Mayflower, at your service! Today I bring you a little something greatly influenced by the browser game Fallen London and a little less changed by whatever I can recall from the Bioshock franchise. Now, don't panic, knowing either of these is not necessary to play what I'm about to propose, and is only a way for me to admit potential nods I may do to these games.
The following will be centered around the character you makes along with your fellow roleplayers' creations. The more effort you put in your IC posts and the more interest you show in your OOC inquiries, the more you'll get out of this whole shebang. No word counts, no discrimination for slower posters, just an opportunity to get as much as you put in. That said; I don't have all day to GM, so I'd appreciate not having something like two hundred posts to go over everyday so please take your time, okay? Good!
Now, for the idea itself! You'll be put into a sandbox with Lovecraftian and Victorian flavors, with free reign to explore as you wish knowing that while your character will be unable to die, you will put them in danger and will most likely frequently be faced with a 'respawn' of your character in a safe place with little to no recollection of what happened except that it was bad. As such, explore and learn, but don't be surprised if you get limited feedback from risky actions (and possibly some strange marks to remember to not do that again you crazy maniac) due to the fragility of the human mind.
For any further questions or suggestions or even demands, feel free to post what's on your mind below!
And thus it began...
To be fair you remember little of what brought you here.
You think it all started in a moment of weakness from your part, as your heart was broken and your mind idled on fanciful wishes and what could have been. Surely you would have thought it over more thoroughly should have you been in the right frame of mind? Ah... perhaps it was meant to be, and you would have been dragged here one way or another.
No, no, why you were here was clear to you; You had lost, and wanted your happiness back no matter the cost. You should get your bearing, and concentrate on your goal. Yes, didn't the letter you foolishly opened that day say as much? You were in unknown territory, and you had only yourself to depend on - or to blame for that matter!
Yes, the letter...
Rummaging through their clothes, the lost one found what they sought; a thin envelope with a broken seal containing a yellowed sheet of fine vellum upon which was written in a neat hand, the redness of the script reminding one of blood:
Dear friend,
You have lost, and you shall be given the chance to take back what was once yours. We have ways to make your wish come true, and desire only your company for the duration of your quest to find what was once precious. Do not worry about payment, and be present at the following address no later than midnight.
Deepest regards,
Those below.
Attached to the simple letter had been the directions to an old manor house by the countryside. It had been well kept if dimly lit, and you had been too grieved and desperate to notice that something was off about the place. You don't remember what it was, but you got the same sense of dread by crossing the elegant threshold than you did when awakening in this place.
Where are you?
I hope this little snippet of what is to come whet your interest, and will now go into a little more details about what to expect from this rp.
In this rp, you'll be aiming to find a way to grant you 'Wish', that is the goal your character had when they received their letter, as well as to find a way out of the extremely tricky and dangerous underground trap that is called Pandora's Labyrinth. Depending on your character, that will mean to either form alliance with other character and NPCs, go about betraying others without getting caught, go about a very long and maddening quest to understand what to avoid and what to seek out on your own or a mix of two or all three of these things. Of course, this is meant to be at least mildly humorous, so nothing gruesome will happen on screen from your actions and while I encourage you to interact with other characters as much as possible you'll be free to go about your adventure as you wish.
For the mechanics, I'll keep things fairly simple, with the rp being cut down into rounds each spanning a real life week. At the end of each round, your character will take the time to think back on what happened to their potentially spotty memory and write down what they remember in a journal entry. That time will happen every Sunday morning/afternoon, when each player will be able to ask three questions about things kept vague in the last round. Example being: "What was in the box?" to which I would answer by "You remember yellow eyes, a growl and a strong need to close the box. You were about to do just that when the thing in the box lunged after you, and the last you saw of it was a black shape speeding off into the rooftops." Some answer may be silly, but other will give hints or even some lore about the setting.
I'll impose a limit of one character per player, and hope to have a drama-free OOC thread should this take off.
The following will be centered around the character you makes along with your fellow roleplayers' creations. The more effort you put in your IC posts and the more interest you show in your OOC inquiries, the more you'll get out of this whole shebang. No word counts, no discrimination for slower posters, just an opportunity to get as much as you put in. That said; I don't have all day to GM, so I'd appreciate not having something like two hundred posts to go over everyday so please take your time, okay? Good!
Now, for the idea itself! You'll be put into a sandbox with Lovecraftian and Victorian flavors, with free reign to explore as you wish knowing that while your character will be unable to die, you will put them in danger and will most likely frequently be faced with a 'respawn' of your character in a safe place with little to no recollection of what happened except that it was bad. As such, explore and learn, but don't be surprised if you get limited feedback from risky actions (and possibly some strange marks to remember to not do that again you crazy maniac) due to the fragility of the human mind.
For any further questions or suggestions or even demands, feel free to post what's on your mind below!
And thus it began...
To be fair you remember little of what brought you here.
You think it all started in a moment of weakness from your part, as your heart was broken and your mind idled on fanciful wishes and what could have been. Surely you would have thought it over more thoroughly should have you been in the right frame of mind? Ah... perhaps it was meant to be, and you would have been dragged here one way or another.
No, no, why you were here was clear to you; You had lost, and wanted your happiness back no matter the cost. You should get your bearing, and concentrate on your goal. Yes, didn't the letter you foolishly opened that day say as much? You were in unknown territory, and you had only yourself to depend on - or to blame for that matter!
Yes, the letter...
Rummaging through their clothes, the lost one found what they sought; a thin envelope with a broken seal containing a yellowed sheet of fine vellum upon which was written in a neat hand, the redness of the script reminding one of blood:
Dear friend,
You have lost, and you shall be given the chance to take back what was once yours. We have ways to make your wish come true, and desire only your company for the duration of your quest to find what was once precious. Do not worry about payment, and be present at the following address no later than midnight.
Deepest regards,
Those below.
Attached to the simple letter had been the directions to an old manor house by the countryside. It had been well kept if dimly lit, and you had been too grieved and desperate to notice that something was off about the place. You don't remember what it was, but you got the same sense of dread by crossing the elegant threshold than you did when awakening in this place.
Where are you?
I hope this little snippet of what is to come whet your interest, and will now go into a little more details about what to expect from this rp.
In this rp, you'll be aiming to find a way to grant you 'Wish', that is the goal your character had when they received their letter, as well as to find a way out of the extremely tricky and dangerous underground trap that is called Pandora's Labyrinth. Depending on your character, that will mean to either form alliance with other character and NPCs, go about betraying others without getting caught, go about a very long and maddening quest to understand what to avoid and what to seek out on your own or a mix of two or all three of these things. Of course, this is meant to be at least mildly humorous, so nothing gruesome will happen on screen from your actions and while I encourage you to interact with other characters as much as possible you'll be free to go about your adventure as you wish.
For the mechanics, I'll keep things fairly simple, with the rp being cut down into rounds each spanning a real life week. At the end of each round, your character will take the time to think back on what happened to their potentially spotty memory and write down what they remember in a journal entry. That time will happen every Sunday morning/afternoon, when each player will be able to ask three questions about things kept vague in the last round. Example being: "What was in the box?" to which I would answer by "You remember yellow eyes, a growl and a strong need to close the box. You were about to do just that when the thing in the box lunged after you, and the last you saw of it was a black shape speeding off into the rooftops." Some answer may be silly, but other will give hints or even some lore about the setting.
I'll impose a limit of one character per player, and hope to have a drama-free OOC thread should this take off.
