MagicMasher
.....Masher of Magic?
Restless Dreams
In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill.
You promised you'd take me there again someday. But you never did.
Well i'm alone there now... In our "special place"... Waiting for you...
In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill.
You promised you'd take me there again someday. But you never did.
Well i'm alone there now... In our "special place"... Waiting for you...
SCENARIO
Silent Hill. A town that is devoured by darkness, where the eternal monsters of the burning flames roam. This town used to be peaceful...used to be normal...but now, it is nothing more then a nightmare.
This town calls people to it. It WANTS them to come. Will you answer the town?
Welcome to Silent Hill.
"Restless Dreams" will not be directly based off any existing video games or movies in the Silent Hill series, except in concept/design. The storyline will pan out as we, the RPers, delve deeper into our own Silent Hill story. I do have a direction I want it to head in (don't worry; I'm not leaving it open to the elements and letting it randomly get on), but I do want to experiment a little - I want to let all of our own unique stories make up the backbone and main driving force for the RP, if that makes sense.
Usually, there is only a handful of people trapped in the alternate realities, or just one person, at a time. However, this RP will be kind of breaking that idea since we'll all be present. You'll start off not being drawn/trapped in Fog World, but as you enter Silent Hill you'll start being covered by the fog little by little, until you're completely immersed. At that time, you'll be subject to Fog World and Otherworld. From there on out, it is our/your call at what to do.
I'm not sure what to really add to give you a definitive story. If you know Silent Hill, then that is roughly what I'm thinking...that probably sounds HORRIBLE for a premise, though.
MAP
Considering "Silent Hill" is a pretty decently sized town, and we'll need to know how to get around! This interactive map will be the map used for the RP. I hope this helps you guys in making your posts/identifying where people are! Click the link below when you need to use it.
[Silent Hill Interactive Map]
JUST A FEW BASIC RULES...
I know we all probably know these, but I'll just post them so they are here for everyone to read:
1) The monsters are killable. They aren't invincible (unless you're Pyramid Head..or a storyline-specific monster that is created that plays a major role..but that'll come as we go). As such, if you have a weapon, use it! On the same card, you can't just insta-kill the monsters; that's god-modding. You also cannot pull a weapon out of thin air. Try to be somewhat realistic. I know you all know this, though~
2) Player killing...I really want to not allow this, but it is a part of Silent Hill depending. Just be frugal in your decisions about it, and I'd prefer that, if you are planning on attacking/trying to kill someone that you discuss it with the person (and me) beforehand in this thread or PMs. That way, we're all on the same page.
3) Pyramid Head. I'll let you guys decide if Pyramid Head should exist. There are two schools of thought: One, that he is ONLY a manifestation of James' (Silent Hill 2) guilt and judgement, and should not exist in any other storyline, or two, that he is the general manifestation of guilt and judgement. Whichever you decide is fine by me, just stick to it throughout the RP.
CHARACTER SHEET
Name: (...Since it is Silent Hill, I'd prefer it to be a realistic name.)
Age:
Occupation:
State/Area Of Origin:
Appearance: (I guess it is just my preference since I am horrid at writing descriptions a lot of times, but I'd prefer pictures. HOWEVER, writing it out is perfectly a-O.K. and if you can do that, I'll be jealous of you.)
Family:
Biography:
MY CHARACTER:
Name: Max Reynolds
Age: 25
Occupation: Author
State Of Origin: South Carolina
Appearance: Max has always been sort of a small guy. Reaching a maximum height of about five foot six, and a glorious weight of around one hundred and twenty pounds, he was the subject of many a taunt in school. Mainly doing the immature "try to get it out of our hands since you're short" gig. Max can usually be seen wearing blue jeans, a button-up plaid patterned shirt, and tennis shoes. He wears a pair of glasses usually, as well, but he thinks that those just make him a "typical author" and has switched over to using contacts. His hair is in a "carefree" or "whatever" state, but still looks groomed nonetheless. His hair is a golden-auburn color, which matches pretty well with his hazel eye color.
Family: Father (deceased), Mother (unknown), one Brother (deceased), one Sister (unknown)
Biography: Max is the youngest in his family out of two other siblings. His sister, Rachel, is two years older then him, and his brother, John, is four years older. Most children, as they grow, have happy childhoods, but it was not the case for these three. The only one who, fortunately, had a somewhat decent one was Max. Their father, Nathan, was a drunkard who worked at a local restaurant as, basically, the bus boy. He got payed little, and he used what little he got on boozes and his own personal pleasure. Their mother, Laurel, kept to herself mostly, and only came out of her and their father's room when he was gone. During that time, she tried to take care of her children as much as she could. She just feared Nathan.
Max was normally the target of their father's assaults. He was the innocent one, sitting there, playing with his toys which, apparently, pissed the elder man off. The only reason Max never got striked was due to John and Rachel's interventions, which normally cost them an even worse beating then what would have actually been given to Max himself. Due to this, Max, in his younger years, usually stuck to Rachel at school, since he was closest to him at age and was on the playground at the same time. He stuck to John whenever Rachel wasn't around. They were really a tight-nit group of siblings.
The final day of the abuse finally came to an end on a cold winter night. Max was seven years old at the time, and was watching some television when his father came ransacking through the front door, this time in an worse drunken rage then what he normally was in. Before Max could get away, their father had (even in a drunken rage and stupor, he managed this, which amazed most people who heard the story) grabbed Max, and began shaking him violently, threatening to do far worse. John and Rachel were quickly on their feet to try and stop him, but it didn't matter. Their father kicked John in the stomach and, using one hand now to hold Max, used his free hand to strike John down. After a few more kicks, he turned his attention to Rachel and struck her across the face, sending her into the couch. In the heat of it all, Nathan dropped Max. Max began to crawl away, but Nathan was already hot on his trail. Fearing his life, he started to cower in the pile and reach for anything in blind desperation. Grabbing whatever was next to him, he wheeled around and smacked Nathan with it. The rest was blank, as Max also passed out.
Their life sort of spiraled uphill from that point on. At the end of all this, Max couldn't remember anything. He didn't even see his father anywhere, or his mother. He found out later his father was carted off to the hospital, where he died from a wound to the head, and his mother was sent away to get help over the trauma that has happened. The siblings were sent to live with a close friend of the family, due to no relatives that lived close wanted them (most were their father's). So, life continued in a positive way...for a while.
When Max was roughly thirteen years old, John (who was seventeen) died from a knife wound. John got into drugs when he started high school, and him and his friends always went to the abandoned warehouses that were around the neighborhood to smoke, among other things. Unfortunately one night they picked to do their usual routine near a gang's headquarters, and got caught up in the middle of a raid fight. John was pronounced dead on the scene.
Rachel, who was fifteen, went into a state of shock, and became severly angry at life. She told everyone she hated them, and became a menace and a threat at school. No one wanted to hang around her, and no one wanted to be her friend, even IF she allowed them to. The only person she ever went to was the now-teenage Max, as they had so close a bond.
Life went on, and eventually Max graduated from high school, and went on to college to major in English Studies and Creative Writing. As he left college, he got a job teaching sophomore English II at the same high school he went to, as well as started writing his series of novels. Unfortunatly, most of them wouldn't pick up popularity until later in his life.
A month after he turned twenty-five, he received a letter, from Rachel. The letter seemed friendly enough, so he decided to read it. It only said thirteen words: "I am going to Silent Hill. Do not follow me. Forget my existance.
Yea, as if he's going to do that.
P.S: If I am missing ANYTHING that should be added to this, please let me know! This is my first RP here, and I think I got all the rules/formatting down...if it is totally wrong, then I will go read it again! And sorry for the giant WALL OF TEXT BIOGRAPHY. I don't know how to add it in a collapse/condensed tag...if you could let me know, if there is it, I'd appreciate it!
