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Solve a mystery in which fact and act are difficult to discern - what was real and what was show? In this urban survival ghost story, players are haunted by the vengeful spirits of deceased thespians and hunted by a transformed audience of bloodthirsty creatures. Locate special doors that lead to pocket worlds inspired by backdrops from a cursed stage play. Decode clues, unravel riddles, reenact a lost finale and bow for...


It was 1999, the city of Oddlow had just enough crime to make the rent cheap but not so much that the streets weren't clean. Cellphones were uncommon, which led citizens to their usual hangout spots and spontaneous connections. The intersection of Burton Street and Curtain Road was where the Slice Theater stood. Shaped like a triangle, it was Oddlow’s piece of pie. Known colloquially as BuCu, the area was a cultural center with cafes, restaurants and bars; but also a place someone could do laundry, pawn an old watch and pick up their groceries in one afternoon.

A tragedy involving a theater troupe occurred in 1969 which manifested a decades-spanning curse twisting reality around BuCu in 1999. The unsuspecting residents of the urban neighborhood could be spirited away at any moment to a misty mirror world where vengeful spirits of deceased thespians haunted them with visions, portents and apparitions. Burton Street and Curtain Road became looped around themselves like entwined mobius strips, weaving a cage in which there was no escape. At night, vampiric creatures would prowl the streets, hunting for any survivors that strayed too far from the safety of domicile. By daylight, the bloodthirsty fiends would return to the Slice Theater where they had made their nest.

Although much of BuCu remains familiar, the curse has effected certain doors. While many open as expected, some lead to extraordinary places, pocket worlds influenced by backdrops from the stage play from which this all began.

𝙰𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝟹𝙱, 𝟻𝟾𝟶 𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚁𝚘𝚊𝚍
The doorway to Apartment 3B leads to an idyllic frontier farmstead, like a painted scene in perpetual twilight. Rows of flourishing crops, ripe for harvest, line a dirt path towards a wide wooden cabin with a stone fireplace.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚎𝚗’𝚜 𝚁𝚘𝚘𝚖, 𝙲𝚊𝚏𝚎 𝚅𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚐𝚎

The doorway to the men’s room of a nautical-themed cafe opens to a graveyard at midnight beneath a blood moon. Red glowing tombstones protrude from endless rolling hills, blanketed by a blue fog creeping in between.

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A dolled-up saloon girl stirred long-settled dust on a once steed-trodden high street as she fell to the ground, flattening her petticoat and hurling a floral fascinator from her head. She frantically squirmed against the confines of her gown, overcome with fright and unable to breathe. She was a prey rabbit, stalked sadistically by a pair of predators, two lovers that coiled around one another sensually like snakes. They pursued the distraught girl half-distracted with bloodied faces, their tongues swirled passionately in the other's mouth. A man wearing an ivory cowboy hat canoodling with a woman in a tan fringe dress, they were Adam and Lilith, the beginning and the end. Coated in viscera, Lilith peeled herself from her man, twirled towards the crying girl, then seized her by the neck and flapped her like a bed sheet, snapping her spine of toppling dominoes. Adam cheered as if he had won a poker hand, “Yehaw!” - then proceeded to serenade the woman he loved, "Sugar, duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh, ohhh - honey, honey, duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh - you are my candy girl!”

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