<<nobr>><<set $Setting to "In a haunted New England">>
<<set $Relationship1p1 to "Coworkers">>
<<set $Relationship1p2 to "Family">>
<<set $Relationship1p3 to "Neighbors">>
<<set $Relationship1p4 to "Enemies">>
<<set $Relationship1p5 to "Strangers">>
<<set $Relationship1p6 to "Locals">>
<</nobr>><<=$Setting>>, they are a pair with the relationship:<<set $Relationship1 to either ("$Relationship1p1", "$Relationship1p2", "$Relationship1p3", "$Relationship1p4", "$Relationship1p5", "$Relationship1p6")>>
<<=$Relationship1>>
[[Keep going|Relationship2]]
[[Redo this step|Start]]To be specific, they have the relationship:<<nobr>><<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p1">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Lowly retailer workers, one with an unrequited crush", "Boss and smarter employee", "Weathered partners for many decades", "Rivals at work", "Senior employee and overeager newbie", "Serious employee and class clown")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p2">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Well-meaning parent and rebellious teenager", "Estranged spouses", "Eccentric grandparent and devoted grandchild", "Permissive uncle/aunt and misundertand niece/nephew", "Squabbling siblings", "Enemy cousins")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p3">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Mutually feuding next-door neighbors", "Well-meaning person and overly strict Homeowners Assocation member", "Strange elderly neighbor and fearful kid next door", "Kid best friends", "Neighborhood friends who don't realize they're in love", "Cheating spouses")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p4">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Rival shop owners", "Service provider and customer who feels wronged", "Nerdy kid and jock bully", "Exes who had a volcanic breakup", "Town official and local reporter", "Local businessperson and bleeding-heart lawyer")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p5">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Local priest and introverted parishioner", "Vistor and town mainstay", "Drifter and local newspaper reporter", "Barkeep and drifter", "Two professionals with no crossover—but mutual attraction", "School jock and nerd")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p6">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Fisherman and town politician", "Farmer and townie", "Local business owners", "Town historian and newcomer with a family secret", "Librarian and curious kid", "Police sheriff and falsely accused person")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
<<=$Relationship1>>: <<=$Relationship2>>
[[Keep going->Need1]]
[[Redo this step->Relationship2]]
[[Go back a step->Start]]They have the relationship:
<<=$Relationship1>>: <<=$Relationship2>>
They need:
<<nobr>><<set $Need1p1 to "To discover">>
<<set $Need1p2 to "To understand">>
<<set $Need1p3 to "To atone">>
<<set $Need1p4 to "To avenge">>
<<set $Need1p5 to "To achieve">>
<<set $Need1p6 to "To escape">>
<</nobr>><<set $Need1 to either("$Need1p1", "$Need1p2", "$Need1p3", "$Need1p4", "$Need1p5", "$Need1p6")>><<=$Need1>>
[[Keep going->Need2]]
[[Redo this step->Need1]]
[[Go back a step->Relationship2]]To be more specific, they have the relationship:
<<=$Relationship1>>: <<=$Relationship2>>
They need:<<nobr>><<if $Need1 is "$Need1p1">><<set $Need2 to either("...the terrible secret that ruined everything", "...the truth that can finally free them from their demons", "...the family secret they made a pact to never reveal", "...the shameful reason for the curse", "...the solution to the ancient puzzle that unlocks everything", "...the secret of the misunderstanding that tore them apart")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p2">><<set $Need2 to either("...why they cut things off without explanation", "...the mysterious thing only they know about", "...why they can't remember that key moment", "...why they committed such a terrible betrayal", "...why they can't move on from that terrible day", "...why no one will tell them about their family's past")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p3">><<set $Need2 to either("...for the terrible crime they somehow got away with", "...for running away instead of facing the terrible truth", "...for the horrible betrayal that destroyed everything", "...for taking part in the town's shameful secret", "...for breaking a blood oath", "...for allowing a horrific crime to go unpunished")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p4">><<set $Need2 to either("...the terrible insult they've never been able to forget", "...the crime that no one else believes they committed", "...the horrific legacy they inherited from their family", "...the shocking cruelty they've managed to hide", "...the shocking betrayal of a sacred trust", "...the cowardly fleeing from a hard truth")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p5">><<set $Need2 to either("...the childhood victory that always alluded their grasp", "...the local recognition they've secretly always craved", "...the long-sought correction of a terrible injustice", "...the forgiveness they've always been afraid to ask for", "...the acknowledgment that they were terribly wronged", "...the final banishment of an old demon")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p6">><<set $Need2 to either("...the terror that their longheld secret will be revealed", "...the toxic relationship that's ruined their life", "...the small-minded infighting that's grown to murderous proportions", "...the small town that will never understand them", "...the oppressive family of hidden secrets", "...the string of bad luck and bad choices that plagues them")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
<<=$Need1>> <<=$Need2>>
[[Keep going->Location1]]
[[Redo this step->Need2]]
[[Go back a step->Need1]]They have the relationship:
<<=$Relationship1>>: <<=$Relationship2>>
They need:
<<=$Need1>> <<=$Need2>>
This is all happening at:
<<nobr>><<set $Location1p1 to "A town landmark">>
<<set $Location1p2 to "A personal residence">>
<<set $Location1p3 to "A nearby natural feature">>
<<set $Location1p4 to "A location on the outskirts">>
<<set $Location1p5 to "A hidden place">>
<<set $Location1p6 to "A municipal location">>
<</nobr>><<set $Location1 to either("$Location1p1", "$Location1p2", "$Location1p3", "$Location1p4", "$Location1p5", "$Location1p6")>><<=$Location1>>
[[Keep going->Location2]]
[[Redo this step->Location1]]
[[Go back a step->Need2]]To be more specific, they have the relationship:
<<=$Relationship1>>: <<=$Relationship2>>
They need:
<<=$Need1>> <<=$Need2>>
This is all happening at:
<<nobr>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p1">>
<<set $Location2 to either("The ornate and ancient town hall with odd secrets built into its walls", "The small park in the center of town with something mysterious buried in its grounds", "The cramped town history museum, unknowingly holding the clues to a secret tragedy", "The historic battlefield on the edge of town with an aura of long-ago trauma", "The huge and ruined factory, abandoned since that terrible accident", "The old summer holiday resort, now fallen into ruins")>>
<<else>>
<</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p2">>
<<set $Location2 to either("The biggest McMansion in town, occupied by the most toxic family in town", "The town trailer park, where a lack of means is made up for by the strongest community in town", "The small, homey house where a local family struggles to recover from an unspeakable tragedy", "An ancestral home inherited by a distant relative, ignorant of their family's terible legacy", "The eccentric, elderly town resident's home, holding the secrets of what really happened all those years ago", "The super-modern house on the edge of town that, like its famous, reclusive resident, doesn't really fit in")>>
<<else>>
<</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p3">>
<<set $Location2 to either("A dam-formed lake with the flooded old town buried beneath it", "An old-growth forest with strange neolithic artifacts", "A windswept beach with a short summer season and a long, foggy, frigid rest of the year", "A crumbling cliff-edge overlooking the turbulent Atlantic", "A deep cave in the side of the old mountain, recently uncovered by a landslide", "A beautiful waterfall, only reachable by a long hike, mysterious petroglyphs beneath it")>>
<<else>>
<</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p4">>
<<set $Location2 to either("The town curio shop almost no one ever goes in, and that hides a few mysterious objects", "The bright and shiny big box store that everyone hates on the edge of town, with a secretly murderous employee", "The gas station/convience store on the highway outside town, still open after everyone else has gone to sleep", "The old-fashioned train car diner with the staff that's seen everything—well, almost everything", "The large farm with its popular food and produce stand shut up for the season, its giant fields lying fallow", "The town's used-goods store, with the owner who knows everyone's business")>>
<<else>>
<</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p5">>
<<set $Location2 to either("The secret government lab that no one even realizes is there, hidden in the woods outside town", "The FBI surveillance van disguised as a telephone repair vehicle, keeping careful watch on a seemingly innocuous house", "A shack in the middle of the woods where teenagers hang out, ignorant of its horrific history", "Under the high school bleachers, where young lovers meet, never realizing the danger they're in", "The old abandoned house that no one ever goes into, but that mysteriously has never been torn down", "The elaborate basement dug out under the seemingly normal house, prepped for surviving a nuclear war—and what could follow")>>
<<else>>
<</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p6">>
<<set $Location2 to either("The town library, in an ornate, run-down building, fallen on hard times but with a huge collection of ancient volumes", "The town police station, recently renovated save for some old jail cells that saw horrific events back in the day", "The ornate and giant town bank, now fallen on hard times, the long-ago crimes committed there nearly forgotten", "The town hospital, struggling to stay open in an era of consolidation, but long a haven of hope, crisis, and despair", "The small boarding school on the edge of town, acclaimed but fallen on hard times due to budget cuts and mismanagement", "The local church, built by a famous, possibly mad architect, with strange geometry and odd tricks of the light")>>
<<else>>
<</if>>
<</nobr>><<=$Location1>>: <<=$Location2>>
[[Keep going->Haunting1]]
[[Redo this step->Location2]]
[[Go back a step->Location1]]They have the relationship:
<<=$Relationship1>>: <<=$Relationship2>>
They need:
<<=$Need1>> <<=$Need2>>
This is all happening at:
<<=$Location1>>: <<=$Location2>>
And it involves a(n):
<<nobr>><<set $Haunting1p1 to "Ghostly apparition">>
<<set $Haunting1p2 to "Rageful spirit">>
<<set $Haunting1p3 to "Mysterious phenomenon">>
<<set $Haunting1p4 to "Existential terror">>
<<set $Haunting1p5 to "Psychic power">>
<<set $Haunting1p6 to "Haunted object">>
<</nobr>><<set $Haunting1 to either("$Haunting1p1", "$Haunting1p2", "$Haunting1p3", "$Haunting1p4", "$Haunting1p5", "$Haunting1p6")>><<=$Haunting1>>
[[Keep going->Haunting2]]
[[Redo this step->Haunting1]]
[[Go back a step->Location2]]To sum up: <<=$Setting>>, they have the relationship:
<<=$Relationship1>>: <<=$Relationship2>>
They need:
<<=$Need1>> <<=$Need2>>
This is all happening at:
<<=$Location1>>: <<=$Location2>>
And it involves a(n):
<<=$Haunting1>>: <<=$Haunting2>>
[[Start over->Start]] To be more specific, they have the relationship:
<<=$Relationship1>>: <<=$Relationship2>>
They need:
<<=$Need1>> <<=$Need2>>
This is all happening at:
<<=$Location1>>: <<=$Location2>>
And it involves a:<<nobr>><<if $Haunting1 is "$Haunting1p1">><<set $Haunting2 to either("a woman who appears in snowy weather, beguilingly beautiful and sad", "a young, attractive charmer who turns out to be a spouse’s former lover gone missing", "a person who supposedly died by suicide—but leaves clues that show that to be a terrible lie", "a spirit who appears in mirrors, getting ever closer", "a watchful, silent spirit who shows up in increasingly sudden, alarming ways", "an animal that only one person can see, leading to a deadly secret in the woods")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Haunting1 is "$Haunting1p2">><<set $Haunting2 to either("a spurned lover determined to take their revenge on every descendant of their lover's family", "a demonic possession that leaps from person to person", "a taunting child who leads people into danger", "an angry, elderly creep who claims to own the location they haunt", "a deadly ghost who looks different every time, getting closer and closer to its chosen victim", "a whispering presence from many haunted souls, rising in intensity, angry over the group disaster they all died in")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Haunting1 is "$Haunting1p3">><<set $Haunting2 to either("overwhelming dreams about people who died in a terrible disaster decades ago", "fires that keep starting up for no foreseeable reason—building up to people spontaneously combusting", "a ruined location brought back to full life again, trapped in time, revealing secrets of its past", "people being possessed by memories and full spirits from the past", "objects that move of their own volition in increasingly unnatural, violent ways that spell out a terrible secret", "flashes of another spirit world laid over our own—full of mysterious portents and ghostly dangers")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Haunting1 is "$Haunting1p4">><<set $Haunting2 to either("people are beginning to age faster and faster", "people losing their senses one by one in a certain location", "growing amnesia that functions as a transmittable disease", "time is dangerously, disorientingly fractured, leading to apparent hauntings and refracted trauma", "deadly madness that infects anyone interacting with an object or place", "a deadly, invisible presence sensed by own person but that no one else will believe—motivating both terror and murder")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Haunting1 is "$Haunting1p5">><<set $Haunting2 to either("a child with telekinetic abilities too powerful to control at their young age", "telepathy that's spreading through the local community, uncovering long-held secrets and sowing division", "twins trying to escape the psychic bonds that threaten their individuality—and have driven one of them criminally insane", "a killer, long-dead but finding ways to emerge and take over the minds of the living", "shared dreams that allow local residents insights into each other's minds—including the diseased brain of a killer", "a person who can inflict their will on others—and is being dangerously corrupted by the ability")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Haunting1 is "$Haunting1p6">><<set $Haunting2 to either("a music box that transports listeners through time", "a knife used in deadly murders, now hungering for new victims", "a cursed jewel that, when looked through, shows an angry spirit with an evil scheme", "a mirror that shows a different reality, one that gives clues to a deadly secret in our own", "an unlucky quarter that paid for a deadly crime, and now causes misfortune to anyone who possesses it", "a creepy doll that has witnessed numerous murders, and seems eager to provoke more")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
<<=$Haunting1>>: <<=$Haunting2>>
[[See summation->End]]
[[Redo this step->Haunting2]]
[[Go back a step->Haunting1]]