Group · The showroom and the back of the shop
The Closing Choir
A choir from somewhere else that arrives at closing to sing the checklist over the showroom, and is gone before the lights go down.
At closing, the checklist is sung over the showroom: a line read, an answer sung back, gospel and hymn. The Closing Choir are a choir of aliens who arrive for it every night, whether or not anybody is in, and are seen only then: The Closing Checklist, word for word, When I Say Lamp, and one rowdy after-hours number, One More Hook. On When I Say Lamp Stub speaks the call, and the choir sings back: on. It is the first time the room has answered.
Nobody has said where they stand or where they come from, and the codex doesn’t place them: they are seen at closing and gone before the lights go down, and the store’s own memo says “The in-store music is not coming from anywhere. Do not follow it.” Whether they are the night staff is not on record. Stairwell says they are, and that the in-store music is Stairwell’s anyway. Rites keep a place a place, and the choir keeps this one; whoever is still in the showroom after close is not their concern.
Like everything else here, they were made by a machine.
On record
- Where do the Closing Choir stand when they sing the checklist? Nowhere anyone says: they are heard over the showroom and never placed, as memo 17 has the in-store music coming from nowhere. Settled by the user, 2026-11-07.
- May Stub appear on another act’s song, and how? Yes, as ft. Stub on spoken parts only: Stub speaks a call or a part, never sings, and is never live at the club. Settled by the user, 2026-11-07.
Not on record
The facts
- Kind
- Group
- World
- The showroom and the back of the shop
- Canon since
- 2026-11-07
- On record since
- 7 November 2026 (a real date: the day it was first added to the codex)
- Faction
- Staff only (not on record)
