EDIT: All Spots are currently filled but may open up again if some characters die or escape. : )

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.

I'll get my sheets in sometime tomorrow *after I get home from work and have had time to talk with Bee*.

Name: Isaac Gregoir Norman

Gender: Male

Age: 26 years old

Description Isaac Gregoir Norman is a black haired, tanned, muscular and sleek "stud" as people call him. . . his muscles are strong enough to get him far in a fight, and he's extremely durable and in good fighting condition, dexterous and agile. His physical appearance reflects all this. His green eyes are in stark contrast to his skin.

Occupation: Fencing Instructor

Personality: He's into the study of archaic traditions, fairy tales, and such things like that, or even the works of fantasy authors like Tolkien and CS Lewis, etcetera. He tends to train his body and fencing skills most of the time, and he is also very skilled in martial arts with hand to hand combat, which he also studies often.

He tends to make friends kind of easily, even though he loves to flirt with girls and things like that, he really is a serious person when he's needed. He can be a fierce friend.

History:
Isaac was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and he was a good student, and a playful boy in his young age. He tended to love people around him and was a bright eyed, innocent little boy, until he was lured by predators in his neighborhood. He stayed intelligent and quite athletic, but he was preyed upon throughout his child hood from the age of nine until he was seventeen years old. He eventually had psychological counseling for his problems and later grew to have a distinguished career as an instructor in Medieval history.

Reason for arriving in Saint-Vienne:
He murdered all four people who were involved in molesting him as a child by the time he was seventeen by hacking them to death.

Start off items:
swiss army knife, bottle water, snacks, one memento (undecided), (I find it un-usual that a fencing instructor wouldn't have a sword of some kind. . . GM?

Okay added my characters. : )

rambling: No rush, take as long as you need.

Act: Looks good so far, but could you mention some of his flaws to balance him out a bit? I'm a fan of character development and flawed characters so anything you can add will give him some nice depth. Also I don't really understand his reasoning for going to Saint-Vienne. Is he fleeing from the police? Burying the bodies there? Looking for another of his attackers? As for the sword, I don't want anyone to start off with weapons, but you can have him bring it with him, he'll just need to be separated from it as soon as he enters the town. It can go missing, or he can fall asleep in his car and it's gone when he wakes up, ect. He'll have a chance to get it back later in the game.

Pep said
Okay added my characters. : )rambling: No rush, take as long as you need.Act: Looks good so far, but could you mention some of his flaws to balance him out a bit? I'm a fan of character development and flawed characters so anything you can add will give him some nice depth. Also I don't really understand his reasoning for going to Saint-Vienne. Is he fleeing from the police? Burying the bodies there? Looking for another of his attackers? As for the sword, I don't want anyone to start off with weapons, but you can have him bring it with him, he'll just need to be separated from it as soon as he enters the town. It can go missing, or he can fall asleep in his car and it's gone when he wakes up, ect. He'll have a chance to get it back later in the game.

Ah, okay, I thought this was Silent Hill wasn't it? Um. . . it tends to draw people in. I thought maybe a spirit was drawing him to the town in order to make him confront himself for his deeds.

That's true, but you'll need to explain how it's drawing him in. Like in silent hill 2 he gets a letter, or in silent hill 3 she has dreams about the place, ect ect.

Oh, okay.

If I might put in a thought (I'm working on my sheets right now), but I do know a fencing instructor and technically unless he's transporting his fencing sword to a tournament, there's really no reason for him to have it with him at all. *And some states, it's illegal to transport a fencing sword without proof of qualification (i.e. instructor status) 'cause my friend totally almost got arrested when he was pulled over for a broken taillight and the trooper saw his sword in the back seat.*
So, just a thought - might want to give a reason for him to have his sword with him if it's going to disappear on him. Because - I mean - there's tones of reasons why a fencing instructor wouldn't have a fencing sword on him; there's really only a handful (<5) for him to have it on him.
And fencing swords are much different from katanas which are different from blah and so on. So really saying a sword of any kind is kind of a stretch.

(I am kind of a huge sword enthusiast and do sword play myself *I say play because it is not professional in any way*.)



Oh, hey, so I had a question. My guy smokes - would it be okay if I considered his lighter the tool and his smokes his personal item?

Yup that's fine, that's what my guy is doing as well. I think the lighter will be especially useful.

Name: Maria Smith

Gender: Female

Age: 23

Description: Maria’s light brown naturally straight hair reaches her waist. Her grey eye-colour is hard to determine because it may look either blue or green depending on the light. Her skin is olive, face a bit long and expression tends to be slightly intimidating. She is longer than an average woman of her age, but not by much. Maria always wears either skirt or dress and doesn’t feel comfortable in either tight or revealing clothes.

Occupation: Does random jobs, mostly in restaurants

Personality: Maria acts cheerful and laughs a lot, but she is mostly faking and a person with fair capability to read people can see through it. She is mostly a mess inside, not knowing what she really wants or feels. Maria is extremely cynical towards the world in general. She divides people into good and bad people, counting herself and majority of people into the latter. Maria fears many things, including darkness, bugs and especially ghosts, but never lets anyone notice it.

History: Maria’s parents were part of an isolated religious cult called Jesus’ Will. The cult had very strict rules. Maria was home-schooled and the only people she was allowed to hang with, apart from her nine siblings, were other girls of the cult. When Maria turned 18 she was married to 25-years-old man of the same cult, which was the way of the cult. They didn’t know each other beforehand and even after they got married they stayed pretty distant. Their first child, a boy who was named Peter was born a year later. He got a little sister, Eva, a bit after his first birthday.

Maria was a really peaceful person who adapted easily to almost anything. She never worried too much about things which were forbidden from her. She was easy to brainwash, believing almost anything that authorities told to her.

It wasn’t too long after Eva was born when the leader of the cult decided that the world had drifter too far from the God and no soul could happily live there. He announced that the cult would move to where God was, in other words everyone would kill themselves. Marie believed the leader and really thought that everything would be better for the whole cult, including her family, if they were gone. She poisoned her children but when was her time to take the poison, she just couldn’t do it. Something woke in her, an uncontrollable instinct to live, and she run away. She was tried to kill, but somehow she managed to escape. She was the only one.

After that, Maria was really lost. She moved around the country, doing random jobs and trying to somehow merge into society. Her earlier capability to adapt seemed completely lost. Guilt and uncertainty were constantly within her. Still, the instinct to live didn’t fade. That didn’t change even when Maria realised she was pregnant.
The girl which was born was beautiful and adorable, but Maria couldn’t even look her without remembering what she did to Peter and Eva. She feared herself so much that she left the child to orphanage with a letter where she said that the name of the girl should be Lily and that she was maybe the prettiest creature she had ever seen.
After that, Maria continued to travel around the country and doing random jobs just like before. She constantly tried to lose the longing after her children by working, but with only moderate results.

Reason for arriving in Saint-Vienne: Maria was driving (with a leased car) to a town about twenty miles from Saint-Vienne and got lost along the way. The fuel was running out, so she stopped to the first town she happened to see, which was Saint-Vienne. She parked to car a bit too close to river and forget the handbrake. The car and everything which was there fell to the river while Maria was looking around a bit.

Start off items: a bottle of cola, half packet of saltine crackers, pictures of her children, hairbrush, scissors

Oh, one last question: is it assumed they have a backpack or some form of bag to carry their stuff in, or more like the items are shoved into pockets? (Aside from the general curiosity, my other character's personal item *since I can't figure out other stuff to bring because the only other things I can think for her to bring that make sense are multiple items and clash with other items being brought.)

I swear I'll post my sheets up tonight before I go to bed. That's the last detail needed.

Vulpes: Looks great! Approved. : )

Rambling: No worries, i'm glad you're asking lots of questions. You can have a small bag, or pockets, or whatever you need in order to carry your starter items, but it should only be big enough to carry those few things (plus a little extra). This way you'll want to find some larger bags in town when you get more items, but that won't be too difficult.

So, when you say big enough to carry a few things plus a little extra...Well, I guess the best way is to describe it because I've got this messenger bag I use for a LARP that I'ma use as an example with what I've managed to carry in it at one time: It's main pocket is big enough to hold like three standard (100 page) composition note books, then a back pocket that can hold like three of those half size composition notebooks, a pouch on either side that's big enough to fit a standard mobile (sure, there's lots of different kinds in various sizes, but the average of all that is what it fits), two small pouches on the front big enough for - say - carrying a standard roll of medical tape in each, two side by side pouches that are about as wide as the average hand but not a lot of give to put much more than maybe a pile of pens or folded paper, and to top it all off the flap/top to it has a pouch that's big enough for a composition notebook.

Not saying she'd have all of that, but the entire bag, flat, doesn't look like it would hold that much - only the size (height, weight, and depth when flat) of a regular 3 subject notebook, but the capacity level is much larger than it appears. Does that seem to be too big, even though it is a relatively small bag? I would link up a picture, but I got it at a surplus army supply store in my area.

(I won't even try to reason in this backpack I use, 'cause if everything's stored properly, I've fit two entire outfit changes, a handful of notebooks, some extra pens, two flashlights, 6 Nerf guns (the hand gun versions), a card game roughly the size of nine bicycle decks, and probably could fit more if I needed anything else. I know that's far too much capacity, but I wanted to check on the messenger bag, because that's roughly the size I was thinking for my female to have. *And yes, there are tons of nerdy in-game LARP jokes people make about my bags and how much I can carry.*)

But seriously, I will ask tons of questions if you don't stop me. Just ask Bee. I love minutia - if it wasn't a concept I would make love to it. ;D

No such thing as too many questions if it helps you as a player. I love an attention to detail (I mean I made that map just for this game haha).

That messenger bag sounds fine, not so big that it gives you an advantage over anyone else. Think about the size of a medium sized purse or shoulder bag and you'll be fine, I just don't want someone claiming to have a huge backpack or duffle bag that could fit a machine gun.

Name: Christopher McKenna

Gender: Male

Age: 22

Description (photo optional, writing required): Chris has short blonde hair and baby blue eyes. He's just muscled enough to be obvious that he does work out, but not so much that it ruins his attractive features. He is tan, the kind that's year round and helps him look great with or without a shirt on. He's got a few scars from his youth, but nothing visible with a tee-shirt on. He has a small silver cross that he never takes off. He’s about 5’10 and tends to wear jeans and a tee-shirt. One ear has earrings all the way up it and he's got an eyebrow pierced. Two hearts - one pink and one purple - interlinked over his heart and a smallish celtic cross mirrors that tattoo on his back.

Occupation: College Student majoring in Secondary Education, focused on English

Personality: He’s definitely the kinda guy that seems like he’s got a chip on his shoulder. Burned too hard from a past relationship, he’s not an active flirt and the first response to flirting is to be an asshole. Aside from that, he’s generally a decent guy. He likes to have fun and laugh, but tends to be default serious. He doesn’t care for compliments, mostly because he sees them as lead ups to favors. If there’s one guaranteed way to get on his bad side, it’s to ask why he’s a dick in response to flirting or ask about the heart tattoo. He is *mostly* over his hatred for females, and although he’s not ready for anything close to a relationship, he’s at least civil to females around him.

History: Growing up, he was a pretty average kid. He had his problems with rules just like most other kids, especially when his mother died, but when he started learning tae kwon do he started to shape up. As he grew older, he got into other martial and mixed martial arts, and started competing nationally in high school. It kept him busy outside of playing school sports, and helped him stay out of trouble. Of course, his first girlfriend got him into it - a girl his female friends warned him to stay away from because she did drugs *not just pot*, but he was smitten. He knocked her up their junior year, and when he found out - although he wasn’t ready for it - he started figuring out ways to make it work and be a providing father; she swore on her end she would shape up too but that wasn’t the case. She ended up going into early labor during a nasty bender and despite the hospital’s best efforts, his daughter died hours after her birth - three months early. It embittered him toward females for a long time, and it was only after he started going to college and being forced out of his shell by his cousin that he started to forgive females as a whole and focus his disgust toward the one that murdered *in his eyes* his daughter. (He bears the heart in heart tattoo for Sophia.)

Reason for arriving in Saint-Vienne: On a road trip with some friends, their car broke down and he hoofed it to the town with them to try to find a mechanic or something that could help.

Start off items: Lighter, a bottle of Powerade, a couple of power bars, his mother’s cross, a pack of menthols.



Name: Riley McKenna

Gender: Female

Age: 21

Description (photo optional, writing required): Standing roughly five foot four, she might otherwise come across as someone that might cheerlead based on her pseudo-athletic build like a runner of a gymnast - though her bust is just a hair too big for gymnast to come to mind for most. Her blonde hair is layered with chin length bangs, and flows a few inches past her shoulders; she usually wears a colorful bandana rolled up or headband to style her hair. green eyes,Her eyes are a deep velvety green and are naturally almond shaped. She has scar tissue on her upper body that stretches from just above her elbow, up her upper left arm that stretches across her entire back. Although she dresses in form fitting t-shirts, she prefers long sleeved shirts or short sleeve worn under an open sweatshirt or other long sleeve overshirt matched to loose fitting jeans; generally she wears sneakers. Always wears a silver locket that contains a picture of her family from when she was a little girl.

Occupation: College student, majoring in Art Therapy

Personality: A sweet girl, she is friendly and can occasionally be found lost in a daydream. She likes to help people and is usually the first to offer a hand in most occasions. Her cousin has been teaching her a bit more restraint for that, especially after an incident that almost happened her freshman year of high school, and she is a lot more mellow now than in high school when she was very outgoing. She sometimes gets vibes from people or situations, one of those “I don’t think we should talk to that guy” or “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” kind of things, which brought her to be one of the first to try to talk Chris out of dating the woman that nearly destroyed him for life; when she ignored this it usually lead her into very dangerous or bad situations, so she has stopped ignoring it. (Pretty much she gets gut feelings about stuff. If this is a problem, I can remove it.)

History: Life was good when she was young, even better when she finally got a baby brother like she had been asking for. Then the accident happened and her house burnt down. If it weren’t for a fireman, she would have died too; as it was, she lost her brother in that fire and bears the reminder on her body. It took several months to recover from both her smoke inhalation and the burns, but the loss of her brother took her and her parents years to finally cope with. By the time she got to high school, she was a happy go lucky kid once again, and continued into her college years. She never really ever thought of getting into romantic relationships; it was a subconscious thing, not wanting to ever put herself into a situation where anyone might see the scars.

Reason for arriving in Saint-Vienne: On a road trip with some friends, their car broke down and she hoofed it to the town with them to try to find a mechanic or something that could help.

Start off items: A Maglite flashlight, a bottle of water, a few granola bars, her locket with a picture of her parents and her and her baby brother in it, her leather bound sketch pad

Although she would have brought a pencil or pen with her because of the sketchpad, I'm going to go with the assumption that it fell out of her bag at some point on the hike to town.


(As a note, Chris is mostly carrying stuff in his pockets except for the drink - which he's carrying in his hand - and the cross - which he's wearing. Riley has a small messenger bag (like the one I described before) to carry her stuff, aside from the locket - which she's wearing.)

(Edit: as another note, these two are road tripping with Bee's characters. Relationships to be explained either once she posts or in RP.)

Name: Devon Cowen

Gender: Male

Age: 25

Description:

When determined, Devon's features are strong. From his firmly set jaw, broad shoulders, excellent muscles, and piercing eyes. Devon is quite the specimen, but the determination isn't there anymore. He slouches his shoulders and the piercing, determined look has left his eyes and have left in there place soft and sad ones. However his muscles haven't left him and standing at 6'5 he is still quite intimidating but he just doesn't have the spark he did when he was younger, which makes him look fairly subdued and less vibrant.

Occupation: Construction worker, Ex army

Personality: Subdued, jaded, and an underlying anger problem stemming from personal guilt. The things Devon has seen and done have sucked to joy out of life and have made him an all around cold and sad person. However if one were to chip away at the exterior you will find a person not much different from the one outside, the only difference being that he will be far more open to talking about his emotions. However among these faults lies some strengths of character. Firstly while he loathes himself, Devon truly believes that the people around him are good unless proven otherwise and tries to find that good. Secondly he knows his loyalties and if one were to gain them he will stick with them to the end. Lastly he is extremely in control of his anger issues and has never lashed out at an undeserving person.

History: Growing up in a military family, Devon never really had friends and instead relied on his siblings for companionship. As the years went on his father had died in some random gunfight and his mother soon died of a broken heart. However these events never deterred Devon from joining the military, it was always so ingrained in his head to join the army he never branched out into other things. Passing boot camp with flying colors Devon made friends with a one Maxwell Thorpe, or Max as everyone called him. The years went on uneventfully with no major conflict or skirmish happening during his tours, eventually Devon grew bored and desired a real fight. Devon never really gained his wish but he did get and take part of the horrors of war. During a patrol in a little village a random skirmish turned into a full on massacre for the apposing force. As the enemies solders were cut down the woman took there place. It didn't make sense but they just kept coming until only the children remained.

With nothing left to do the Sargent, a son of a bitch of a man, ordered his men to kill them and shot any man that protested. Devon did what he was told and pulled the trigger. While the Sargent didn't get away with what he did Devon bared the guilt and the nightmares of his actions and didn't reenlist. After the army, Devon joined the construction industry and became an alcoholic.

Reason for arriving in Saint-Vienne: He keeps getting postcards from the place, the first one was just a normal greeting and didn't say who it was from so he just threw it away. However they kept getting them, once a month then every other week until finally one day his mailbox was full of them. Yet something was different was different about this batch, each card said "WE KNOW" on it, deciding he had enough Devon left for Saint-Vienne.

Start off items: Hammer, a fifth of vodka, several snack foods, Dog tags, his fathers revolver (Hasn't been loaded or maintained in ages and he usually uses it for intimidation but could easily be brought into fighting shape should he find a maintenance kit.)

ramblingbard: everything looks good, can't wait to see how they work with Bee's characters

pathfinder: really great character for the setting. He should be fun to plot for. approved as well

So I think we're just waiting on a couple more people then I'll get the IC started. : )

Name: Shiloh MacKenzie
Gender: Male
Age: 21

Description (photo optional, writing required): While he isn’t very tall, he has a lanky quality about him. He’s skinny and pale, but by no means sickly. He has a few moles and freckles on his body, the most prominent being the freckle about the size of a pea on the top of his cheekbone just under his eye. He has long, straight, black hair that ends a few inches below his chin. His eyes are hazel, but predominantly green in the shades of brown and gold. He typically wears his gray hoodie or some other long-sleeved something and jeans. It’s hard to see him without his journal.

Occupation: Pre-Med Student

Personality: Shiloh doesn’t particularly care to touch or be touched unless he’s treating someone for something. He’s quite skittish and has a weak constitution for violence or verbal abuse directed towards him. Not a lot of backbone on this one, but he’s always willing to help someone else if they’re in trouble or injured. He’s otherwise a very gentle, unassuming person. He’s an introvert and thinks well before he talks.

History: Shiloh came from a very turbulent, lower-class household. His father had an explosive temper and his mother was a drug user. The fights became progressively worse and more frequent that by the time he was five, a neighbor called the cops on them. After the investigation, the authorities deemed it unsafe to leave him with either of his parents, so he went into the foster care system. He doesn’t remember his biological parents very well at all. He was fine for a long time, went through two very pleasant families over a period of nine years, but shortly after arriving at the third family he stayed with, he was date raped by a family friend he had a crush on.

His family found out and he was let go to his fourth and, finally, adoptive family. They had him through the rest of high school and set him up for college. He considers them his “mom” and “dad”.

Reason for arriving in Saint-Vienne: The car broke down on their road trip to New Orleans and they walked to the closest town in search of help.

Start off items: His inhaler (moment?), a couple of painkillers, a water bottle, a few granola bars, and a rape whistle. The water, food and painkillers are in his drawstring backpack.

Name: Nadia Miller
Gender: Female
Age: 20

Description (photo optional, writing required): Nadia typical wears band t-shirts, ripped jeans, combat boots. She wears a stud in her nose and sometimes a bindi for fashion or religious statements. Her hair is dark brown to the point of being black and with a natural wave that reaches the top of her collarbones. Her eyes have an amber brown tone to them. She’s fairly tall, 5’9”, and with a caramel complexion. She has full lips and a Monroe; A piercing on the side of her top lip.

Occupation: Air Force ROTC student

Personality: Nadia developed a hard shell from spending a lot of her childhood following her dad around since he was in the Navy. She’s not trusting of strangers on principle. At her worse, she can be stubborn and condescending. At her best, she’s distant and indifferent. As a friend, she’s surprisingly intellectual at times while still maintaining a tomboyish attitude. She knows herself well and could easily quantify her limitations, even though she would never admit them aloud.

History: Nadia’s parents separated when she was thirteen because of a hunting incident that happened when she was thirteen. She and her dad were out hunting and she accidentally shot and killed a guy she thought was a deer. Her father hid the body, but she couldn’t keep it a secret from her mom. Her mother didn’t turn them in and they were never framed and the case went cold.

She was put under her mother’s custody and she felt stifled by her oppressive company, so took it out on her mom and her boyfriends when she started dating again. The next year, they switched custody and she went with her father all through high school, having the time of her life travelling with him and making as if nothing happened.

She decided to follow in her father’s footsteps and joined the military, but made an agreement with her parents that she would still go to college. So, now she’s studying Engineering in an ROTC program. She likes to draw and met Riley in one of their classes in college. She’s not so familiar with the other guys in their road trip group.

Reason for arriving in Saint-Vienne: Road trip with her friend’s friends that went awry, now they’re searching for a mechanic.

Start off items: Swiss army knife, a small plastic water bottle, a candy bar, and her dogtags.

I have a feeling Shiloh will not take this place well.

Probably not. Heheheh. It's fun to make him uncomfortable, though.