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>>64847319
Maybe an office building or hospital?

>>64847319
A burger joint or coffee shop with a drive thru.

>police station
>hospital
>cemetery
>Space Station 13
>a pub
>a shopping mall
>a strip club
>museum
>church
>one of those weed shops
>a school

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>>64847319
Walmart.

>>64847319
>a damn pizzeria
admittedly FNAF becomes infinitely less scary when you know the reality of working in a chuck e cheese and how animatronics actually work.

>>64847784
Seconding this. Department stores are freaky fucking places, doubly so in the middle of the night. They make good magical mazes and most of the time they restock in the wee hours of the morning, meaning weird shit coming in on shipments.

>>64847671
SS13 does feel like that

I was planning on running this at an outpost airport. Have 2month as TSA, 3years as FSC, and 1year as A&P in the aviation industry. Just have to decide if I want players or quest style.

Working as a night stocker for a major retail chain.
Before they shut down, I worked as an overnight stocker for ToysRUs. It was actually kind of creepy. You'd spend the night working by yourself, shelving toys. All the lights would be on. All the displays would still be active and activate whenever you walked by them. The store was massive and the night crew only had 10 people, all doing their own thing in different parts of the store, so for most of your shift it would feel like you were alone.
The section I hated the most was the doll section, with the Barbies and Bratz and humanized MLP characters. It was always way overstocked thanks to the dayshift workers jamming product into places where there wasn't enough space: when nightshift rolled around everything was barely hanging onto the hooks. Shit would just randomly fall off while you were restocking the few dolls that actually sold. You'd open up a box from your trolley, go down a few aisles to shelve the dolls, and by the time you came back there'd be a doll in the middle of the aisle. The displays at the end of the aisle activated at random too, even when there wasn't anyone passing by. The nerf, hotwheels and lego aisles were pretty chill though.

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>>64848331
>by the time you came back there'd be a doll in the middle of the aisle

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>>64847319
the ONLY valid answer here is a VHS rental store

>>64848846
>when your small town family video has the 18+ section
I've never seen anyone actually go back there.

A security guard at a research lab.

>>64849303
Too obvious
>>64848149
Not obvious enough
>>64849133
Just Right

Rural radio station in the middle of nowhere that takes requests in the overnight hours.

>>64847319
>>64847784
>>64848331
Retail late/night shift is perfect for this. I've worked a few grocery stores and I've seen some shit that's perfect inspiration for Nightshift.

>Working Ingles deli midwinter
>Power outage, everyone is sitting around waiting for the managers to tell us if we can start cleaning so we can go home
>All the lights are off/ flickering, except for the one directly above the potted plant display in the middle of the grocery section
There was something very offputting about it.
Horrific things being lets loose into the store from the depths of the meat department on deep clean night
Creepy old ladies who just won't leave, despite the store closing in 2 minutes
It's honestly perfect

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Hopefully this will be able to pump some more life into this great game. Me and a couple of friends found the events lacking, so we made some new ones. I tried to keep with the original dark theme of Night shift while also including a little bit of comedy here and there. Of course how you run it is up to you but I hope these are okay. I think there was originally like 50 finished events or so. You can comment in events or just put some ideas in the thread.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yo_zGko6a9t_t6a0HkVSvY1UHa3g4sF9I8bzhssNJ2w/edit?usp=sharing

>>64847319
too lazy to dig it up right now, but a while ago in another period where we had semi-regular Night Shift threads I started fleshing out some of the surroundings of the Gas-N-Go*, ranging from it's immediate surroundings to other areas in the county that the default store is in, never got around to finishing it(will probably do someday though), but the stuff I did write should help give some inspiration if you can find it

*the default name for the Night Shift gas station these threads usually uses

>>64852292
>night shift can be set in the future too
When the guy with the horns came in, I knew it wouldn’t be a good shift.
He scowled when the ZapStop’s doors refused to slide open for him. Ignoring the late-hours doorbell, he pounded one meaty fist on the shatterproof polycarbonate. The young woman beside him, hands tucked into the pouch of her hoodie, shifted uncomfortably.
I considered leaving them standing in the parking lot, but much as I’d like to have the ten p.m.-to-six a.m. shifts uninterrupted by customers, they were kind of the point. I hit the door release and let them in.
Under the bright store LEDs, I could see the forehead ornaments were new. Big, curling ram’s horns, straight out of a Rocky Mountain wildlife doc, joined across his forehead to give him a perpetual frown. Faint pink lines traced the graft below his hairline and just above his eyebrows where the whole mess had been slapped into place.
Typical frat boy, in other words. At least horns were less awkward than last year’s fashion for antlers. We’d lost a few ceiling tiles to those.
“Help you with anything?” I said.
Horns stared at me. His face cycled through expressions: confused, scared, angry. He kept looking at my name tag. No dumb frat boy in history has ever acknowledged a ZapStop drone with more than a grunt, and maybe a bashful nod when buying a particularly exotic brand of marital aid.
“Where’s Joey?” he said.
The ZapStop sits almost exactly at the midpoint between the campus and the so-called bad part of town. Our regulars are the local joe jobbers, tempers, and pensioners who inhabit the area of lower property values to the east. Evenings, students from the west side drift through, on their way to or from getting into trouble.

>>64855188
Couples are pretty typical, even after two in the morning. They usually want condoms, or to print a sex toy in our ZapPrint station. Or they already need some meds from the ZapPharm dispenser to deal with whatever intoxication or gastrointestinal distress they’ve self-induced.
They buy their shit, they pay, and if I’m lucky they don’t throw up by the dairy fridge.
Sometimes I get angry drunks, and I have to reach for the Chapstick-sized canister of Liquid Shillelagh under the counter. The label features a club-wielding cartoon leprechaun. It’ll take the fight out of anyone, horns or no.
But no one asks for a ZapStop employee by name. We’re interchangeable meat units, like the hot dogs under the warming lights.
“Joey’s in the hospital,” I said. “He went out for a smoke and got into the blind spot of the garbage truck. It rolled over his foot. I had to take his shift.”
I’d foolishly watched the security footage of Joey’s mishap. I’d forgotten there was sound. I’d winced as the small bones in Joey’s foot had burst one-two-three, like popcorn in the microwave.
The woman put a hand on Horns’ elbow. “We should go,” she said. He shook his head, almost catching her in the forehead with one tip of his new facial accessory.
“We gotta stick to the schedule,” he said.
She shrugged, and I got a good look at her for the first time.
Shit. I knew her. I hate it when I know them.

>>64854635
they should all be on sup.tg

>>64847319
Security guards in a shopping mall. Add in a list of things to do/not do to make things more interesting. Like:

>Always be polite and provide the requested information, no matter what.
>Lost children are to be escorted to the lost & found. Found children are to be escorted to Little Mann's daycare on the first floors.
>After 11pm, the 2nd floor bathroom hallway is off limits for security personnel. If you accidentally find yourself walking towards it, turn around immediately and walk back. If you find yourself in the 2nd floor bathrooms, feel free to take a nap on the last stall.
>Do not look at or stay close to the cinema. If any security camera shows it, shut it down immediately. Always escort customers who ask for it's location.
>The underground parking lot should only be observed via camera feeds. Wave back.
>Do not consume any food between 4:01 and 4:02 am. Be sure to eat.
>No mannequins are to be left on the hallways after 5 AM.
>The arcade should only be approached for the purposes of killing time. Lethal force is only authorized if it resists.

Sorta hijacking this: Where would I find the General Manager's Handbook? Was thinking of maybe running a game of this for a few friends, but need the resources first. 1d4chan only has the employees HB.

Not relevant to thread question, but the last game I ran
>17 year old Junior pump jockey, saving up for a shitty Firebird his mechanic is selling, smokes like a chimney. Means well, but no real direction in life.
>18 year old Assistant Manager, ROTC, bit of a dickhead but never makes mistakes in the paperwork, has a personal vendetta against the local coal plant for shutting down and killing work in the town. Group believes the Red Soldier from TF2 is his father
>16 year old cashier, half native American, half Italian who lives with her mother, does after school shifts and night shifts on the weekend
Groups currently keeping the store open while trying to figure out why the coal plant shut down under suspicious cult like activities. Notable locations in town include
>50's style diner with actual 50's prices. Owner has a time anomaly in the closet, and buys food at 50's prices
>Comic shop ran by a pair of neckbeard twins, only way to tell them apart is their ponytails are tied in a different direction, the comic they're reading generally gives hints about the solution to a puzzle

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Dollar/99-cent stores. You can't tell me there isn't some Warp fuckery going on in there when no-one is looking.

>>64857410
Used to manage one, sacrificing a goat to Bucky the Dollar is standard

Hotel

>>64855839
Sorry but only the General Manager has Access to the General Manager's handbook. You'd have to talk with Fred to apply for the position and get access to it, although I haven't seen Fred since last week, when he had something to discuss with Joel from the Day Shift.

>>64847319
There is this manga about a guy that applied for a position in a train station in the middle of nowhere. I forgot its name though, sorry.

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Latest places open in London are chicken shops.

A short-order diner, like a Waffle House. Food made as it's ordered, open 24/7, odd people coming in during the twilight hours and people just wanting to get some food after working a closing shift.

Everybody is family, but every family has the weird members nobody really wants to talk about...

Handyman. Especially for apartments. That can get you into some weird shit especially if your working for a defacto slum lord.

>>64864760
Not sure it that works for this setting since tenants are around 24/7, can't effect day shift.

Why is day shift and why are they so hated?

>>64865027
Well, day shift is because it's illegal for anycunt to work all day and all night. Labour laws and shit. We hate them because they're lazy dicks who leave a mess behind them because nobody fucking cares about night shift. Also they think they're better than us, and it seems like they never have to deal with the strangeness.
And don't even get me started on rival gas.

>>64847319
Fucking Warehouse duty.

>>64865106
I've heard Ivan from day shift has quit and he started working in Rival Gas just the other night.
I swear I didn't think it was possible for someone to be such a cunt, even a day shifter. Now I know better.

>>64864930
If it can't affect dayshift that's legitimately the bigger problem, because those bad night shift problems usually spillover into dayshift.

As for tenants, occasionally with very, very bad shit you get cops, but most tenants will gleefully ignore everything that there neighbors do. Most people don't want to get involved.

>>64865246
Do not get me started on rival gas! They're not even real! Ivan isn't fucking real either!

>>64865246
>Work at burger joint
>Smirk at the gas stations and their rivalries
>Nemesis Burger opens just down the street from us

Should I be worried?

I always wanted to run a true wagecuck version of nightshift, where you pickup a second shift to have some pocket money before. Basically it's your first time on the night shift.

>>64865354
No.... not at all....

>>64855839
try da archive

>>64865354
Don't they have all you can eat burgers for $19.99?

>>64865315
True ancap nap in action.

>>64865952
They do.
For certain definition of 'all you can eat'
Fast food should not require that many liability waivers

Bump

Can't believe it hasn't been posted yet- or I missed it. Night Shift at a morgue. anyone see the movie Night Shift? with Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton 1982? they end running a brothel there.

Bus terminal just off Interstate 66.

Pawn Shop, as we know there are those that just can't come out during the day to transact business.

>>64847319
Hangover food restaurant.

>>64847319
>hospital, all the players are interns
>your country's Autogrill equivalent
>MPs in a town whose only notable feature is a Marine fort
>warehouse in a huge metropolis

Traffic officers while traffic light is out

>>64857291
>50's style diner with actual 50's prices. Owner has a time anomaly in the closet, and buys food at 50's prices

Can someone go inside and change history? Like stop JFK murder or something?

>>64872497
You think Jake would just let you do that? Besides, spending an excessive amount of time out of your own timeline can mess you up real good, that's how Al got cancer you know.

>Duke’s Diner
>A stubbornly old-fashioned, greasy spoon diner in the middle of the city that plays host to a motley assembly of supernatural nighthawks long after all other establishments have closed.

>The Lost Lake Lodge
>After it’s namesake lake vanished down a sinkhole sometime in the hazy past, the this rustic, sprawling, ramshackle resort hotel’s only guests have been decidedly unsettling.

>Deception Sheriff’s Department
>Even though Deception, Nevada is a sleepy, half-dead little mining town, it’s sheriff’s department is kept fairly busy with all manner of strange and unusual calls and investigations.

>>64847319
A museum.
An orchard.
A theatre.
An otherwise displaced relative's house.
A cargo storage facility near some docks.
A dark alleyway or a crossroads in an eerily quiet metropolis.
A train station.

Bump for future interest.

>>64873733
>Sheriff’s Department
Would you limit it to the station, or would there be a linear world aspect to it.

>>64847319
A large multi line metro station
An hospital in a touristy place off season
A night club (during the day)
Fire watch station
A post office
A Fancy residential tower
Those underground tunnels the leafs have

House sitting someone else's home
Medieval Fair
School/College

>>64873733
I really like the sheriff's department, that's a great idea.

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>>64848846
I'm tempted to run this in a VHS Rental place now, it seems so perfect for the events, I'd have to edit some of the material tho

>>64851970
>That late-night DJ vibe

Wanted a game like this since I saw Pontypool.

>>64877656
>>64878823
That last one is inspired by a thread from about a year ago about a mysterious little western town:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=Weird+Little+Western+Town

I would imagine that the town at-large would be accessible, but each session would involve the PCs walking or driving their beats and answering a one or more calls ranging from hum-drum to paranormal.

>>64880548
How would you run this game, given that the characters would be restricted to the radio station, and radio stations aren't the same sort of crossroads that gas stations are?

>>64881453
Oh yeah, I remember that thread. It was nice.