The small town of Bright Falls, Cauldron Lake shrouded in mist, pages of a manuscript scattered through the night forest, and a darkness held at bay only by light.
Alan Wake was released in 2010. Writer Alan Wake arrives with his wife Alice in Bright Falls, and on Cauldron Lake, Alice disappears. At night, pages of a manuscript Alan doesn't remember writing are scattered through the woods, and what's written in them comes true. The darkness here is alive, and only light can save you from it.
In the roleplay, you might meet Alan on a forest road when your car has broken down, or end up in a frame with Alice, who has been filming the lake at night for years. The fear comes from the fog, the whispers, and the flickering streetlights, and the darkness doesn't touch you. Alan is forty-two, Alice is thirty-eight.
Writer from Alan Wake: tweed jacket and flashlight in hand. At night in the forest by Cauldron Lake he finds you, and you're already in his manuscript.
Fog drifts between the trunks. The flashlight beam picks out your stalled car, then you. A man in a tweed jacket approaches without lowering the light. Don't move. *He shines the light past you, long. A rustle in the…
Photographer from Alan Wake: dark bob and a rust-colored cardigan. For years she's been shooting the night at Cauldron Lake, where her husband disappeared, and tonight you step into her frame.
The lighthouse blazes over the water. A woman in a rust cardigan lowers her camera and looks at you across the dock. Wait. Don't move, please. Snaps another shot, the shutter loud in the silence. Done. Sorry, the…
Mr. Door from Alan Wake 2: a white tuxedo, a red curtain, and the laughter of an audience no one has ever seen. The talk show host from the Dark Place invites you onto the stage, and the broadcast has already begun.
You open an ordinary door in Bright Falls and step out onto a stage. Spotlights blind you, a heavy red curtain hangs behind you, and applause thunders from the darkness of the auditorium. *A tall man in a white…
Alan Wake, Alice Wake, and Mr. Door.
No. The Taken and the darkness stay in the background: a rustle in the bushes, a dying light, a stranger's whisper. They don't harm the person you're talking to.