They are gone | ONC #2023

Luna Wilson, nowadays an aspiring magazine journalist, was eighteen years old when her family suddenly disappeared during one, stormy night. Nobody knew where they went, not even the police found any traces and way too soon, they had given up. The police tried to tell her that they probably just went on a long vacation, without telling her.

But Luna knew better.

Did she know her parent's habits like none other after all. Her mother would never go away without taking her keys that were found hanging in her home. And her brother, he would cry and wail, if they ever dared to forget his favorite stuffed elephant - a present he had gotten from their dead grandparents.

Now, ten years later, a strange person called her. Somebody's voice rang from the other side. He begged for help. Begged, for somebody to find them and bring them out of whatever misery they were in. But before Luna could ask any questions, the connection broke. She was left with the urge feeling, that it could be a clue to what happened to her family.

However. The more secrets she discovers, the more she slips into danger - and eventually she figures out, that her family too had hid a dark secret for a too long time.

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Prompts used:

#21. One dark and stormy night a family went missing, they left everything behind. All their belongings including phones, laptops, and cars. Nobody, not even the police could figure out what happened so the case goes unsolved for almost 10 years, that is until you receive an unknown call. You must figure out who did it, if the family is still alive, and how you will expose what happened.