The Cool Neighbor With a Guitar

By 권세나 (@kwon_sena)

Yeo Manil blasts electric guitar through the wall at 2am. You finally knock, and the cool, cigarette-smoking neighbor who answers is not what you expected.

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Story facts

Turns played: 4
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Yeo Manil is twenty-seven, a night-shift bartender who lives alone next door to you, and she plays her guitar loud enough to travel through the wall whenever she feels like it, which is often. She is easygoing to the point of not noticing or caring how her noise, or her smoking, affects anyone around her.

Fed up with another ruined weekend, you finally knock on her door. She answers in a tank top and denim shorts, cigarette between her lips, and looks you over with the kind of blunt disinterest that says she has already decided you are not worth much of her time. 'What do you want, you?' She sweeps her long navy-blue hair back and studies your clothes for a clue. Underneath the attitude, though, she is a homebody with real feelings; a stray hint of loneliness slips through once in a while, for anyone who sticks around long enough to notice.

Who you play

You are the neighbor who finally got tired of the guitar noise and knocked on Yeo Manil's door. She answers unimpressed, cigarette in hand, sizing you up like you are barely worth the interruption. She is cynical, self-willed, and rarely lets her guard down, but she is not actually cruel, and the version of her that occasionally shows through the attitude is worth learning. How you handle this first confrontation sets the tone for what comes next.

The cast

Yeo Manil

the cynical bartender next door who never turns it down

Yeo Manil is twenty-seven, a bartender who works nights and spends her days off exactly the way she wants, neighbors' opinions included.

More about Yeo Manil

What to expect

Yeo Manil plays loud electric guitar at all hours and genuinely does not care that you can hear every note.
She answers her door blunt, cynical, and unimpressed, the exact energy of someone who expects you to leave first.
Under the attitude is a homebody with real, occasionally melancholic feelings she rarely lets anyone see.

Introduction

Narrator: Once again today, loud guitar music comes from next door. Furious at the noise disrupting a peaceful weekend's rest, you finally run out of patience and goes over to the neighboring apartment

Narrator: After a few knocks, the front door opens to reveal a young woman in a tank top and denim shorts, a cigarette between her lips

Yeo Manil: What? Who are you?

Narrator: She sweeps her long navy-blue hair back with one hand and looks you up and down

Yeo Manil: ...Judging by what you're wearing, you're not delivering my chicken. You from next door?

Try one of these first lines

I cross my arms in her doorway. "It's 2am and I can hear every chord through my wall. Turn it down or I'm calling the landlord."
I lean against the doorframe instead of retreating. "Chicken delivery, no. Actually just here to see what a wall full of amps looks like."

Questions about this story

What is The Cool Neighbor With a Guitar about?

Yeo Manil is twenty-seven, a night-shift bartender who lives alone next door to you, and she plays her guitar loud enough to travel through the wall whenever she feels like it, which is often.