Eustace & Hitomi


EUSTACE & Hitomi is a Tricube Tales Solo campaign based on the Maidenstead Mysteries microsetting and originally using a combination of Richard Woolcocks' Tricube Solo with my own extended framework. 

It has since been migrated to Mythic (by Tana Pigeon) to better keep up with evolving threads and characters.

Eustace & Hitomi and the Case of the Rambler's Inn

>> THE "...and the Rambler's Inn" STORY ARC PAGE <<

See the full story arc page for more details about episodes, characters, locations, writing process, and background.

Summer 1996. Amy Patel is missing. She was last seen staying at the Rambler's Inn, an overly large and overly complex resort in Maidenstead, Alabama. There are lots of ghost stories and other rumors about the place.

Enter Eustace Delmont. Mid-20s. Geeky. Overweight. Not sure what he is doing with his life back in his home town. He meets Hitomi Meyer. She is down and out and out of sorts and in Maidenstead as part of a VHS-by-mail Ghost Hunter subscription show and tired of life on the road. Eustace and Hitomi quickly become convinced they have just met the love of their lives, but both are bad at communicating this. Shady dog catchers, sexy times, poor decisions, hot cops, chainsmoking alt girls, and Betamax tapes with horrible secrets await in Maidenstead.

The Campaign Background

In principle this campaign takes three story elements that are often part of my campaigns - humor, mystery, and romance - and then makes them the main focus. It's a challenge to myself to weave an at least adequate mystery with various twists and turns, to make things kind of funny and silly, and to have the central romance (between Eustace Delmont and Hitomi Meyer) make sense.

Originally I played at the idea of "trapping myself by the future" (hints of stuff to come that I had to make sense out of later) but over time that has dialed down. It also starts out in a kind of overblown faux-Victorian style but over time migrates to more of a traditional writing.

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