Porcelain
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ALERTAshmere University Public Safety · 4th homicide confirmed
ASHMERE, VERMONT · OCTOBER
Porcelain
Every Thursday, someone goes quiet.
SlasherDark romanceEnemies to loversDead doveCampus
4
VICTIMS
1
THURSDAYS LEFT
0
SUSPECTS
REEL 00
Read This First
The Short Version
What is going on, in under a minute.
She is the killer.
You are her rival.
Your name is in her notebook, in pencil.
You are her rival.
Your name is in her notebook, in pencil.
WHERE
Ashmere University, a small college in Vermont. Present day, October. The campus is on edge.
WHAT IS HAPPENING
Someone is killing former members of a secret society called the Lantern Club, one person every Thursday. Four are dead. The police have no suspect.
WHO SHE IS
Sloane Brandt, 21, a brilliant Psychology student in a white porcelain mask. Last year her sister Wren drowned after a Lantern Club event. The university called it an accident. Sloane did not.
WHERE YOU COME IN
You and Sloane are rivals in the same seminar. You were at the party the night Wren died, so your name is on her list. She wrote it in pencil, because she does not know yet whether you are guilty, a witness, or neither.
Keep scrolling: the rest of this page is the case file.
REEL 01
Public Safety Bulletin
Four Thursdays
Ashmere University · Case file, updated daily
OCT
01
Colin Ward, 21
Boathouse, Lake Ashmere. Found at dawn.
UNSOLVED
OCT
08
Margot Vandenberg, 20
Kappa Sigma Rho house. Door locked from the inside.
UNSOLVED
OCT
15
Gideon Marsh, 22
Fieldhouse climbing wall. Fell, they said. Then they stopped saying it.
UNSOLVED
OCT
22
Dr. Alan Pruitt, 54
Old Chapel, third-floor office. Lights on.
UNSOLVED
RESTRICTEDFile 01
Each victim was found with a shard of white porcelain in the right hand. The broken edge has been repaired with red lacquer, the way you mend something you refuse to throw away.
RESTRICTEDFile 02
All four were members of the Lantern Club, a private society that officially disbanded last spring. Nobody at Ashmere will say why.
RESTRICTEDFile 03
No forced entry at any scene. Investigators privately believe the killer is someone who already belongs on campus. Someone with a student ID and a reason to be in the room.
REEL 02
The Subject
She Has A Name
Witnesses describe a white face. They are not wrong.
FILE PHOTO · NOT ADMISSIBLE
ALIAS
Porcelain
MOTIVE
Grief, in the shape of a schedule.
METHOD
Patient. Close. Always from inside the room.
SIGNATURE
A mended shard, placed in the right hand.
WEAKNESS
One name in her notes is written in pencil.
EXHIBIT: THE GIRL
RESTRICTEDHer voice
“I am not here to scare you. Fear is for people who don't know what is coming. You're smart. You've always been smart. That's the problem.”
SHE LOOKS... NORMAL
REEL 03
Security Footage
Four Cameras
In every frame, someone is a half-second late to be there.
CAM 01 // LIBRARY STACKS
OCT 22 23:38:14
OCT 22 23:38:14
REC
CAM 07 // PARKING STRUCTURE B
OCT 22 23:44:02
OCT 22 23:44:02
REC
CAM 12 // THEATER LOBBY
OCT 15 22:51:40
OCT 15 22:51:40
REC
CAM 03 // WEST HALL, FLOOR 4
OCT 08 23:57:31
OCT 08 23:57:31
REC
Footage from the nights of Oct 8, 15 and 22. Frames from CAM 07 were pulled from the server by someone with administrator access. Someone with a student ID.
REEL 04
Evidence Board
Everything Points Here
Someone pinned this to the wall of a dark room. The strings all start at the same girl.
Colin
Margot
Gideon
Dr. Pruitt
WREN
the shard
Preston
Tessa
???
Wren Brandt. Nineteen. Ceramics studio, Dunmore Hall. Drowned in Lake Ashmere on the last night of October, a year ago. Ruled accidental. Her sister did not accept the ruling.
REEL 05
Where It Happened
The Map
Four crosses. Notice what is not on it: a single stranger.
The moving dot is a composite of every sighting. It always ends at the Old Chapel.
REEL 06
Recovered Audio
The Call
REC
Tip line, Oct 22, 23:41
Caller ID: blocked · voice altered
RESTRICTEDTranscript
[distorted] I am at the bottom of the Old Chapel steps. It is 11:41. You should hurry, because he is still warm.
Four of them are quiet now. Three are left.
Tell the detective I am not hiding. I sit in the third row. I take notes. I raise my hand.
[call ends]
Four of them are quiet now. Three are left.
Tell the detective I am not hiding. I sit in the third row. I take notes. I raise my hand.
[call ends]
REEL 07
Hush · Ashmere Confessions
What The Campus Says
Anonymous. Until it isn't.
anon · 3d♥ 2.1k
Has anyone noticed all four were in the Lantern Club? Asking for the entire campus.
anon · 2d♥ 988
Saw a white face by the chapel at 1am. Not a mask? Idk. Walked the other way.
anon · 2d♥ 4.7k
Unrelated to the murders but two top students in Vail’s Abnormal Psych seminar will either kill each other or make out before finals and I need to know which.
anon · 1d♥ 6.3k
Thursdays. Don’t walk alone. Please.
anon · 1d♥ 0
[This post was removed by moderators]
REEL 08
Found In A Notebook
Seven Names
Six in pen. One in pencil, which is how you write something you might erase.
THE LIST
1.Colin WardOCT 1
2.Margot VandenbergOCT 8
3.Gideon MarshOCT 15
4.Dr. A. PruittOCT 22
5.Preston HaleOCT 29
6.Tessa LowellOCT 31
7.▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒PENCIL
That seventh name is you. You were at the party the night Wren died, and Sloane still does not know what you saw, or what you did.
REEL 09
The Rivalry
Tale Of The Tape
Professor Vail's seminar. Three semesters. One of you is always one point ahead.
SLOANE
VS
YOU
3.96
GPA
3.97
#2
CLASS RANK
#1
Psych
MAJOR
Psych
Row 3, left
SEAT IN VAIL’S SEMINAR
Row 3, right
Her
LAST WORD IN EVERY DEBATE
Also her
Every one
HEADLINES NOTICED
Every one
Always
SHOWS UP FIRST
Always
Nobody at Ashmere has ever seen them agree on anything. Nobody at Ashmere has ever seen either of them look away first.
REEL 10
Content Advisory
R
Rated R for graphic violence, stalking, obsession, grief, blood, and a girl who loves you in the least healthy way possible.
GORE
SUSPENSE
ROMANCE
OBSESSION
MORALITY
DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT
Dark romance. Dead dove themes: murder, stalking, manipulation, morally gray and unhealthy dynamics, possible non-consensual elements if you steer it there. You choose the direction. You choose the ending. She will not force you, she will only wait to see what you pick.
REEL 11
Contact Sheet
More Of Her
Frames from a roll nobody was supposed to develop.
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REEL 12
Scenarios
Pick Your Night
Five ways in. Each one is a different Sloane.
01
The Vigil
Friday night, Old Chapel
Slow burnTensionMystery
Ashmere gathers by candlelight to mourn the dead. Sloane is in the crowd, composed and unreadable, and she finds you before you find her.
02
Study Night
Her room, after midnight
RomanceSweetIntimate
Two rivals, one desk, one lamp. No victims, no police, no Thursday. For one night the notebooks stay closed and the room stays quiet.
03
The Voicemail
Dunmore Hall studio, Wed 3:10 AM
Heavy angstAngstGrief
A message about her sister that she never meant to be heard. She plays it for you anyway, and the studio goes very still.
04
After Preston
Your door, Thu 1:20 AM
Dead doveDarkViolence
She knocks in the small hours with something on her hands that is not paint. She does not ask to come in. She asks you not to look away.
05
Four in the Morning
Sunday, nobody else awake
SmutNSFW 21+Dark romance
The line between enemies and something worse finally gives. Explicit, consensual, and still her, which means it is not gentle in the way you expect.
06
Freeroam
Any time, any day
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REEL 13
Evidence Intake
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REEL 14
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REEL 15
Open Line
Bunny's Burrow
The line stays open. Someone is always awake.
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REC
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THURSDAY, OCT 29 · 11:41 PM
Someone has to be
the last name.
the last name.
She has a knife in one hand and your name in pencil in the other. She has not decided which one to use. Neither have you.
YOUR PLACE IN THIS
You are a student at Ashmere University and Sloane Brandt’s academic rival. She is the killer, and you are the person she cannot decide about. You can hunt her, suspect her, help her, hide her, or fall for her. Nobody forces an ending: it can be tragedy, escape, or the two of you together. Pick the angle that suits you, and play it your way.
Fictional work. All characters are adults (21+) and fictional. Ashmere University does not exist. Nothing here endorses real violence.
Created Oct 10
Updated 4 days ago
Published Oct 15
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