![]() When they cause you to be suspected of unrelated crimes, they become the Big Secret. See Open Secret for when your secret is not so secret. Related to They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason. ![]() My Greatest Failure is a particularly common type of Dark Secret, and it is often an element of a Dark and Troubled Past or a Mysterious Past and revealed in a Troubled Backstory Flashback. ![]() When it's society-wide in general, you get Masquerade. When you get even bigger in scale you get an Empire with a Dark Secret. When it's a whole town that's doing this it's a Town with a Dark Secret. Or it's almost an anticlimax either because they've known all along, or it just wasn't as dark a secret as the keeper thought it was. Either everyone involved is shocked and horrified and lives are ruined. There are two standard reactions to these coming out. It doesn't matter how big or small the secret is, it just matters that the person keeping it thinks that it's vitally important that it stay hidden. Sometimes they took the last cookie from the cookie jar. Sometimes they're secretly a double agent. Sometimes they killed someone close to them. Some characters have some dark, terrible secret in their pasts that they don't want anyone to know. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG
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