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Darkest Minds


Life in the country is seemingly normal. Everything is going fairly well within the world. That is until children the age of thirteen and younger start to seemingly drop like flies. Panic spreads through the nation and after a few months scientists discover a disease that is later named IAAN, Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration. Once the death count slows nearly to a stop it is discovered that approximately 98% of children thirteen and younger have died with all under the age of eight gone and a few fourteen and fifteen-year-old children dead as well. Fear comes to a maximum within nearly all citizens of America, but the fear is not aimed at the disease. The majority of the fear is aimed at those left.

Soon the government sets up a system to 'help' the children. They request that if any child exhibits any symptoms of IAAN that they should be reported to the government so they may be relocated to 'Rehabilitation Camps'. This is just the cover story though. Once a child gets onto the bus to be relocated it's obvious something is wrong. Guards with guns and not being allowed to even speak. Fear and tension rise within the children. As soon as the children arrive at their assigned camp they are instantly put through a screening process and then designated a color. Some don't understand, but a few already know what the colors mean. The harsh reality comes to light when each child realizes they are now a prisoner to the government for something out of their control and there is nothing they can do about it. Will you try anyway?

Backstory/Lore


Welcome to the Darkest Minds interest check. This RP is based on a book series by Alexandra Bracken, it is also a reboot. The Darkest Minds is an apocalyptic book series about the children of America that are infected by a disease called IAAN. A virus that originally killed at least 98% percent of the children, while the others gained peculiar abilities. The children that live through the pandemic that gained abilities are sent to 'rehabilitation camps', but these camps more resemble concentration camps or maybe extremely intense boot camps. The camps were very different from each other. Think how in the Fallout games the Vaults all did things differently. All of the children have one of two goals, escape or survive.

This is a book series that as soon as I began reading it I was absorbed in the story. I love the idea of roleplaying in this world, despite it being so large it's also surprisingly easy to follow. It's also fairly easy to manipulate the characters in the stories, and I think it could be really interesting and epic. I will put a few of the things that will remain the same down below, these same things also helped the story progress very nicely and give a very strong sense of paranoia and allow even more people to join. I will not set a limit to how many can join, but if it seems like there is a larger amount of interest than I expect then I will set a limit. Until I know how many people are interested everyone will be limited to a single character. Depending on the way this interest check goes I may change that.

Now, onto all the important info. As I have already stated the children who lived gained abilities. These abilities were classified into colors. Before putting it off here they are:



Within the books, there are a few people, groups, and some items that should be mentioned here. There will be some details that might get added here in the actual thread as we encounter certain things. Largely based on the knowledge of the characters. Including details on canon things in order to avoid possible spoilers.



Rules and Regulations


RULES
#1: All guild rules apply. Duh.
#2: Please be active and put forth effort in the RP.
#3: Respect is a must. Please respect others in the RP and yourself. I don't want any fighting in the OOC. Save it for the IC.
#4: Romance is allowed, but all guild rules must be respected. Limitation of kissing is preferred, but fade to black in some cases may be used. Keep in mind we are mostly dealing with teenage characters here.
#5: Cursing is allowed, but I'm gonna go ahead and say I don't like cursing. It bugs me for multiple reasons and I feel it hinders writing, but I'll allow it due to the kind of RP setting this is.
#6: I don't necessarily have a minimum number of paragraphs you have to post as long as it isn't ridiculously consistent and there is substance to the post.
#7: I don't want someone to go to sleep and wake up to like 15 IC posts. It has happened to me before. So, those that post quickly let there be AT LEAST two different users to post before you post again for a certain character.
#8: The posting expectations are two weeks to maintain activity, though communication of availability is also paramount. GMs do not play by special rules. They are expected to communicate and be active as well. (Stolen from Shelter)
#9: I will allow people to use as many characters as they can handle but if we don't have many people I would like everyone to at least have one Psi so they won't be alone with me in their RP'ing experience. So, just keep number of people in mind as you come up with characters.
#10: Be creative.
#11: I am all for Collabs as long as they don't shut others out.
#12: PM a GM if you have questions.
#13: To prove you read the rules pm me your CS first instead of posting it.
#14: Mention me or a Co-Gm in your Character you are wanting to be approved.


How I want the RP to Go


Alright, let me start by saying what we will do when the RP starts. We can either start with what occurred when IAAN first started happening to go to the point where our Psi kids are taken to a camp then do a two-year time-skip, or leave that as a semi-memory thing for our characters. Either or works with me. Both get what I want out of the beginning.

As of right now, all characters will be 10-15. The ones who were in the 8-13 age range when IAAN hit two years in the future so do your character sheet like that. If I end up allowing a different variety of characters than I'll let you know how to start with them. All our characters for now though will be sent to the same camp, which I haven't picked a name for yet. They don't all have to be from the same school or anything, but somewhat close to the location of the camp. Maybe a couple of miles.

This RP will be a slight AU of the books for the sheer fact that our characters can participate in the main storyline if we want. Even if we don't participate in the main story main characters may show up. Depending on how things go I may speed up time with how things happened in the book. An example is that if we need/want I can speed up Ruby's escape from Thurmond. All main characters will be controlled by me and Co-GM's but other than that if someone makes an NPC to their character and they allow it you can control them. I will allow people to make NPCs connected to their character, but I may kill them if it seems necessary or makes sense. Which means it probably won't even happen.

Also, all the characters we use CAN DIE. If they do something stupid I'm not going to adjust the way the NPC they are fighting to change the way they do things just so they live. I will avoid killing PCs as much as possible though so don't worry too much. More detail to be given as time goes on.

Also here is the Character Sheet:

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gotta bring my red boy back
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Thats beautiful.
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Are you planning on using Harper again?
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Yeah. I want to get more development
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I might make a second character so stay tuned.
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This sounds really cool! I want to read the book this was based off of now. Is it by the same name?
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@AelitaJezebelle It is a trilogy. The Darkest Minds #1, Never Fade #2, In the Afterlight #3. There also is apparently a newer one but I hadn’t heard about it until last year and haven’t checked it out yet. But overall the series is really good. My favorite YA book trilogy by far.

Also, here’s the link to the RP thread.
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@AelitaJezebelle It is a trilogy. The Darkest Minds #1, Never Fade #2, In the Afterlight #3. There also is apparently a newer one but I hadn’t heard about it until last year and haven’t checked it out yet. But overall the series is really good. My favorite YA book trilogy by far.

Also, here’s the link to the RP thread.


Thankies! I'll check it out. I'm still thinking on my character for now and how to answer the character sheet. Quotes and songs are things I've never thought of for my characters. I'll pm you it once I've got it though.
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@AelitaJezebelle Yeah, quotes and theme songs are a thing this site has going around. It's weird how quick so many RP's adopted it. I just put it in their as optional to help people who wanted it not to have issues dealing with my bad coding.
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@AelitaJezebelle Yeah, quotes and theme songs are a thing this site has going around. It's weird how quick so many RP's adopted it. I just put it in their as optional to help people who wanted it not to have issues dealing with my bad coding.


Oh, those are optional! Cool, then I think I'll just leave those out. xD
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Is this still open?

(I'm new, so sorry if this isn't the way to contact someone.)
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@alexfangtalon Awesome. I will private message you my skeleton when it is completed. Should be soon, just out to dinner with some friends then I should be back and able to write it all up.

Do you have a certain amount of people you want to be in Orange and Red? I am looking towards these but I understand if there are too many.
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I think you should be fine. Right now we are pretty even-numbered for colors.
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Yeah, Always is correct. You will be fine. I prefer an even balance but I won't limit anyone in this so they can have the color they want. Right now the Oranges we have are Always' character, Harper, and Aelita is making one. For Red the only one so far is Sly's character, Chris.
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Yeah, Always is correct. You will be fine. I prefer an even balance but I won't limit anyone in this so they can have the color they want. Right now the Oranges we have are Always' character, Harper, and Aelita is making one. For Red the only one so far is Sly's character, Chris.


Sounds good. I sent in my skeleton, let me know if anything needs to be changed and I can hop right to it!
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@morbidity Um, where did you send it to?
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@alexfangtalon I sent it on private messaging. I can resend it in a bit.
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