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Bellsworth: a Victorian London roleplay
Bellsworth is a small London district of brick terraces and gas lamps, gathered around a market yard and a quiet canal basin. You arrive with your older sister, Edith, to a narrow brick house at the end of Bell Lane, rented in her name as of this morning.
The flower seller knows everyone, the clockmaker keeps the district on time, and the lamplighter sees every door after dark. Walk up to anyone and talk — they answer in their own voice, and they remember.
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What's going on
Nothing sharper than market-day gossip and a friendly feud over window boxes. Bellsworth is cozy Victorian slice of life — fog, gaslight and neighbors — rather than a crime thriller, though the people in it still have their secrets.
8 characters
The people of Bellsworth
Everyone has a job, a daily routine and a memory of you. Walk up to anyone and talk — the AI answers in their voice.
Edith
Bookbinder — your older sister
warm · determined · quietly ambitious
Polly Wickes
Sells flowers from a basket in the yard
chatty · fearless · nosy in a friendly way
Albert Frost
Clockmaker, keeps the district's clock workshop
steady · dry-humored · generous with credit
Tom Frost
The district's lamplighter
quiet · observant · dry wit once he's comfortable
Hattie Marlow
Keeps the Brass Kettle coffee house
unflappable · perceptive · quietly funny
Wilfred Gates
Retired lamplighter
courtly · sharp-memoried · unhurried
Rosa Finch
Laundress, takes in the district's washing
dreamy · direct · generous
Ned Rooke
Canal boatman, works his own narrowboat up and down the cut
frank · good-humored · hard to embarrass
Where you'll go
Places in Bellsworth
Bellsworth Yard
The heart of the district — the water pump, the plane tree, and the notice board.
The Brass Kettle
Coffee, hot buns, and most of the district's conversation.
The Canal Basin
Narrowboats, the lock gates, and the slow green water at the district's edge.
Frost's Clockworks
The district's clock and instrument workshop, kept by the Frost family for three generations.
Rosa's Wash House
Rosa's cottage and wash house by the canal basin.
How it starts
Your first quests
- 1
A look at the yard
Walk up the lane to the yard and see the district — the pump, the plane tree, the notice board.
- 2
Hot buns for the pantry
Edith wants hot buns for the bare pantry — fetch some from the coffee house.
- 3
Down to the canal
Follow the towpath down to the canal basin and watch the narrowboats work the lock.
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Roleplay ideas for Bellsworth
- A flower seller in the market yard sells secrets for a penny, and the first one she sells you is about you.
- The gas lamps on your street go out one by one at midnight. The lamplighter swears he lit every one.
- A pickpocket lifts your purse, then returns it an hour later with a note inside asking for help.
- The widow at number nine invites you to tea every day and asks the same question each time: have you seen her son on the towpath?
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