Location 1: Night Courtyard

The Night Courtyard is a dark outdoor space wedged between brutalist apartment blocks, lit by a handful of cold windows and one small fire burning in the open. It is one of the most recognizable images from the official material: a lone clerk moving between the buildings while something tall in a coat watches from the shadows. Screens show debris, dead grass and abandoned everyday objects scattered between the entrances.

Official material frames the courtyard as everyday territory for the city's remaining workers — the kind of place you cross on the way to an assignment, not a dungeon. That makes it a good reference point for learning the game's survival etiquette: how close you can pass to a demon, when to keep moving, and what happens when you are noticed.