This is getting less unnerving and spooky details and more "wacky supernatural things that you can have fun with and make use of".
Not that there's anything wrong with that, anytime something creative happens it's a good thing. I just prefer actually scary things in the peripheral and really horrific implications.
On the opposite side of the block from the building, along its back, is an L-shaped strip mall, the two legs never quite connecting, allowing a path from the courtyard to the parking lot along the alley.
After 6pm, go down to the courtyard, using only the lobby entrance to it. Follow the right hand wall until you come to an archway, and spin clockwise three times in it, otherwise you exit to the normal alley. Once you do so, the entire alley changes to a gravel path flanked by rose bushes. Follow the path to the strip mall, which is now 2 L-shapes ands four stories high. Browse the shops of weird goods, be polite to the strange people (ask the hobgoblin in 6D for help if you need it), be prepared to pay with very strange things. Just never take any other exit, and take three turns counterclockwise in the archway when you go back. You were never meant to live in that city.
I do try. I'm sorta cycling through weird and trying to get to scary, like Old Man Flynn asking after a family member.
Do not enter the courtyard on the night of the new moon. Always check the lunar calendar on the wall to determine if the moon is lying.
The rats in the walls are in an eternal war against the roaches. It is customary to let them salvage your recycling for raw materials.
>one day, as you stroll around, you find a mysterious store you can swear wasn't there yesterday
>it sells hummus
>but those who can see through the facade learn the real purpose of it
>if you know the right call, you can get invited to the room behind the corner
>it's a magical crossfit gym, workout here gives you twirly mustache and a lumberjack beard
>one of the ghosts is Zyzz
>he takes ectoplasm shots
No hipsters in building! Is ancient Chinese law! You wanna be hipster? You break lease! Move to Portland! The shitty part where rent is your soul!
>Elsewhere in the Building
There's a hipster in the building! Somebody get the Priest, the Rabbi, and Uncle Izzy!
Well it did start out as "comfy urban weirdness". Think of an Adams Family apartment, stuff is creepy and seems threatening, but life is actually pretty cozy once you get used to it.
Reminds me of The Voynich Hotel.
>The old lady in 12c is basically a TV commercial grandma. Rosy cheeks and wrinkles, the whole deal.
>The only thing is that instead of making cakes or cookies, she makes meat pies
> They are absolutely delicious, but you wonder where she gets the money for such quality meat on her pension.
>You read news reports of criminals mysteriously going missing during prisoner transfer. Two days after each report, a fresh batch of pies comes out of her oven.
Eat up boy, you're getting far too skinny.