McAllistor Building

dangerous

McAllistor Building

The last known residence of missing artist Abigail Wright, and the location named in the self-written finale script back in Session 3 — before anyone had been hired to investigate it. Common areas entered Session 4; Abigail's unit (1A) not yet entered (police tape).

Known Details

Spelling Variants
The name appears three ways across sources: **"Macallistar"** (the FBI letter), **"McCallister"** (Gus's research), and **"McAllistor"** (campaign records). Tracked here under McAllistor.

Abigail's Apartment (1A) — Per the Case File

Not yet entered by the team (police tape; they hold freshly-cut keys). Per the Abigail Wright Case File, when police opened it on 4 SEP 2015 they found a tableau: every surface buried in junk epoxied to the walls — dentures, a 1940s wheelchair, antique prosthetic limbs, radios, jewelry, thousands of multilingual papers — with the floor bare and the rug torn up. A paper bearing a gold-ink occult symbol (the Rooftop Symbol) was in the debris. The Post notes the apartment was locked from the inside.

History (Art Life Dossier, Session 6)

The building began as the private residence of Henry M. Lundine (1886–1952) and was refitted into apartments via a permit addendum dated 2 MAR 1953, architect of record A. Darabondi. Three deaths/disappearances cluster around it:

Person Event Date
Charles Lundine (owner's son, a musician) hanged himself in the second-floor ballroom 30 AUG 1950
A. Darabondi (architect; suspected drowner of 5–20 children, 1947–1950) disappeared 1950
Henry Lundine (owner) found dead in the staircase to the roof, in silver robes and a white papier-mâché mask; ruled stroke 30 APR 1952

Owned by the Star Corporation until 1967, then sold to Art Life.

The Owner Died at the Roof Door, in the King's Costume
Henry Lundine was found dead on the **third-floor landing of the roof stairwell** wearing the **Pallid Mask** (silver robes, white expressionless papier-mâché mask) — the same threshold the investigators intend to cross at night. The building has a **65-year documented history** of the exact phenomenon the team is chasing. See Art Life Dossier.

The Building (visited Session 4)

A classic brownstone — two stories plus a basement by exterior read; the floorplan shows Ground / First / Second floors and a basement stair. Double doors, a concrete rampart, cheap gargoyles on the roof. A cornerstone dates construction to 1924. Buzzer lists Abigail Wright in 1A.

Entered Session 4 via a magnet on the door lock. Abigail Wright's door (1A) is under police tape, with a wired microphone in the rug outside it running to Thomas Manuel's apartment. Her mailbox held ~8 weeks of bills with the personal mail stripped out.

McAllistor Floorplan

Residents by Floor

Floor Apartments
Ground Thomas Manuel · Roger Carlins · Abigail Wright (1A) · old telephone nook · closet
First Michelle Vanatz · Lewis Post ("Louis Posts Apt" on the plan) · two empty apts
Second all empty · door to rooftop
Both Contacts Live in the Building
Thomas Manuel and Lewis Post — the two recurring contacts from Abigail's records — are **both tenants here.** The upper floor is entirely empty.

The Basement & the Night Floors

The basement holds a studio that Thomas Manuel paints in; access is granted by the night manager, Mr. Kasine (Session 4). Beyond the three real floors, the building has — per Abigail Wright's Night Floors Map — "night floors" reached from the empty second floor, with a parlor occupied by Mr. Ostanovic. In Session 5, tenants Lewis Post and Thomas Manuel describe a sixth-floor smoking lounge and a party there (see The Sixth-Floor Party) — the smoking lounge matching the impossible one beneath Box 13 HQ.

The Tenants Sleep While Their Minds Go Up
Michelle Vanatz was found **unwakeable in her apartment** (sleeping pills, *The Bell Jar*) while simultaneously a **live character in The Smoking Lounge Play.** Thomas Manuel shares the symptoms (fog, **expired food**). The residents' bodies remain below in drugged sleep; their minds inhabit the **night floors.** "Moving upstairs" happens in sleep.
Impossible Vertical
The building has three real floors, yet tenants navigate more: Roger Carlins (Session 5) says the **stairs go up six floors**, that **apartment 12A is on the sixth**, and that the **night manager's office is on the sixth** too. Abigail's 10-B receipt bills a unit that can't exist; "12A on 6" is the same impossibility from a neighbor's mouth. The night floors have their own numbering, and the residents climb to them as if they were ordinary.

The Building Wakes (Session 5)

At 10:00 PM, mid-search, the building stopped feeling empty. The investigators heard multiple sets of footsteps beyond the apartment walls, a door opening and another closing elsewhere in the building, and creaking on the floor above them. After a day of near-total vacancy (an entirely empty second floor, no movement), the tenants are stirring — on multiple floors at once, including above the team. Status raised to dangerous.

Session 5 (next morning): by daylight the building is quiet again. The stirring appears to be a nocturnal cycle — active at night (the 10 PM footsteps, the talk of the sixth floor), dormant by day. The roof is likewise an ordinary roof by day; the team plans to return to the roof door at night to attempt entry to the night rooms.

Open Questions