a stranger things inspired smut series featuring:
- a fantasy role-playing game
- a psychic girl
- a dimension of Lovecraftian horrors
- four core characters
-- Jess, the tough black party girl
-- Ashley, the rich blonde good girl
-- Daphne, the quirky girl with a powerful secret
-- Jenny, the manic pixie dream girl
- two major relationships, plus...
-- Jess/Jenny
-- Ashley/boy1/boy2
-- Daphne/weirdness

for 80s flavor, keep in mind:
- the mall & the arcade
- cassette tapes, VHSes, & corded phones
- perms, workout tapes, unitards & tights
- rubik's cubes, slap bracelets, bubble gum, & neon
- cigarettes & anti-drug campaigns
- Star Wars, MTV, NES
- bad means good, bods, "Not even!" "Even!", like, gotta motor means gotta go, "No duh.", "Psych!", rad, righteous, "Take a chill pill!", totally, "What's your damage?"

strange games
- the gang meet as freshmen in college because they're renting a house together
- boys! boys! boys! (everybody's feeling real sexually empowered)
- hints of Jess/Jenny
- Ashley gets herself in a love triangle with... Mike? and... Danny?
- Daphne isn't interested in guys; she's got far stranger tastes
- spookiness:
-- there's a voice in the tv static
-- the phone calls are coming from inside the house?
-- backmasked messages in music
-- Polybius-inspired arcade game (something something Cold War?)
-- obscure role-playing game

strange reality

strange dreams

strange triumph