Hotel Guest

The Hotel Guest, also known as the Protagonist or the 23rd Victim, is the main protagonist of the Roblox 2013 horror game A Night at the Hotel, specifically serving as the main protagonist of Chapter 1 and the posthumous overarching protagonist of Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.
As his nickname suggests, he is an unnamed man who had divorced with her wife Clarissa after he dumped her for another man that he barely knew. However, he still cares about her, still wanting to be with her, causing him to fall into a depression. A friend then tells him to go get some drinks to forget about the divorce, only to hear about a hotel he can book a room in to rest, without knowing that all rooms were booked, except Room 45. 
As he chooses to book Room 45 for the night, he is warned by the owner, Jason Williams, that he shouldn't live in that room as rumors have spread around, saying that 22 people had died in there from seeing hallucinations, deteriorating their mental healths before killing themselves. Despite the warning, he still books the room for the night. As he rests, he is stalked by the ghost that haunted the room, the culprit behind the 22 deaths that had occurred in it. Eventually, he decided to burn the room down in an attempt to end the curse that had been terrorizing the residents for years, killing both himself and the ghost (though he is confirmed to have survived). After his death, the hotel was shut down to avoid further damage.
== Appearance ==
The Hotel Guest's appearance depends on the Roblox avatar, but is canoncially confirmed to be male.
== Biography ==
=== A Night at the Hotel ===
A year after his wife had settled a divorce with him, the protagonist had received a notification on his phone, saying that a hotel has one room online. Arriving at the hotel, he asks Jason Williams, the hotel owner, if he can book a room for the night, but Jason says that all rooms are booked that night. When the protagonist tells him that Room 45 is the only room online, Jason warns him about the room being cursed, as it is rumored that 22 people had died inside of it due to hallucinations. Despite his warning, the protagonist ignores it and books the room for the night.
During the night, he went on to take his drinks, only to feel dizzy. Eventually, he asks Jason to help him, but he passes out near the front door, as he begins to hallucinate. He awakens back inside the room, but this time, the hotel has blood splattered on the floor and multiple tentacles like appendages are shown on the walls. Going downstairs, he expects to see Mr. Williams, but Clarissa was there instead. The protagonist is glad to see her there, but he quickly gets concerned when she says that he is going to die in this hotel, suffering and burning (foreshadowing his fate at the end of the chapter). Hes is then teleported to a dark, with Clarissa saying that she sees a man who can't let go of his past, which is none other than the protagonist himself.
Finding himself in the hotel's basement, he sees multiple ghosts telling him how his actions towards his wife had made her suffer and that he deserves nothing for it. As the protagonist finally regains consciousness, he is called by Mr. Williams to go downstairs. He tells him what really happened after he was dizzy, stumbling and banging his head on both doors and falling down the elevator shaft, which made him pass out and he was carried back in the room. As he goes back inside to get more rest, he sees his wife crying on his bed, sad that her own husband had dumped her for another woman he barely knew. When he approaches, his room suddenly becomes corroded. Having enough of the nightmares, he goes downstairs and tells Mr. Williams he is leaving, but the former tells him to calm down and asks him why he is leaving, with the protagonist responding that he can't take the nightmares anymore. Mr. Williams then reveals that if he hadn't cheated on his wife, none of this would've happened. The protagonist then leaves the hotel and drives back to his house.
As he was about to go to bed, he hears his door bell ringing, but when he checks outside, he is dragged back to Room 45. He then hears the phone ringing again, where Mr. Williams asks him if he wants to check out for the night. As he accepts, he tells him that that he can't check out as they require one thing: Death. Leaving his room, he walks downstairs to a room full of pictures showing the fates of the other guests inside the room. Surprisingly, he sees a picture of his future self, experiencing his memories where his house is set on fire, burning him alive inside of it, which is transmitted by news reports.
Afterwards, he finds himself in a dark void again, where the same ghosts watch him and tell him that he can't escape Room 45 and that all he will find there is death. Much to his horror, he sees Clarissa's corpse hanging on a noose, with multiple knives stabbed on her body. When he touches her, he is back inside Room 45. This time, however, he finally confronted the ghost who had been haunting him since he booked the room, where he is shown to have killed his own wife in a hit and run, wishing him to burn to death like she did, tearing apart his family and himself. The ghost then says that his anguish feeds him, as he wants revenge for betraying his only true love. Having enough of the ghost tormenting him, he tosses multiple bottles of wine down the floor and pulls out a match. As the ghost begs him to not light it up, the protagonist doesn't care and sets the room on fire, burning himself alive as well as the ghost. Finding himself in Heaven, he finds his wife, who he finally reunites with.
==== Legacy ====
After his death, the hotel was shut down by the government, as they were disappointed that Mr. Williams had let him inside the cursed room despite knowing it was cursed. This led to Mr. Williams being arrested for 3rd degree murder and sent to prison, despite the fact that it wasn't his fault. However, the ghost continued to haunt him and even killed his cellmate, Mark Simmons, which would result in Mr. Williams being charged with first degree murder and executed via the electric chair.
== Trivia ==
* He is mainly considered to be the main protagonist of the trilogy as he was the reason why the hotel had shut down, since his death had made him the 23rd and final victim of the curse before it was stopped. This also indirectly led to Mr. Williams being arrested and later wrongly executed.
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