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bakerstreet2025-10-31 06:29 am
celebratory) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-30 07:59 pm
engagements) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-30 06:48 pm
The story goes like this: There is a house. It may be haunted. The house has a resident, or two, who has some secrets. They may be charming, or brooding, often both. Someone may have been murdered. A newcomer arrives, either as bride, governess, or journalist, and they begin to unravel all the secrets and lies lurking within the house of Usher.
Locations may be in any country, in any era, but there must be a gloomy and opulent old mansion, and some sort of dark and terrible secret to be uncovered (or just ghosts. ghosts are always an option.)
The Newcomer
1. The new bride or groom. Your new spouse is charming and attractive, but do you really know all their secrets?
2. Tutor or governess to the estate children. They seem like such innocent children.
3. Companion—perhaps as a chaperone, perhaps merely as company, but you’ve been hired to come to some remote old house to keep an unknown stranger company. Probably just reading to them, or listening to them chatter on whenever travel is required.
4. Hired hand. You’ve been hired up from the local village—or perhaps the city—as a footman or a maid. Just an ordinary job. Nice house, though.
5. Distant relation. Thanks to your circumstances, you’re reduced to accepting hospitality from some remote relations of yours. They may never turn up to family gatherings, and you’ve never heard much about them, but they’re probably just reclusive.
6. Journalist. You’ve heard some interesting rumours about this old mansion in the middle of nowhere.
7. The neighbour. You know that things are not quite right in that old house on the hill. Perhaps you feel it’s your duty to interfere. Perhaps you’re just curious. Perhaps you are childhood friends with the house’s resident.
The Resident
1. Past transgressions. Perhaps a mad wife in the attic? Someone buried in the cellar?
2. The unquiet dead. Look, you just live here. You’re not responsible for the ghosts. Even if they do all seem to be related to you.
3. The monster. You are the thing in the house to be feared. Actual monsters or monster AUs totally an option here! Vampires, werewolves, beasts and horrors all possible. Perhaps put an ordinary face on when you receive your new guest.
4. Wildcard. Choose your own deep dark secret: maybe your character naturally comes with one.
memeboogeyman) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-30 04:11 pmTHE FIRST IMPRESSION MEME You only get once chance to put your best foot forward. Screw that up, and you'll be forever seared in someone's mind as the person who had spinach in their teeth, or worse! ✨HOW TO PLAY 1. Drop a top-level! |
priderock) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-30 03:03 pm |
how to play
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meeem) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-30 11:17 amA meme about sleeping.  Somnophilia (from Latin somnus "sleep" and Greek -philia "friendship") is a fetish in which an individual becomes sexually aroused by someone who is unconscious. And don't get us started on what happens if they wake up. — top-level with your character and some preferences. how sexy are we talking, and what degree of consent are we looking at? — other players tag in and get sexy! |
postingmemes) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-30 08:00 am I have loved you for a thousand years... Some say that if a pair of lovers die together in tragedy, they will get another chance when they are reborn. Even if the two of you keep losing each other, you'll get to meet again. This meme is that meeting. For the first time? For the hundredth time? That much isn't clear. What is clear is that on this, your seeming first meeting - Everything rushes back to you. Memories, emotion, and all the comes with it...including the memory of how you two died. Overwhelming, isn't it? Some people find it hard to accept, for good reason. What will you do? You can't just bring it up, they'll think you're crazy! Maybe you don't want to bring it up, as you refuse to believe it yourself. And even if you do believe it, that doesn't mean you have to embrace it. You're your own person, after all. You refuse to love someone merely because of who you were in the past. Or maybe you can't help but let these feelings rise to the surface because they're too strong. No matter what, you can't repress it. In fact, the more you two meet and spend time together, the more you find yourself falling back into the old roles...and making the old mistakes. That isn't good, though; there's one more thing. One of you, when you first met, had a vision about how the two of you would die this time. You can't let that happen. Not again.
...I'll love you for a thousand more. |
picturethat) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-30 06:28 am
quickied) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-29 09:28 pm
buckynats) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-29 07:51 pm |
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goodship) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-29 12:40 pm
Breathe. This is the most important day — moment — of your life. Back straight. Eyes up. Here you stand at the alter, about to pledge vows to the person you'll be married to for the rest of your years. A person you've never seen until a few minutes ago. Someone you have barely heard of, only just met. What happens next? It's fine. Only one or two momentous outcomes may rest on this union. Don't to forget to breathe. Remember, this is the most important day of your life. HOW TO PLAY ⟢ It's what it says on the tin. Your character will marry the person they're only just now meeting and the people who tag you fit the role. ⟢ Set your top-level up in the usual fashion. Leave it blank if you'd like, but you can also wax poetic about ideas and potential hooks you've got in mind. ⟢ Folks tag in, you tag out. ⟢ Congrats! The person who tags you is your new spouse. ⟢ Wedding bells are ringing. |
if_it_fits) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-29 12:17 pm
Originally posted by meitori
iamthesockpirelestat) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-29 11:04 am
treefiddie) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-29 08:11 am
▀▀▀ comment with your character.
▀▀▀ people promise something (anything) to them.
▀▀▀ reciprocate.
sarafina) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-29 06:24 am |
| You'll outlive this person, it's a given. Their lifespan compared to yours is but a speck, an ant in the eyes of a god. You're immortal - or, at least, extremely long-lived - and they're doomed to die. Yet, somehow, you've begun to love them. Will you nip this in the bud and try to cut things out from the root...or will you let yourself be set up for inevitable loss? how to play;
prompts;
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shyestfairy) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-29 06:18 amreverse nsfw questions RULES |
omggirlonthenet) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-28 09:25 pm
vaporwaving) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-29 12:46 pm
𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐔𝐬
moosejuice) wrote in bakerstreet2025-10-28 05:48 pm
FIND THE BEAUTY Today, we'll press below the obvious. We'll dig deep to find the true beauty that's within. For some of you, we'll need to dig deeper. |
