Events, Memes, & Games

May 23–30 (Real Time), set in 1986 Hawkins.

Hawkins is gearing up for Memorial Day Weekend — barbecues, parades, lake days, and the first real taste of summer. But in Echoes, nothing stays normal for long.

This is a low‑pressure, open‑world event with optional Echo interference, perfect for slice‑of‑life, angst, mystery, or chaos.

EVENT OVERVIEW

Memorial Day in Hawkins means:

The town parade down Main Street

Families gathering for cookouts

Teens flocking to Lover’s Lake

The VFW ceremony at the cemetery

The first weekend where Hawkins feels alive again after a long winter

But this year, the Echoes are acting strange — subtle, flickering, almost… nostalgic.

ECHO TWISTS

Each muse can experience these or ignore them entirely.

Time Slips: For a few seconds, the world looks like a different decade — 1950s storefronts, 1970s cars, 1940s music drifting from nowhere.

Memory Bleed: Characters briefly see someone they’ve lost standing in the crowd, smiling, waving, or walking away.

Patriotic Static: Radios glitch, playing military broadcasts from wars long over — or ones that never happened.

Heat Mirage: The air shimmers, revealing silhouettes of soldiers marching… then vanishing.

Echo Fireworks: At night, sparks in the sky form shapes that feel too personal — initials, symbols, memories.

All Echo effects are non‑harmful, atmospheric, and fully player‑choice.

EVENT LOCATIONS

Use any of these as thread starters:

Hawkins Memorial Parade: floats, marching band, kids with flags

Lover’s Lake Cookout: burgers, sunburns, gossip, Echo ripples across the water

Forest Trails: quiet walks, strange sounds, old memories resurfacing

The Hideout: “Memorial Day Weekend Bash” with live music

Cemetery Ceremony: somber, reflective, perfect for emotional threads

Backyard BBQs: neighbors, fireworks, awkward small talk, Echo glitches

TONE

This event supports:

Wholesome summer vibes

Emotional character development

Creepy, subtle supernatural tension

Chaotic teen shenanigans

Quiet, reflective moments

The season shifts… but Echoes never lets anything stay simple.

Spring has finally reached our cursed little town. Flowers pushing through thawed soil, longer days, warmer air. Hawkins is gearing up for their usual mix of Easter egg hunts, family dinners, Passover gatherings, spring fairs, and small‑town celebrations.

Except… something feels off this year.

📅 WHEN:

All of April (real time)

In‑universe: Spring 1986, right as the town tries to pretend everything is normal.

📍 WHERE:

Anywhere your muse would be during spring festivities:

Community center egg hunt

A family Seder or dinner

Church basement bake sale

The woods behind Black Pine

School hallways decorated with pastel construction paper

A “totally normal” spring fair

Someone’s backyard gathering

Or any place where spring should feel safe… but doesn’t

WHAT’S HAPPENING:

Spring brings renewal but in Echoes, renewal doesn’t always mean rebirth. Sometimes it means return. Expect:

Eggs showing up where they shouldn’t

Lost items reappearing in pairs

Shadows that stretch too far in the longer daylight

Animals acting strangely

Family traditions interrupted by flickers of the uncanny

Sweet moments soured by déjà vu

Threads that start wholesome and drift into the eerie

Characters confronting what they’ve “left behind”… or what refuses to stay gone

This is a low‑pressure, open‑ended event.

ECHO TWIST:

Someone finds an egg with something inside that isn’t candy.

A Seder plate item goes missing and something else appears in its place.

Kids report seeing “a rabbit” that walks on two legs.

A spring storm knocks out power, but only on one street.

A family tradition triggers a memory your muse shouldn’t have.

Flowers bloom overnight in a perfect circle.

A pastel‑colored flyer appears in lockers advertising an event that doesn’t exist.

Something green is stirring beneath the surface.

Hawkins doesn’t usually make a big deal out of St. Patrick’s Day. A few shamrock decorations in shop windows, a themed special at Benny’s, maybe a school hallway half‑heartedly taped with green streamers.This year, though, something feels… off.

📅 WHEN:

Real‑time March, still 1986 in‑universe.

📍 WHERE:

Anywhere in Hawkins but especially places where the veil tends to thin:

The woods near the quarry

The high school hallways after dark

The hospital’s long, humming corridors

The radio station, where the static has turned an unsettling shade of green

Any home where the lights flicker just a little too long

🍀 WHAT’S HAPPENING:

St. Patrick’s Day brings a strange kind of luck to Hawkins, the kind that feels more like a warning than a blessing.

Residents report:

Green glimmers at the edges of mirrors

Footsteps that sound like they’re following, but leave no prints

Objects vanishing, only to reappear in impossible places

Whispers in a language no one recognizes

Sudden bursts of good luck that twist into misfortune minutes later

A figure in green seen at the edge of the woods, always watching, never approaching

This is a low‑pressure, open‑ended event. Characters can treat it as:

A normal holiday with weird background static

A mystery to investigate

A chance encounter with something Echo‑touched

A day where luck, good or bad, bends around them

ECHO TWIST:

Thresholds pulse green when crossed today.

Lost items return with messages carved into them.

People experience déjà vu so strong it feels like a memory from someone else’s life.

Animals refuse to cross certain streets, as if sensing something humans can’t.

A green‑tinted fog rolls in after sunset, swallowing sound.

TONE:

03.06 - 03.13 MEME MASTER LIST

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STAN HOWARD [ @stanthefred ]

NICKY GOMEZ [ @nickyygomez ]

STEVE HARRINGTON [ @kiingsteve ]

WILLOW MARS [ @willowmvrs ]

CONNIE HOWARD [ @constanceelisee ]

RORY VALE [ @roryvale-ste ]

MIKE WHEELER [ @mikewheeler-ste ]

VICKIE DUNN [ @vi-ckiedunne ]

SEND ME A NUMBER. “HEARTS IN THE HAZE” EDITION

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MEME RUNTIME: 03.26.26 - 03.13.26

A NOTE MAKES ITS ROUNDS

The note starts in third‑period and spreads like wildfire. By lunch, everyone’s seen it or pretends they have. It’s soft at the edges from too many hands, covered in doodles, warnings, and different handwriting styles. You catch glimpses of it everywhere; slipped under trays, shoved into lockers, traded between friends like contraband. Some kids laugh it off. Some look uneasy. Teachers keep trying to confiscate it, but every time one disappears, another version pops up. By the final bell, the whole school knows there’s a bonfire tonight, there are rules, and no one can remember who wrote the first note.

bonfire. at the quarry. tonight.

On Friday the 13th, of course. No adults. No rules. Just one last chance to blow off steam before the next wave of responsibilities, secrets, or supernatural nonsense hits. The fire crackles. Someone’s telling a ghost story. Someone else is trying to impress their crush with a questionable dare. The night is warm, but every so often a cold breeze rolls through like something exhaled from the treeline. Pay phones glitch. Radios pick up static. A few swear they see movement on the cliffside, but when they look again, nothing’s there. Just the dark and the feeling that tonight is the kind of night where anything could happen.

01.26 - 02.01 MEME MASTER LIST

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EDDIE MUNSON [ @eddiemunson-ste ]

ROBIN BUCKLEY [ @robinbuckley-ste ]

JOYCE BYERS [ @joycebyers-ste ]

MAVERICK DAVENPORT [ @mavericksdavenport ]

JONATHAN BYERS [ @jo-nathanbyers ]

OLLIE IZENHEART [ @cynicalkilljoy ]

ANNE WATSON [ @rp-anne-watson ]

VICKIE DUNNE [ @vi-ckiedunne ]

GET TO KNOW ME. SEND ME A NUMBER.

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All memes are to be answer IN character.

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MEME RUNTIME: 01.26.26 - 02.01.26