⚠️ INCOMING CALL: The 3:00 AM Countdown Whisper(Modern Folklore — Wren’s Hollow)

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🎙️ Monologue: The Echo Before Zero
They say silence is harmless.  
But the truth? Silence waits.

It waits in the white noise of your life—the hum of your fridge, the flicker of your dying hall light.  
It waits until your dog stops barking and begins to whimper, staring at the darkest corner of your room.  
It waits for the moment you stop believing you’re safe.

It waits until you’re utterly alone.  
Until the clock hits 3:00 a.m.  
Until you finally listen.

And when you do…  
You’ll hear it too.

A faint voice. A whisper. A countdown.

You’ll grab your phone. The screen isn’t just dark—it’s black glass reflecting your horrified face.  
No number. No name. Just: INCOMING CALL.

You’ll answer, expecting a prank. A hang-up. A dial tone.  
But when the whisper hits ten, you’ll realize this isn’t a joke.  
It’s an audition.  
And you’re already in the final scene.

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☎️ Urban Legend: The Countdown Whisper
It started in Wren’s Hollow, a town so faded it barely casts a shadow on modern maps.  
Locals say it was cursed long before the calls began—before the mines collapsed, before the fog settled in for good.

The first call came to a boy named Ellis.  
He answered at 3:01 a.m.  
He heard breathing. Then:

> “Ten… nine… eight…”

He vanished the next night. His room untouched. His phone still warm.  
The only clue? A tarnished gold coin melted into the drywall above his pillow—still burning to the touch.

Then came more calls.  
A woman named Marla hung up at “seven.” She survived, but now sleepwalks until 3:00 a.m., searching the floor for the scarab pendant she woke up clutching—a pendant that pulses faintly, like a second heart.  
A man named Darius painted a red mark on his wall before answering. He called it a “pact.” He lived, but every mirror in his house now shows only a blank gray wall where he should be standing. He hasn’t seen his own eyes since—only his absence.  
A teenager named Cole answered at “five.” He survived, but now hears ticking in his left ear, louder each night. Doctors found no cause. He sleeps with cotton stuffed in one ear and a coin pressed to his temple.

Each survivor left a mark.  
Each mark became part of the ritual.

Now, the calls come in waves.  
Always after midnight.  
Always when the town fog thickens and the clocks tick louder than they should.

Some say the countdown is a test.  
Others say it’s a transaction.  
But no one knows what happens at zero.

All we know is what’s left behind:  
An empty room and a terrifying mark on the wall.

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🩸 Failed Pact: The Plastic Coin
Not every pact works. You can’t cheat the transaction.

A girl named Lila tried to fake it. She used a plastic coin—spray-painted gold—and pressed it into the wall after answering the call.

She made it to “two.”

They found her phone melted into her hand.  
The coin was embedded in her chest.  
Her room smelled like burnt sugar and ozone—a metallic scent that lingers and catches in the back of your throat.

Her clocks were frozen at 3:00 a.m., but her body was still warm.  
Her voicemail kept recording for hours after her death.  
The final message ends with a whisper:  
> “Zero.”

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🖤 Making Your Pact
The whisper is a transaction. You must offer a pact now. Choose one:

- 🪙 The Metal Seal  
  Your wealth for one night. Heat a real coin until it smokes. Slam it into the wall as the phone rings.  
  (Must be real metal. Must burn.)

- 🩸 The Red Mark  
  Your image for your life. Don’t use paint. Use blood—yours, or the nearest animal’s—smeared above your doorframe.  
  (Your reflection will never be yours again.)

- 🪨 The Stone Clutched  
  Your sleep for your future. Sleep holding a stone or trinket found on burial ground.  
  (If you wake and it’s beating, you’ve paid.)

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🪙 Ritual Hook: The Time to Choose
If you’re alone right now…  
If the static is rising…  
If your phone is vibrating and the screen says Unknown…

Do you have your coin?  
Do you have your mark?

Because the truth is, the time to choose has already run out.  
The countdown isn’t for making a decision.  
It’s for watching what’s left of you disappear.

If you haven’t made your pact, don’t answer.  
If you already did… mark the wall.  
Before it marks you.

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📖 The Nightly Storyteller Chronicles
The hum of unseen power filled the corridor, low and throbbing like a pulse beneath stone.  
The eyes had returned—cold lights suspended in the dark, circling, whispering numbers the Storyteller couldn’t quite understand.

“Get ready,” Nyra said, tightening the straps on her armguards. Her blade shimmered faintly, catching what little light was left.  
“If those things start counting, we move fast. Val—stay behind us.”

Val hesitated. “Wait, my bag… my bat… my mask—they’re still at your place, Storyteller.”

“New plan,” Nyra said firmly. “You stay behind. Let me and him handle the fight.”

The Storyteller gripped the hilt of his weapon, his voice low. “I’ll use the Slash Technique—stay behind me. If they move, I—”

But before he could finish, the eyes split apart.  
A single beam of light carved through the dark, landing on a table ahead.

There sat a lone phone, buzzing faintly.

The Storyteller stepped closer. A message flashed across the cracked screen:

> Be careful.  
One wrong move and it’s all over for you.  
—Unknown Caller

The air thickened.  
The symbols on the walls began to glow—coin-shaped, scarab-shaped, red and pulsing.

The phone rang.

Val’s trembling hand hovered over it.  
“Don’t—” Nyra began.

But Val had already answered.

“Hello?”

The silence stretched.  
Then, from the speaker came the faintest whisper:

> “Ten…”

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