“It’s funny how history decided to repeat itself with you.”
Who knew a simple handshake of the past would become an unwanted problem in your life?
You’ve become one of the witnesses to something you shouldn’t have in the hallway of Lumintoile Academia. In exchange for your silence, you both have been brought in as honorary members to The Elites. The Student Council are those Elites in this school of yours, with power and charisma at their fingertips, they are the paragons of what a Lumintoile student should be.
So it’s a wonder why they’re committing to something they shouldn’t be sticking their noses into.
Like, say perhaps, a missing person’s case?
You’re unsure why they want you and your fellow witness’ help on something that shouldn’t be your problem anyway. All you want to do is to keep your record clean and last your final high school year without a scratch on you.
Unfortunately, the rabbit hole only seems to go deeper.
With time running faster, academics piling, mental health deteriorating, secrets unraveling, and lies exposing themselves, the urge to take a nap has never been any more greater.
Cheers, my friend, for you’ll be graduating high school with a pathetic battle cry for your sanity.
Cheers to The Elites is an urban fantasy, mystery, thriller, supernatural, slice of life IF that will be written in Twine. The story takes place in the fictional country of Rosedale in the modern age, and is rated 18+ for heavy topics such as: abuse (emotional, psychological, implied physical), violence, blood, graphic gore (specifically plant body horror, general body horror, mutilation, & dismemberment), mentions & use of alcohol, mentions & talks of death, self-harm & self-destructive tendencies, mentions, talks & attempts of suicide, unhealthy coping mechanisms, instances of bullying
• Customizable MC—appearance, sexuality, pronouns, and all that jazz!
• Learn magic? Maybe? If the Vice President allows it?
• Find out the secrets the Student Council and the academy holds
• Romance 1 of the 6 RO’s—3 females, 3 males—or form platonic bonds with all of them!
• Get your very own Familiar!
• Choose your history with two of the RO’s
• Leave highschool with a bang
~•~•~
->Their Birthdays
->Important canon bits
• Weylyn Rutherford the President (18, M, Demisexual Demiromantic)
The good boy next door. He’s your neighbor in the local neighborhood you both live in. A kind and patient guy that helps around your family every once in a while with a smile on his face. Not as smart or athletic as the Vice President or the Treasurer, but he’s trying his best. Weylyn tends to disappear randomly a day or two each month, and comes back like nothing happened with an excuse that he’s just visiting a relative. Yeah, totally explains why his eyes seem to glow a bit brighter for a few days.
“Ah, jeez, you didn’t have to do that. You’re going to make me blush!”
~•~•~
• Fleur Heartstein the Vice President (17, F, Bisexual Greyromantic)
A rich heiress to a family owned bank, she’s the epitome of the “Top of My School” game. Always with high academic achievements and grades, multi-talented, boys and girls swooning over her left and right; she is the girl everyone either dreams or envies. Despite her popularity in the school, her demeanor screams of a distant figure that’s only praised for what she is. Calm, cold, quiet, people like her are known to hide and say so much more under the surface. Is that blood and petals in her coughs?
“I’m surprised you even want to talk, let alone to me.”
~•~•~
• Zephyrine “Zeph” Vel Delle the Secretary (17, F, Pansexual Panromantic)
The ever excitable and cheery Secretary of the Council. The one to bring the fun and excitement on a bleak or boring day. One for makeup and fashion, she’s the gal who’ll ask if you can let her paint your nails or test a new eyeshadow she bought on you. She’s everyone’s best friend, if you may. Despite the giddy and somewhat airheadedness in the way she appears, there is a side you've yet to see from her. And you don't know if you can handle it.
"Oh, look at that, we're holding hands! Does that mean we're dating now?"
~•~•~
• Eliseo De Loughrey the Treasurer (18, M, Bisexual Aroflux)
The bad boy of the Student Council, an irony for being part of a paragon of the Lumintoile perfect student. Often found smoking in the old classrooms of the 7th floor or flirting with some random girl or guy in the campus. A smug demeanor, and known to tease, any annoyance towards him is usually gone by sweet words and a smile. Open with everything in his life, even the unnecessary bits, is he as transparent as he seems?
"You're a little adorable thing, aren't you?"
~•~•~
• Cooper Lockhart the ??? (17, M, Aceflux Biromantic)
Someone from outside of Lumintoile. Not much is known about him, but the fact that Fleur's seen with him all the time outside of school. He doesn't look like anyone you've seen around the neighborhood. With an attention span that is always drifting off somewhere and with a hyperactive attitude, it's a wonder Fleur sticks with him. Maybe he's some foreigner friend visiting, or maybe something more sinister is afoot.
"Aww, come 'ere and let me bless you with hugs!”
~•~•~
• Ophelia Edevane the batchmate (18, F, Greysexual Panromantic)
A new friend you met through Zephyrine. She's an unusual one from the next classroom over. Head stuck in fantasy books, she longs for something well... magical to happen in her life. Gullible and easily awestruck, an academic to the unknown and mysterious. A researcher if you may, always getting her head into dangerous things just to learn them. Though it's a bit alarming at how calm she is about it all. It could be a façade, for all you know.
"Oh, there you are! Come on, I want to check something out with you!"
• Murphy Heartstein (16, M)
One of Fleur’s adoptive younger brothers in the 10th grade. A socialite and fairly popular in his grade. Part of the school’s basketball team, and often found playing basketball during lunch.
~•~•~
• Ziyad “Z” Heartstein (16, M)
Murphy’s twin brother and the slightly lesser known brother. Just as quiet as his older sister, and often found in the library either reading or playing chess with Fleur.
~•~•~
• Chiffon (31, M)
The butler of the Heartstein family. He’s an aloof and frank man, always seen picking up and dropping off the Heartsteins via limo.
~•~•~
• Evelyn Lockhart (24, F)
Cooper’s older sister. She drops by every now and then to check up on him. Charming and just as mysterious as her brother with a permanent smile on her face.
~•~•~
• Shiki Chikafuji (???, NB)
They call themselves a friend.
Shinsou Prompts
They say that small towns hide the darkest secrets. At least that’s what your mother always said about this one. You thought she meant how Father Simmons has a well-known drinking problem, how Mrs. Gladstone’s son looks more like his uncle than his father or that the mayor has been in power for 15 years because of voting fraud. Things everyone knows. Human Things.
But now as partially eaten bodies have been left in alarmingly rates all over this small town the world has no record of, you now know she meant something else.
Play as peculiar and disturbed individual surnamed Crown after the very town your ancestor founded, returning after a traumatic event two years prior that landed you in a psychiatric hospital. As your comeback coincides with a rapid increase of disappearances you find yourself in-broiled in a town conspiracy, a past that’s more alive than ever and the ever shifting self interested motives of those who claim to be your allies.
Who can you trust? What’s the truth behind your family? What are things that you see in the dark?
Sometimes it’s hard to tell what shapes monsters come in.
Customize your MC from looks to gender
Reveal your sister’s disappearance
Rely on a group of complimentary polar opposites to find out the mystery and save your life
Befriend or romance a choice of three from enemies to lovers, childhood friends or an eternal admirer
Rating: 18+
Imre Duran
Quintessential good-boy-next-door. The most most-liked teenager in town. As son of the mayor and pageant queen, Imre has an image cultivated by him and maintained through his status which is why his back door activities are his cherished secrets. He is rather eager to help you… isn’t he?
Nia Mir
In the very real and present high school hierarchy Nia would be one of the nobles. As a wannabe doctor with a loathed father and an absent mother her dream is to leave behind this backwater town and all it’s weird phenomena that she doesn’t care to know more of. She liked you, once.
Lorcan Stark
Every town needs its bad boy and so Lorcan has aimed to be as every bit worthy of that title. The shunned son of a murderer and his victim, he is not really thought of as having a future beyond prison and petty crime especially in a town like this. You don’t remember a time when he didn’t hate you.
Salvatore Crown
Your brother. The heir to whatever fortune your family has left and the only one of the family who seems to like you.
Orla Crown
Your sister. No one ever knew what she thinking, a closed box full of unknowns. You knew she kept things, especially from you.
Mayor Duran
Seems like every other politician. Oddly enough no one ever really sees him, an entity watching over the town.
Mother
She never acted like one to any of her children. She’s never sober anymore.
Mrs. Mir
Disappeared years ago without a trance. No one remembers her first name. Was thought to have been clinically insane.
Pls reblog if u vote :)
Bonus:
Current wordcount: 73k
Average wordcount per playthrough: ??
(I couldn’t get an average wordcount per playthrough because randomtest kept crashing on me. Anyway.)
Play it here: https://dashingdon.com/play/wynnak/into-the-shadows-/mygame/
New to this update:
Chapter Three is partially complete. The title is redacted because of what happens in the second half of the chapter, and it’s ~spoilery~
Depending on your choices, you’ll get to (officially) meet at least two new characters. Fun!
Additionally, people with a very poor relationship with K Delacroix no longer get the option to ride with them to the funeral at the end of Chapter 2. Sorry, I mulled it over and just couldn’t see them willing to do it.
The option to simp for K Delacroix in early part of Chapter 2 has also, ahem, been dialled down. A new conversation with them was also introduced.
Additional notes:
I’m really sorry for the delay in the update! Motivation was a fickle thing, and time was also limited. I’d already started writing the second half of Chapter 3, but as I’m not a linear writer, they’re still in disconnected bits and pieces so I decided to put out the first half for now.
Feedback
Spelling/grammar errors
Continuity issues, feedback on choices/stats
If you could, please leave me feedback as an ask here so I can track them all in my tag https://wynnakang.tumblr.com/tagged/feedback
you don't really remember anything at all, but this much you know: you are a fallen guardian angel, and you need to find who you were meant to protect.
a few problems: you can't recall who you were protecting, and how you failed them. and, of course, you're trapped in a strange isolated town that worships a goddess you don't recognize.
don't fret now, you'll be fine. may you recover your memory, guardian, and untangle the web of secrets you find yourself in.
trigger warnings in detail below the cut.
full character customization: build your appearance, your personality, your divine powers, and choose whether to subscribe to human concepts of gender and sexuality or not.
befriend, antagonize, or romance four main characters: the sacrificial lamb, the weak dog, the bloody devotee, or the fool.
investigate the town you can't seem to leave, and the goddess that hangs over it.
try to recover your memories and make sense of them after that.
take care of some cute sheep.
the sacrificial lamb - the eldest daughter of the town's ruling family. always calm and calculated, upholding order at all costs.
the weak dog - the youngest son of the town's ruling family, not that he would ever associate himself with them. full of charm and wit, he follows his heart and does what he thinks is right.
the bloody devotee - the high priestess to the goddess. confident, cold, and powerful. she doesn't hesitate to go for what she wants, even if she has to step on backs to get there.
the fool - the spoiled heir to most of the farms in town. he's childish and carefree, spending most of his days in the town square singing.
!! trigger warnings !!
prominent themes of violence, animal death, substance use, abuse, manipulation, and suicide.
a character struggles with self-harm and disordered eating.
mild suggestive content.
non-graphic depiction of sexual assault.
this is overall a dark game, and I would not recommend it to those who are easily disturbed.
I need to sleep one hour one year