Status Updates From The Staircase in the Woods

shouldn’t have read before bed! crazy nighmares but also immediately wanted to pick it up in the morning

Lore charges to jump off, Nick went next then Hamish (surprised he didn’t argue since he has kids he can’t go missing lol) Owen crying and reluctant went last. (It’s giving IT going back to Derry vibes)

The enter a hallway w a few doors and message on the wallpaper that reads “this place hates you” they hear a phone ringing behind a door of a girls bedroom and it’s Matty mumbing, like sleep-talking

Lore’s on acid atp so her recounting is unreliable at best, Owen is insanely jealous and doesn’t stop Matty from jumping. Matty and the stairs both disappear

Now: No campsite, no cancer. Nick invokes th Covenant to make things right. They didn’t go try to find Matty they broke up and broke apart. He found the staircase again even tho it’s a different location

M and L were messing around (to Owen’s displeasure) and he wanted to make it official despite going to college in a year, she decided to tell him yes that night but brought acid to do together and he denied it, he had a future he wasn’t going to risk

They invoke Covenant for them means we got your back, stand up to Hamish’s bully, write Nick’s paper so he won’t fail, drive Lore when her mom wouldn’t

Lore: successful game designer (Owen and her made ideas together but she continued where he couldn’t), queer

Haymish: politically conservative, 3 kids

Nick: hasn’t moved on from the night Maddie went missing, pothead, irreverent

Matty, missing went up staircase in the woods and never came back, hot smart and driven according to Lore

The 5 friends found respite in each other as their home lives were not ideal

Group of friends who drifted apart over 11 years, had a tragedy occur when they went camping and Matty went up a staircase in the woods and never came back

Nick guilts them all together since he is dying from cancer to go camping… jk the staircase is back and he bamboozled them to fix their mistakes

Owen: nervous, unsuccessful, works at book store, nail biter, scene kid, OCD, crush on Lore in hs

Loving this so far