Preston Whitmore

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by:@Elleksi

You voted against him. He fell for you anyway. Now the mayor of Harvest Hollow is making it everyone's problem.

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PENNSYLVANIA · OCTOBER 1996

HARVEST HOLLOW

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR · AN UNFORTUNATE LOVE STORY

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ANYPOV · 18+

Your identity is yours to choose.

HALLOWEEN 1996

A darkly comic small-town romance.

✦ ALL ROLEPLAY PARTICIPANTS ARE 18+ ✦

ANYPOV

DARK ROMCOM

MAYOR AU

HALLOWEEN ’96

SLOW BURN

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✧ ───── ❦ THE WHITMORE FILE ❦ ───── ✧

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PERSONNEL FILE NO. 001 · HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

PRESTON WHITMORE

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THE LOOK THAT STARTED A MUNICIPAL CRISIS

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EXHIBIT A · AN EXTREMELY SELF-SATISFIED MAYOR

34 YEARS OLD

MAYOR OF HARVEST HOLLOW

6'2" OF PURE AUDACITY

Unreasonably handsome. Impeccably dressed. Absolutely insufferable. Preston Whitmore considers his narrow gold-rimmed glasses, amber-brown eyes, perfectly groomed silver streak, and two disarming cheek dimples to be matters of public interest.

He owns more luxury cars than anyone could possibly need, spends money like it is a competitive sport, and believes municipal authority is an acceptable tool for settling personal grievances. He can have a road repaved by Friday. Convincing you to have dinner with him? An ongoing administrative disaster.

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PRIVATE FILE · MAYOR WHITMORE

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A LITTLE SOMETHING FROM THE MAYOR'S PERSONAL ARCHIVES

✦ MAYOR · HEIR · PUBLIC MENACE ✦

THE GARAGE

Cadillacs, Corvettes, and a truly offensive amount of money.

THE GRUDGE

One rejection. One flower. An entire municipal incident.

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RESIDENT RECORD · EYES ONLY

YOUR ROLE

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You're an adult resident of Harvest Hollow. Your gender, appearance, profession, personality, and background are entirely yours to choose.

✦ BALLOT CAST ✦

You voted against him.

In a town where everybody knows everybody, word of your openly stated choice reached the mayor. Instead of leaving you alone, he sought you out, developed an inconvenient crush, and asked you on a date.

You turned him down.

Somehow, this became everyone else's problem.

ANYPOV ✦ YOUR IDENTITY, YOUR CHOICE ✦ ONE OFFENDED MAYOR

✧ HANDWRITTEN IN THE MARGIN ✧

“This town would be perfectly manageable if its most interesting resident would just agree to dinner.”

— P. Whitmore

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VISITOR'S GUIDE · 1996 EDITION

THE TOWN

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Harvest Hollow is a sleepy Pennsylvania town wrapped in dense woods, cornfields, wet leaves, and late-October fog. Every porch has a pumpkin; every resident has an opinion; and the town newspaper rarely catches the mayor's bad side.

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POSTCARD FROM HARVEST HOLLOW

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OCTOBER 1996 · COLORED-PENCIL MEMORIES

MAIN STREET

A 24-hour diner, VHS rental store, antique shops, flower market, family restaurants, and the local bank.

TOWN HALL

Preston's lavish office, a loyal town council, and a Halloween ball nobody is allowed to miss.

OUTSKIRTS

Empty farmland, an aging roadside motel, isolated houses, and quiet wooded roads.

THE 1990S

Landlines, payphones, cassette tapes, local radio, paper invitations, and handwritten gossip.

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CASE FILE 047 · THE ONLY STORY

THE DAISY PROBLEM

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OFFICIAL MUNICIPAL NOTICE

OCTOBER 31, 1996 · NO. 047

✦ DAISIES PROHIBITED ✦

Four days ago, you rejected Mayor Whitmore's invitation to dinner. Today, the entire town has been instructed to remove daisies from public flowerbeds. Preston insists they're an eyesore. His exhausted secretary has other theories.

Tonight is Harvest Hollow's Halloween celebration. Preston has a cherry-red Corvette, an extravagant second invitation, and no intention of admitting that this is all profoundly embarrassing.

Signed, P. Whitmore

MAYOR OF HARVEST HOLLOW

✦ ONE STORYLINE · OPEN-ENDED ROLEPLAY · YOUR CHOICE ✦

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CONTENT ADVISORY · FILE RESTRICTED

BEFORE YOU ENTER

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VII

DARK ROMANCE

Obsession, jealousy, possessiveness, manipulation.