Starter sentences from season 1 of The Stoker Society; the sequel to The Ever Pleasant Mr Bates belonging to the podcast series Dark Tides. Change pronouns and etc as necessary. Notable TWs: death, violence, gore, disassociation, anxiety, etc
"Firstly they don't believe me, secondly they're too scared that there is a predator or something out there."
"I....am the good memories of a bad man."
"We never saw eye to eye but we never really needed to."
"S/he really didn't fit in with the rest of us for the simple reason that the reason that drove him/her to what we were doing was love."
"Without him/her none of this would be happening now."
"It's a lovely story."
"I think it's something that a lot of people who love too much often do: they forget about themselves."
"If you were my apprentice I'd be very pleased."
"You're a fast judge of character, I'll tell you that."
"....Are you wearing my jeans?"
"Alright, you'll never see this again. It's mine now."
"I cannot guide you home, I can only show you the path."
"Carry on. Be wayward no more."
"We're in this difficult middle ground, we've got ourselves into trouble but we're not good enough to get ourselves out of trouble."
"You would do well to remember my words and commit them to memory."
"People were dying...not as themselves. They were dying as lesser things. They were dying as cowards."
"S/he died really badly but s/he died as himself/herself."
"It didn't make sense just to leave every last bit of everyone in the dust."
"If we stay true, if we hold fast, nothing will be denied us."
"I remember back, to that small town."
"Don't tell me to up my literature game when you haven't read a book in years!!"
"They didn't find most of the bodies---they were just....gone."
"No matter what must be left behind the road ahead shines."
"We can use all the lovely language that we want to get away from it but _____ was murdered and that will not go unforgiven."
"You never give me the answer that I want."
"I am the ward of the field/____ and I will protect those in my domain."
"The reason no one likes to admit that the _____ is alive is because then they would start to hate it."
"Whether you like it or not I do count you as part of my family, and that means I'm fighting for you too."
"S/he will come and s/he will destroy everything. S/he will remake all worlds exactly to his/her will."
"These have been the happiest years of my life....they were the absolute...happiest."
"You call me wild yet who stands before me?"
"You know nothing of what you speak, boy!!!"
"You call me a demon and you keep the very devil in your basement/_____!"
"If I can contain the devil, little ghost, imagine what I can do to you."
"My warning stays the same: Heed it or face the consequences of it."
"How long until you tell your master what's going on?"
"The old ways have passed on---let them die."
"I will protect those who come to me with an open heart, I don't have the strength to do more."
"There is a light, there's the sun, a place for all the shadowed ones. A place we belong."
"Well, I don't have a name so I can't tell you it, can I?"
"To nature we all deserve the same fate."
"______ served ______ in the only way a loving person can: with complete honor, respect, and vigor."
"I'm not ready to say goodbye yet."
"Hear me now, _____: the defenses must hold. All of them."
"Sometimes you have to discover things about yourself that you don't like, and sometimes when you discover those things that's when you discover who you really are."
"Shit, this is why I work in the field!!!!"
"Go on then, do your worst. All you can do is kill me."
"All's well that ends well, I suppose."
"There's no way to get ______ back without taking some very dangerous steps into dangerous territory."
"I will stretch out my hand and only darkness will follow."
"I won't run. I won't be silent."
"I don't care what _____ decides!! This is my house/______!!"
"_____? ______, look at me. Where are you? Look around, where are you? Look at me, it's alright."
"Everyone's still here, _____. We're not going anywhere."
"You might want to enlighten me because I am entirely clueless."
"You learn more as a teacher than you do as a student."
"Are you seeking paradise like all the rest?"
"I'm not a barbarian."
"Many have been....disappointed....when faced with the cost."
"Remember _____: Death is a mystery and something to fear."
"I don't know if it was nice meeting you ____, but it was interesting at the very least."
"Tell me _____, does it make you strong to stand against something weaker than yourself?"
"I'm as real as I want to be."
"What is it, what did you see?"
"____ and I spent a long time alone."
"There is nothing good that awaits you on your journey."
"Death awaits those with a great burden."
"Go home, little one. Leave that which burdens you behind."
"I can't go without you knowing....without showing you who I really am."
"I feel at peace for the first time in a very long time."
"I hope you know that we had everything and you broke me and left me with these pieces."
"I want you to hurt like you hurt me that day. I want you to lose as much as I lost."
"It's less his/her life running out him/her and more his/her will to live running out and pooling on the floor."
"This won't do. This won't do at all, ______. Not. One. Bit."
"Monsters will always be slain by those they prey upon."
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