Might as well say it here, though I doubt people would be interested (and honestly, it would be hard to work with, since it would require so much coordination AND involve replaying the same scenes AND have very little direct interaction between players (though there could be, and WOULD be if the pairings or groups or whatever either met at the same place at the same time or I didn't have people play multiple characters to avoid it), with changes, but...). This is copypasta with some edits from Skype.

[quote][5:47:54 AM] *** Alice kind of wants to run an RP where the characters only know what's going on now, with several time skips in BOTH directions revealing what started the chain of events AND how it ends. Sort of like the first [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_(video_game)]Siren[/url] game (one of my favorite horror games). Basically, I'd have my own character and GM posts, with GM posts setting times and which people are involved in scenes (with multiple simultaneous scenes). They would be replaying scenes (which I know will be a hard sell), but there will be changes based on scenes that happened earlier...
So...time travel, but not? There would be characters who would be paired up (I'd ideally want 6 or 8 people), though it wouldn't have to be romantic pairings (could be like "teacherxstudent" and "parentxchild", even "copxsuspect just trying to get to the prison through the shitstorm".
I'd have to come up with a simple skeleton for the plot to follow, and advance what happened. I'd have a timeline in the first (or second, actually) OOC post, with summaries of ALL ACTIONS TAKEN.

Actually, a single person playing the pairings, individuals, or groups would be best, so it's a smaller overall group. Downside is there'd be NO DIRECT INTERACTION between players... ***
[5:52:20 AM] Alice: I'd have to come up with a map with distinct regions, though a small enough one that they'd be in the same places at DIFFERENT times, but large enough that they wouldn't all be in the same location at the SAME time. Because I don't want that to happen if I can avoid it. But I guess I could have it happen, and people could even switch off characters if they wanted.

Or I could just write a friggin book with chapters in the eyes of the people involved, and when. ><
[5:54:40 AM] Alice: If I do it as RP, I'd make sure everyone knew that there's a high probability that they'd die from the very beginning, and continue to throw harder and harder challenges at them. That would make it a harder sell, but I kind of want to throw puzzles at people~
I'd probably set it in a small town, but unsure exactly where.[/quote]
I could have it set in a more urban setting (or even a LESS urban setting, like in a forest, but where's the fun in that?), even.
I know it's a hard sell, as I said MANY times, and I don't have anything completely decided yet. I mean...I'd prefer dark fantasy/cosmic horror, but that's not necessary.