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Elliot Cowling wrote: I have about 4 or 5 sections I'm planning to write.

I'm currently working on the introduction to the story. Do you think it should be told in a first person perspective or a third person perspective?

Smokey's Farm (I renamed it from Smokey Says Hello) takes place in the 1950s.

The Fingernail will be present day.

Billy's Tunnel will be take place between present day and 1998 (I will be including references to Tilly's kidnapping so I'm just confirming that she was kidnapped in 1998, should anybody wish to know. However, this is subject to change if we join together this section about Billy and RuckusQuantum's.

The Water Cooler will take place before Christian's story involving the office block and the furniture etc. I'm thinking we set it within the past but only by a few years. So maybe 2013 or something.

If I have any other ideas I'll let you know, but for now that's all I've got!

The Trick R Treat style story can take place at whatever time period is suitable for our characters to meet, but that can be discussed a little later into the project perhaps.

Also, do we have a name for the town? I think I'm not going to specify where the town is situated, and I'll mention that in the introduction. I'm not precisely sure what you will be writing in your introduction, but I think a story about how the town may have been founded in the first place would make a lot of sense as either the first entry or perhaps a later entry, as a further explanation of how all of these odd things were attracted to this town.

As for a name, I like having names that translate to other things. I would personally pick the name "Iblis", which is commonly referred to in Islamic religions, in which "Iblis" was the name of a Jinn (demon) who refused to kneel to Adam (to highly simplify things). This could tie into a demon/Jinn being responsible for the horrible events that transpire in the town.

If that is too on the nose, I might also suggest "Verloren", which means "lost". It depends on the mood you wish to strike. If you don't want to take either of my suggestions, I entirely understand. You could always go with a traditional American town name, for the sake of realism.

Personally, I have a couple ideas, although they might not necessarily tie into the theme of this town:

Idea 1- I recently heard of an interesting story. This local barbershop, which had been running for quite a few years, was found out to be a huge front for drugs of all sorts. So, let's say this story takes place around the 80's. This barbershop has been open for as long as anyone can remember, but one day, the shop doesn't open back up. Both the owners, a janitor, and a couple other workers who were there on the last day of business completely vanished. When a lone detective is sick of the lack of police investigation, he decides to break into the place and find out where these people went, once and for all. What he finds includes drug paraphernalia, a gruesome ritual, and secrets he'd rather forget.

Idea 2- This one would occur in the 20's or 30's. Due to Prohibition, a man is forced to find a new source to buy alcohol. When he comes across a shambled, barely open restaurant barely inside the town, he is pleasantly surprised to find that it is an undercover speakeasy. However, the alcohol sold to him may produce some... unique effects.

Just throwing a couple concepts out.