The Sixth-Floor Party
foundThe Sixth-Floor Party
Two McAllistor Building tenants independently describe the same event (Session 5): a party in the smoking lounge of the sixth floor, around the time Abigail Wright "moved upstairs."
Accounts
- Lewis Post: there was a party in the sixth-floor smoking lounge, before Abigail moved upstairs.
- Thomas Manuel: Abigail moved in with an encyclopedia salesman on the 6th floor, "moved on," and they had a party.
- Roger Carlins: attended the going-away party for "Anna" (almost certainly Abigail) — though he says he didn't know her. Places apt 12A and the night manager's office on the sixth floor.
Analysis
The Night Floors Have a Social Calendar
The building has **three floors** — there is no sixth, no smoking lounge. Yet the tenants treat a **sixth-floor party** as a normal memory. The "smoking lounge" matches the impossible **smoking room** beneath Box 13 HQ (Session 3). Abigail "moving upstairs" = moving into the night floors (cf. her 10-B receipt).
- The encyclopedia salesman Abigail "moved in with" carries a briefcase — a likely identity for the Man with the Briefcase who manifested in her apartment.
- "Moved on" is doing ominous work: relocation, or departure of another kind.
- Three tenants, three relationships to the event — yet none of them really knew her, and the building calls her Laura / Anna / Abigail interchangeably. A going-away party for a near-stranger whose name no one is sure of.