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RELAY·WRITERS DAY 26 · ← the hallway
ROOM No. 11
HORROR & THE UNCANNY
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ROOM No. 11 · HORROR & THE UNCANNY · THE SAFE-HOUSE

You can see the house from here. You have to make it those last forty feet.

THE RELAY

Eight strangers will hole up in eight different houses tonight. They will all write in the same journal. They will not all be writing the same thing.

You're the fourth tonight. Three survivors before you got their entries down. Four are still to come — if they make it. The lantern in there is at 14%.

Move the flashlight. Find the door. Get inside.

cross the threshold
click. the lock turns. the door opens. you step inside. the door closes behind you.
LANTERN 14%
CANS 3
WATER 1 BOTTLE
RADIO SILENT
OUTSIDE CLOSE
RELAY ENTRY · 4 of 8

You're the fourth survivor in a row to sit at this table. Three before you wrote until they couldn't anymore. The journal is open. The pencil's still on the page.

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DAY 26 · ENTRY 4 / 8 · 17:42 THE HUNTER
YOUR ENTRY · AS THE HUNTER · 17:42
0 / 800 words
THE NIGHT · HOUR BY HOUR

The lantern dies. The dawn comes anyway.

23:00 You started writing. The lantern was at 14%.
01:48 They found the door. The first hand at the boards.
03:14 The thudding stopped — for fifteen minutes. You almost slept.
04:22 The lantern died. You wrote the last paragraph in the dark by feel.
05:48 First light through the boards. The thudding fell off, one at a time.
06:11 You were still alive. You filed the entry.
"the boards held. the morning came."
IF YOU MADE IT TO MORNING

The boards held.You can sleep for an hour before they come back.

Your entry is filed. The lantern died around 04:30. The dead retreat from the dawn — at least the ones outside this house do. Sign your initials at the bottom of the page.

Put the keys back under the third brick. The next survivor will need them. Walk while the sun is up.

Four more nights, then the book is full. Then it's yours to read.

Barricade yourself in · begin a log
THREE SURVIVORS · THREE PAGES STILL OPEN
The accumulated log of past survivors — handwritten dated entries, a tin coffee mug, a single bullet, a small polaroid.
Painted portrait of THE BUTCHERBUTCHER
FILED BY THE BUTCHER · 16:08 · chapter II of VIII · still open

“The apple on the table had been there before the table. Mara knew this the way she knew her left hand was older than her right, even though they'd been born at the same time. The apple sat in the center, red becoming brown becoming…”

bind your hand to this page  →

Hover a tab to read what the survivor left on the page. Click to take it.