[OOC] The School in the Woods - Mystery/Fantasy Roleplay

[IAmThea]

Lenora Géroux welcomes you to the Northwood Academy. At this advanced preparatory school you will find boys and girls alike with the same goal: to succeed. If accepted into the school, then congratulations, because you _must_ be an intelligent and a talented individual. Although the school only accepts young men and women from the ages of 14 to 19 almost all of the students that attend the academy go on to further their education at Ivy League and prestigious universities. Well, except for the ones who seem to disappear every year… Located deep within the forest just outside of the small town of Courts Place in Maine, Northwood is surrounded by beautiful scenery. Only five miles west is Lake Mauve where students often go to canoe or swim in their free time. When winter hits, it’s the perfect place to go ice skating! The lake is highly monitored during the day due to a few instances over the years of students going underwater and never resurfacing. Although Northwood was built in 1856 the building and dorms have been renovated several times in the past to keep facilities new and fresh. Several fires have occurred in the dormitories and buildings since the school’s opening, almost always due to teacher or student mistakes resulting in many deaths. However since 1943, Northwood has been dedicated to ensuring both students and instructors strictly follow fire safety rules set in place. The school is rich with history, and produces some of the finest education in the country. Northwood has high academic standards and policies students are required and expected to follow. Any student who fails to follow Northwood’s rules and policies are put on immediate academic suspension. However, it still encourages social and creative behavior amongst students and faculty. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The year is 1976, and beneath the glamor and prestige of Northwood Academy lies a dark secret. Only the dean, Madame Géroux is aware of the special students that are scouted out each year to come to the academy. These students, although unaware of each other, have a supernatural aspect to them that appeals to the traits she is looking for. But each year, one or more of these “special” students disappear without a trace and the school continues to thrive without consequence. At the beginning of this school year, a wariness is lingering amongst the older students. The previous year ended with a gruesome event that stunned the whole school: Helen Schwartz, a beloved student and popular girl disappeared in the middle of the year. At the start of May, the month before summer break, her body was found by the lake with several mysterious symbols etched into her skin. Although a few suspects were questioned, no culprit was found. This year, many are becoming suspicious of the school’s disturbing history of student disappearance and the awful “accidents” coupled with them. And the head of the school, Madame Géroux, seems to be the center of it all. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello everyone! This roleplay is a sort of reboot of one I tried to start a while ago. Quite a few people joined, but I never got around to starting it properly mostly due to a lot of school-related stress and other personal things going on. But here's my second attempt, and this time I'm determined to follow through because I am very interested in making this work! This roleplay will be very character driven, however there is a plot involved. I have characters of my own I will be using, but by no means are they going to be the center of the plot. I'll be working behind the scenes as well to drive the plot forward! So when I first posted this, I didn't include any rules for the characters of this roleplay and I don't think I specified much either. So... RULES 1. You can be either a regular student, a supernatural student, or, if you have my approval, a teacher. 2. Supernatural Characters: when I say supernatural, that doesn't mean your character has some crazy powers. I mean things like werewolves, witches, clairvoyants, mermaids, etc. Example: So-and-so has the ability to cause storms and tornadoes to happen and also they can cause hurricanes and they have telkinesis (lol). Nope, that won't be accepted. I'm thinking more like mythical creatures that can retain human forms. By all means be creative! You are not limited to what I listed earlier, the world is rich with stories of beasts that go bump in the night, so don't be afraid to make your character something no one has heard of before. Like I said, they just have to be able to look like a normal human. 3. If you are unsure of something you would like your character to be, message me first and I will let you know if it's acceptable or not :) 4. No character should be all-powerful. 5. Please no teacher-student relationships, but student-student relationships are allowed. 6. One to two characters are allowed. You are allowed to have a regular human student and a supernatural student. Or two supernatural students, two human students. 7. This is not a completely serious roleplay. It's going to be a healthy mixture of light-hearted and dark. Don't worry! This is not a strict roleplay. I just wanted to lay down some ground rules so that there are no misunderstandings. Get creative with your characters! I can't wait to see what you come up with :) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Character Sheet: Appearance first (No anime, sorry. You can use an image or you can write a description your characters appearance): Name: Age: Year: Normal or Supernatural (as in, what are you?): Personality: Bio: How you came to the school (did you transfer or are you a Year 1 student? Did you receive and invitation or did you have to apply to the school first? Scholarship or rich parents?): Preferred Dorm: Northwood Academy Rules and Guidelines 1. All students must keep a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Less than a 3.0 results in academic probation. 1. Students late to class will be counted tardy, and any more than three instances will result in a detention. Only 5 excused absences are acceptable. Any more than 5 will result in suspension. 1. Students are required to wear uniforms. Girls must wear a white button up along with a navy blazer and navy skirt. Tights and/or socks are required along with formal black shoes. Boys must wear a white button up along with a navy blazer and navy pants. Black socks are required along with formal black shoes. 1. Students participating in sports are kicked from the team if any kind of misconduct occurs outside or inside of school. 1. Curfews are strict and must be followed every day of the week. Students must be back in their dorms by precisely 9 PM and all lights must be out by 9:45 PM. Any students caught outside their assigned dorm rooms after 9:45 will be reprimanded immediately and may seriously face expulsion. 1. No students are allowed off campus without proper supervision. 1. If a student encounters a door marked “No Entry” then no entry shall be given. 1. All students are required to carry assigned ideas which also serve as keys to their assigned dorms. Students caught without these ID’s will be given a detention. Dorms Dorsey Hall: Located closest to the the main building. Two students are assigned to each room. These are the oldest dorms. Legend has it that a boy that disappeared from the school still haunts the room he lived in at the time. Elliot Hall: Located between the Math/Science and Language buildings. The smallest dorms, one student is assigned to each room. Kilner Hall: Located between Dorsey Hall and the History building. Two students are assigned to each room. Wells Hall: Located farthest from the school. One to two students are assigned to each room. These dorms are closer to the lake, and the most cunning students that reside here sneak out sometimes to go for a late night swim. School History The Northwood Academy of Excellence was founded in 1856 by the daughter of a professor and politician. After her father's death, the beautiful and educated Katherine Warren inherited all of his fortune and set it to building a formal place for the education of young men. Although at first it was a boys only school, later in 1925 it officially became a coeducational school. The school has gone through wars like the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and recently the Vietnam War. Though it is known as a prestigious preparatory school, there have been an eerie amount of student deaths that have happened at the school since it first opened. The first reported death was in 1858, a young boy who was mauled to death by a bear (supposedly). Ever since then, students have been killed in bizarre accidents or have disappeared completely during their time there. Even stranger is that nothing has ever been done to investigate the unusual count of deaths and disappearances. Only the families of lost children, the faculty, and the town closest to the school seem to know about this part of Northwood's history. Since Katherine Warren began the school, there have only been women in charge of the school. In 1962, Lenora Géroux took over as the dean of the school and is still today. Not much is known about her past other than the fact that she was supposedly born in England and migrated to the United States when she was young. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adding this roster here just to keep track of all the characters! Headmaster: Lenora Géroux Teachers Cerise Sonata (Zordon) Stephen O'Connell (gogojakeo) Students Samson Rivers, Year 4 Martha Jacobs, Year 2 Ash Mareinos, Year 2; Amy Snow, Year 2 (Kirah) Elena Waters, Year 3 (Zordon) Zaylin Devonshire, Year 3 (Siaya Dragalorn) Jamie Drummond, Year 2; Luca Seacliffe, Year 1 (McHaggis) Lydia Wintworth, Year 2; Max Elliot, Year 3 (LilOrphanAnnie) Hazel Barwicke, Year 3 (Liriia) James Mason, Year 2 (gogojakeo) Nero Alexander, Year 3 (22xander( Sidine Vuliana, Year 1 (Aphelion)

[Kirah]

This will be the Special announcement post now since this was my first post chatzy ^For reference if the page get's lost.