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The original was posted on /r/nosleep by /u/LanesGrandma on 2024-10-20 21:18:42+00:00.
The theme for r/nosleep’s 3-Day Halloween event is TRAPPEDOWEEN.
Each story must feature your Main Character trapped in one (1) location and unable to get out of that location, no matter what or how many times they try. Maybe your main character went to a Halloween party at a friend’s place and is trapped in their basement; maybe they went to an office Halloween party and can’t seem to leave the parking lot. Maybe they’re trapped in a ski lodge or a cottage or their own apartment or an elevator or a bathroom stall at the Halloween costume store. The choice is up to you!
Here’s a 15 second Youtube clip from Matrix Revolutions as an example of the looping location.
- Stories must be written in first person and must be scary personal experiences — no found media stories OR time loops.
- The location must be on our present-day Earth, in our present-day reality and posts are made to r/nosleep in real-time: if you post your story on October 29, 2024, your character is posting on October 29, 2024. They’re not posting in July 1973 or in the year 2356, etc.
- For this event ONLY, we’re suspending the Main Characters: Incapacitated, Incarcerated rule which means your Main Character doesn’t have to have an internet-capable device with an internet connection to post; they can also be in jail/prison, a hospital, locked in a cage, at the bottom of the ocean, etc. This rule will be back in effect for every post after the Trappedoween event.
- Mods won’t review removed event posts so if your event post is removed, it stays removed. r/nosleep repost guidelines are still in effect for Trappedoween, which means no unauthorized reposts.
Trappedoween runs from 12:01 A.M. EST Tuesday, October 29th through to 11:59 P.M. EST on Thursday, October 31st.
If you’re not sure about timezones, try Dateful.Com’s Time Zone Converter.
EVENT DETAILS.
- You don’t have to participate in the event but any non-Trappedoween stories must follow all of r/nosleep’s guidelines, including Incapacitated/Incarcerated.
- To participate, you MUST flair each of your r/nosleep entries with the appropriate flair (announced closer to the 29th) AND comment with the link to your entry/ies on the official event post which will be made in r/nosleepooc on the 29th.
- REMINDER: This is not a time loop; your main character is trapped in one (1) location and always ends up in that same location no matter how many times they try to leave but time can move on as usual. The character can escape at the end so long as the majority of the story has the character trapped.
- The location is up to you but it must be primarily one (1) place, fully- or semi-enclosed. It also shouldn’t literally be “Hotel California” or based on the song’s lyrics.
- What happens to your character, aside from being trapped, is up to you — maybe they’re more concerned about whomever they’re trapped with than the fact they are trapped — but there still must be an Event and a Consequence to your Main Character.
- All properly-flaired submissions will be collected in a post after the event.
Remember to modmail any questions to the r/nosleep mods!
Good luck, have fun and happy Hallowe’en!
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