Stonehill Chronicles

### Printer Boy:

A Stonehill student known as Alec, is awake one night attempting to complete an assignment. This requires the use of a printer, something he must utilize within the bowels of Stonehill's prestigious College Center. However, once there, he finds no working printers, and instead, encounters a mysterious being. This being torments him, playing tricks and games to drive him insane. After entering the downstairs bathroom, Alec is grabbed by this being. He them appears in a backwards reality known as The Backward. Alec is seen in this alternative reality, exiting the building, with a grin on his face, walking down a long path into the dark foggy light, toward the central clock tower of the school.

### The Hat Man(Movie):

A Stonehill student known as Kyle, is the lead singer in a band known as Mellow Oblivion. Other members of the band include Kyle's roommate: Matt, and Kyle's brother: Connor. The clock is ticking for the completion of their next album, *Enter The Oblivion*. Kyle is consumed by writing the final track for the album, and exclusively dedicates all his time towards finishing it. Things start to go south when Connor hands Kyle a box of Benadryl to help him with some drug induced creativity. After taking the drugs, Kyle awakes in a world not known to him. It's a warped version of his reality, known as The Backward. However everything is cold, dark, and silent. Kyle encounters a mysterious figure in this world known as the Hat Man. This being taunts Kyle, leading him around campus playing tricks and games, Eventually, the two meet at the Stonehill Clock in the middle of the campus. The two talk, and it is revealed after the Hat Man's mask comes off, that he is actually Connor. Confused, Kyle breaks down at the feet of his brother. Kyle then faces the choice, stay in this new reality, his "Mellow Oblivion" , or return to his old world, one filled with chaos and pain. There is no canonically correct choice, as the results are unknown to what Kyle chooses. Perhaps a glitch in time, or something more...

### The Hat Man(Character):

The Hat Man is a mysterious being who can transverse the real world and backward freely at his own free will. He roams around the Stonehill Campus trying to persuade vulnerable Stonehill students to giving into him, thus dooming them into the backward for eternity, donning a tall black hat. The Hat Man has attempted this many times throughout history, however, two notable times appear in the Hat Man movie. First, with the person known as Kyle, the Hat Man attempted to manipulate and exploit him through his music career. Another person, to whom the Hat Man was successful, is an unknown character sitting in a chair during the hat man movie. This person is smiling reading a news paper. His story is unknown.

### The Backward:

A parallel reality outside of our own. Not much is known about the Backward, except that everything is backwards, and that it has some ties to old folklore described in local Native American tribes, one prominent one being the Wampanoag.

### The Stonehill Curse:

As described by a character in The Hat Man(Movie), the land that Stonehill was built upon used to be a stomping ground for Wampanoags, with the group burying their own dead there. Since the founding Ames family had decided to pave over their sacred land, a curse was unleashed on the campus, radiating like an antenna at the central clock tower on campus. This affliction caused nightmare creatures from their religious folk lore to haunt Stonehill students, and in some cases, rip them from their reality and pull them into the nightmare realm known as The Backward. In a lot of cases, they use their supernatural power to disrupt nearby technological devices. Nobody knows why or how the creatures exist, only that Stonehill administration looks to keep it a secret from the public.