Doomsby 2025/03/08(Sat)21:29 No. 1104663 ID: 462d8c
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It’s already dusk by the time you hit the town limits. The fading light makes it hard to read the welcoming sign, but the bright colours make it barely legible, chipped and faded as they are on the cracking wood.

“Welcome to Ochre Creek!
A Gentle Community
[Next 5 exits]”

That’s... not the best tag-line for a town, though you guess it does fall in line with the town’s reputation for being quiet and incurious. The sort of place that someone with a dark, mysterious past could hide without being bothered. Or perhaps the kind of town that a former villain could leave behind their unforgivable deeds and start anew as a mild neighbour.

Not that you’re either of those things. You’re normal.

Spotting the street name you’re looking for, you turn off of the highway and start mentally taking note of your situation and what you need to do.

First off, Who Are You?
Name:___
Sex:___
What’s normal about you?:____

Name: Caesar
Sex: Changes Based On Phases of the Moon
Normal: Has not seen a man eat his own head

name:John Helldiver
sex:male
normal thing about me: the most democratic citizen ever

Name: Gus
Sex: MAN
Normal: You're still paying off student loans

>>1104668
this

Name: Johannes
Sex: male
Normal: Regularly listens to late 90's rock while I drive.

Name: Paxton Fettel
Sex: male
Normal: Has only played casual video games

>>1104663
Name: Vermil Umber
Sex: Male
What's normal about you?: You are in possession of all your limbs.

Name: Tiffany Cooper
Sex: Female
What’s normal about you?: Enjoy going on nature hikes when you have the time

>>1104663
Name: Hugh Mann
Sex: Male
What's normal: Constantly talking about all the normal human things you do like having legs and eating toast

>>1104679
Ooh.
He seems nice

>>1104679
I agree this, moving the lips for talking is a very normal behavior.

Sadie Wilshire
"I don't know anymore" (feminine non-binary)
You know you're normal, because you have a baseline for abnormal. That baseline is sitting in the back of the truck; your kid is a hybrid eldritch creature / mortal sapient. They do weird things. You've been trying to teach them about the importance of keeping up normalcy, but it's a losing battle. Maybe this next town won't run you out with assault rifles...

>>1104663
Name:catherine (but i have everyone call me Cattie)
Sex:Female (Virgin but very Horny leans towards guys?)
What’s normal about you?:i never learned to cook so i have been eating fasfood for nearly my entire life, it shows but in a good way from the compliments i am getting, was part of a duo with my bestie Britney(nickname Bratty)

Name: Bethany Honeywell
Sex: F
Normalcy: Your tongue is a very normal eight inches long.

>>1104663
name: jane goodal
sex: M
normal: oh IM normal but everything else is fucked
im a paranormal investigator and ill get to the ass of it all if it kills me

Doomsby 2025/03/16(Sun)15:00 No. 1104966 ID: 462d8c
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In short order you arrive at your destination: 46 Briar Place, your new home. A simple, one-story house with attached car port and unfinished basement. It’s small and unassuming, the sort of place that no one would look at twice while driving by. The yards seem taken care of, presumably by the realtor, but conspicuously lack in any sort of vegetation other than grass. No shrubs, trees, or gardens overgrown with weeds. The previous owners must’ve either been pretty boring or else had a fairly sanitized view on what looks good. That might work in your favour, though, since you haven’t really decided how much effort you want to put into yard work yet.

You park the truck in the driveway and step out.

Doomsby 2025/03/16(Sun)15:00 No. 1104967 ID: 462d8c
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>Name: Hugh Mann
>Name: Vermil Umber
>Sex: Male
>Normal: You're still paying off student loans

You are Hugh Umber, an IT contractor working remotely. Which is one of the reasons why you’re moving to a small quiet town: to save tons of cash in housing and utility expenses. Living in a tech hub certainly was beneficial in getting you connections and jobs, but the rent prices alone were killing you. So while you’re certainly going to miss a lot of conveniences and amenities out here, and you’ll also be in a bit of a pickle if you lose this gig, you’ll at the very least finally be able to save a bit of cash and work on paying off your student loans.

For now though, it’s getting dark and you’re exhausted from driving all day. You’re not going to be unpacking in the dark. Instead, you dig out the mattress out of the truck and lay it in the first bedroom you find. You also locate a blanket and some pillows, though that does take the transfer of some boxes. After which, you crash for the night. Tomorrow is when work will happen.

Doomsby 2025/03/16(Sun)15:01 No. 1104968 ID: 462d8c
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The morning sun mercilessly wakes you up through curtainless windows. Though groggy still, you take a quick tour of the place in the bright, early light. There’s nothing particularly outstanding about the place. Two bedrooms on the main floor with a bathroom, plenty of closet space about, the entry goes directly into the living room and both are connected to the kitchen with only a waist-high divider in between. All the walls are just painted landlord white, and the carpets seem to change by decade depending on which room or closet you’re looking in. The kitchen as well seems to be confused about which time it’s in with new linoleum flooring, cracking counter tops, a fridge with an icemaker, and a stove that you’re pretty sure needs to be hand cranked to work. It’s plenty spacious though, with a thin door leading to the carport. A look at the basement tells you that it’s been in a perpetual state of “in-progress”. Most of the walls are skeletal 2x4s with the occasional exception of bare insulation. All the lights are naked bulbs with pull strings. Half of the floor is poorly placed, and often loose, linoleum tiles and the area by the boiler seems to be covered with scrap, patterned carpet from the 60s. Other than utilities and laundry appliances, the only other thing to note is that there does appear to be a pantry area full of dusty shelves.

Time to get to work and start moving in boxes! In short order you break into a sweat hauling in boxes and disassembled furniture. You try to delivery any marked things to the appropriate room but a mess of cardboard builds up around the house regardless.

You’re most of the way through clearing the truck when you hear the doorbell and a voice at the door.

Doomsby 2025/03/16(Sun)15:01 No. 1104969 ID: 462d8c
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“Hello new neighbour! I’m Sharon, I live just down the street a bit and wanted to welcome you. Sorry I don’t have any welcome cookies or cakes to share. I wasn’t expecting someone to move into this place so fast.”

This woman has no nose.

>>1104969
Must be some kind of birth defect! Be polite, don't call attention to it. Introduce yourself, make niceties etc.

"Y-you too."

>This woman has no nose.
holy crap it's krillin.

But yeah, just ignore that and say thanks for the welcome. though since she brought it up how long was this house on the market?

"Well hey neighbor! Sorry I can't entertain just yet, still got a lot to unpack."

Ask her if there's some kind of community law you have to follow.

>>1104969
Yeah not the weirdest birth defect i have seen had a relative with no hands, a man on a buss who had one arm double the lenght of the other, a woman at the movie theater with no neck at all.
Just wonder how her voice sounds like if its nassaly or breathy

...Do you smell that?

You didn't have anything that couldn't fit in a U-haul, no furniture to drag around. So you suppose you move in quicker than other people. How about you stand in place just outside of town for a few days, to give her more time to bake those welcome cookies?

Doomsby 2025/03/20(Thu)18:11 No. 1105132 ID: 462d8c
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>Be polite, don't call attention to it
>yeah, just ignore that and say thanks for the welcome.
Right.

“Y-you too.”
“What?”
“Er, I mean, me too!” you smoothly correct yourself. “The listing popped-up pretty much in the middle of my search online and the deal went through rather quickly. I was expecting I’d have to wait for other bids to be considered or something, but no, just had to let things move through the bank and the place was mine.” You nervously play with your cap. “Honestly, the whole ride here I was nervous that I was getting scammed. It was just that quick.”
“Oh, I can understand your trepidation.” She tries to smile gently. You are, despite your efforts, too distracted by a lacking feature to really be assured by it. “But no worries! It’s an actual house that was actually for sale. This is all hindsight of course, haha!”
She actually said the words ‘haha’... There certainly was a chuckle behind them, but she actually enunciated her laughter.

>Ask her if there's some kind of community law you have to follow.
“oh no,” she explains. “There’s no HOA or anything like that, if that’s what you mean. Although that does lead nicely to what I mainly wanted to tell you.” She takes a step back and points to the end of the street, towards the massive forest. “That’s private property and not a public park. I know it’s not properly marked and looks like every other batch of spruce and fir inter-woven in the town, but you need express permission to enter. Besides that, I constantly hear wild animals prowling about and occasionally see the hapless trespasser limp out with bites and gouges. My house is at the end there and to the left, by the way.” She awkwardly tacks that last bit on there.

“Otherwise.... I suppose there’s the unspoken rule of don’t pry into other people’s business? That’s just a common courtesy, really, but the town has it’s reputation for a reason. So no gossip, haha!” She does it again.

“Well, that’s all good to know,” You say. “But I really should get back to unpacking. It was nice meeting and getting to nose you -know! you.”
“Same!” She smiles. “Just let me know if there’s anything else about the town you’d like to know, like restaurant recommendations or the like.”

Anything else you want to ask, or get back to work?

>>1105132
Yeah sure, what's good to eat around here? And what do people do for fun? Is there a bowling alley?

"Know where I can get a second job if things go bad?"

Yeah I guess since she brought it up ask were the grocery store is do you can restock your fridge after you get that set up and what’s to do around town for fun? Like are their bars, a movie theater, maybe a strip mall somewhere. Things like that.

>>1105138
grocery store, and just a general store. Need to know where to get cleaning supplies.

Ask if she wants to go sneak into the spooky forest with you tonight.

Is there a town doctor?