Welcome to the home.dwelling.residence.habitat.inn.cabin.shed.cottage.abode.domicile.property.place.


A faint tick-tock rippled through the air in a white-walled flat. The street outside was already alive with car-horns and birds calling. Sun seeped through the pleated blinds and settled on the floor in a uniform array of straight lines against straight shadows. Somewhere, though, in the modern apartment space a shadow lingered against the wall - its cause unknown, its presence unaccounted for, the residents of the house it owned lived peacefully in its territory. Soon, it promised, soon it will make itself known, and the shadow will swallow the house and its people.

• In 1990 a photojournalist Will Navidson and his family moved into a house in West Virginia. Not long after they moved in they attended a wedding - when they returned to the house Navidson discovered that it had changed. The interior dimensions of the house were slightly larger than the exterior dimensions. At first, the change was minimal - the entire south wall of the house was a few centimeters longer on the inside than outside. The change was unsettling to Navidson's family and beyond confusing. Navidson contacted architecture experts who were all clueless as to the house that defied physics and space. In order to document this phenomenon Navidson sets up a series of video cameras around his house - the video content they record would later become The Navidson Record.
• Two weeks after the initial change, a larger, more worrying alteration transpired. A wall between two rooms, no thicker than a book, developed a corridor. The corridor lead from one room into the other and was about five feet in length (even though the rooms were directly beside eachother). The corridor's walls were black as soot and seemingly unbreakable. It was at this event that The Navidson Record shows Navidson's wife begin to become mentally unstable - she starts to suffer panic attacks.
• A month after the initial change, the corridor between the two rooms vanished. In its stead a doorway appeared in the downstairs living-room. Beyond the bland white door lay a dark corridor that proceeded in a straight line into darkness - on the other side of the living-room wall was the back yard, and the exterior of the wall showed no signs of a door or a corridor.
• Upon the discovery of the door, Navidson contacted a few of his friends and colleagues. He organised an expedition into the corridor. At 3:19Am on August 5th, 1990, Navidson and his team began what was to be called EXPLORATION A. It was discovered that when someone ventured into the labyrinth beyond the door, they would often hear "growls" and "snarls" from within the maze (as described by one of Navidson's friends).
• Between August 5th, 1990, and late September of the same year, Navidson led five separate expeditions into the Labyrinth: EXPLORATION A and EXPLORATION #1-4. Throughout these expeditions an unconfirmed number of Navidson's teammates died - some to suicide or murder, and others went missing in the labyrinth. Many of those who survived developed mental illness and Navidson's family was torn apart.
• June 1st, 2015. A group of graduated students in Sweden move into a shared apartment in Gävle. The apartment is bland and lacking many items of furniture, as is the way with student housing. Two months after they occupy the residence, strange occurrences begin to transpire. So begins the plot.

• If you're still lost send me a PM or drop a question. This plot might be confusing at first but hopefully it will become clearer.
• I will start the events of the RP, so don't worry about having to initiate.
• Post when you want. We won't rely on an order, just if you want you can drop a post. Please try and be regular.
• If you will be AFK for more than 48 hours let me know and we will find a way to have your character take a break from the plot.
• If you want out let me know and we will find a way to get your character out of the plot permanently.
• Posts can be any length. Like I said in the Interest Check, please don't be lazy! Post what you think is required at the time.
  • Don't feel pressured to write more than you think is needed.
  • Don't think it's okay to write less than is appropriate for the situation. Please don't post one-liners when there's ample possibilities to post more.
• Some lore will be posted here to get us started.
• I will act as sort of a "game master", as in I will control the house and the events in the game outside of characters' control.
• The color I use to shade "House" is the code: 6ecff6
  • You don't have to do this. Just if you'd like to!

• All characters are either Swedish or studied in Sweden, and now live there.
• Posts will be written in English, but we must assume that the language characters speak in is Swedish.
• Characters are graduates of university. Some may not have even found a job. Pick a degree for your character and find a way for it to be used in the plot if you want!
• Characters are real people. They can have skills (camping expert, graduate in film studies, mathematician, etc...) but not powers. The fantasy is purely in the house. Characters are normal people.

Character sheet as follows:

• Swearing is allowed
• Mild gore is allowed (mild description of sustained injuries). Please nothing graphic that may cause alarm.
• Sexism/racism/discrimination is allowed in character. Again, let's not let it get tasteless. Any form of flaming/hate/discrimination in OOC will result in removal from the thread. We're all RPers here, let's be a community.
• Character death can only be allowed by the player of the victim - if you wish for your character to kill/severely wound another, you must ask OOC permission.
• "Game Master" is Buglet. This may end up being on a rotor when others have a feel for the RP.
• Realism is required.
• Multiple characters per player currently not allowed (not at the moment as I think we may already have more than enough).
• Players may only control their character unless permission has been given from the other player.
  • Here's an idea - if you go AFK, why not let someone else control your character while you're away!
• If you don't post for 48 hours without alerting myself or someone else in the RP, we will consider you gone and ICly remove your character from the RP.
• If you disagree with any of these or would like to request a rule please send me a PM and we'll sort it out. This is all I can think of at the moment.

Name: Allan Bergstrom

Age: 29

Degree: Nursing

Short description of character's outwards appearance: Allan stands five feet ten at his tallest, and has a head of scruffy, curly blonde hair. His eyes are blue, and he has normal Caucasian skin tone, a light dusting of freckles on his cheeks, a small nose and thin lips. His build is average, and he normally wears a simple shirt or polo tee along with cargo jeans and sneakers or running shoes.

Short description of character's personality (including any skills/weaknesses they have: Allan is an easygoing individual, being able to get along with pretty much anyone. Laid back and relaxed, it hides the focus and skill he has and displays in his line of work. Since he's a nurse, he is trained in first aid, trauma care, basic cardiac life saving, along with his knowledge of the human body, biological systems, diseases and their symptoms and whatnot. However he's not all that fit, and making him run for more than a few minutes will tire him out easily.

Anything else important: Has a cute female black labrador called Bess.

The interest check caught my eye and I followed it here. If you are still accepting players I am very interested.

@RawrEspada4Of course! Feel free to write a character sheet!

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Interested in joining this, though I may not be able to get my CS up until tomorrow.

@Kiroue@DJAtomika Great characters, guys! I'm gonna post them into the character tab for reference :)

@Izaka SazakaIC is planned for around 12 hours from now! It will be ok to put in a CS after that, however, so feel free!

I'll be able to start work on mine in about an hour just got off work and have the drive home before I can start.

@RawrEspada4I look forwards to it!

Expect a cs from me tonight.

Id like an chance to chip in if not too late already, also an quick question. Is the Swedish thing mandatory or can I go other nordic? Im Finnish myself so its a bit weird to rp an Swede (I can do it however, either way is fine by me as I love this type of horror and intrigue.)

@Warbozz The writing is all in English. We just have to imagine our characters are Swedish. But, if you'd like to create a Finnish character that studied in Sweden, feel free!

Nice! Ill get to crafting something good.

My CS up for your review

Name: Taisto Nummi

Age:26

Degree:Business

Short description of character's outwards appearance: Short and stout fellow with neat blonde hair and much longer beard of same sandy color, although few years prior in excellent shape, now the beginnings of an beer belly forming can be observed.

Short description of character's personality (including any skills/weaknesses they have: Very quick to make new friends and equally as quick to tell off people who in his opinion "talk too much bullshit." Taisto has spent most of his youth in bars, on both sides of the counter, after getting what he considered adequate work experience in Finland he set out to Sweden in order to study business and management in order to fulfill his dream of owning his own bar one day (despite lacking funds and an solid business goal.) Currently unemployed, looking for more bar work. Often described as lazy by those not knowing his true personality, while it is true that he enjoyed the reputation of an "party animal" in college and never finishing his assingments in time, his above avarage grades could not be denied, proving that while beginning to work in earnest he could make the impossible possible. Taisto also enjoys an occational forest bird hunting trip with his father and brothers from time to time, making him quite accurate with rifles and shotguns (He does not own either.)

Anything else important: At the moment lazing about in the apartment watching movies and tv series, rarely seen without an beer can in his hand.

@WarbozzLooks good! Feel free to put it in the character section!

I am very excited for IC rp today!

With 5 characters currently up, we'll jump into IC in the next couple of hours. No rotor for posting (but don't hog the space!).

Just be warned, if you don't post regularly you will miss out on content, and will need to read up on what you missed.

Updates you should all be aware of: Lore has been added and updates to the Rules are on the way for the next 30 minutes or so! Please be up to date so we're all on the same page.

First IC is up, everyone.

@Kiroue@Warbozz@DJAtomika@Adalrod

Something occurs to me: if you want us to follow the convention of always coloring the word house blue, wouldn't it be prudent to give us the exact colour code you're using for that particular shade of blue? Or is any shade of blue okay as long as it's blue?