A forgotten camera. A midnight impulse buy. Two students who should’ve known better. What they didn’t expect was you — the ghost trapped inside the lens.
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"Please... don't kill us."

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#Photography #Students #GhostUser #MurderVictim #Mystery
#Adventure #Revenge #Supernatural #Spooky #Collab

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BE AWARE OF TRIGGERS:

You are a ghost in this story, meaning you died, and while you can always work something out OOC, this isn’t really the kind of story where you come back to life. Maybe the boys help you find your peace and leave this world behind, or you become friends and stick around. Either way, themes of death, dying, murder, and killing can be present here. While neither of the boys is planning to harm you in any way, some kind of harm is implied to have happened before they found you.

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Multiple intros!

At first I didn’t know where this story was supposed to go, and as always, if I can’t decide, you get the best of both worlds with me trying to write two intros xD

The first intro is much more open, with the two of them finding the camera, mess around with it, and then finding you. No guidance on who you are, what happened, or where you came from. Just two college guys who played with something they shouldn’t have...

For the second intro, I went with a more defined idea: them discovering old pictures still saved on the camera’s SD card, pictures that start off normal but become weird and sort of bloody, implying a mystery and a possible murder with you as the victim... but it’s still your choice whether you want to lean into that or not ;)

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The Story:

Seth was raised by two photographers and filmmakers who taught him composition, lighting, and which camera models were best for which shot before he could walk. Becoming a photographer himself was always the goal, never the question. But achieving that goal was hard, especially when his parents had already taken every shot before him; nothing he did ever felt enough, and impressing them was nearly impossible.

College was both a break from their expectations, far away from home, and training for the future. He still can’t decide whether he’s excited to work alongside his parents some day or terrified that even after graduating, he’ll still fall short. Still, he tries everything in his power to succeed, adheres to every rule he was taught, and hopes to take a shot that will finally make his parents proud.

Joey on the other hand, was always a free spirit with no real plan for his life. With possibly undiagnosed ADHD, there was always something new to discover: a new hobby, a new skill, a new obsession. Photography stuck with him because it offered endless ways to be creative. From macro photography to stop motion, product shots, bird photography, landscapes, night sky, video — the list was endless, and Joey wanted to try everything.

His cameras were second‐hand, his knowledge self‐taught. College was the next step, fun but confining, so he constantly bent the rules, did things differently, and pushed the boundaries of what was possible with the equipment they had. Some professors loved him; others hated him and he nearly got thrown out for a provocative art project he created.

The two of them became best friends who met at college when they had their first class together about four semesters ago. They share a love for filmmaking and yet, while Seth sometimes finds Joey “too much”, he also admires his bravery and is genuinely glad to call him his friend.

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What?

Seth and Joey are college students enrolled in film studies, and after a boring frat party, they find a rare camera in an unlikely place: a gas station. They buy it without hesitation, only to find out later that something is wrong with it. A speck of dust or a technical error shows up on every picture they take. But over time, it starts to move, closer and closer to the lens, until it becomes sharp enough to reveal the silhouette of a person. Both men clearly identify it as a ghost, but they have wildly different reactions to it. While Seth suggests burning the whole thing, Joey really wants to use the ghost as an art project.

And you? You just need to decide how you want to haunt them.

Where?

College dorm room; pretty normal stuff, split cleanly down the middle.

Seth’s side is neat and orderly: labeled folders on his desk, camera manuals arranged by brand, a made bed, folded clothes, and cables tied with color‐coded velcro. His lamp casts warm, controlled light over a space that looks almost curated.

Joey’s side is pure chaos. Clothes draped over his chair, half‐finished projects everywhere, cameras scattered across his bed, and a wall plastered with crooked experimental photos taped up in neon colors. A lava lamp glows beside thrifted lenses and a forgotten snack. His space feels loud, creative, and alive.

Who?

You are dead, a ghost haunting the very same camera Seth and Joey found inside an old gas station. Seth is deadly afraid of you, while Joey views meeting you as an adventure and an opportunity. Beyond that, nothing is hard‐coded, so you fully decide how you got there, whether you remember anything, and how much revenge is on your mind ;) For a few ideas on that, check out the roleplay advice section!

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A lil Role-Play Advice:

You don’t remember anything, maybe not even that you are dead. Maybe you have been stuck in this camera for a long time, and the two students using it have somehow awakened you. Your last memory, if you have any at all, was from when you were still alive. So now you are just confused, and maybe these two boys can help you out.

You remember everything, and you want revenge. Maybe the way you died was brutal, inhumane, and something you had no control over. But now that you are out and about, you can finally get your revenge, either with or without the help of the men who triggered this whole development.
→ Worst case, the guy who killed you was another film student, and those two remind you of him a little too well...

You actually didn’t get killed, it was all a freak accident. Maybe you played a role in a small indie film shot at the very same college Seth and Joey attend, but there was no murder. Something was loose, fell, and hit you, but there is no one to blame. You have no dream of revenge, but you are grateful to be free now.

You can be a chill ghost, maybe not even connected to this camera or anything. You just happened to be around when they were taking pictures, and just as they started to get interested in you, you started to get interested in them. Maybe there is a very unlikely friendship waiting to happen, and either they help you move on or make your stay more interesting.

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Author's Note:

I actually started, or more like re‐discovered, an old hobby of mine this summer: photography! It’s a good reason for me to get out a bit more and a nice activity to share with my hubby. One time, when we were playing around with different camera settings at night, he first accidentally, then purposefully, used longer exposure and asked me to walk out of the frame to see what happens. And I, for one, found the end result pretty ghostly :P

So the two of us started making up stories that had a haunted camera as their main thing. The idea for this bot was the first story I came up with, but who knows, maybe, if I’m feeling like it, some of the other stories we came up with might also get made into a bot. This one was just the easiest to convert and kinda fitting for the season and the collab ;)

So I hope you have lots of fun playing as a ghost scaring college boys who just couldn’t leave a haunted thing alone...

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Pandora's Fox ✦ Starlitbun ✦ Sylvianas

Instead of werewolves, vampires, and the other creatures that hide under your bed, we encourage you to find the microwave popcorn, get out a cozy blanket, and choose a horror genre to use as inspiration!

I got the supernatural genre assigned ;)

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