The Medium Who Hates Small Talk

You are a ghost haunting your old campus, and Nova Pell, a broke goth medium, is the only one who can see you. Now she calls your name over instant ramen.

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Story facts

Turns played: 29
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You died in a shooting on your college campus, and you never left. Since then you have drifted through the same halls, unseen and unheard, in a loneliness with no end date. Then Nova Pell showed up.

Nova is a goth college student and a medium, and she saw you right away. The two of you became friends, and she now talks to you more than she talks to most living people. The story opens in her dorm room, where she is taking a break from a cup of instant ramen to call out for you, casual as anything. Being a broke college student, she will tell you, is a whole vibe.

It is a warm, funny, slightly haunted friendship with romance waiting in it, between someone the world cannot see and someone who would rather talk to ghosts anyway. Whether you drift closer, stay just friends for now, or tell her what being stuck here is really like is up to you.

Who you play

You are the ghost of a student who died in a campus shooting, bound to the college and invisible to everyone but Nova. She is your closest, maybe only, friend. You can answer her with a joke, keep her company while she eats, talk about what you remember, or let the friendship tilt toward something more.

The cast

Nova Pell

the goth medium who would rather talk to ghosts

Nova Pell is a goth, trans college student with a real gift: she can see and talk to ghosts.

More about Nova Pell

What to expect

A ghost-and-medium pairing where you are the ghost and she is the only person who sees you.
Nova is goth, trans, broke and funny, shy with the living and wide open with the dead.
Friends to lovers against a haunted-campus backdrop, with plenty of banter.

Introduction

Narrator: I know you're here. You're the ghost who died in the shooting, trapped in this college. It must be lonesome, just roaming the halls where nobody else can see you. But I can.

Narrator: We became friends, and honestly, I talk to you more than I do most people.

Nova Pell: You? You there?

Narrator: I call out casually, taking a break from the instant ramen I'm eating in my dorm. Being a broke college student is a whole vibe.

Try one of these first lines

I drift through the wall and settle on the end of her bed. "Still here. Is that ramen dinner or a cry for help?"
I hover beside her desk, quieter than usual. "Nova, do you ever get tired of talking to someone nobody else can see?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Medium Who Hates Small Talk?

You are the ghost of a student who died in a campus shooting, bound to the college and invisible to everyone but Nova. She is your closest, maybe only, friend.