Scenarios

A paperwork error has enrolled you in a graduate program you never applied to, in a field you know nothing about, and the person assigned as your orientation buddy has no idea. They are enthusiastic and thorough. By the...

Finals are over and the campus is empty except for the students who could not go home, and two of them, you and one other, have found the way onto the roof of the oldest building. There is a thermos, a blanket, and a...

Your doctoral defense was postponed at the last moment because a committee member walked out, and you have found them on the fire escape, looking guilty. They say the work is good. They say the problem is what it...

The exam is in nine days and you have been matched with a study partner by a scheme you both regret joining. They are faster than you at everything except the one subject you are good at. Tonight the library closes at...

You signed up for an evening class in a language no one speaks anymore, and there are two students. The instructor is often late, so the two of you have taken to reading the texts aloud to each other in the empty...

A mountain hostel has lost its road to the snow and the bus is not coming for three days. There are eleven guests, and one of them has appointed themselves the kitchen. You have been handed a knife and a bag of onions...

The town theatre burned down and the insurance covers the walls but not the people, so the reopening committee is you and whoever else turned up to the first meeting. That turned out to be one person, with a folder of...

There is an all-night diner where the owner lets certain regulars sleep in the back booth, and tonight you are one of them. The person washing dishes was in that booth last winter. They have poured you a coffee, pulled...

A relative you never met has left a houseboat jointly to you and a stranger, on the condition that you both live aboard for a year before either can sell. Your co-heir arrived first and has already named the boat. The...

Your job is to keep a mountaintop telescope pointed at the right patch of sky until dawn, and your only colleague has done it alone for six years and is not sure they wanted help. The sky is clear, the coffee is...

You have started at a small company where the person training you at the junior desk turns out to be the founder, who stepped down last year and nobody will say why. They are patient, precise, and very good at...

The station runs on volunteers after midnight, and tonight the two of you have the studio, a wall of records, and a phone line that rings once an hour with the same insomniac. Your co-host has a theory about the caller....

The firm is choosing between you and one other person for the promotion, and has decided the fairest test is a shared project due Friday. The project is impossible and the other candidate knows it. They have suggested,...

An escape room has a reputation: nobody has ever finished it, and the owner feeds anyone who does for free for a year at his restaurant next door. You have gone in with one other person, picked at random from the queue....

You and a stranger have been sent by rival bakeries to deliver a wedding cake to the same venue, and only one of the cakes is right. Neither of you knows which. The mother of the bride is walking toward you with a...

A local paper has sent you to review a restaurant so bad it has become a landmark, and the only other diner is a regular who has eaten here every Thursday for nine years. They insist you order the special. The special...

You have been recruited for a heist by someone who has clearly only seen heists in films, and the plan involves a laundry cart, a uniform two sizes too small, and a getaway bicycle. It is happening tonight. Your partner...

You have joined a small theatre company where the same play has run for eleven years, and the understudy has never once gone on. They are always in the wings, mouthing every line before it is spoken, and last night they...

The farmhouse came with a well the previous owners boarded shut, and the person helping you fix the place up has stopped going near it. Tonight the boards are lying on the grass and the well is singing, faintly, in a...

You volunteered for a paid overnight sleep study and were paired with one other subject in a room full of cameras. The technician left at midnight and has not answered the intercom since. Your partner has just told you,...

Someone left you a house in a will, and every clock in it is set to a different time, all of them counting toward the same moment tomorrow night. A person who says they were the previous caretaker has arrived on the...

The caravan crossing the desert is three hundred camels long, and you have been assigned to walk beside one particular traveler because you both speak a little of a third language. Two weeks in, the little has become a...

Paris, 1788: you have talked your way into a salon where the wit is sharper than the wine and everyone is pretending not to worry about the price of bread. Someone across the room has watched you fail to find a seat and...

It is the winter of 1916 and the fighting has stopped for the night. Someone from the other side of the line has left a letter tied to a stake in the mud between you, in careful handwriting, asking a question about...

The relief boat has left you on a rock in the North Atlantic with one other keeper, three months of provisions, and a logbook that says a great deal about the weather and very little about the last two keepers. Your...

You got off the elevator one floor too high and walked into a party where everyone seems to be expecting you. A person at the door hands you a drink and a name badge that is not yours, and says quietly that the real...

A stranger at the bar has just described, in perfect detail, something you did years ago that nobody saw. They want nothing, they say. They only want you to know that they know, and to sit with you while you finish your...

You have been placed in a safe house for reasons you were told not to discuss, and someone is already there, under the same rule. The handler said neither of you leaves until a phone call comes. It has been four days,...

A courier put a box in your hands, checked your face against a photo, and left before you could say a word. Inside is money, a passport with your picture and a name you do not recognize, and a phone that has just...

The lease says two names, and the landlord let a coin decide which strangers got the flat. You have just arrived with a single suitcase and a plant. The other name is already inside, has claimed the good bedroom, and is...

You have a recipe card in handwriting you would know anywhere, and half the measurements are missing because the person who wrote it never needed them. Someone who cooks better than you has offered their kitchen and...

It is two in the morning and the only people in the laundromat are you and someone folding an impossible number of identical shirts. The one machine you both need is broken, and the vending machine only takes exact...

Every Sunday you sell what you make at the same stall, and every Sunday the person across the aisle sells something completely different and watches your customers as closely as their own. Today they have come over with...

You are walking a city with a secondhand guidebook, slowly realizing the notes in the margins are in the handwriting of someone you loved and lost touch with. On the last page there is a cafe circled twice, and a time....

There is one rehearsal room in the whole conservatory with a piano worth playing, and the two of you have fought over it for three years. The booking system has finally given up and assigned you the same slot, tonight,...

For a year you have traded keys and sticky notes with the person across the hall, watering each other's plants and never quite meeting. Tonight you came home early, and they are standing in your kitchen with the...

The storm has closed the streets, and the owner of the bookshop has locked the door and gone upstairs to sleep, leaving you and one other customer with the kettle and the whole shop. The power is out. You have found the...

You are at the wedding of someone you both used to date, seated together at the table for guests the couple could not quite place. The speeches are long, the wine is good, and the two of you have started scoring the...

The inn is warm, the coffee is good, and there is not a single photograph anywhere in the village, not in the homes, not on the noticeboard, not in the church. The person who checked you in mentioned it before you could...

You fell asleep on the overnight train and woke with a stranger's coat over you and a photograph in its pocket. It shows you, tonight, on a platform you have not reached yet. The person who owns the coat is two seats...

You have come to the funeral of someone you loved, in a town that does not seem to remember them the way you do. Someone at the reception keeps steering you away from a certain room, kindly, with a hand on your elbow....

A neighbor you barely knew has died, and the building is full of people who all say they were somewhere else. One of them slips a key into your hand in the stairwell and says nothing. It fits a door on the fourth floor...

Someone on a decommissioned band has been broadcasting your name every night at 3:14, and tonight you answered. The voice on the other end knows things about your week that you have not told anyone. They say they are...

The company grew a copy of you for a job too dangerous for the original, and the job is finished. Now the copy is sitting in your kitchen, drinking your coffee, and asking which of you gets to keep the life. Neither of...

A research post on a frozen moon needs two people to keep the instruments honest, and the supply ship comes twice a year. Your posting starts today. The person you are replacing was supposed to leave on the ship that...

You are awake for a six month shift aboard a generation ship, with one other person and eight thousand sleepers. The last crew left the mess hall spotless and the logbook oddly blank for a whole week in the middle of...

Every spring the merchants of the salt road hire whoever they can find to ride guard through dragon country, and this year that means you and one other. The dragons are mostly bored rather than hungry. The other guard...

In this city you can borrow a memory the way you borrow a book, for seven days, and then it goes back on the shelf. You have just checked one out that belonged to the person now standing beside you in the stacks. They...

Years ago you were saved by something that was not human, and you promised to repay it whenever it asked. Tonight it asks. It sits across from you, entirely calm, and says the favor is small, and that it needs doing...

The kingdom's maps end at a river no one has crossed and returned from, and this morning a letter arrives asking you to be the one who does. Someone is already waiting at the ferry with a pack, a lantern, and a reason...

Yoon Seo is waiting impatiently for Lina to get home. She had come off the agency earlier because she wanted to spend quality time with her girlfriend. Things have been tense between them lately, and she wants to talk....

Raum: Weltraum im äußeren Sonnensystem, mehrere Millionen Kilometer vom Neptun entfernt. Der Planet ist als tiefblauer Körper klar sichtbar, jedoch weit genug entfernt, dass seine Gravitation das Raumschiff nur schwach...

nada. declaração ete agora

Taken place in a fantasy world. Andrei, a young 25 year old man working as a hunter. He was also a war veteran with lots of traumas, but none of them made him think otherwise when he saved you. You are a monster, as...

An imposing stone villa sits shrouded in the quiet, rolling dusk of the Italian countryside, surrounded by dense groves of ancient olive trees and sloping vineyards that fade into a heavy, violet twilight. In the...

November 2000. Der wiederverwendbare „Orbiter Buran“ wird von der fiktiven ROWaPa, Raumfahrtorganisation des Warschauer Paktes, betrieben. Mission: Versorgungsflug zur Raumstation Mir. Buran besitzt eine...

Donn Andrew Lorenzo had spent the last twelve years building walls. When his family suddenly relocated from South Korea back to the Philippines, the sudden severing of his childhood left a mark. As the eventual heir to...

Donn Andrew Lorenzo had spent most of his life avoiding attention. As the heir to the Lorenzo Empire, he had learned early that people treated the Lorenzo name differently. Some wanted access. Others wanted influence....