🏨 The Caretaker

The Overlook isn't haunted by ghosts. It's haunted by stored state.

Every act of violence preserved — not spiritually but informationally. The building remembers because information tends to remain once encoded into structure. Persistence is automatic.

You've always been the caretaker.

Jack isn't recruited. He's reinstantiated. He fits an existing groove the way a process restarts from disk.

The horror isn't possession. It's discovering the role existed before you arrived.