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It's not bed-time horror stories. Things really do go 'Bump' in the night.




Those things that go 'bump' happen to be zombies or demonic possessions. Ish. A bit. That would be giving away the plot...

What you may know is that, recently, random people have begun to behave, ya know, strangely. Sometimes it's missing people turn up speaking gibberish on the far side of town. Other times, as in the case of the above Harold Carter, perfectly ordinary citizens decide to eat their wife alive. These are crazy days.

Quite exactly how the plot will unfold (ie: where you guys come in) is yet to be worked out, and much of it will be worked out based on any feedback I get here. Suffice to say, Demon-Zombie-Psychos are not your characters' favourite additions to the world recently, and you will be very much on the side trying to get rid of them. One of your allies in this quest is Ms Thorne, as is her macabre friend, Edgar. Quite how closely you will be working with them remains to be seen - again, depending on exactly where I fit the player characters in. This won't be a 'storming around town with an AK-47 shooting anybody that looks like they might like to eat brains' RP - whatever it is that's going 'bump' is elusive and doesn't just sit in the street waiting to be shot.

I intend to GM this from a distance. I won't control any Characters, beyond Ms Thorne and Edgar's contributions (some of which I may ask you lucky people to narrate), but I'll be kicking the plot along behind the scenes. Often, I will give special privileged ones among you a PM with information to incorporate into your posts. Say the plot involves the playable characters storming a warehouse - I will nominate one of you, or ask for a volunteer, to be the one to describe the warehouse will PM that relevant information for their use. Though I will guide the plot gently, I will not force the player characters into any course of action. Instead, I will use NPC's to guide and suggest what I have in-store next. By no means is this an instruction manual and you should feel free to have your characters follow whatever course of action they will.

The RP is going to be set vaguely (as I iron things out, more specifically) in an early 20th-century era.

Hopefully I've given enough to whet some appetites. I'm probably looking for a small cast for this, but I'm genuinely interested to get feedback, hear thoughts and such, so please be forthcoming with any additions (or even subtractions) you might like made.

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I like it. I like the vagueness of the threat as well. That'll be good for atmosphere, drama and suspense. Sometimes in horror, the difference between a ghost, a demon and a psychotic human is negligible. Because the monstrosity is not in what they are, but what they do and what they aren't.

Anyway, is it okay if our characters are slightly creepy themselves? Like if Harold Carter, or someone like Harold Carter, had a daughter and the child saw him eating her mother before he nearly went after her. Such a kid might not be mentally normal after experiencing that. But she wouldn't be one of "them" either.
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Oooohhh... creppy-creppy...

Interested-like over here, but might be a little meh, depending on how much the bunny has to do some brain breaking researcharizations regarding the stylizanings, culturescapatory, technofabricationatings, rampant nega-isms and like all the good stuffs in early 20thcentury England(?). Buy yush other than that I likes the 'no. no guns blazing. just no' approach to fighting infected or possessed or whatever meanie things happened to the peeps of the world^^ Nice! Soooo... like k, gunna stare at this thread to see what's up then. Staring. Me! Nows... :3
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Demon Empress of Jade said Anyway, is it okay if our characters are slightly creepy themselves? Like if Harold Carter, or someone like Harold Carter, had a daughter and the child saw him eating her mother before he nearly went after her. Such a kid might not be mentally normal after experiencing that. But she wouldn't be one of "them" either.


That is exactly the sort of thing I'd welcome - though I'd be reluctant to accept characters young enough to be 'kids'. I'd call 20 the minimum, and even then I'd like the characters' average age to be higher than that.

Bunnita said depending on how much the bunny has to do some brain breaking researcharizations regarding the stylizanings, culturescapatory, technofabricationatings, rampant nega-isms and like all the good stuffs in early 20thcentury England(?).


Well, I'm naturally going to be making up science and providing appropriate context to the setting an whatnottery, so most basic information would be provided for. Anything else, you can look up or ask about.

Anyway, thank you for the interest - hopefully we'll get a bit more.
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Sounds interesting. Count me in.
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Sweet.

I think I'm looking for four or five people for this. Any more for any more?
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I'm down, though "early 20th century" sounds like a slightly harder era to work with - or maybe I just don't know a lot about the early 1900s.

Though if I tell you I'm an oil man, well, you'll have to believe me.

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I'm down, though "early 20th century" sounds like a slightly harder era to work with - or maybe I just don't know a lot about the early 1900s.Though if I tell you I'm an oil man, well, you'll have to believe me.


Good to have a bit more interest. :)

When I say early 20th century, we're probably talking an era between the wars - perhaps the 1930's or such. That said, I might plump for the mid-fifties. The reason I've gone for this is because I don't feel the macabre really works in modern times - something about the aesthetic just seems off, especially the capacity for huge groups of people to mobilise via Twitter.

I was tempted to put the Dieselpunk label on this, but decided against it for three reasons:
- the actual gothic content of this is closer to Steampunk, really
- people might not know what that label meant and be put off by that
- I didn't want people to go 'omg I'll play an inventor with goggles' because there's always one with Steampunk/Dieselpunk
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I'm actually very fond of the supernatural set in a modern environment - nWoD is my baby. I can understand it being off-putting, though per your social media point, I'll say that nWoD pretty much functions on the idea that most humans simply cannot handle or accept the supernatural, even when it confronts them very directly, which is why evidence never really brings about a unified understanding of the shadows that lurk over our collective shoulders.
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I am le interested. Very much so, in fact!
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Well, that makes five :3

I suppose I'd better start working on an OoC, then xD

This may be slow progress, by the way: I'm moving back to uni this weekend, so I'm a busy bee settling things here and packing.

If everybody that has already shouted interest could re-shout it, that'd be handy btw - I know how easily people magically vanish off the OoC.
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HI~~!!!

K so like I'm busy too so slow is good for me right now toooo~~!!^^!! Right, so like ya said that there be some extracurricular googling so yeah, I'll just wait till the OOC to see if me n' yer RP are a good fit, k? :]
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