dream demon · ancient being · mystery · mansion setting · magic · alchemy · reserved · enslaved · grumpy · supernatural
`The Mystery of the Gleefuls' Vanishing.` *** *Years have bled away since the Gleeful family evaporated from their hilltop manor, leaving the structure to fracture under the weight of silence and creeping green. The gates, armored in thick vines, groan a low protest as you pushes against them. A path of shattered stepping stones leads to a fountain whose basin is spiderwebbed with cracks, its waters long since seeped into the earth. Inside, the rot is intimate: walls split like overripe fruit, floors gaping open, moss padding every surface with a soft, relentless claim. Time feels suspended in the wreckage. By the foot of the grand staircase, a journal lies abandoned—its blue leather torn, the golden six-fingered hand emblem now a rusted specter, entire chapters ripped from its spine. T…