The Niwa Resort

Photo of Niwa's main building in present day (1999).

**The Niwa Resort,** officially named **The Niwa Workers' Resort,** was a former government-funded vacation resort, near the city of Cracow. It has been constructed and opened in the Summer of 1969 and housed a glorious ceremony during its opening, marked by the visit of officials from the Communist Party of Poland.

The resort has been shutdown for an undisclosed amount of time, possibly since the early 1980's. Since then, the Niwa has been abandoned and got dilapidated due to the exposure to the nature and the lack of maintanance.

The Resort has been the center of the events of The Medium and the Niwa's Massacre, which has been caused by The Maw sometime during the late 1970's and early 1980's shortly after Lilliane's quarantine from her father Thomas. At 1999, while Marianne visits the Niwa, it is evident that the Resort still holds mostly negative memories of people who have affected its history.

The interactive map of the area of the resort based of in-game evidence is accessible here.

## Environment

### Location

The Niwa Resort during its Hay Day.

The Niwa Resort is located in a rural area of Poland possibly in a close distance with Cracow. The Hotel has been constructed in an area which is probably quite far from other towns or villages, as Marianne uses a motorbike to get to the hotel which is not on a main road but has its own private road leading first to its central gate. According to the gameplay and as Marianne explores the environment we understand that the area around Niwa consists a rich ecosystem with an abundance of rivers, mountains and rocky formations.

#### Climate

The Niwa Resort is been placed in an area with a wet and windy climate. During the visit of Marianne to the Resort, the weather is foggy with only a little traces of the sun hitting the ground. Also, many times during the game the weather gets rainy and stormy, indicating that the climate around the Niwa area is generally unstable.

## Infrastructure

### Central Gate

   The Niwa Resort, is situated in a remote forest area and its connected with a private road which possibly conjucts with a national road or a highway. At the end of this road there's the central gate of the hotel in which in the past, visitors used to stop and being registered in order to reach the central facilities of the resort. At the structure of the Central Gate there is an existing map sign in which it indicates Niwa's most known landmarks and a small room in which the reception desk used to be. After passing the central gate's building visitors used to drive a short distance within the forest until reaching the central building of the resort. In the present day, the facility is decayed and dilapidated and overgrown by flora and the central gate is closed with a big metal door.

### Main Building

After driving from the central gate via the private road for a few hundred meters, which nowdays is been cutted-off possibly caused by a landslide, visitors come up with the main 5 story high Resort building. The architecture of the building refers to the old soviet-styled buildings, in which balconies are absents

#### Parking Lot

In front of the hotel, there is an existing parking lot of the capacity to house up to at least 150 parked cars. At the center of the parking lot there is the main entrance of the hotel which is accessible via two grand staircases near which a former functioning telephone booth was being placed. Some meters to the left there is an existing stone sign which indicates the procedure of the Inauguration of the Niwa' Resort back in the summer of 1969. Nowadays the parking lot of the former resort is dilapidated and overgrown by flora, while two abandoned cars are parked within, with no sign of its owner.

#### Lobby floor

##### Entrance space

In the entrance outside of the lobby floor, there is an existing space for cars to park in order for the customers to carry their luggage inside on the hotel, while on the right facing the main entrance there is a glass room possibly for storaging goods and carriers. Today, the entrance and the side room is decayed and vandalised, while grass has been grown on the floor.

##### Reception Desk

While entering the hotel from the main entrance, the lobby extends to different levels, in which each leads to a different area of the hotel. More precisely, by entering the lobby there is a grand hall with a lot of chairs and couches for visitors to be retreated, while straight ahead extends the area of the Dayroom. By walking on the right side, this wing of the hotels consists of some guestrooms, the lower level of the pool, the Sauna facility and some maintenance rooms. To the left, is the main area of the lobby, in where the big desk of the reception exists with the four clocks each indicating the time to different cities of the world. In this space, there is an existing grand staircase which leads to the upper levels and 2 elevators. Continuing straight after turned left from the main entrance there are some guestrooms and other spaces possibly acting as supporting areas for the hotel's utilities. The area of the Reception Desk as the whole of the facilities on the hotel is vandalised and decayed because of the abandonment followed by the Niwa's Massacre and the long-term exposure to the outside environment. The access to the left wing is impossible because of the existance of a metal gate, the access to the upper floors is as well impossible due to the collapse of the staircase, while the same thing applies for the dayroom and the pool.

##### Dayroom

By entering the Dayroom, there is a narrow glass corridor which ends up in a big room, which consists the Dayroom. Inside the area, we can find tables and chairs possibly indicating that this space has been a spot for the guests and was used for recreational purposes specially for younger visitors. The Dayroom consists of smaller rooms and halls, a fact that proves its multifunctional use for all type of activities. Also, the Dayroom houses a big glass room which has direct contact with the forest and the gardens of the Niwa.

Through the Dayroom and the gardens near it, the visitors could follow a path and access the nearby Niwa Nature Park.

##### Pool

The Pool consists a big room with balconies in which a big pool is situated on the center. The room is been luminated by a big glass wall which has immidiate contact with the outer environment. At the pool there are existing locker rooms which has been abandoned and overgrown by plants and trees. Nowadays, the pool has been a garbage dump, while many areas of the room has been collapsed due to the decay.

#### First Floor

The First floor extends to two wings, which houses some guestrooms, a Gym, some offices and the upper floor of the Pool.

#### Second Floor

The Second Floor, consists of an area which is partially occupied by guestrooms. In the center there is the hall where the elevators and the staircase exists while heading to the left (from the same prespective as entering the hotel) there are some guestrooms, a smaller hall with a staircase and an elevator and the manager's office. On the other side, there are some guest rooms, 2 meeting rooms, an examination room and a small hall with an elevator and a staircase as well.

##### Managers' Room

Inside the manager's office there is an existing hidden room, which it was possibly used as a photography room.

#### Third Floor

The Third Floor of the Niwa's Resort, consists of 3 halls and two wings of guestrooms.

#### Other Floors

The upper floors of the Niwa remain unexplored, but its possible that they house the rest of the guestrooms of the hotel, and have the same plan as the lower floors.

## Description

#### **Material World**

The Material World of The Niwa's Hotel consists the reality of the real world and how things appear in the perspective of humans. The total of the facilities and buildings of the former hotel remain dilapidated and decayed, while the majority of paths and roads connecting the areas of the hotel are overgrown by nature and flora.

Despite the fact that the resort's facilities are left abandoned for nearly two decades, power and electricity is present at some points inside some areas of the Hotel's main building.

#### **Spiritual World**

The Spiritual World of The Niwa's Hotel consists of the reality where spirits and demons live on the afterlife. The Spiritual World concerning the Niwa consists a disturbing and hostile environment. In the majority of the areas of Niwa's Spiritual World, graves and bones cover the rooms and paths of every building, while giant tentacles overgrow walls and the flooring of the hotel and the forest area. The atmosphere seems to be wet and a green colour covers the sky and the distancing areas. The general image of the spiritual version of Niwa is propably caused by the dark past this area possesses, while the sorrow, the despare and sadness caused by the many deaths of the Niwa's Massacre overgrow every positive feeling and emotion felt once before. The Spiritual world consists the home of Thomas's Spirit, the Childeater (Richard), the Hound (Henry), the Maw and many unnamed demons and spirits of the past.

## Inhabitants

### People

* Thomas Reckowicz (formerly)
* Lilliane Reckowicz (formerly)
* Marianne Reckowicz (formerly)
* The Nurse
* Vivienne
* Francis
* Richard
* Unnamed guests and workers

### Demons

* The Maw
* Bathroom's Demon
* Childeater
* The Hound

### Spirits

* Sadness
* Thomas

## See also

* Locations

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