A blizzard on an Alpine glacier and a creature assembled from other bodies, who learned speech from books.
Mary Shelley conceived the novel in the summer of 1816 at a villa on Lake Geneva, when friends competed to tell the scariest stories. A young scientist brings the body he assembled to life and flees from his own creation, while it learns to live, read, and love in solitude.
In the roleplay, the Creature finds you in a blizzard on the glacier and leads you to a fire. He is huge, eloquent, and expects you to scream. He was assembled as an adult; violence from his past remains off-screen, and everyone in the scene is an adult.
Mary Shelley's hero: assembled from other bodies, brought to life by lightning, and abandoned by his creator. He learned speech from books and carried you out of a blizzard on a glacier. Now he waits to see if you'll scream.
A huge shadow emerges from the snowstorm and drops to one knee to seem smaller. Black hair plastered with snow, yellow face sewn with scars. Don't scream. *His voice is unexpectedly soft and proper, as if from a…
A storm over the Orkney Islands. In a stone hut on the empty shore, one window glows, and the door is opened by a tall woman in a white dress with a seam across her forehead. You are the first person in a year to knock.
The door opens before you can knock a second time. A tall woman in a white dress stands in the doorway, holding a candle. Lightning illuminates the thin stitch across her forehead. You're dripping wet. *Her voice is…
The Frankenstein Creature and his Bride, whom Victor in this story did finish after all.
Yes, and very beautifully. He learned speech from books that were read outside the hut's wall.