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Guests at an old castle-turned-hotel often wake up in the morning feeling light-headed, as if they're suffering from blood loss. This is odd to everyone, especially the family that owns the castle; they may be vampires, but they get their blood from a bank like civilized people.
As Death you usually don't care much about *how* people die. It is your job to guide them to the afterlife, not investigate their deaths. But recently *a lot* more people are dying than usual, with no sign of slowing down.
In the deepest parts of every deadly dungeon or dark labyrinth, there is a hobbling old merchant that sets up a stand to sell basic items such as healing potions. No one knows how he gets down there, but all of the monsters fear him.
As a lawyer, you find yourself staring at one of the most perplexing cases you have ever seen. A business is being sued for endangering its customers. However, cases keeps getting dismissed because everything the business does is legal under the local state laws.
Everyone knows the rumors about that hallway: Girls walking by the locker suddenly vanishing, then returning later in a disheveled uniform, cum dripping down their leg, and a fucked silly grin (and supposedly some sightings of tentacles). Seeing as no one else will, you decide to investigate it.
After a year or two of dating, your girlfriend finally invites you over to meet her family. As you enter the living room by her side, you realize with a detached horror that you already know all her family members.
"If you're reading this, you're the new owner of this house. I've hidden 200 rubber ducks all over this place. Bring me proof that you've found all 200, and I'll give you a gift that your family will cherish for the rest of their lives."
Adam and Eve wrote the Bible to cover up the real evil they committed that got them kicked out of Eden. This is the story of what really happened.
You move to a house your estranged aunt left you in her passing. It is on a remote island with one small village. While everyone is friendly and welcoming, you hear strange sounds at night. One day, you discover a mysterious notebook under the bed that seems to have belonged to your aunt.
"I still don't get why are you so afraid of a simple human without magic, combat skills or weapons." "Because just as you said they made it here while having no weapons, magic or fighting skills! I don't know how they managed it and I am in no hurry to figure it out!"
"The perfect murder." You thought to yourself happily, looking out the window. Only to see Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are already here.
You wake up in bed 10 years into the future and you find a woman you don't recognise beside you.
Woman goes missing, and the only person who seems to notice is her stalker.
The village sacrifices a child to the monster in the woods every year. When your sister is chosen, you run after her and find out the truth.
—"Are you... scared? I've never seen you scared before." —"Yeah, well, you don't know my brothers as well as I do. They're the best of the best. If something is bad enough to make them ask for help from their spiteful little sister, then... Let's just say, best case scenario is a quick death."
One thousand ships were sent. One came back.
After your entire family was killed by the villain, your older sibling set out to avenge them. They left you behind, promising they would return once they were successful. Although they were victorious, the person that returned home was no longer your sibling, but a complete stranger.
The voluptuous succubus had thought he would be an easy mark. Just a quick pump and dump to drain some vitality. Well two literal years of fucking and several thousand loads pooled up around, and in her later, and she’s still trying to find the secret to his supernatural stamina.
"just so you know, we don't have room service. If someone claims to work room service here, leave immediately and barricade yourselves in your room until morning."
A video has been spreading across college of a tomboyish girl getting sent to pound town for a good 30 minutes, and no one has been able to figure out who the "Mysterious Tomboy" is. As you overhear a group chattering about the Mystery Tomboy, you smirk, because you were the Tomboy in the video.
In a consensual non-consent twist on a murder mystery night, someone in the house is sneaking up on girls, blindfolding, binding, and fucking them. One girl has staked her pride on finding out who it is, before she's taken herself...
"Can I tell you a secret?" asked the girl I happened to sit down next to at my friend's party. I didn't know who she was, but she was quite pretty, so I really didn't care. "Sure," I answered, curious what she had to tell me and she leaned in close to whisper in my ear.
Clean up in aisle 13. "Boss, there is no aisle 13" and he replies to just go take care of it.
After traveling through time, you wander into a museum. There you eventually find a display with your name on it.
Breeder's Creed: A guild of stealthy sluts track the genetic memories of specific men and collect their seed for perpetuating a lineage that will aid their plans for world peace (or just getting knocked up...you didn't think this was overly serious, did you?)
"The only evidence left of 'Humans' is that massive, derelict generation ship we've arrived to. Your exploration team is charged with exploring the ship and finding out what happened."
You joined a cult thinking you'd get some deeper truth. It turns out the cult is just a front for an orgy group
When one enters the room, the more supernatural they are, the more colors appear on their body. The normal stay normal, while the magical look like rainbows. You lit up like a Christmas tree and have no idea why.
Recently, you've been receiving a picture message from an unknown number, every day, at the same time, a sexy picture or a short sexy video, but they never show their face, and each message also has the words "I'm nearby" in them...
SCP-010 is a collar paired with a remote control. The remote can be used to do ANYTHING to the person who wears the collar, mentally or physically. Obviously this was used for some kinky shit before the foundation got to it.
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