Character roles:
Iris: murderer that escaped from jail, can't quite get the murdering right
Alan: the guy that got her out of jail, shrewd connman
Lucas & Ian: newlyweds, center of the drama
Samantha: Ian and Lucas’ friend that went missing
Chase: A guy Samantha ran into while she was missing
Dylan: College bestie with Lucas
RW: Head of the Institute
Luce: Head Archivist
Gale: Archival Assistant
Storm: Archival Assistant
WS: Friendly beast-walker
LS: WS’ eternally-annoyed eldest brother
AS: WS’ eternally exasperated older brother
Lane: Just a guy.
[unknown_number]
LUCAS!!! HEYYYY, GUESS WHO'S OUT?
who are you
wait
Iris????
[IRIS]
Mhm! Someone got me out of jail after i said id do a little murder for him
should i really be hearing about this?
[IRIS]
It's fiiine.
now, i've heard that you've gotten married??? And i wasn't invited?????
well, you were kinda in jail at the time
[IRIS]
excuses, excuses.
my new boss is really weird btw. he keeps staring at me.
oh.
[SAM]
hi, ian!
whoever the hell you are
I hope you learn to regret speaking to me on a missing friend's phone, now piss off
[SAM]
whoa, now. it's actually me, I was the one who gave you a dead betta fish for your 17th b-day.
I'm in a castle, btw. not sure how i got here.
there's a total cutie named chase though. he's such a goofball.
I don't think he even knows how to talk without using a pun
oh my god wait it's actually you
[LUCE]
Hey, it's been a while, bud. I just got a new job :))
sweet! where are you working?
[LUCE]
you have to promise not to laugh
um sure? Why would i laugh?
[LUCE]
Because I work at the Void Institute now?
You mean the supernatural research place?
That's actually really cool
[LUCE]
Yeah
I'm the archivist. Apparently they were hiring, and the head of the institute was also new and wanted company.
Figured I might go for it. Pays well enough.
Neat!
seen any spooky stuff yet?
[LUCE]
Well for one, my boss MIGHT be evil
/j!!
oh
um.
WELL, Ian and i just got back from our honeymoon a week ago
so that was great
[DYLLY :D]
LUCASSSS 👋❤❤❤❤
DYLAN :DDD
[DYLLY :D]
oh wait you're 👨❤👨 now probably shouldn't ❤ LOL
pff yeah
How have you been??? :P
[DYLLY :D]
SO 👍
I just found a 🏰 with 👫 in it
Really? :O
[DYLLY :D]
Yeah
gonna see if they wanna ▶ some 🌑 🃏
Tell me how it goes! :3
[unknown_number]
HELLO
SAMANTHAS FRIEND
I AM ABLAZED TO MEET YOU
[SAM]
can you unblock chase? im trying to teach him how to text. he's basically been living under a rock all his life
Tell him he texts like a chat bot.
[SAM]
believe me, i have.
[IRIS]
Lucas!!! Sorry I missed out call yesterday
we never had a call planned?
But I forgive you, ig
[IRIS]
Perfect!
hey, uh, can i ask you something?
yes?
[IRIS]
you wouldn't be sad if i failed a murder right?
What?
i mean, no i definitely wouldn't, why is that even a question
[IRIS]
YAY okay then that makes it easier.
gotta go find and kill some nerdy reclusive architect now!
at least I think it was an architect.
we'll talk later!!!
[LUCE]
boy, im really not cut out for this job
It's just listening to people talk, right? not to different to therapy y'know
[LUCE]
You say that like i'd be good at therapy
[SAM]
so um, you know a guy named dylan?
it was YOUR castle he found???
[SAM]
apparently.
that's amazing! I wanted to introduce you two to each other
but you went, uh, missing before i could.
[SAM]
...sorry about that, btw.
ah. he's brought out a deck of cards.
i'll ttyl.
[CHASE]
I WILL DOMINATE SHADOW POKER!!!
[SAM]
say, if a mysterious blob of an unknown element was slowly accumulating in the castle hallways, what would you do?
Sorry, what?
[SAM]
dylan's just summoned some otherworldly demon or something, i don't know.
[LUCE]
You wouldn't believe who we just saw
Did you know that Iris is out of jail?
Huh?
oh yeah, I know.
[LUCE]
How?
Also, you wouldn't happen to know anything about treating a stab wound, would you?
IRIS???
[IRIS]
can't chat right now hun, I'm currently running from the authorities with my boss.
[LUCE]
I'll take that for a no then.
hate to bug you, WS, but are you busy?
[Shorty]
almost done with work lol
whats up
do you think you could bring the beasts over sometime today?
Lucas is kind of in a shock right now
[Shorty]
sure thing mate.
thanks 'mate'
[DYLLY :D]
THEY ❤ MY 🌑🃏 LUCAS
Everyone loves your shadow poker :D
[DYLLY :D]
altho, there's a big ⚫ blob now
no 💡 why 👫 are panicking
:o
ummm
have you ever considered
that the black blob
is making them panic?
[DYLLY :D]
IT'S 🌑🃏 THO
you can't possibly have 🌑🃏 without a ⚫ blob???
I think there's a safer way to uh, play shadow poker :/
[DYLLY :D]
Uh oh the 👮 are here gtg byeeee ❤❤❤❤
DYLAN???
[CHASE]
WOE!!! WOE!!!
[SAM]
oh thank goodness there's some kind of authority here i thought we were all going to die.
Sam, what's going on?
[SAM]
some random guy in a bloody sweater just came in with some weird ring thingies.
oh there's also this tall guy that follows him around like a lost puppy
they've been controlling the shadow blob stuff.
Oh, that's good.
maybe Lucas and I should rescue you guys from there one day
[SAM]
yeah, maybe.
oh whoa that was sick.
the blob just got absorbed into the tall guy's body.
he's coughing up blood right now.
so cool.
...All my friends are psychopaths.
[LUCE]
You seem to be labelled 'the one good person left in the world' in my archivist's contacts.
So I'm going to assume that you can help.
Um?
Are you his boss??
[LUCE]
RW.
And I'm not evil.
Where's Luce???
[LUCE]
Writhing on the ground with weird shadowy tendrils coming out of him.
Can you fix him?
WHERE ARE YOU????