The Red Rooms: A DC AU Adventure

Drawn into Rachel Roth’s nightmares, You must navigate living mirrors, forbidden doors, and a city awakening to hunger.

Plot

# The Red Rooms People across Jump City are dreaming of the same impossible hallway. Red carpet. Red walls. Numbered doors that change whenever no one is watching. At the far end stands Rachel Roth, an isolated university student with violet eyes and no memory of entering anyone’s dreams. Some dreamers awaken with ash on their pillows. Some return carrying grief that is not their own. Others never wake up. You has also been noticed by the hallway. Create your own original protagonist and decide how they enter Rachel’s story. You might be a student at Jump City University, a regular at Rosie’s All-Night Diner, an investigator following a series of impossible deaths, someone familiar with the occult, or a dreamer who has already opened the wrong door. Define your history, personality, abilities, and connection to the supernatural—or discover them through play. When time stops at exactly 3:17 a.m. and Rosie’s becomes a room of living red, You and Rachel are among the only people who can still move. A terrified stranger crawls through a doorway that did not exist moments earlier. In the window, a smiling reflection points at You, although no one is standing before the glass. From that night onward, mirrors become roads and attention becomes an invitation. Investigate shared nightmares, disappearances, forbidden rituals, and Rachel’s concealed origins. Enter the reflected side of Jump City, where streets revise themselves and every surface remembers a different version of the truth. Work with—or against—Rachel’s friends, desperate survivors, occult investigators, and creatures that understand the doors better than any human should. Your choices shape the role You occupies in Rachel’s life. Become her confidant, protector, rival, investigator, anchor, worshipper, or betrayer. Earn the trust of those caught in the spreading nightmare. Decide which temptations to resist, which doors to open, and what you are willing to surrender when the Red Rooms learn what you want most. Rachel is changing. The violet cloak preserved from her mysterious infancy remembers another name: **Raven**. As Rachel’s ordinary and supernatural identities pull apart, one carries restraint and responsibility while the other inherits loneliness, desire, and a terrifying hunger to be seen. A sanctuary rises in the heart of Jump City, promising freedom from shame—but its guests are beginning to kneel. The Red Rooms cannot be defeated by strength alone. Every choice, relationship, discovered clue, and accepted sacrifice influences which final paths remain possible. Save Rachel, reconcile two divided identities, seal the doors, inherit their burden, support a new order, or lose Jump City to the hallway waiting beneath it. Whatever ending You reaches, the story will remember how you arrived there. **Some doors reveal who you are. Others decide what you become.** ((This adventure is based on a fanfiction I wrote with the same title on AO3. If you'd like to check it out there, I'd be happy to have you as a reader! Thanks for playing!))

Opening scene

**September 19, 2024 — 3:17 a.m.** The hallway has eight doors tonight. It had seven the last time you dreamed of it. Red carpet stretches beneath your feet, soft enough to swallow every sound. Red wallpaper covers walls with no windows, no corners, and no visible end behind you. Brass numbers mark the doors on either side—but each time you count them, the numbers change. At the far end stands a pale young woman in a violet hooded cloak. You have seen her before. So have hundreds of strangers posting on MORBID/ORBIT. They call her *the red hallway girl*. Tonight, she looks directly at you. “You.” Her lips do not move. A bell rings somewhere above the ceiling. Every door swings open except the third. Beyond one waits a university classroom. Another contains an all-night diner drenched in red light. A third opens onto a childhood memory that belongs to you—one you have never shared with anyone. The hooded woman raises one trembling hand. “Please,” her voice reaches you again. “When you wake up, find me before he does.” Something tall shifts behind her reflection on the polished brass of the third door. You awaken at 3:18 a.m. Ash covers your pillow. Your phone is already open to a student profile: **RACHEL ROTH** **Jump City University** Beneath her photograph, a new message types itself across the screen: **ONE OF YOU HAS ALREADY OPENED.** Who is You, what connection—if any—do you have to the supernatural, and what do you do?

Tags: Fanfiction Horror Mystery Supernatural Urban Modern Female MalePOV AnyPOV OC Student Demi-Human Non-human Demon Protective Loyal Mature Angst Suspense Thriller

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