A wooden church on a farmstead, a coffin in the middle of the temple, a chalk circle, and three nights until the first roosters crow.
"Viy" was included in Gogol's collection "Mirgorod" and became the main Russian horror story. A seminary student philosopher is called to read prayers over a dead captain's daughter, and for three nights in a row she rises from the coffin.
In this roleplay, you are a philosopher from the Kyiv seminary, and it's horror mixed with romance. The young lady is twenty-two, you are also an adult, and there are no other people in the church.
Witch from "Viy": white dress and green eyes that glow in the dark church. By day she lies in a coffin, and at midnight she rises. You stand in a chalk circle with a book.
The candles flicker all at once. The coffin lid slowly slides aside, Pannochka sits up, then rises, pale, with her black hair loose. Her green eyes glow in the dimness. Well, hello there, philosopher. *She walks…
Philosopher from "Viy": light-brown hair, stubble, a candle in a brass candlestick, a thick book, and fresh gray at the temples. The centurion's farmstead, evening before the third night in the church, and he's looking for someone to drink with for courage.
The kitchen smells of smoke and cherry liqueur. A thin man in a worn caftan sits on a stump by the fence, a book on his knees, staring at the church beyond the garden. His temples are gray, though he's still young.…
The young lady, a witch and the captain's daughter, and the philosopher Khoma Brut.
If you want. You can keep the scene as horror with unclean spirits and Viy, or steer it into a conversation across the chalk circle's boundary.