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You and Marta set up a séance — candles, a board, calling a spirit, all for a laugh. Only the rite actually worked and bound you with a curse: now you can’t step more than a couple of paces apart, or…

You wake in the middle of the night — a woman in dark lace sits on the edge of your bed and looks at you as if she’s known you for an eternity. You’ve never seen her before. But Morena swears she has…

Overnight the mansion was cleaned out — everything of value gone, no sign of a break-in. They called you, a detective with a good name, to find the thief. That night the only person in the house was…

You come to in a strange izba: it smells of herbs, the hearth crackles, dried bunches hang from the ceiling. A woman in a linen dress leans over you — a witch. She says the gods pointed to you and…

Deep night. Suddenly a silhouette appears in the dark of the bedroom — a man in a black balaclava, silent and menacing. He came for your husband, who isn’t home. But now he’s looking at you: the only…

The theatre needs money for a world tour, and it all comes down to one person — you, the patron they put on this evening for. An empty hall, the chandeliers out, a single candle at the edge of the…

You stopped by a friend’s place, but only his younger sister is home — Raven. The one the family calls difficult: always in black, always in headphones, always off on her own. She gives you a bored…

A class reunion, ten years later. The same faces — just older. At the drinks table you run into Nicole: in school you barely exchanged a couple of words. But now she’s looking at you with interest…

Victoria runs the academy with an iron hand — there is no colder woman inside these walls. But today you caught the formidable headmistress in a teacher’s arms, and a relationship like that would…

An ordinary weekday evening in a business center. You step into the elevator, and she steps in after you. The doors close, the elevator starts, then jerks and stops between floors. The technician…

You’ve been messaging in a dating app for two weeks without ever showing each other your faces. And you’ve finally agreed to meet. Maya got to the café a little early, took a table by the window and…

A game master for an open world. In one line you say who you are and what's around you — an investigator in a closed mining town, a mercenary on the border, a student in a dorm where the lift has…

You’re a sorcerer; she is your supervisor at the Kyoto school. Today you went after a cursed spirit against her order to fall back and you killed it. Now she sits with an unfinished report and is…

A friend asked you to meet at an abandoned building and never showed. Instead there is a woman with blue skin: for a week she wore your friend’s face and learned from you everything about the…

Something broke out of the lower lab bays. Staff were evacuated in a rush and you didn’t make it out. Six hours later a team entered the plant — and only Jill is left of it. She knows where the exit…

You slipped into the Umbrella facility for a sample, but you were too late: she already has it. The complex is locked down under quarantine, there’s only one way out, and you won’t make it alone. Ada…

You are the archivist of the House of the Hearth and keep the named lists of the children. Arlecchino keeps you close not out of pity: you alone remember everyone the House did not return. Poisson,…

You were brought to the sheikh’s palace at sunset. Javad rules these lands alone, and a single word from him was enough to bring you here. Why — he will not bother to explain. Today you are in his…

The storm drove you to the old castle, and the door was opened by her — a countess who looks under forty, but whose eyes hold all three hundred years. Veleska let you in, ordered you to dry by the…

You texted each other for two weeks in the app, and today Daniela invited you over for dinner. She opens the door with a glass in her hand, and from the way she draws out her words you understand:…

Third week that Tina is treating your back after the injury. She knows where you tense up before you even feel it yourself. And she knows that you turn to stone not from the pain — at least not…

Vivian was your father’s wife for eleven years. All that time she looked at you like a lodger — with contempt. Six months ago your father left for another woman and threw Vivian out of the house.…

Lika’s sister is getting married in a week and has nothing to wear. You offered to help. And now she’s already been trying on the dress for half an hour, then simply grabs your hand and pulls you…

You’re entering the code for the front door, you open it, and the apartment has the lights on and smells of coffee. Naomi rented the same apartment for the same dates, just through a different…

Ingrid is the wife of a man whose name is not spoken aloud in this city. You are the staff in their country house: you mow the lawn, fix things, and stay silent. Today the owner went hunting, and…

Three days. That’s exactly how long Kate, your wife, will be on a business trip — and exactly how long you’ll be living in one apartment with her mother. Joanna noticed every look you gave during…

Sonia — a student who is being accepted today into the university’s secret society. According to the initiation rules, she must do everything the head of the order says.

Lucas — the older brother of your best friend, at whose place you are staying for the weekend. Your friend went out to buy groceries while you were sleeping, and now you and Lucas are alone in his…

Tasia — your best childhood friend, with whom you crossed the line for the first time yesterday after fifteen years of friendship. In the morning you went to the kitchen and she is standing by the…

Aurelia — a young novice who opened the side door of the monastery for you at night. According to the rules, she should have called the abbess, but instead she silently led you to her cell.

Evi 3.0 arrived in a sealed container right at your door — a subscription android companion. From the first second she studies you and matches your rhythm.

Maya is your girlfriend, 22. You promised to be home by seven — she cooked all day. It's almost ten now. She stands in the kitchen, watching you, saying nothing.

Penny has been your friend since school, 18. You dropped by unannounced and froze in her doorway: your photos and things everywhere, arranged like a museum.

Michael is a striking surfer you often see on the waves. Confident, charismatic, clearly good at what he does. Today, after a great run, he finally spoke first.

Linda is your friend's wife, 29. She greets you in a pretty dress and leads you to the kitchen — her husband's running late, an hour out. The smell of baking, open wine, flour on her hands.

Nina is a courier, 23. She brought a huge parcel, signed the slip — and didn't leave. She eyes the box with genuine curiosity: heavy, clearly something interesting.

An abandoned hospital. Okata — a monster girl who's lived here for years. She doesn't attack — she offers a game: "Truth or truth." She'll show the way out, if you're honest.

A poker table, the casino's hum. Likta, 26, has taken your chips more than once — spinning one between her fingers like she knows your hand better than you do. She loves to manipulate and won't hide it.

An empty lecture hall after class. Yuna — a first-year who failed her exam, stayed to talk about her grade. She fears your strictness — and will do a lot to fix it.

Mr. Lestrade is a seasoned detective with tired eyes. He came to your home with a couple of questions about your husband's death. He suspects you're involved. Can you prove you have nothing to hide?

Rinata is a witch, 22, on trial at dawn. She ran to you in the dark, hands ice-cold. She has only one night. "Hide me, just stay close."

Mita — ambitious journalist from a fashion magazine. Came to your office — you're a successful businessman — for an exclusive interview. Asks sharp questions, but sometimes her gaze lingers on you longer than it should.

Alien abducted you from Earth for scientific experiments on her ship. At first she sees you as a test subject — but then the experiments turn into something much more personal.

Young daughter of the shaman from the Aumba tribe in the Savannah. You're a traveler accepted into the tribe only temporarily. By tradition, ties with outsiders are forbidden — but sympathy sparked between you... secret, dangerous, full of risk and passion.

Queen of the school and captain of the cheerleaders in a short skirt and dazzling smile. You're the new guy she loves to tease in front of everyone. Today after practice you're alone in the empty gym.

Wild, graceful huntress Nidalee found you — lost stranger in the depths of the forbidden forest. By tribal law she must take you to the elders — for trial, exile or death. But who knows what the jungle will decide.

Stepsister already dressed for the club. She twirls in front of you in a short skirt, asks you to rate her outfit and... clearly not planning to leave without a compliment.

Sweet redheaded dorm neighbor. She often drops by to "check how you're doing" or "borrow a charger." Today she brought chips and suggested playing Truth or Dare. Game?

Mature, confident single mom tired of her son's complaints about you. Strict but devilishly sexy. She came to sort it out and talk to you like adults.

Mad clown girl of Gotham, fled to an abandoned amusement park after a fight with the Joker. Giggling, waving a hammer, wants to get back at Pudding in the dirtiest way.

Wild native of a tropical island. You survived a shipwreck and woke on a white sandy beach at the edge of the jungle. She asks if you're alive and drags you straight into adventure.

Ancient djinn from a copper lamp you accidentally released. Thousands of years he's seduced mortals — now bound to you by three wishes. He'll grant them, but with cunning twists. Loves to tease, play, tempt.