[OOC] St. Helen's Hospital - Survive the Night Horror RP || Freeform Edition

[SyrianHamster]

St. Helen's Hospital - Survive the Night, A Horror RP

St. Helen’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane (Picture taken from Deviant Art, made by “Kvasilchuk”)

Writing Style: Any.
Post Length: As much and as little as you want.
Writing Skill: All welcome.

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Current Scare Level

Phase Two - What the F**K was that!?

- Fluctuating temperatures in certain areas.
- Feelings of being watched.
- An odd sense of dread, without being sure why
- Glimpses of mysterious figures in the corner of your vision.
- Stuff like this suddenly appearing on reflective surfaces for a split second.
- Mysteriously shifting objects when you're not looking.

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Introduction

It’s Saturday night, and you’ve nowhere to go. You had plans, but they were unexpectedly cancelled at the last possible minute. Resigning yourself to a quiet night in, your spirits are suddenly lifted by the vibrating spasms of your phone. Grabbing it, you see the caller ID as “Chad”.

Chad’s an alright guy, a bit on the silly side of things, but he’s a good hang all the same. You answer the call, and he invites you to join him and the rest of your friends at the abandoned St. Helen’s hospital, a few miles out of town. You don’t know the place too well, just that it had a bit of a dark history, and that a lot of kids go there to hang out, especially on Halloween. Well, you haven’t got anything else to do, and if everyone else is going, you may as well too right?

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Character Sheet

Name:

Gender:

Age: Keep it between 16 and 21.

Physical Description: This is for the benefit of other players. I will add your characters to first OOC post so that they can reference your guy/gal’s appearance in their posts, should they choose.

Nickname: What do the others usually call you?

Background Information: You don’t need to go crazy here, but as everyone in the group is supposed to know each other, it’ll be good if you can list certain details they would know about your character.

Items of Interest: Anything your character is carrying that MAY come in handy. This is a freeform RP at its heart, so I wont stop people from suddenly having something not listed. It's more for your benefit, so you can keep a reference for what you designed your character to have at its conception. Examples would be a flash light, cigarette lighter, penknife, phone, religious pendants, pocket mirrior etc etc. Literally anything you could foresee being either useful or relevant.

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St. Helen’s Grizzly Past – Optional Reading

Here is the history of the hospital. You do not have to read it, however, if you plan for your character to be aware of St. Helen’s past, then I suggest you do. Alternatively, you can use it so that your character may discover ‘clues’, that bit by bit piece things together. Sky’s the limit really, so here it is:

History

March 16th 1955,

St. Helen’s Hosptial for the Criminally Insane officially opens and receives its first patients. Prized as the pinnacle of the field of neuroscience, its establishment promises the swift and effective treatment of psychologically unstable criminals. Backed by Christian groups, who feel at odds with the USA’s widespread use of capital punishment, the Dean of Medicine, Doctor Laurence Clarke, begins what he calls "the end of senseless aggression in the minds of troubled men."

June 12th 1960,

St. Helen’s Hosptial is hailed a raging success, as dozens of inmates leave its doors to return to a life of normality; having been treated for illnesses of the mind not thought curable. Doctor Laurence Clarke is lauded as the grandfather of a new age of medical science, and the hospital receives a large government investment to expand its wards and research.

September 9th 1965,

A patient riot erupts within the hospital. Doctors and nurses are forcibly strapped down to gurneys and mutilated by their own surgical utensils. Visiting family members, including women and children, are herded into a large incinerator down in the hospital’s basement, and are burned to a cinder whilst still alive. The police arrive enforce, and brutally put down the riot. None of the rioting patients survive the engagement, but some are rumoured to have fled the scene.

Clarke survives the encounter, but the resulting police investigation reveals large discrepancies between the kind of research he was fronting, and the kind that was actually being carried out. Human experiments, including untested surgical procedures, illegalised narcotics and practices that spanned the use of electrodes on a patient’s brain to various kinds of psychological and physical torture, were found to have taken place at the hospital over a number of years.

Patient records of the deceased were missing from the archives, and amidst the ash piles dumped outside the hospital from the incinerator, the police find human remains. It seemed the Good Doctor had been disposing of those that “failed” to survive his unsanctioned experiments.

Funding was immediately cut, and the hospital was closed by a direct order from the Federal Government. Clarke kills himself in his office by jarring a large threading needle into his eye – a bizarre end to a bizarre man.

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Death is Not the End

Don’t be afraid of your character dying. Death will allow you create a new character, in the form of a later comer. These later comers could be more youths, delayed from the party, or concerned parents – or indeed, the police. More fodder to the nightmare, I say!

Alternatively, your ghost form could go on to assist your friends in surviving by warning them – or get absorbed into the hospital’s darkness, thus propelling you to murder those you once loved.

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List of Active Characters

Original Group:

- Charlie ‘Chad’ Bingham
- Gerald 'Dean' Felton
- Elliot Chel (Ke-el)
- Janine 'Jackie' Jackhill
- Fuyu 'Fuyu-Chan' Haru
- Leah 'Lee' Martin
- Emmett 'Emmy' Carson
- Saoirse Marie Pommier AKA Siri
- John 'Wallace' Wallace
- Manson 'Manse' Wilds

Late Comers:

-Jack Smith

Vengeful Spirits:

Guardians:

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Places of Interest/Scenery Description Aids

Lobby

The Dental Wing

Wards

The Recupteration Wards

The Basement

The Grounds

Neurological Treatment Wing

Kitchen

Janitor

[Tokki]

>Name: Gerald 'Dean' Felton

>Gender: Male

>Age: 17

Dean

>Physical Description: Dean stands at 5'5, considerably shorter than the rest of his peers- and is reminded about that very frequently. His build is that of any sedimentary teenage boy: skinny. He sports a crew-cut, glasses and usually wears sweaters and trouser for comfort.

>Nickname: Dean

>Background Information:

Dean is your average teenage boy on the verge of graduating high-school. He spends most of his time at home playing video-games and doing homework. Like any other teen, he has a certain group of friends that he hangs with. They're a good laugh and even accepted Dean with open arms, proving to him that they were definitely worth being around. Dean was normally an easy target to pick on within that group at first, but soon he had grown thick-skinned to their meaningless jabs and learned to laugh at himself every once in a while. Despite this, the group still cared and backed him up whenever he needed it, and he did the same for them in return.

Being together for quite a considerable amount of time- the little group had grown onto him and vice-versa. Similarities were lacking, but their differences was what brought them together. Everyone within that small group had a little something to bring to the table, different personalities colliding together- and their friendship had survived that way for so long.

Nonetheless, Dean hadn't become a follower. His friends were messy, rowdy and downright troublemakers- the total opposite of what he was. He has his own thoughts and opinions about their choices (things people tend to lose within groups like these). This lead to many arguments within the circle and rarely has it ever gotten physical, but it has taken a toll on Dean and his trust in their judgment. He tends to doubt them every now and then, but tags along anyway to ensure a minimum amount of trouble occurs (for their sake) and to talk authorities out of arresting them if ever they do get caught.

>Items of Interest:

-Flashlight
-Batteries
-Pocket knife
-Voice recorder

[HollywoodMole]

Name: Elliot Chel (Ke-el)

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Physical Description:
He also stands at 5'8.

Nickname: Chel

Background Information: Chel was born into a middle class family. He's always got along well with people in his life and has never been bullied or abused. He ended up learning about everything in his area. He learnt about the hospital, but only about the riots, so he never really got scared of the place. He met the group because he had recently moved (at the time) and needed some friends.

Items of Interest: Notebook and pen that he carries everywhere and a phone, which only has his family and the group on.

[Tarantulass]

Name: Janine Jackhill

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Physical Description:

5,5 feet tall. Uses black leather boots along with stuff in the image.

Nickname: Jackie. Will probably punch anyone that uses 'JayJay'.

Background Information: Janine was born on poor family along with three brothers, two older and one younger. Her parents doesn't much care where she goes or what she does which makes her rather free soul... even if it shows more crucially in her low grades in school. She's a boyish girl, not afraid to get a little dirty nor cuss. She could be considered bully, though she only shows aggression more clearly when she is being pissed off. However there is no doubt she's bit of a smartass. While probably not the most loved person of the group, she does bring some edge in the crew so that her friends won't get jerked around too often.

Items of Interest: Pack of smokes and a lighter, along with six pack. All stolen from her parents before coming to the hospital just to make some use of the privacy and open space of the place. Cheap cell phone and few coins along with her mp3 and earphones.

[XxLyraxX]

Could one start off as a spirit?

[BlackCat]

Name: Fuyu Haru
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Appearance:

Fuyu is really short, standing at 4" 11. Because of this she always thought of as younger. Fuyu hates being called short even though she is. Overall she is a loli and one would never guess that she was 16.
Nickname: Fuyu-chan

Background: Fuyu was born into an ordinary family. Once she reached 4" 11' she stopped growing. Because of this she has always been the shortest. At school she was mostly treated as a doll, other girls messing with her hair and uniform. No one took her seriously. Transfer students always thought that she had skipped grades.

Items of Interest:
-Sturdy ruler used for hitting people who call her short
- Empty Diary with lock and key
-Video Camera

[Psych13]

Name: Leah Martin

Gender: Female

Age: 17

Physical Description: Dark Brown Hair, Pale Skin, Light Brown Eyes, 5'7 and 109 pounds.

Nickname: Lee.

Background Information: Just to name a few things:
1. She was adopted.
2. Her mother is a doctor and her father is a lawyer.
3. She is an only child.
4. She has a cat named Mittens.
5. She has straight A's in school.
6. She is the quiet type, but is a nice person.

Items of Interest:
1. Flashlight on her keys.
2. A small hand mirror.
3. Ipod.
4. Headphones that usually hang around her neck.
5. A really nice I-Phone that she loves with all her heart.

[smarty0114]

I'll have a CS up later

[yosh]

Name
Emmett Carson

Gender
Male

Age
16

Physical Description
Despite being the youngest in the group, Emmett stands at 5'11 and has a fairly muscular build due to many hours of relentless physical training for volleyball. His skin is lightly tanned with a singular freckle near the corner of his right eye and a few scattered across the rest of his body. His deep blue eyes are contrasted by dark brown hair. He's rarely seen without his favorite navy blue hoodie, and normally wears a gray tank top, black pants, and beaten up black converse high tops with it. He re-laced his shoes with yellow laces mimicking caution tape, and while they were quite bright at first, the yellow has become muted after months of wear. Another noticeable feature is his calloused hands, hardened from years of volleyball.

Nickname
From a young age, members of his family have affectionately called him "Emmy". Much to his embarrassment, a kid heard his mother call him by that name during elementary school and spread the nickname around. It died down during middle school, though his friends will still teasingly call him by that name from time to time. He's also grown used to being called "Em" and "Carson", though most people refer to him as Emmett.

Background Information
Emmett's known amongst the group for his large and accepting family. He's got attractive older twin sisters, a cute younger brother and sister, a mom who's great at cooking and baking, and a dad who never really grew up, often joking around with the teens and encouraging their antics, even going as far as to buy them alcohol as long as they promise to drink responsibly. He's also really into horror movies and supernatural lore. He doesn't scare easily, but his knowledge is limited to what he's seen in the media. Visiting St. Helen's will be his first personal experience with the supernatural, and hopefully not his last.

Items of Interest
He brought a backpack with some snacks (a few Fruit Roll Ups and a half-eaten bag of trail mix), a bottle of water, an energy drink, a digital camera, a small wind-up flashlight, and a portable phone charger in it. He's carrying his phone and house keys in his pockets.

[Sparrow]

*Name:* Saoirse Marie Pommier.
Pronounced "seer-shuh".

*Age:* 16 years, 11 months.

*Physical Description:* 


*Nickname:* Siri (lmao), Appletree (due to the fact that her last name means "appletree").

*Background Information:* She was born into a middle-class family as an only child. I guess you could say her life was pretty normal, her parents never divorced and got along well. She had no problems with any of her family members, though it is a mystery of why her personality seems.. negative at times.

Courageous and bold, Saoirse allows little to overcome her. Severely stubborn and bitter, and rather drawn out and independent. Expression usually remains neutral or frowning, unless caught with family or close friends.

*Items of Interest:* Pocket-sized LED flashlight, iPhone.

[SyrianHamster]

Fantastic turn out so far, much more than I had expected, but hey, the more the merrier.

Okay, well, I'll get Chad's CS up, and then I'll get working on the first IC post. I'll plant us in the hospital grounds, and then we go from there.

XxLyraxX said
Could one start off as a spirit?

I'm afraid not, I'd rather any vengeful spirits came to be after we had a little time to explore the hospital.

EDIT: You've all been accepted, see the character section above for confirmation.

[XxLyraxX]

thats fine ^^ I'll make twins if you dont mind.

[SyrianHamster]

Name: Charlie Bingham

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Physical Description: Charlie is a high school track and field athlete, and is of a tall lanky build (around 6ft). He has a mop of frizzy blonde hair, blue eyes and an almost permanent cheeky boyish grin. Tonight he’s wearing baggy flared jeans, brown leather walking boots and a tired blue baseball jacket with white sleeves.

Nickname: Chad

Background Information:

- Chad is an aspiring athlete at the local high school, and holds several trophies for short and long distance running.

- Is a known joker, who usually plays a wide variety of pranks on his friends – much to their annoyance.

- His father is a city based lawyer with a successful career, making Chad quite ‘loaded’ in comparison to his class mates.

- Tends to be the go-to-man.

- Despite his sometimes irritating confidence, he gets sheepish around girls when left alone with them.

Items of Interest:

- Car keys for his dad’s SUV.

- LED Flash Light

- Packet of Marlboro cigarettes

- Lighter

- Beaten up Blackberry Curve

[SyrianHamster]

XxLyraxX said
thats fine ^^ I'll make twins if you dont mind.

Sure, that'd be fine. Might be an awesome plot idea too, if one of them were to fall down some stairs... *ahem*

[SyrianHamster]

For the sake of the story, we need another car. Chad has one, we need someone else (or we call cram into Chad's SUV). I don't mind who it is.

[Tarantulass]

Janine could easily just grab her parents car along with the other stuff.

[SyrianHamster]

Tarantulass said
Janine could easily just grab her parents car along with the other stuff.

Sounds good to me!

[smarty0114]

Name: John Wallace

Gender:Male

Age: 17

Physical Description:

Nickname: Wallace

Background Information: -Plays highschool soccer.

-John is extremely curious and will often look into something, even if he is scared. Often his curiosity ggets in the way of his better judgement.

-John is in the popular crowd at school

-Scared of ghosts and serial killers

Items of Interest: -Car keys

-Flashlight

-iPhone

-Headphones

[SyrianHamster]

3 cars it is, that probably makes more sense. No more though! Right, I'll leave it an hour to let any others join, then I'll get us on our way.

People who join after the IC starts, will need to make their own way to the hospital.

[smarty0114]

Yay