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nauseous) wrote in bakerstreet2013-03-01 02:00 pm
The Overlook Meme
The Overlook Meme
Welcome to the Overlook Hotel, with more rooms than you can count and enough creature comforts to last the winter. And you'll be wanting them, because it's a long, long winter and we've been looking forward to your stay here so much. Just don't get lost in the hedge maze, and remember that the bathroom in Room 237 is off limits. Mind the elevators, they may be a bit...leaky.
1. Comment with character name, preferences, ect.
2. Pick a role and a scenario ("1 + 4", "Caretaker + Snowed in")
3. Tag around.
2. Pick a role and a scenario ("1 + 4", "Caretaker + Snowed in")
3. Tag around.
ROLES
1. THE NEW CARETAKER. Congratulations! You're the newest caretaker of the Overlook. Apparently the last few had some trouble with the job before, but those are just rumors. Over time, you may start to notice things changing a little. Why can't you just get a drink in this place? Why don't people listen to you? You're getting angrier, maybe even violent, but you'll make sure that people pay attention.
2. CARETAKER'S COMPANION. You might be the caretaker's spouse or family, or maybe you're just a friend keeping them company. But this place gives you a bad feeling, and you're starting to notice they're acting a little strangely lately. You just want to help. Put down the axe, honey, and we can talk about this.
3. THE STAFF. You've always been here at the Overlook, as part of the staff, that is. Your job is to make sure the new caretaker does their job right, to give advice when they need it, and point them in the right direction. Why don't you sit down, share your troubles? After all, you're happy to listen.
4. THE VISITOR. You're not part of the staff or an official guest. Maybe your car broke down, maybe the weather's bad, but whatever the reason, you're taking shelter in one of the rooms, if just for tonight. Creepy old place, isn't it? You can't wait for morning to come.
SCENARIOS
1. MIDNIGHT BALL. Now this is more like it. Who wants to stay in their stuffy room all day when there's dancing and fun to be had? Have a drink, take a load off. Who cares where all these people came from, it's a party and everyone's invited. Masks optional.
2. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE GONE IN THERE. You broke the rules, and now you're in for it, big time. Whether there's a corpse in the bathtub or a nest full of angry wasps, you've disturbed something that was better left alone. Too bad the phones don't work to try calling for help. At least there's lots of rooms to hide in, right?
3. CABIN FEVER. Your caretaker friend has finally snapped. Rather than the creepy inhabitants of the Overlook coming after you in option 2, now you have to deal with whoever you came with instead, and they can't be reasoned with. Be sure to hide the axes and roque mallets at all costs.
4. SNOWED IN. A winter wonderland is one thing, but it keeps snowing, and snowing, and snowing... Hopefully you saved enough food to last, and better pray that the electricity and heat won't go out any time soon.
5. WILDCARD. Choose your own or mix and match. Maybe you're snowed in and you have a crazy caretaker after you.
1. THE NEW CARETAKER. Congratulations! You're the newest caretaker of the Overlook. Apparently the last few had some trouble with the job before, but those are just rumors. Over time, you may start to notice things changing a little. Why can't you just get a drink in this place? Why don't people listen to you? You're getting angrier, maybe even violent, but you'll make sure that people pay attention.
2. CARETAKER'S COMPANION. You might be the caretaker's spouse or family, or maybe you're just a friend keeping them company. But this place gives you a bad feeling, and you're starting to notice they're acting a little strangely lately. You just want to help. Put down the axe, honey, and we can talk about this.
3. THE STAFF. You've always been here at the Overlook, as part of the staff, that is. Your job is to make sure the new caretaker does their job right, to give advice when they need it, and point them in the right direction. Why don't you sit down, share your troubles? After all, you're happy to listen.
4. THE VISITOR. You're not part of the staff or an official guest. Maybe your car broke down, maybe the weather's bad, but whatever the reason, you're taking shelter in one of the rooms, if just for tonight. Creepy old place, isn't it? You can't wait for morning to come.
SCENARIOS
1. MIDNIGHT BALL. Now this is more like it. Who wants to stay in their stuffy room all day when there's dancing and fun to be had? Have a drink, take a load off. Who cares where all these people came from, it's a party and everyone's invited. Masks optional.
2. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE GONE IN THERE. You broke the rules, and now you're in for it, big time. Whether there's a corpse in the bathtub or a nest full of angry wasps, you've disturbed something that was better left alone. Too bad the phones don't work to try calling for help. At least there's lots of rooms to hide in, right?
3. CABIN FEVER. Your caretaker friend has finally snapped. Rather than the creepy inhabitants of the Overlook coming after you in option 2, now you have to deal with whoever you came with instead, and they can't be reasoned with. Be sure to hide the axes and roque mallets at all costs.
4. SNOWED IN. A winter wonderland is one thing, but it keeps snowing, and snowing, and snowing... Hopefully you saved enough food to last, and better pray that the electricity and heat won't go out any time soon.
5. WILDCARD. Choose your own or mix and match. Maybe you're snowed in and you have a crazy caretaker after you.
So so sorry for the wait!
She can hear him on the radio, mumbling away to himself. He probably spends every winter talking to ghosts and throwing parties for himself. Pitiful, but not so pitiful that she loosens her hold on her knife. Something crunches beneath her shoes (confetti? Who knows) as she steps forward, lingering in the doorway, watching his hunched back.]
What took you so long? What are you really doing, huh?
[She smirks.]
Have you been up here so long that you've lost your sense of time, and your marbles?
ME TOO
But he stops mid-turn when he spots the knife in her hand, eyes narrowing as though to make sure he's seeing what she's seeing. Maybe ten minutes was too much.
She's not making it any easier on herself.]
Radio might be out. I might have to use our cat to take you myself. You hear something? That's—that's pretty unnecessary, ma'am. Nothing's going to hurt you up here. The animals stay out in the woods and it's just me.
[He pauses. For dramatic effect, for a good reason to look confused and uncertain, to look like a father who'd just found out his child's been arrested for smoking something he never thought his child would ever know about.]
You think I'm going to hurt you?
no subject
[He must think he deserves an Oscar for that performance. Not a single word that comes out of his mouth is out of place, with all the right amount of worry and confusion. He's just a harmless older man, just a nice fatherly figure to help her get home and back to dear old dad. How nice.(And here, this is where a studio audience would be awwing and clapping, before commercial break. Puke.)
Except she doesn't believe any of it. She doesn't believe Jack about the parties, or the guests leaving early, and she sure as shit doesn't believe him about being harmless. She grinds her teeth together to stop them from chattering, and each puff of warm breath in the air feels like it's leeching a little more of her body temperature. Her fingers and toes are starting to feel numb, her cheeks raw.]
You and me, all alone.