carved furniture (mostly in darker tones)
  • Luminated screens
  • Climate control crystals
  • Art from regional Ashyan and Native styles

The Penthouse also features:

  • Grand Piano
  • Floor-length mirrors
  • Telescopes
  • A wine collection dating back two centuries

Valuables

Select rooms house art worth thousands

The penthouse's wine and antique furniture are both valuable and irreplaceable

Rumored: a locked music chest in one of the upper suites that no one has been able to open in over 100 years.

Hazards & Traps

None are advertised or apparent. However, there are murmurs of rooms (particularly 707 and 804) that seem to subtly disorient visitors. Some guests have exited the wrong room entirely despite insisting they never left their own.

Special Properties

Strong magickal dampening field around the hotel ensures no unsanctioned spell work.

Floors are reinforced with anti-collapse wards.

Air ducts are sealed with purification runes.

Mirrors in rooms do not show reflections exactly in sync... just a millisecond off, noticeable only to keenest observer.

Alterations

Originally a 5-floor hotel, it was expanded to 10 floors over several decades. The expansion was slow, irregular, and curiously unreported. Each new floor added resulted in a spike in guest interest... and a handful of unexplained incidents. No official records exist for the 10th floor's construction. It is simply... there.

Architecture

The style is classical Ashyan with subtle Native embellishments, arched doorways, hand-painted tiles, and broad sweeping balconies. Earth-imported mahogany (though no is sure how it arrived on Caelum Prime) and marblle mingle with locally quarried stone. The exterior maintains a stately presence without garish luxury.

History

Despite its age, the building feels incomplete. Whispers among staff and locals call it "The Unfinished Symphony" not only because of its former name as a music hall that never opened but because many feel something remains unresolved. There are no known owners on record. The Triumvirate manages it, but none of its council has ever stayed there.

Tourism

The hotel draws those seeking refined accommodations and those who've heard its mythos. Some book rooms for the supposed supernatural allure, others for the luxury. Locals profit from guided ghost tours, romantic packages, and themed dinner events at the hotel's restaurant.

Table of Contents

Founding Date
12 Frostember 269 AE
Alternative Names
That Hotel
Type
Hospitality, Hotel
Parent Location
Environmental Effects

Subtle atmospheric pressure exists throughout the building, most noticeably on the upper floors where the air feels just slightly thinner... as if the building is waiting for something to complete it. The humidity stays constant, comfortable but eerily still. Guests occasionally describe a "pause" in time, brief lapses in sound, where even ticking clocks seem to stall. Some claim to hear faint orchestral music playing from unknown sources, particularly on the 7th floor.

Owning Organization
Something about this place calls to me, tells me that it is important. Harmony moves in me. I just don't know what it all means as I'm missing information. And what is this sense of waiting everyone sense when staying at this hotel?
 
Every description of this place that I find makes it sound beautiful. I can see it in my mind and I yearn to see it in person, more than any other place I say I wish I could see, to visit. In my mind, in my dreams, I keep coming back to it, nearly as often as my recurring dream of the Shadowsong Messenger. One of these days, I'm going to solve both dreams.

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