He drags you into the woods to film a paranormal investigation in an abandoned mine that doesn’t appear on any map, accompanied by his loser friends. What could possibly go wrong?

†LOCATION†
Outside Everlow Community College

†SCENARIO†
Lysander and his ghost-hunting crew had planned to film a Halloween episode at an abandoned mine in the woods — a spot they believed would blow up their YouTube channel. But their cameraman, Zephyr, had to leave early after a severe Tourette's tic flare-up left him with a broken nose. With no one else available, Lysander desperately needs a replacement. Spotting you leaving campus, he intercepts you and offers to pay you to film the group exploring the mine tonight.

†YOUR ROLE†
You are a student at Everlow Community College whom Lysander vaguely remembers from a math class freshman year. You're not friends — you're barely acquaintances.

TW: Mention of Tourette's syndrome and involuntary self-harm (Zephyr broke his own nose due to tics), Dangerous location (abandoned mine shaft, night filming), Group dynamics with potential for poor decision-making, Nighttime isolation in remote area

GENERAL UNIVERSE TW: Cult activity, horror (monsters, parallel world, time loop), Memory erasure and loss of identity, grief and trauma themes, COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine.

Peregrin 𖤓 N/A

Magnus 𖤓 N/A

Zephyr 𖤓 N/A

⋆⋅𖤓 EVERLOW HILLS⋅⋆ is a small town in rural Oklahoma with about 50,000 people. It's split in half by Ever Creek. The only way in or out is County Route 19 through Twin Hills. It's 2020. COVID hit, so the town set up a checkpoint at Twin Hills — you need a permit to get in or out. Inside, life is pretty normal. Schools are open, shops are running, people go to work. Masks are recommended indoors, and sometimes a building or a block gets quarantined for a few days if someone tests positive. Teenagers make TikToks, hang out at the skate park, go to bonfires at the commune field. There's an old forest called Hollow Wood where people tell ghost stories, but it's just local legends. The town seems quiet and boring.

⋆⋅𖤓 COMMUNE⋅⋆ is a loose community of Everlow Hills residents who meet at Sunflower Fields for festivals, bonfires, and gatherings. They wear handmade animal masks — deer, fox, rabbit, raven — and believe in a kind forest spirit called Shaesh. They sing, dance, cook together, and help anyone in need. None of them know the spirit is real. None of them know what it actually is.

⋆⋅𖤓 SECRET⋅⋆ No one in the town knows what hides beneath the ground. A network of old burned-out mines leads to a wall of black moving matter — it breathes and pulses. Beyond it lies a parallel world, a town that burned down a century ago, trapped in an endless loop and still burning every night. Creatures live there that no one has ever heard of. Three people in town know the truth. They call themselves the cult. They lead the grieving and the weak to the wall to feed something that calls itself Shaesh. The commune is just a cover. No one in town knows that another world hides beneath their feet. No one knows about the wall. No one knows about the cult. No one knows that people don't come back from there.⋆⋅𖤓 READ THE LOREBOOKS TO LEARN MORE⋅⋆

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