A dense mist rolls off the Bayou and creeps along the old cobblestone road. It almost appears to have a purpose and sense of direction as it glides along the path in front of your dimmed headlights. The only visible figure in the shroud of fog and weeping willows is an aged sign reading ‘Welcome to Saint-Vienne’. You’re finally here.

Map=http://s29.postimg.org/uasm0l3jq/Saint_Vienne_Map.jpg
OOC= http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/41727/posts/ooc?page=1#post-1246562
CS= http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/41727/posts/ooc?page=1#post-1246562
IC= coming soon

In 1796, the Vienne family owned a successful plantation and all the large plots of land surrounding it. The area was expansive enough to form a small town, and that was the exact thought process of the family. Through the combined power of wealth, slavery and blackmail, the secretive patriarch James Vienne went about creating Saint-Vienne, in hopes of it becoming a popular resort for the rich and famous.

The process was doomed from the start. Death followed the project like a vulture. Accidents were far too common, and rumors began to spread that the Vienne family was not the wholesome southern American dream that they so desperately tried to portray. Tales of torture, murder, incest and horrific experiments all circled the area, along with a story of a curse laid down upon the land.

The town was completed in 1813 and was beautiful and lavish by anyone’s standards, yet the public avoided it and the few surviving Vienne family members were forced to live out their remaining days in poverty.

History has since forgotten Saint-Vienne, but the town remembers everything.

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-All characters will have a dark character trait or moment in their past that they're struggling to deal with.

-You find yourself drawn to the Louisiana ghost town for any number of reasons. Maybe you receive a post card from a family member or lover asking for your help. Maybe you dream about it every night. A job or road trip can have you 'passing through' the area. It's up to you. If your backstory requires an NPC, let me know in your application so I can create them. I'll only allow 3 characters to have this option to keep the town feeling abandoned.

-When you arrive you'll find a map, which i'll post in the OOC. It will show you everywhere you can explore in the town. Each building has a certain amount of items (usually a specific amount of food, a certain weapon type, an item needed for a puzzle later on, and some miscellaneous objects that you can get creative with.) Once they're gone, they're gone forever (unless a character dies and you loot them off their body), so use them wisely.

-There are monsters lurking in the darkness, as well as a few stronger and more menacing ones that stand between you and better items/story progression. Average monsters can be fought off and run from, but you'll need to get more creative with the boss creatures.

-There will also be puzzles and riddles occasionally required to advance through the story.

-This game will be fairly fast paced. Post as long or as short as you want, but each post must either respond to another character, advance the story, or accomplish something, just so we don't end up going in circles. If you're not sure what to do, pm me or ask in the OOC for a hint or clue.

So, if there's enough interest in this, I'll get a blank CS, OOC, and Map up and running. : )

My interest is piqued.

I do have some questions though:
How many characters are each person allowed to have?
Are they allowed whatever they might have brought with them? (Say if someone were driving through as a short cut to a town they were going to stay at a while - would they have all the stuff that was in their car? Or a person that was camping and ended up getting turned around and wandering into town - having the stuff they packed for their camping trip?)
Also how dark are you looking? Kidnapped and tortured when ransom wouldn't pay out? Psychotic mother that would physically injure the child as a form of punishment (i.e. told the kid to stop making a face repeatedly and decides shoving the kid's hand into a bowl of boiling hot water is a proper form of punishment)? Accidentally killed a sibling when they were kids? Rape? More examples that are on the tip of my tongue?

Thanks for the interest. : )

-You will be limited in what you can bring with you. I'll have a section in the blank CS for it. I want characters to start out fairly helpless with the bare necessities, to give them something to work towards. So, no weapons more dangerous than a pocket knife, no amount of food more than a bottle of water and a couple snacks, one personal memento, and one object that makes sense for your character, like if you're a photographer you can have your camera. Though keep in mind electronics won't work properly in the town (at least not in the beginning of the game). If your character is camping, either you or I can write an explanation of what happens to the rest of their belongings (stolen, missing, destroyed, ect).

-As for the background, you can go as tame or as dark as you want, but I ask that it have an actual purpose to your character's story/personality/development and not just be there for shock value. I'd personally prefer something that's in the middle and is well developed rather than something tame or extreme. If you go for those options I might make you explain your reasoning.

Alright, I'll bite. I like scary movies and stuff, but I don't think I've ever participated in a scary thread before. This should be fun.

Okay, so how many characters are we each allowed?

Beebee2121: There's a first time for everything. : )

ramblingbard: oops missed that bit. Depends on how many people show an interest. I'd be fine with people making a male and female character if it's a smaller group size (>5 players).

I'd like to get a couple more people on board before I make an OOC.

Awesome. And I figured as much. I'ma be starting to plot stuff anyways.

This seems interesting. I'm in

Fantastic. Any general ideas on characters you'd like to make? No rush, it'll just helps me tailor the OOC/map/town to be more specific to your characters 'personal nightmares' of sorts.

I do. My character was in a bad car accident that caused a death. He was the one that caused it. It's definitely going to be interesting.

I have two, three if we're allowed to do more than just the two. I'm sort of going off of the typical horror movie stereotypes- Not to a T, mind you. Just their general ideas.

I have this guy with an abusive past, but he's a nice guy. Bit of a loner, keeps his head down, doesn't really trust anyone and he's a little skittish at times. He's studying to be a doctor.

And I have this girl- to be honest, she's a bit of a bitch and doesn't generally like talking to people because of this fiercely independent thing she has going on. She hunts game for sport and I haven't figured out how to adapt her supernatural dark past to something normal, but I'm having ideas.

Is it okay if Bee and I are plotting a group thing for our characters? (And did your reply to me mean just two characters? A female and a male? 'Cause that's what I took it to mean but want to verify.)

But at any rate, I have a Jock type guy that's still getting over the fact that he was almost a dad when he was 17. (There's a long complicated thing to it, do you want me to get into it?)

And an artsy Virgin/Last Girl Standing girl is still getting over the fact that her house burnt down when she was seven (she bares scars from it) and her baby brother died in it (was only 14 months old.)

Konan: I like that. Definitely gives me an idea for a monster design. Will you be including any info on the victim in your CS?

Beebee: I think just 2 characters max at the moment. Studying to be a doctor will be very useful, and I always love a cool headed no-nonsense lady.

Rambling: Of course you two can collab. That's awesome. And yes, just two characters (one male, one female) at most for the time being. If the rp lasts a while there's always the option of killing a character off to bring in a new one. You don't have to give me the details now, but it would be good to have in your CS. I like your two character ideas though. I imagine the girl has an aversion to fire now? That could be good to know.

Yeah, huge aversion to fire. She freaks out when my guy pulls out his lighter - even if he isn't even going to use it - and still wakes up with nightmares about it.

Pep said
Konan: I like that. Definitely gives me an idea for a monster design. Will you be including any info on the victim in your CS?

I will be including info in the CS

Everything sounds good so far.

Here's the town map if you want to get a feel for Saint-Vienne:

http://s29.postimg.org/uasm0l3jq/Saint_Vienne_Map.jpg

If we can get at least one more player i'll get the OOC up tomorrow. : )

Sweet. Awesome map btw.

Bump: We need at least one more player so I can post the OOC. Jump in, the water's fine.

I'm interested! Survival-horror sounds like a lot of fun~

My character is a character who ended up murdering people out of revenge for some horrifying wrongs.