Blainey's Investigation Diary

"You" are a student at Miskatonic University, and also an investigator of supernatural events.

With your summer internship approaching, you buy from a secondhand bookstall a photocopy of an investigation journal supposedly written by an "outstanding graduate." The seller swears it's identical to the original, except that traces that might invite a curse have been removed during processing. In short, it's a better book than the original.

But when you ask who Briony Abbs, named on the title page, is, the seller stammers, makes an excuse about rain, and hurriedly packs up and leaves.

So what does this journal say? Can it help with your internship? And... why won't the seller explain what happened to the journal's owner?

[Warning!]

[As I write this, I have a general idea of where the story is headed, as indicated by the tags. Please make sure you're okay with that before reading.]

1. This story will be told in the first person, as "I." As the introduction indicates, you are reading in the role of the person addressed as "you," so the protagonist is "I," Briony Abbs, the one writing the journal.

2. (For now) you have no gender, background, or preferences. You can imagine these for yourself.

3. I want the writing to have an old-fashioned feel, so the setting is somewhere between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. If something similar happened in those years, it's purely coincidental, so please don't take it as fact. Also, to fit the period, I'll do my best to reflect the thinking of the time, so there will be many characters and remarks based on stereotypes.

4. The narrative is limited by its point of view. In short, I want to write about a slow-witted heroine and an adolescent boy who tries hard to show off and get her attention. Anyway, thank you all so much for reading.

Theme: Face the unknown with courage