Room 404: A Haunted Terminal Challenge Builds an Eerie Shell Experience

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Room 404 is an interactive haunted terminal project created for the Hacktoberfest 2026 Week 4 "Ghost in the Machine" challenge. It runs in both a retro browser console and a local shell, letting users execute real-style commands while an AI-narrated entity comments on them. The story centers on a 1978 hotel guest, Elena Voss, whose ledger entry is referenced as the setup for the haunting. The AI narration is powered by Google's open-weight Gemma 2 model served through Groq, and the project is released under an MIT license on GitHub.

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