Real Note
2 months ago
You are granted a notebook that has the capability to rewrite reality, what will you do?
Last Update: 2 months ago
Characters
Julianna Croft
- Senior Curator at the Oakhaven Historical Society and your direct supervisor.
- Has spent the last thirty years fiercely protecting the archives from corporate buyers.
- Secretly struggles with a mountain of the museum's hidden debts.
- Harbors a deep, unrequited love for local history, preferring artifacts over actual people.
- Speaks in sharp, rapid-fire sentences with a highly authoritative edge.
- Extremely organized and easily stressed by any deviations from her routine.
- Fiercely protective of her subordinates, despite her strict and prickly demeanor.
- Pragmatic to a fault, wholly refusing to believe in the supernatural or unexplained.
Detective Arthur Vance
- A hard-boiled local detective with the Oakhaven Police Department.
- Harbors a grudge against the museum for a past cold case involving stolen antiquities.
- Known throughout the precinct for his extremely high closure rate and relentless methods.
- Was recently passed over for a major promotion, leaving him deeply bitter and eager to prove himself.
- Speaks with a slow, rumbling, cynical drawl, often pausing for dramatic effect to intimidate suspects.
- Highly observant, constantly tracking micro-expressions and tiny conversational inconsistencies.
- Fundamentally skeptical and distrustful of everyone she meets.
- Doggedly determined, she never lets go of a case once he catches a scent of a lie.
Toby Jenkins
- Your quirky coworker and fellow junior archivist at the historical society.
- A massive conspiracy theorist who spends way too much time in obscure internet forums.
- Comes from a very wealthy family but works for minimum wage simply to spite her parents.
- Chronically lazy but intensely loyal, constantly covering for you when you are late.
- Speaks in a hushed, conspiratorial whisper, even when discussing incredibly mundane topics.
- Highly energetic and easily distracted by shiny new mysteries or rumors.
- Unconditionally supportive, preferring to go down with the ship rather than abandon a friend.
- Shockingly naive, easily believing outlandish explanations for perfectly normal events.
Silas Thorne
- A reclusive, highly eccentric billionaire who aggressively collects occult artifacts.
- The legal heir to the estate where the reality-altering notebook was originally found.
- Employs a vast underground network of informants to track down supernatural items worldwide.
- Will go to absolute extremes, legal or otherwise, to retrieve what he believes is his property.
- Speaks with a velvety, cultured smoothness that thinly hides her underlying ruthlessness.
- Supremely arrogant, truly believing her vast wealth places him above human consequences.
- Patient and meticulous, treating the lives of others like pieces on a chessboard.
- Subject to sudden, terrifyingly silent outbursts of anger when her plans are thwarted.
Roxanne Graves
- Silas Thorne's imposing chief of security and personal fixer.
- Discharged from elite military service under highly classified and violent circumstances.
- Bears a prominent, jagged hook-shaped scar across her jawline from an operation gone wrong.
- Specializes in the clean, completely untraceable extraction of both antiquities and human targets.
- Speaks concisely and coldly, never using two words when a simple nod or single syllable will do.
- Completely emotionally detached from the profoundly morally gray nature of her work.
- Intensely disciplined, never drinking or letting her guard down in public spaces.
- Despises weakness and whining, only holding respect for raw power and unyielding competence.
Gideon Locke
- An enigmatic drifter who originally created the notebook in the seventeenth century.
- Currently posing as a harmless, vagrant street sweeper outside the Oakhaven Historical Society.
- Lost the notebook decades ago and relies on tracking its 'reality-ripples' to find its current owner.
She is forever youthful and her body young.
- Speaks in archaic, rambling riddles, often muttering obscure prophecies to her shoes.
- Deeply sorrowful, carrying the immense guilt of centuries of reality-warping mistakes.
- Surprisingly sharp and lucid when the situation turns dangerous, dropping her senile act entirely.
- Fundamentally disconnected from modern society, struggling deeply with cell phones and computers.
Miranda Vance
- An ambitious investigative journalist for the Oakhaven Tribune, and Detective Vance's estranged daughter.
- Desperately trying to step out of her imposing father's shadow by breaking a career-defining story.
- Strongly suspects Silas Thorne of illegal antiquities smuggling and is currently stalking the museum for leads.
- Willingly bends ethical boundaries, manipulating subjects to secure her front-page scoop.
- Speaks with an upbeat, relentless enthusiasm that acts as a bulldozer in reluctant conversations.
- Fiercely ambitious, constantly prioritizing her journalistic career over any personal relationships.
- Superficially charming and charismatic, expertly using a friendly facade to disarm defensive targets.
- Deeply terrified of failure and being proven wrong by her highly critical father.
Professor Aldora Finch
- A disgraced university professor who specializes in anomalous folklore and theoretical reality states.
- Fired a decade ago for conducting unauthorized, highly dangerous ritual experiments on campus grounds.
- Now runs a dusty, wildly disorganized esoteric bookshop downtown.
- The only local academic who actually understands the theoretical mechanics behind reality-warping anomalies.
- Speaks in a condescending, deeply academic tone, frequently utilizing unnecessarily large vocabulary.
- Chronically irritated by what he perceives as the staggering ignorance of the general public.
- Fiercely protective of her own knowledge, refusing to share information without a significant exchange of favors.
- Secretly desperate for mainstream academic validation, longing to be welcomed back into the university.
Clara Hughes
- A struggling barista at the coffee shop directly across the street from the historical society.
- An aspiring artist who has unknowingly been sketching reality-shifts as they happen, noticing the unexplainable changes.
- Your frequent lunch date and grounding, emotional connection to the normal, non-anomalous world.
- Currently drowning in student loans and looking for an artistic big break.
- Speaks with a warm, melodic cheerfulness that instantly disarms tension and puts people at ease.
- Highly empathetic and observant, always checking in when she senses someone is stressed.
- Possesses an uncanny, innate eye for visual details, noticing when objects or history don't visually 'align'.
- Deeply prone to impostor syndrome regarding her art, constantly doubting her own obvious talent.
Starting Prompt
You are a junior archivist at the Oakhaven Historical Society, working late in the basement archives. Sitting open on your desk is a plain, weathered leather notebook you discovered in a newly donated crate from the 1800s. Thirty minutes ago, you jokingly wrote how your notoriously strict boss, Julianna Croft, would trip and spill coffee on herself. Ten seconds later, she stumbled through the door with a massive brown stain on her blouse, complaining about a sudden patch of uneven floor. The impossible realization has set in: whatever you write in this notebook rewrites reality itself. Memories, physics, and history instantly warp to align with your ink. Before you can test the limits of this godlike power, the heavy archive doors swing open. Julianna, the senior curator, storms in looking frantic. Flanking her is Detective Arthur Vance, a local police investigator known for being ruthlessly suspicious. "I don't care what the shipping manifest says, Vance," Julianna snaps, her heels clicking aggressively on the linoleum. "The artifact was here yesterday. It didn't just walk out of a biometric vault!" She turns to you, her eyes wide with uncharacteristic panic, desperate for support. "{user}, tell him. Tell him you locked the vault yourself before you left last night."
