It Sleeps in Delville Heights - Interest Check and Worldbuilding

[Typical]

@Stitches Sounds reasonable. As for visitors, then, would I be able to make a visitor character, or has that quota been filled?

[Stitches]

Man idk what the fascination is with visitors. They're actually the worst character to play because they can't stay in the town. I'm putting my foot down and say no visitors purely because we need residents here. You can play a newcomer if you'd prefer?

[lunera]

Man idk what the fascination is with visitors. They're actually the worst character to play because they can't stay in the town. I'm putting my foot down and say no visitors purely because we need residents here. You can play a newcomer if you'd prefer?

@Stitches

I can easily change that aspect of Sav's character; she could have been born here but always felt pulled back

[Stitches]

Well you don't have to be born here either. The difference between a visitor and a resident is that visitors are more like tourists. They don't feel that pull, they aren't wanted in the town and after the Horror feels like they've seen enough, it'll start psychologically pushing them away, making DH seem unappealing to the person and annoying them until they leave.

Residents don't even have to have arrived by the start of the story (though they should be arriving imminently, since we only really RP in the town). Residents are lured in by the Horror. They want to live there forever. It's the opposite of a visitor, who arrives on their own volition and leaves after being shooed by the Horror. Most residents don't even get why they did it but they showed up anyway. Most can't leave without looping back to the town thanks to the fog. But some do get to leave, like spores from a mushroom, to seek out new victims and lure them in too.

Edit: okay, I've asked a bunch of other people too about the difference. I think I get where the confusion lies, so I'll put it as plain as I can.

Residents = characters who intend to (or presently) live in the town. They're the ones allowed to stay. In fact, they're not even allowed to leave. You can roleplay your character at any point in the moving process but they will eventually end up in DH to stay.

Visitors = characters who visit the town of their own volition. Outsiders. Typically NPCs. Cannot stay in the town for more than a couple weeks. Unable to get involved in the larger plot nor take part in encounters, because the Horror makes them leave before they discover anything interesting.

Delville Heights maintains its secrecy that way. If everyone was able to come and go as they please, I'd have given it two months before the government quarantined the area.

[Prizrak]

@Stitches

So I was thinking about having a character that lived on the outskirts of town in their families home. Although there are plans of there being some sort of mystery behind her families disappearance that relates to the mystery of the town itself. Was just wondering if a character that lived in the outskirts would be accepted?

[lunera]

@Stitches Oh, well in that case it sounds like Sav's fine. Now that she's here she's not leaving, there's too much she wants to know, whether it's part of some desire for answers or The Horror is corrupting her.

[Stitches]

Of course! I'm more than willing to work with you guys. Once you've been accepted, the town's your oyster; the only reason I'm firm on the no visitors rule is because you'd have to ditch your character after a few rounds, and that sucks. Feel free to drop a sheet here.

[Typical]

@Stitches Okay, that makes more sense. Let me clarify: I wanna play a newcomer who gets pulled in recently by a returning resident. That should be okay right?

On the other hand, is Discord a thing for this RP?

[Stitches]

Not sure if I'm going to make a discord or not, unless by popular demand. And if I do, it'll most likely be restricted to accepted members only. Would you guys like that?

[Prizrak]

I'd be on board with a discord.

[lunera]

Sure.

[Typical]

Same here (obviously)

[Stitches]

Fair enough! Once we get a few accepted sheets I'll put one up. Until then, what sort of characters are you guys thinking of making? Maybe it'll inspire me to slap down some locations.

[Typical]

@Stitches Now thinking of a girl whose mother took off in her childhood to return to Delville. Probably gonna make her college-aged or just out of college, theology and philosophy double major cuz she’s convinced her mother went back due to religion or smth (is there a church in Delville)

[Stitches]

Hello everyone!

I've added in a few encounters to get the ball rolling. Potential applicants should consider making their sheets (they don't have to be fancy or long) so I can start PMing you into the interview phase. @lunera I'm waiting on you to reply in the PM!

@Typical more college aged girls means a bigger squad for Abigail, which I'm hype about. Go ahead and make her though on a more general note we could do with some older characters and a few more men.

[lunera]

Working on it now, sorry! I got randomly swamped the last few days xx

[Stitches]

No problems,that sort of thing happens. Oh and @TypicalI forgot to say! You can definitely slap a church in there with any NPCs that you'd like. Just put a few lines here giving us the vibe of it (as I've done with the other locations) and I'll copy paste it into the thread.

[FiroIV]

THis delightfully interesting. I'll place my interest here and read on a bit more and see if my interest continues.

[Typical]

@Stitches Ended up going with something a little different, but kept the lost mother part. Hope this works.

—Kent Wesche—

[Stitches]

Thanks! I'll get a PM to you soon.