Joy's Apartment

**Joy's Apartment** is a location in *The Sinking City*.

## Description

**This section contains spoilers for the Silence is Golden case.**

Joy's apartment consists of a two story building with a basement.

### Ground Floor

The Ground floor consists of an entry room, kitchen, dining room, and what looks to be some sort of storage room. The wall between the storage room and the dining room has been destroyed. This floor is is a state of disrepair, broken mirrors, peeling wallpaper, and a large section of wall destroyed with a patched up floor. In the kitchen there is a locker than can be looted. The door leading to the basement has a destructible lock on it, preventing entry until the lock is destroyed.

### Basement

In the basement There is an Acheronian and entering the basement causes a lethian to appear at the top of the stairs. Other than the Wylebeasts there basement is largely unremarkable, consisting of shelves of storage, chairs, and several crates. One particularly large unmarked crate appears to have fallen through the above floor, the apparent cause of the now patched hole in the floor. In the basement there is a locker than can be looted. After a retrocognition sequence during the course of Silence is Golden a box on the shelves is revealed to be an illusion, under which is *An iron key*.

### Upper Floor

The upper floor has two rooms, labeled "1" and "2" respectively.

Room 1, the apartment belonging to Joy Hayden is unlocked. Inside is a grisly sight, A disemboweled dog on the floor and A message written in blood on the desk. Next to the message is a doll made from dog skin. To the right of the desk above a stack of books and a globe is a symbol written in blood. Following the wall, past that there is a piece of broken furniture, a covered upright piano, and a sewing machine that looks to have been used to create the gristly doll. There is a single narrow bed against the far wall of the room, To the left of it is a music stand and a large poster of Joy with a *CANCELLED* stamp across it. The poster seems to be advertising a solo concert. Below the poster on a bedside table is an oil lamp and a bird shaped trophy for "golden voice". To the right side of the bed is a dog bowl and dog bed. There is also a small cupboard that can be looted here. Past that there is an armchair and a couch, surrounded by books and with a violin on a coffee table between them. On this table is a violin and a Letter from Joy's parents. On the floor near the damaged door separating the apartments is a broken camera.

Room 2, which can be opened with the Iron key found in the basement has a two desks, on one is a stack of books on fairy tales 'the kind without a happily ever after' along with a Joy Hayden poster. The other desk, on the other side of the room has A tattered diary on it, along with some undeveloped film. There are various photogeraphy equipment scattered around the room and there is a small cupboard that can be looted between a dresser and a table with a map. The map on this table labels a spot on it "Joy Hayden". Next to a furnace and upright piano is a dead man, presumably Joy's neighbor, there are no wounds on his body. Other than that there is a single bed in the corner and a string of photographs hanging from the ceiling, mostly of various women.