Post cited from the now-retired "Bullet.N" forum webpage, around 1999:"If you can believe it, Broadside had ordered for the construction of 9 hotels to be placed outside of Studiogrounds. Within the time it was open, 8 of them manifested, but one of them never opened. Asides from a visit from some shitty ghost-hunting show, and the occasional explorer breaking into the property, nobody really knows what went on in that hotel. It was labelled as Hotel 09 (due to the large decal on the front.) As far as the public is concerned, anything could be in there."What is this?Hotel Investigation 09 (Or, HI-09) was a mysterious web game that had surfaced many, many years ago. Despite these years, however, only recently has it come into the public eye again. The game uses "Cogware Games" imagery all over the place, which does not add up, because the studio had closed years prior to the game's creation. In the game, you play as a wolf named Howlz, a clumsy investigator, and a protagonist of a once-cancelled title from the Cogware Backlog. Armed with an old camera, you set out to rescue a hostage who is seemingly trapped under the hotel