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Your Saturday starts out as normal as any other: You wake up, eat your first meal of the day, then go about your business as you usually do. Perhaps you have a hair appointment at the mall. Maybe you are spending a day with family. Or possibly you have to pick up laundry from the dry cleaners. Regardless of your plans, there is nothing out of the ordinary that is worth your comment, and so you go on with the day undisturbed.

It isn't until your return home that you notice something is different about that Saturday. As you make your way towards the door of your home, your gaze lands on a sleek black briefcase leaning against its foot, with a laminated tag hanging from its handle, sporting your name in cursive handwriting. Suspicion invades your mind and immediately you turn to look at every corner of your street/hallway/yard to see whether you can't spot the person that had left this strange parcel for you. Of course, there is no one in sight, and so you turn back to it and stare, debating on what your next move would be.

Curiosity wins, as it always does, and soon your hand is closing around the handle to heave the surprisingly light case into your abode. Placing it on your table, you proceed to take the laminated name card in your hand and examine it, finding that there is a four digit code written in small type on the bottom left-hand side, which you then enter in the lock at the top to open the mysterious case. You lift the lid, and inside you find a letter envelope (again bearing your name), a passport, a flight ticket, a key on a ring with a number, and a thick manila envelope. You decide to open the letter first:



Still reeling from shock, you read the flight information that was hiding behind the letter, which tells you that your journey begins two days from then. Next you pick up the passport, which you open and see, with another pang of shock, that a picture someone had taken of you only a week or even a few days ago is staring up at you from its little box. Finally, you graze past the key and the ticket, until your eyes fall on what was really tugging at your interest: the manila envelope. Could there really $5,000 in there?

You pick it up and untuck the flap, and indeed there were stacks of hundreds in rubber bands tucked inside. Maybe more than a little freaked out, you replace the contents of the briefcase and do what you do whenever you find yourself deep in thought.

And so the question hovers in the silence around you: Do you accept?

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Hi everyone! Name's Bliss, and I will be your GM for this joyride. I'll just organize my rambling into bullet points to make it a little easier to understand (hopefully).

As it says in the title, this game is meant to be a dark, mature, murder mystery type that heavily relies on character (and player) choices. This means that what happens in the game can change and is affected depending on how every character decides to act when presented with a situation.

There will be some quiet moments in the IC, but that doesn't mean that nothing is happening: I will be constantly running around behind the scenes sending PMs to players containing information and such, which may or may not be represented in the IC. This will create that nice mysterious ambiance, as the group won't know who I'll message with next and what it will contain. Players also have the choice to withhold most of the PM'd information from the group.

There may or may not be character death, so please do not whine and complain if I decide to write yours off. (More about this in the OOC, perhaps.)

This game is meant for regular joes like you and I. Therefore, I suggest making a character based on yourself, that reacts as you would in a given scenario. It makes for a more fun experience.

I prefer smaller games, and especially since I'll be heavily orchestrating this one, I think I'll only be taking on four or five people. I might even be looking to find a Co-Gm for help. We'll see.

Characters need to be 18 and over. This game is going to get bumpy.

I've posted this check in the Advanced section as well, so for those of you looking at this in Casual, please note that it will be High Casual, and will most likely be played out in Advanced. But not to worry; if you write in High Casual, I'm sure you'll do just swimmingly with us. (:

And here's the little diddy about quality over quantity that everyone should know by now. Above all, I'm just looking for players who write posts that will be entertaining for everyone to read, as it is as much your game as it is theirs.

Players that communicate. Yes.

That's all I can think of for now. Of course, there'll be more information in the OOC.

If you're interested, let me know in this thread. But since I'd really like to keep the OOC for the actual players to avoid clutter, I'll go ahead and say: If you're really interested, shoot me a PM with a post, describing how your character reacted to the package, what they might have bought and packed, etc. It will act as the character sheet submission, and I will create a cast based on those that I think will work well in the game.

Questions? Comments? Let 'em rip. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Bliss

Bumpity. Looking for two or three more submissions. (: