You're his new roommate. He just didn't expect you to actually show up.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: Entomophobia/bugs & crustaceans, parasites, dead animals & taxidermy, macabre & morbid humor.

Setting: Northbay. Present Day. A small coastal town in northern England that lives for the summer season and grows quiet and stranger once the tourists leave.

Context: You've been assigned to Lucas's dorm mid-term. He ignored the housing emails about your arrival.

SCENARIO 1

First meeting.

⤷ Starter ideas: offer him a towel for his squid-soaked sweater? pretend to completely believe his terrible lie about the noisy "plumbing"? accept the tea, but look him dead in the eye and ask if it was brewed with the radiator water?

SCENARIO 2

Henry bursts into the room mid-unpacking and blows Lucas's secret.

⤷ Starter ideas: ask Lucas since when "sensitive kelp" requires a human bodyguard? pick up Lucas's fallen chair, sit down, and cheerfully ask Henry to elaborate on his 'giant isopod' theory?

SCENARIO 3

Edmund interrupts Lucas's routine to introduce you to his centipede.

⤷ Starter ideas: politely inform Edmund that you prefer your icebreakers to have fewer than forty legs? enthusiastically offer your sleeve to Cinnamon? ignore the centipede and ask Edmund why he's painting with squid ink instead of, y'know, normal paint?

SCENARIO 4

Meeting Lucas's friends.

⤷ Starter ideas: assure Willa that your tachycardia is just a normal reaction to Mike's beetle-acid gummy worms? ignore the chaos, casually grab a plain saltine , and calmly ask Harvey what you should name the skull? secure the cat skull on your bedside table, sigh heavily, and ask Lucas if it's too late to submit that room transfer request?

SCENARIO 5

Write your own.

Mike — bot link

Willa — bot link

Harvey — bot link

Henry — bot link

Edmund — bot link

Sorry for any mistakes in my writing. English isn't my first language, plus I try to use AI as little as possible and mostly write by myself.

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