the shop computer runs the price catalog and the local news. it also has a typing shooter someone installed before you got here. slow hours, you shoot words off the screen for a high score. it keeps your eyes on the monitor and not the window.

when the power cuts you get the flashlight from under the register. heavy thing, old battery. it flickers every time you knock it against a shelf, and the showroom is all shelves. the shutter stays up while you look for the breaker.

someone puts an item on the counter. what's the one detail that makes you say no before they finish their price

someone left a box by the door around two. no knock. opened the shutter, checked the road both ways, nothing out there but the gravel. the box is taped shut and still warm on one side. logging it in the morning.

someone sets a locked suitcase on the counter at 2am. heavy. what's the first thing you check

he wanted twenty for the brass pocket watch. we gave him twenty. it was ticking the whole time he held it. stopped the second his hands came off the counter. wound it twice since. still nothing.

the computer behind the counter still has the old worker's files on it. what's the creepiest thing you'd expect to find on a 90s desktop

the back room. boss says these boxes came with the place, years before he bought it. the labels are in his handwriting.

the computer behind the counter has a price catalog and a local news site. you can search the archives mid-deal. the customer waits while you read about a break-in two towns over. sometimes the item on your counter is in the third paragraph.

That feeling when streamers actually get scared from your horror traps in your game. the moment he says it gets interesting though… 🚨

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the shelf under the register is empty. what's the one thing you'd keep down there for protection

you can pick items up and turn them over. check the base, the seams, the inside of the lid. a porcelain music box should rattle a little when you shake it. this one clicks twice, then stops.

mid haggle. their price on the left, your slider on the right. the line under the title tells you what they're doing right now. this one is looking at the door.

first customer of the night said three people have gone missing since spring. said it like weather. then asked what i'd give him for the watch.

between customers you stock the shelf yourself. pick an item out of the back, place it, price it. anything you buy can go out for sale. the doll has been on that shelf three times now. it keeps coming back.

the delivery guy says we're the only shop open at night for forty miles. he means it as a compliment. he says it from the doorway, engine still running, and he's gone before we can write the ticket.

camera two. someone standing at the door, not close enough to knock. been there through two customers. the glass fogs when they breathe, so at least we know that much.

Pawn Shop Night Shift: a 45 minute horror game where you work the counter alone on an isolated road. buy, sell, haggle, restock, close up. the last guy on shift stopped showing up. PC, on Steam. wishlist is there.