[SU/D] Silent Hill: The Siren Call

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Silent Hill: The Siren Call​

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They say that appearances can be deceiving and that what seems to be never is. Appearing as a small rural town driven by tourism on the surface, the appearances are definitely what they appear to be at first, for the tourist who comes to Silent Hill. They aren’t aware that they could very well be the owner of a one way ticket to hell.

The town has a dark past, and a darker future. Haunted by the images and perceptions of those who came before them, and driven by their own pasts, the people who come to Silent Hill are never the same. They say the town calls out to sinners, and that is their punishment that awaits them within the gates of what was once known as the Place of Silenced Spirits.

Early attempts to colonize failed, and it wasn’t until the early 19th century that Silent Hill was born along the edges of Toluca Lake. A penal colony, Silent Hill was home to a prison and a hospital, Silent Hill Prison and Brookhaven Hospital respectively. Another plague like the ones that had prevented the earlier colonization efforts struck Silent Hill, and only the discovery of precious coal brought people back again.

The Civil War broke out not long after that, leaving its influence upon the people. Toluca Prison was constructed as a POV camp, and after the war was over was converted into a correctional facility before finally being closed. People also began to mysteriously vanish from Silent Hill during this time, as the town made the conversion from penal colony to small resort town.

During this period the Order began its rise in Silent Hill, and the power that had always been in the town began to awaken to full power. Events were set into motion that would eventually lead to the birth of Alessa and the beginning of her ascension as the Mother of the Order’s God. Though the first attempt to birth God would be thwarted by Harry Mason, eventually the cult, under Claudia Wolf’s instruction manages to succeed in bringing about a partial birth, only for their God to be destroyed by the reincarnated version of its original mother.

Now another chapter is about to be added. A group of people brought together on a bus traveling are the next victims of Silent Hill. They all have their own destinations, unaware that they might never reach them, or see the people they love, or hate, again. They are being called by the power that runs through Silent Hill; the prices for their sins have come due. Will they survive their horror filled vacations and leave the town alive, albeit with many souvenirs of what has past there, or will they die the way many before them have, under the sway of Silent Hill?

Rules:
1. No Godmodding or powerplaying
2. Be respectful to me and other players
3. No one line posts, always try to have at least 3 paragraphs, or more. As far as the other end, I do not care how long you go as long as you do not write a novel on your own.
4. Questions are fine, ask me anything you want.
5. Characters are all original in this RP, however if you want to make them connected to any canons, let me know first, and I will approve or disapprove based on how likely it is to actually happen that way, or how it will affect the overall story
6. I will allow you to have 2 characters without any sort of approval from me, after that ask me and I’ll approve based on my own logic
7. On the subject of activity, I am not always here, and under extreme circumstances made not be available for a week except over IM (because I have it on my phone). I would like you try to post at least once a week if at all possible. If not, just let us know, so that I can set things up so that other can still post during the time you are gone if they so desire. I will do the same in case of my absences.
8. My word is final in terms of this RP.
9. Let’s have fun in our horror filled adventure in a town that never sleeps XD :awesome:

Bio Template
Name:
Age:
Occupation:
Background/History:
Weapons:
Fears:

If you have any recommendations for an addition of a specific category to the bio let me know. Given the nature of this RP, I am just drawing up a temporary one that will allow us to get things rolling. Silent Hill has never been overly about combat, so I will use my discretion when approving combat based characters. This RP is not about who can shoot the most monsters, or cause epic destruction, it’s about exploring the characters fears and physiological mindset. Keep that in mind as you make your bio.

On that subject, as far as plot goes, I will be trying to steer an overall plot that drives all of the characters through Silent Hill, as well as making general monsters to throw at you, based off your fears. However, within reason, you are welcome to make your own obstacles to your characters, because after all, who understands their mind better than you?
This is also my first time running an RP, so I ask that you are patient with me. If you have suggestions, please tell me, and I will take them into account. I welcome all suggestions, because I want this RP to be the best experience it can be for us all.

On that topic, I welcome you guys to submit your bios and or recommendations here. I would also like to say given the nature of the RP, it is very easy for people to step in throughout the story, as they would just have to come up with a way to get to Silent Hill. It is also easy for your character to seemingly be killed off (or thought to be) if you need a break or want to quit, and brought back when you come back or if you change your mind. I just ask that you alert me if either of those happens, so that I can keep a grip on the RP.

Given the nature of the story, I would like to have at least five characters before we start. I would also like to start as soon as possible. I will probably start the RP Monday of next week or later depending on how much interest is shown. I think that given the nature of the RP it would be easy to have a small group of RPers, as well as a large group and I don’t want to see this RP stall in sign up mode. However if we do start, and you want it, just post a bio, with a way for you character to get to Silent Hill, I will approve it or recommend changes as normal and then you can join.

I think I covered most everything I could think up. I plan to make some information threads to support this RP at some point, or at least giving a list of locations and such to make things easier. I may also keep an updated list of characters and their locations edited and updated here on the first page once we start to limit confusion.

Most of all remember that this is my first time running an RP, and that you have any suggestion or issue with the way I do things, I welcome you to bring it to me. Constructive criticism is more than welcome. I apologize for the wall of text, and hope that I can get enough people in this RP to make it a wonderful experience.
 
EDIT: Sorry to let you down, but I'm having a bit of a writer's block at the moment. >.<
 
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Mistmoor said:
EDIT: Sorry to let you down, but I'm having a bit of a writer's block at the moment. >.<
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That's fine. :freehugs:

Take your time. I hope you still join though. Obviously my intentions of starting this ASAP are going to be put back now, because the interested are showing a lack of interest at this particular moment. :lew:

Garland Monarch Yaoi-Kitten

And I will probably edit my own bio in here at some point today or tomorrow. :wacky:
 
Name: Lisey McNeil

Age: 26

Occupation: Journalist/Author

Background/History: Lisey was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia where her family still lives. She has another sister and a younger brother, Jenna and Terry. Her family and friends described her always always as imaginative and a bit obstinate. She graduated from college with a Literature degree and also studied journalism.
Lisey wrote news articles and features for a newspaper in Arlington, and on the side also wrote a series of short stories, poetry and eventually a book for young readers, about the 'dreamworld' and what people find there. The book was a small success and Lisey planned to write more. However, a mere 2 months before the story begins, she found herself utterly stuck, unable to write a word.
Her phenomenal art block persisted and eventually she had a serious nervous breakdown. During one of her worst days, her sister found her delirious and hallucinating a conversation with their grandfather, Finnegan McNeil, who was asking her to remember something important that had happened--except Finn has been dead for over 17 years. A psychologist was called and Lisey got a sabbatical from her newspaper. Around the same time she began having intense dreams and nightmares, and developed phases of blanking out or becoming extremely absent-minded, to the point where hours at a time slipped by her.
She kept hallucinating about Finn and talked with him even though her doctor insisted that she ignore the hallucinations. She was prescribed medication to keep hallucinations at bay. Finally her psychologist suggested a trip to relax and get herself together. As long as she stayed on her medication, he assured her that she'd be fine and would be completely safe taking a short trip. He even booked her the bus trip himself.
Lisey is a practical and very calm person, able to take almost anything in her stride without flying into blind panic. She doesn't think she is particularly brave or gallant. She's clever and good at thinking on her feet, as well as working through hard situations at her own pace. Lisey dislikes being all alone in unknown places and gets nervous when isolated. She's rather dependent on her glasses, since she's 'blind as a bat' without them.
She doesn't' like talking about her hallucinations.At the urging of her hallucinations, Lisey has been remembering some things that happened to her one summer when she was 9.

Weapons: Lisey used to play a little baseball when she was younger and still has a good swing. She'll reach for baseball bats, convenient pieces of wood and other club-like objects, but even more so she's going to look for a good, sturdy crowbar.
She knows how to use small (20-35. caliber) fire-arms and has a decent aim, but doesn't actually own a gun.

Fears: Lisey is deathly afraid of spiders and insects, can't stand clowns and is quite unsettled by people walking up to her in the dark.
Since her breakdown and writer's block, Lisey gets very upset at the sight of blank pages of paper.
She also gets a horrible feeling whenever she thinks about her cousin Tristan and her grandfather, Finn.
 
Bio Template
Name: Tasha Markov
Age: 14
Occupation: Student
Background/History: Taken from an orphanage when she was young and into a top secret training program in russia, made for the sole purpose of training deadly assasins, heavy swords were very quickly shown to be her favoured weapon and she trained daily until she could wield a claymore, that at the time was taller than her, easily in even a confined space, however due to her fear she would become panicked rather quickly if left in a confined space
Weapons: Claymore, weighing 100 lbs and being 5 foot in lenght this sword is heavy and unwieldy, which makes it even stranger that this teenage girl can use it
Fears: Claustrophobia ((fear of confined spaces)) , Didaskaleinophobia ((fear of schools)) Tomophobia ((fear of surgical operations)) and Xyrophobia ((fear of razors))

((if needed i can edit the history to make it longer))
 
ElvenAngel: Approved. Great bio. :freehugs:

Yaoi-Kitten: Okay, make the history longer, and I'd really like it if you didn't have SO much combat experience. Because Silent Hill is sort of more about embracing the horror than blowing it up. :wacky:
 
shes not really that amazing, she was only trained, shes never been out of the camp or on any missions, and the fact that shes scared of nearly everything here its nearly impossible for her to even utilise those skills... however if you still wish for me to edit the history then please tell me ((and shes more slashing than blowing stuff up X3 ))
 
I'll come up with a bio soon, but it might take a while. You could just start it first, and I'll come in later. That won't work out so badly for me either, actually.
 
Yaoi-Kitten said:
shes not really that amazing, she was only trained, shes never been out of the camp or on any missions, and the fact that shes scared of nearly everything here its nearly impossible for her to even utilise those skills... however if you still wish for me to edit the history then please tell me ((and shes more slashing than blowing stuff up X3 ))
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Okay, as long as it doesn't come more about combat, I will approve it. A bit more history wouldn't hurt though, just to give her some background.

Monarch: Okay, I will likely start it as soon as I get my bio up :-)wacky:) and maybe another one or two. It's fine if you want to come in late though. :D
 
Question: Is the plot of this gonna be connected to any of the games?

EDIT: o.o I'll make another character.

Name: Terry McNeil

Age: 19

Occupation: College student

Background/History: Terry is Lisey McNeil's younger brother. Like her, he is born and bred Arlingtonite from Virginia, and lives with his parents while at college. He gets along okay with his two older sisters, Jenna and Lisey, although sometimes people think he may be a bit affected by the fact he grew up surrounded by so many women.
Terry is an energetic young man who nevertheless takes everything in his stride and is pretty patient. He isn't as scatterbrained or absent-minded as Lisey, but nor is he as down to earth and practical as Jenna. More of a midway between them, Terry follows his logic, but he applies a good deal of thinking-out-of-the-box to it. People note that he can be a bit stubborn and opinionated. He studies engineering in college.
When he's not studying or slacking he plays soccer and works part time at a Starbuck's joint, saving money to buy a car. He's closest with Lisey than he is with Jenna and apparently, he was the most brutal editor Lisey's book ever had.
He didn't take Lisey's breakdown and art block very well, blaming her publisher for it, supposedly for putting pressure on his sister to produce a second book. Being younger and not remembering him so well, Terry doesn't completely understand Lisey's hallucinations of their deceased grandfather, Finn and against the orders of Lisey's doctor, he usually asks Lisey what Finn is like. He was apprehensive of the need to medicate Lisey and when her doctor insisted she take a trip to relax, he browbeat her into taking him with her 'just in case'.
Terry can be very protective of his sister but at the same time the two are capable of long squabbles over small things. He's not as cool-headed as Lisey and usually depends on her to keep him from flying into a tantrum...or panic. Unlike Lisey, Terry isn't bothered so much about being isolated from others and just takes charge.
Secretly from his sisters, Terry has taken up light smoking and dealing with some issues of his own.

Weapons: An amateur athlete and active person, Terry is a pretty good fight even without a weapon, although he'll instinctively reach for anything he can swing, like a pipe or piece of wood or a tool. He's very good at chemistry and knows his way around chemicals.
Much to his sisters' chagrin, he also knows how to make Molotov cocktails...although he's never actually built or used one yet.
Terry knows a bit about small firearms as well and is a slightly better shot than Lisey but he doesn't own a gun either.

Fears: Terry doesn't like dogs much, especially big ones.
He recently got dumped pretty badly and hasn't had the nerve to talk to other women much. He's also struggling to make sense of his possibly budding bisexuality.
When Terry was younger he was really into the supernatural and believed in ghost. His sisters sometimes told him ghost stories to scare him.
 
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original bio should be scrapped... this is the character im entering into the game

Name: Matthew Williams
Age: 14
Occupation: Student
Background/History: Matthew is a snobs son only without the up-himself nature of most people of his form of lineage. his father owned a shoe making company and many people bought their merchandise. however when he had reached his second year of secondary school his parents were killed in an unfortunate accident in the factory. He was left parentless and inherited their empire. which he sold off and went off on a round the world trip thats what lead him to silent hill. the last place on his tour of america.
Weapons: Tire iron: taken from the boot of his car
Fears: Claustrophobia ((fear of confined spaces)) , Didaskaleinophobia ((fear of schools)) Tomophobia ((fear of surgical operations)) and Xyrophobia ((fear of razors))
 
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