Fic Rec: Where's My Scarf? by buttsnax

[ficklepig.livejournal.com]

Title: Where's My Scarf?
Author: buttsnax
Pairing: Sherlock/John (Or not! You choose!)
Length: 6,000 words, give or take
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence.
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: A Choose Your Own Adventure story set in the ruins of a far-future London. Help Sherlock find his missing scarf, or don't! You decide.

Reccer's comments: If you liked CYOA books as a kid, welcome to the brilliantly cracky, sad, snarky, "of course that mystery writer was buttsnax" adult version. This Holmestice gift for nia_kantorka is cleverly crafted as a stand-alone Livejournal with multiple linked entries.

The setting: a weird, unexplained post-apocalypic AU. You are Sherlock Holmes. The problem: you are cold. The reason: you have lost your scarf. The complication:

A terrible and mysterious accident befell you, the likes of which you don't remember, nor could speak of if you did. Your only method of communication is the construction and wearing of an elaborate system of masks. Even now, a mask like a second flesh covers your face--the one you dare not remove beneath all the others. You carry these masks with you in a small sack sewn of a thread unknown to this earth and to you. Each mask represents a facet of your intent or emotional state that John has become adept at interpreting. Most of the time. Occasionally he has trouble with it.

You need to let John know about your missing scarf.

Your choices are to:

[Wear the Mask of Loss]
[Wear the Mask of Ice]
[Wear the Mask of Asphyxiation]

I think my personal favorite is The Mask of Not Getting Killed Immediately.

Comments

[ficklepig.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaar! Now I see why I didn't see recs on the spreadsheet or last month for any of the great Holmestice works from December. Search fail!

Comment-recs on the open post for December 2015 Holmestice fics are here (http://221b-recs.livejournal.com/444068.html#comments).

[swissmarg]

This totally needs and deserves a spotlight of its own and I think you did the right thing in reccing it separately. :)

[ziggythewalrus.livejournal.com]

LOL, I'm a big fan of both Buttsnax and CYOA, and this is great!