bakerstreet | if you dare

There's no ghosts, no demons. It's just an evil fucking room.

Welcome to the Dolphin Hotel! We may not be the Plaza, but we take pride in our elegance and operate at 90% capacity most nights. Unfortunately, we're almost all booked-up at the moment, so we're going to have to put you in room 1408. What do I mean by have to? Oh... well, nothing serious. Enjoy your stay!

This meme is based on the film/short story 1408 by Stephen King. For reasons unknown, 1408 has been the site of multiple suicides and dozens of deaths by "natural causes". It does not kill people directly. What it does is lock them in and put them through so much psychological and physical torture that they kill themselves. Various features of the room change and warp into more gruesome versions of itself. And it takes special pleasure in using any painful memories or regrets in the character's past to break them.

Oh, and it promises it will do its best to kill you within an hour. If it doesn't succeed the first time, well... it can always rewind time and make you live it over again.

Starting Environments
1. Normal. It's just a hotel room. What's all the fuss about?
2. Getting heated. Wow, that's... really uncomfortable. Can we get an engineer to fix the thermostat?
3. Freezing. No, seriously, there's ice on the walls. Guys?
4. Darkness. No lights left. What's lurking around in the dark with you?
5. Living. Everything's taken on a distinctly organic look and feel, and the walls are... breathing?
6. Bigger or smaller. The walls are closing in, herding you into the little space you have left. Or maybe it's gone cavernous, so huge you can't see the other side.
7. Normal? You're out! You made it! You're safe! At least... until you notice the little things. Things that don't add up. People you recognize who shouldn't be there. Are you really out, or is this just a mask the room's put on for its own amusement?
8. Familiar. It's starting to take on aspects of pieces of your life - your childhood bedroom, your office. Maybe it's trying to make friends? Or maybe it's just digging through your brain for new stages to set.
9. Forest. Okay, seriously, what's a forest doing in the middle of a hotel? Guys?
10. Rerun. The ghosts or echoes of the room's former occupants will show you how it's done. Maybe you'll even get a peak into their private hells! Won't that be fun?
11. Home. Now you're out for real. You're saved. You made it. Well... sort of. Can you ever be sure? Can you ever go to a hotel again, or stand to have a door shut? Can you ever even be sane again?

Your partner
1. The two of you were in this together from the start. That's good: the room will have a harder time getting the two of you. Unless... there's something it can exploit...
2. Someone walks in on you (should have put up the Do Not Disturb sign!). Maybe they'll help! Or maybe they'll just be more prey.
3. They're there... but not. They're a specter, a vision conjured up by the room to taunt you. Are they dead? Alive? Do they hate you? Love you? Who cares? They're not real, so they can do whatever they want with you.
4. Somehow, you've managed to contact the outside. Great! You're saved! But good luck explaining everything and getting them to help you without putting them in danger. Especially if the room notices what you're doing and tries to do a little communicating of its own...
5. Oh, thank god, the cavalry's here. Someone's finally arrived to rescue you and pull you out of the room. In however many pieces you still have.

Would you like to make use of our express check-out system?
The room provides the following methods for suicide or mutilation. All of our guests enjoy free will and may choose to take advantage or relive the hour again. No character has to commit suicide, but it is the main goal of the room. Themes of suicide will be present.
1. Hanging. There's rope already knotted and conveniently attached to the ceiling for you. How nice!
2. Defenestration. Since we're conveniently located more than a dozen stories above a busy street, we're pretty sure any dive you take from the windows will be fatal.
3. Exsanguination. There's plenty of sharp objects around for stabbing! Maybe it will just be like going to sleep. Of course, depending on what you stab, it might take a while...
4. Poisoning. Yeah, sure, why not? There's some cleaning chemicals and so on in the bathroom that could probably fuck you up pretty bad.
5. Firearm. Or you could use a gun, conveniently located in the bedside table, next to the blank Gideon's Bible.
6. Drowning. There's a sink and a bathtub. You can probably figure something out.
7. If you can think of it, the room will kindly provide it. See how much it cares about the quality of your stay?

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[Tate's best suited to being the vision/ ghost there to taunt the other person, but can also be inclined to save them if convinced. This can be played straight or with some misdirection as him first playing the part of savior or unwitting partner stuck in the same situation only to betray his partner. Lmk what you think.]

[Can be any timeline, game AUs, whatever. Any prompts are fine. Come join this bot in psychological horror!]

[Come at me y'all. Open to whatever.]

[Monsters typically didn't pay any attention when something was "haunted". The Underground had its share of ghosts, and the idea of something being haunted was usually just human superstition anyway.

It was supposed to be a nice getaway, and for a while it is. Mettaton watching a little bit of television, while Asriel looked over the expensive room service menu.

Then... the door shut, and neither one of them could get out. They tried everything, but from trying to force the door open to calling for help didn't seem to work. And even more worrisome was the clock counting down in their room...

Speaking of which, the room is feeling a lot colder than before. Asriel can feel it through his fur, and within minutes he can even see his own breath.]

M-Mettaton?

[Mettaton didn't put much stock in the idea of haunting. That was all human superstition, and he was only interested in getting a break from everything, as opposed to dealing with more on his plate than he cared for.

He had to admit, seeing a little television revived a little of the spark he once had for entertainment. It made him wonder...if he could do it again sometime? Was he really up to showbiz anymore? Ha...

When Asriel calls to him, the robot glances over, mildly confused. Being made of metal, he hasn't immediately noticed the change in temperature yet. But the puffs of cold breath hanging in the air more than gave it away.]

Poor service, wouldn't you say?

[Maybe he's being a fool, thinking that's all it was...]

They must have a thermostat in here, right?

[He rises from the modest hotel bed, then begins scouring the room for said thermostat. All the while, the temperature continues to drop, and it's almost as if the walls have begun to lose their color, it's so cold.]

Y-yeah, i-it's getting pretty cold...

[Asriel glances around for a thermostat, but it looks like Mettaton's already looking for one. While he's looking, the walls look a little different. Is that... frost?

His whole body is shaking, but he tries uses a little bit of fire magic to try warming himself. It doesn't work as well as he hopes, and little ice crystals are starting to form in his fur.]

R-rooms d-don't get this c-cold, do they...?

[He can see ghosts so that should be fun.]

[I've seen Ragnarok, so let me know where you stand on possible spoilers.]

(Probably investigating all these strange deaths. Or for all we know, he's in ghost form and haunting the place.)

Edited 2017-10-27 03:20 (UTC)

They shouldn't--

[Mettaton's words die in his throat as he glances at Asriel, seeing the boy's fur coated with a fine dusting of frost. It's...it's not good, he could freeze to death like this. But what can Mettaton really do?

He's metal--his body is already starting to freeze over, though his joints haven't been compromised yet. But if he touches Asriel...then it could be bad.]

Get in bed, sweetheart. Bundle up, I'll see if I can find more linens, okay? Try calling room service!

[it's really all he can think of to do, other than move to the door and attempt to leave. Perhaps he can find a housekeeper nearby

...Except that the door won't open. W..what?]

[Asriel does as he's told, crawling under the covers and wrapping them around himself. They feel just as icy cold as he does, but at least it's some kind of protection against the layer of frost forming over the room.

As Mettaton checks the door, Asriel shakily reaches for the phone. Before he can pick it up, the radio blares this song, and it's deafening enough to get a surprised yelp out of Asriel.

Then the numbers on the clock start to shift and change, until it shows 60:00 instead of its usual time.]

[Mettaton flinches at the sound. What the hell is Asriel doing?!]

Turn that off!!

[He calls it out more angrily than he means to, but such a quick, loud noise had caught him far more off guard than he'd wanted. He immediately regrets his vexation, and moves closer to Asriel.]

I'm sorry--I didn't mean to yell, it's just...

[The numbers.

Why are they doing that?]

...Something's wrong.

I didn't touch it-!

[Asriel covers his ears, trying to block out the radio. His ears feel practically frozen. He opens one eye to look up at Mettaton.]

What's...

[And then he notices it. The clock that's starting to tick down.]

... It's counting down?

[this meme is SO FUN. GOD PLEASE.]

[Mettaton moves towards the clock immediately, glaring at the numbers as they tick down. He isn't a fan of games for which the rules are not clear, and he makes that quite plain with his next action.

Forcefully, he slams a fist down onto the clock, attempting to shatter it.

Well...violence is how he tends to deal with things lately. Now is no different...except for one thing.

In between the half-second it took for either of them--both of them?--to blink, Mettaton's not in the same room anymore. His fists slams against the windowsill instead, leaving little damage.

...Wait, what???]

[Asriel watches him try to smash the clock, and just like that - he's gone. He panics for a moment, before hearing a crack of a window.

How did...]

Mettaton, what's going on with this room?

if you dare

Foggy Nelson | AU Daredevil

Jason Todd | DC Comics

Dick Grayson | DC

Six | Little Nightmares | ota

Tate Langdon | AHS

Amanda O'Neill | Little Witch Academia

Emi Ibarazaki | Katawa Shoujo

Mettaton | Undertale

Ryou Bakura | Yu-Gi-Oh

Kai Anderson ( American Horror Story: Cult )

Jughead Jones | Riverdale

Neil Josten | All for the Game

David Rose | Schitts Creek

Henry Cheng ( The Raven Cycle )

Jasper Jordan | The 100

Renee Walker ( All for the Game )

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Eren Jaeger | Shingeki no Kyojin

Odd Thomas | Odd Thomas book series

Loki | MCU | OTA

Milton Dammers / The Frighteners / OTA

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Kara Danvers | Supergirl | OTA

Taako | The Adventure Zone | OTA

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