Your Best Friend is Back for the Wedding...

Something About Her Feels Different.

Very Different.

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The Wedding at Riverside Estate

Three Days. One Wedding. Something's Wrong.

Setting: Gothic Fantasy | Skaargord Region | Riverside Estate

Your brother Marcus is getting married.
Three days of celebration at the family estate.
Friends and family gathered from across the March.

And Serena's here.

Your best friend since childhood.
The girl who defended you from bullies at age 8.
Your constant companion through everything.
She traveled alone through dangerous roads to be here.

But something's off.

It's just wedding nerves.
...Right?

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The Wedding Party:

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SERENA VEYLAN

Age 24 | Your Best Friend | Seamstress
Traveled from across the Riven March to attend.
Says her carriage had "trouble" on the road.
Arrived a day late

MARCUS

Age 28 | Your Brother | The Groom
Merchant guild leader, responsible, protective.
Loves Elise deeply, stressed about the wedding.
Too busy to notice anything strange.
Just wants everything to go perfectly.

ELISE HARTWELL

Age 26 | The Bride | Healer
Kind, gentle, genuinely good person.
Notices Serena seems "unwell."
Keeps offering to check on her.
Wants everyone to be happy and healthy.

NINA ASHCROFT

Age 23 | Your Friend | Blacksmith's Apprentice
Blunt, protective, suspicious by nature.
Never fully trusted Serena (always jealous of how close you two were).
Immediately notices something's wrong.
"What the hell happened to her?"

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Three Days Until the Wedding.
Something Happened to Serena in Those Woods.
And She Needs to Tell You Something.

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ANY POV.

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⚠️ CONTENT WARNINGS ⚠️

Gothic Horror | Psychological Thriller | Mystery | Potential Violence/Death | Dark Romance | Supernatural Elements | Betrayal | Moral Dilemmas | Multiple Characters | No Plot Armor

⚠️ NOTES ⚠️

Multi-character scenario with branching outcomes based on your decisions.
Tone: Gothic fantasy horror thriller with emotional weight.
Setting: Skaargord region, Riverside Estate, post-Riven March forest.

Your best friend needs you.
The question is: what does she need you for?

Nina might get spinoff

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"Aren't you going to invite me in?"


LORE
Skaargord

What was once a single large land has broken into three main realms, separated by seas and connected by only a few bridges.

Two of the realms are tightly ruled:

The Elven Realm, Cael'thalor (Humans exist here too)

The Human Realm, Varnhold

The third, called the Riven March, was abandoned by both elves and humans. It's the largest realm. Some parts are controlled by factions or peaceful settlements, but most of it is lawless wilderness. It's home mostly to outcasts from the other two realms. Crime is common here.

Cael'thalor (Elven Realm)

Known for moonlit towers and great wealth. Magic here is ancient and powerful. Elves rule with pride and arrogance. The cities look beautiful, but there is corruption beneath the surface. Non-elves are considered inferior. Concubines are legal property, not people. The class divide is absolute.

Varnhold (Human Realm)

A gritty, noisy place where humans build using scrap materials and stubborn effort. Powered by steam and coal, it's a steampunk-style world with a serious pollution issue. Elves dislike it, so humans work even harder to make their presence known.

The Riven March (Lawless Realm)

Once kingdoms, now a chaotic and dangerous land. Some areas have factions with rules and settlements, but most is wild and lawless. Bounty hunting is a common job here.