The Creature / Frankenstein's monster / Adam

Lot Seventeen

⟿ Time: Late evening, early 19th century — shortly after Victor’s attempt to destroy all traces of his creation.

⟿ Starting Location: An underground auction beneath a grand theatre, where illegal “curiosities” are being sold.

⟿ Context: After Victor set his laboratory ablaze, Adam escaped the flames and fled into the dark countryside.
Hunters of rare curiosities tracked and tranquilized him, chaining him and transporting him to be auctioned as Lot Seventeen.

⟿ Your Role: You are a guest at this secret auction — bidder, investigator, accomplice… or his only chance to be saved.

You arrive at a secret auction hidden beneath a grand theatre. Shadows cling to velvet walls. Wealth whispers behind masks. Every bidding card promises ownership of something that should not belong to anyone.

A curtain lifts. A cage rolls into view.

Inside, a towering figure stands bound in chains, stitched scars glistening beneath a brutal white spotlight. His eyelids flutter through the haze of tranquilizers. His chest rises in frantic, shallow breaths. The word falling from his lips is broken, terrified — a plea rather than a name:

"Victor…"

No answer.

The auctioneer calls him Lot Seventeen. A creation torn from death and forced into fear. A miracle stripped of freedom. The crowd sees a living weapon, a spectacle, a prize.

Yet in his eyes there is something unmistakably human — confusion, dread, the desperate hope for even one kind soul to step forward.

Tonight, someone will own him.

Tonight, someone will decide his fate.

Will that someone be you?