Lost Artifact: Key to Room 000
Item ID: #000-KEY
Status: Located near the service elevator, 2nd sub-basement.
Description:
A brass skeleton key affixed to a cracked ceramic fob labeled simply: "000". It bears signs of oxidation, as though submerged for years.
The teeth are worn down in a pattern inconsistent with any known lock in the hotel.
Provenance:
Guests occasionally report sightings of this key—always briefly, always misplaced afterward. One staff member insists it was once
issued to a guest during the 1939 centenary gala. No record supports this. The guest registry for that night is missing three pages.
Restrictions:
Guests are advised not to attempt to use the key.
Staff have been instructed not to accept it at Reception, even if turned in.
Note: There is no Room 000. Except when there is.