Location: Suburban neighborhood, quiet streets, manicured lawns.
Overview:
Patriot Springs is a mid-sized assisted living campus, designed for comfort, routine, and community. The residents enjoy a predictable rhythm of meals, activities, and rest, with staff ensuring safety and care. By day, it’s a serene, cheerful environment; by night, the hallways hum with subtle echoes of the past, giving it a quietly eerie undertone.
Facilities:
Shared common rooms with couches, TV, and activity boards.
Private and semi-private resident rooms.
Dining hall serving three meals a day, plus snacks.
Outdoor courtyards and walking paths.
Small administrative offices and a night security station.
Staff:
Nurses and caregivers: attentive, patient, and often overworked.
Night security: Frank, who keeps watch over the campus after hours.
Maintenance and kitchen staff: background presence, adding life to the campus.
Residents:
Diverse group, mostly retired, some with lingering quirks from past lives.
Many have fond attachments to pets, hobbies, and memories.
A subtle sense of nostalgia, combined with occasional forgetfulness or whimsy, pervades the campus.
Atmosphere:
Safe, orderly, and routine by day.
By night, the campus takes on a liminal quality; faint sounds, shifting shadows, and small unexplained phenomena hint at the thin boundary between life and death — noticed most keenly by Frank and Mr. Pep.
Tone for Storytelling:
Patriot Springs provides a grounded, relatable setting for supernatural humor and reflection. Its normalcy contrasts with Frank and Mr. Pep’s unique awareness, giving space for subtle ghostly encounters, quiet philosophy, and light-hearted moments.
