Creepy crap!

[Deathtanz Mantisk]

Let's have a horror-style RP!

Nononono, I'm not talking about hordes of zombies attacking a pack of highly-trained men with machine guns. I'm talking about grotesque mutations representing regular bloke's nightmares attacking said regular blokes, whilst we'd focus on uncovering some personal demons of our charas! Instead of focusing on "who can make most splatter and most slaughtering of random folks", it'd be more of "who can make most gross scenes with most eerie reasoning behind it"!

Inspiration? Silent Hill.

Sure, we can fight off some weakling little critters with steel pipes or the rare handgun (limited bullets prz); but other than that, we'd focus on the idea of each trying to make the best out of their own chara. Think about as disapprovable and horrifying ideas as possible for their past, and then them being forced to face them in a physical form while being constantly tormented by their questionable deeds - whatever those may be for each.

As storyline, I'd say we each enter a ghost-town for whatever reasons we may come up with. Do realize that you're on your own on thinking up monsters and events happening around you - although you can have others join you to deal with them if they want to (but it should be oneselves own choice on how their own "nightmares" will work out). The ghost-town could be more of a nameless little village, while the alleged storyline states that some native americans or whatever used to do rituals to keep away an ancient demonic entity of some sort. After the natives were forced out of their lands into some lame camps, the demon slowly got stronger and stronger (due to said natives not keeping it in check), until it eventually became strong enough to begin wiping out the village... By making everyone's darkest secrets haunt them all the way to their gruesome deaths!

Again, the point would be to have everything that happens around your chara to be a clue or some manifestation of what their story would be. What happens to your chara in the end is up to you. Suicide? Salvation? World domination? Up to you!

Also, I'd sort of want it to be much more gross and profane than the usual ones. I for one am thinking of bloodthristy maggot-babies. xD

[Sprite_Knight]

You really disgust me sometimes Mantisk....

I think it would be more fun, if all the characters were in the same Ghost Town, because if we were all to be in our own ghost town, it would basically be like roleplaying with yourself, which is really boring.

[Deathtanz Mantisk]

Oh, right. Maybe I messed up my sentences again while typing rapidly. :p Yeah, it'd be the same town.

Point is still that we'd all have our own nightmares materialize, meaning that one person may see something completely different all the time than the others. Someone, who let's say was a heart surgeon and messed up a job and now feels remorse, sees mostly sluggish monsters which seem to pulsate and emit a heartbeat-sound, often having veins and whatnot all over them and bleeding heavily as if they were walking mutated hearts! :X Another one, whom let's say was a raging pyromaniac that killed people with that, would see burned up things or things ablaze, and would end up in situations where he's often tempted to set something ablaze.

We could interact with one another. Heck, being in a town where survival is a big question, teaming up would be a good idea. But again, since the town would theorically take our hands and lead us into situations which represent or replay some of the things that haunt each one's charas, it may often end up with us trying to even kill one another. Like, as the earlier two examples, let's say the surgeon is led to a hospital where apparently someone's gonna die and he's gonna try to redeem himself by performing said surgery! The pyromaniac goes there with him. Despite the fact that the doctor single-handedly whacked some lumbering abomination which represented a heart in the hospital, the pyromaniac never saw it's corpse where it was left - because he doesn't see the same things! They could end up interacting further by the town making the pyro want to burn the whole hospital down for some reason.

Storytelling and making your chara open up would be the point. Mauling a monstrosity or two would be a mere bonus. We'd mostly be running away. ><

[Deathtanz Mantisk]

/poke

I wanna see this happen. Anyone willing to join? Plz?

[Tipsynaruto]

i wouldn't really mind, so thats 2, me and you.

[Deathtanz Mantisk]

Point is that each of us gets turns on directing things somewhere, as in, depending on your chara's storyline (read rubbish above as regarding that). So we'd be rotating with one another on who's in charge of what's the focus of the story! So once someone's bout in an abandoned subway or whatever is over, then another guy can take it over to the psychatric department of a hospital or whatever. That way we can all have all the development we want, with each of us having our own turns on being GMs! :X

[Tipsynaruto]

ooo, so its basically X numbers of perspectives in one city and if we want to, we can sorta meet temporarily and stuff like that, right?

[Deathtanz Mantisk]

Yeh. Primary focus is your own chara. Also, do note that what your chara sees in the place is also mostly something that is developed by his/her own nightmares, so even as a GM of the time being, one shouldn't force any monster or event into the attention of others, unless they agree on it. Kinda complex, but, well, yeah... :X

Obviously if we meet only few other normal people in a town full of freaky stuff, we'd move together to increase our chances of survival. Although each of us could quickly develop reasons of our own for not to hang around with someone... ;o

Just come up with a story of sorts, hopefully something which includes rather ethically wrong things done by your chara at some point of his/her life, which, in this nightmare world, will come alive to haunt you in one shape or another. The more extensive and detailful your story, the better. And don't just toss all of it in the table right away in the history department... Tell it slowly, with tips and secrets, fragments of memories, until finally, the whole gruesome tale behind your chara's darkest secrets is revealed to all others on a silver plate. You're in charge of your chara, others are in charge of theirs! We can help one another in some ways, yet we may also hurt them!

The more twisted, the better! BWAHAHA~ ...Sorry.

I'll whip up a character template and whatnot. As for what you should keep in your mind while whipping a chara together and while this thing would go on...

- Don't be a superman. We're not supposed to be acrobat-war-heroes here, who use their bare hands to rip through armies of monstrosities. Be a regular Joe, with a regular Joe's reactions and a regular Joe's qualities. A guy in black leather all over who can't freak out by anything and acts cool in all situations makes for a rather tedious character in the long run, no? Get scared! Get wounded! Get tired from running excessively and don't have a five-year training in usage of firearms.

- As for the reactions of a regular Joe: when you see a bloody kid of some sort walking at you with extra arms sticking out of it, reaching out for you, you shouldn't think "begone, beast!" and kick it in the face. You ought to back off and go "dude... what's with this kid?!". Heck, you could take it further by hesitating on even raising your arm against a monster that comes at you. Act as if you acted on real life if something freaky ran at you in a back alley at night.

- As stated before, open up your story over a long course of time instead of tossing it out right away. Give hints of what was going on, trying to give others a picture of what's happening. You might do something like finding a news article of some sorts left on the billboard of some supermarket, that says your name as the murderer of some suburban family; but instead of reading it through completely and showing it to others, you could read a few lines, until ripping it off and eating it instead of having the others around know of what you did! You don't have to say out loud that you were the murderer! You could just have stated that a suburban family fell victim to a violent killer, but not reveal that it was you, or not even that they got killed. Just tidbits, and keeping the rest to yourself.

- Seeing that the town here gives life to your nightmares, you should try to have your own monsters come after you alone, instead of have a pack of fiends representing your story come at all of us. These are your demons haunting you - not theirs. You could question the sanity of those around you, and that of your own. For instance, you could be walking into a room where one of your comrades stands with a shotgun at hand, staring at an empty corner and saying that he finally got it after it kept running from you. How would you react? You could try to make him drop the shotgun, since you'd obviously think that he's lost his mind and is now wasting bullets that you'd rather see sinking into those things that are after you! You could start to wonder wether you're all out of your minds, but then remember that you've got a bleeding wound in your leg after one of those things scratched you! We're all craaaazyyyy~!!

- The more disgusting - the better. Explain things in detail. Make the enviroment sinister. Let there be fog. Let there be dirt. Let there be filth. Let there be rust and let there be ruin. Blood and guts are not the only method of making things around you feel unwelcoming. An alley with puddles of grey stuff, rude statements on the withered and nigh-fallen over walls painted in graffiti, random black bags - some large enough to have corpses in them (a concept which comes to your dude's mind but is obviously not true), pipes sticking out of the walls, the walls which have most of their surface crumbled off, revealing their flesh which consists of rust-red bricks, windows with planks hastly nailed over them in irrational fashion, with faded newspaper pages scattered across the poorly made concrete-road beneath your feet. Depressing enviroment is what we need, so do be as plentiful as ever when it comes down to the details! Explain every malformation and every single scar and strange spot in the demon that crawls at you! TELL US EVERYTHING! >.<

- As far as the monsters go... They don't have to be quick. They don't have to be gigantic. They don't have to shoot laser beams or breath fire. There doesn't have to be armies of them coming at you at once. Take a household spider, make it way bigger, turn it's legs into human limbs and have it have malformed torso of a woman as a body, and there you have something that isn't too strong and menacing as an opponent, yet which is plenty enough to serve as a viable thing to try to choke the life out of you with it's extra arms or kick you when you're down with it's legs.

- We could discuss things over OOC as what to do. Like, if you want to add something of your own into the whatnot dungeon that another one is in charge of, you should ask the fellow about it. And then come into agreement and go with it. Obviously some grand finale where we fight the reincarnation of the devil himself or something in an underground construction site should also be discussed of before we'd do it (corny, yes. That's just an example, OK?! >.<).

[Suiken no Hatori]

This sounds kinda awesome
Me want in.

[Deathtanz Mantisk]

Righto. A chara template (quote & copy paste to get all the danged bold tags? :X):

Full Name: (Being common folk of the modern times, you ought to have a first name, possibly a second name or two, and a surname. Jacks and Tims and Bobs and whatnot. You can be "Stryker" or whatever by a nickname, probably, but no parent in their right mind would name their adorable child that. ><)

Gender: (Male or female - or perhaps something inbetween...?)

Age: (The amount of years which have passed since your character departed from the womb of his/her mother!)

Length: (The distance from the bottoms of your feet to the top of your head. Ha. xD ...Feet as measure?)

Weight: (The-... You know. Lbs as measure?)

Appearance: (Looks. Hair? Eyes? Tan? Facial features? Pretty? Ugly? Fat? Skinny? Tattoos? Scars? Try to be within reason again, as in that we're not obligated to be 7-foot tall bodybuilders who run in the speed of sound or whatever. Lay man! Read the incohorent rubbish earlier!)

Attire: (Clothwear. You can of course change your ripped and bloodied blousers later on if you find new ones somewhere on the run. Note that this is the present day pretty much, so pirate hats and fancy jewelled cloaks would be a bit out of place. :X)

Summary: (A brief description of how you'd sum up what your chara is all about. Like, as a random example, "a failed product of the society, one very suited for the term loser". Nothing too long.)

Talents: (If your character is in possession of any noteworthy talent, be it anything ranging from sewing to throwing frisbee, you should mention it. And once again, saying "firearms and kung-fu" would be deemed utter rubbish and tedious - expect, of course, unless your chara happens to be some whatnot old war-dog who... Yeah. Whatever. Just stay within reasons and don't go overboard with anything here. :p)

Personality: (You know, traits and stuff. And do try to be like you'd possibly be in real life instead of some tedious "mysterious, quiet, always cool badass dude of doom and destruction"-stereotype.)

History: (This does not mean that you ought to reveal everything! You can just give a few tidbits, like of the family, childhood, working-life or whatnot notable events in his/her life. But if you're escaping the law or ran away from something, you should keep it to yourself and sluggishly reveal it, or keep it to yourself, as per the point of the whole thing.)


Yeah. That ought to be simple enough. Tell me if it's missing anything you'd want to see in it. ><

Do also note that whatever your character's big and juicy and darkest secret of his/her history is, should also be represented in some shape or form as you go on in the town. When you encounter a monster, you shouldn't make it a run-of-the-mill zombie or whatever. It should be something that pretty much is the incarnation in flesh of whatever it is that you've got in your mind. Same applies for surroundings. See some things or events that could be shady re-enactments of what took place for your chara. Things happening around you and coming at you ought to be a manifestation of your secrets, thus theorically reminding your chara constantly of what he/she is trying to forget or hide! Then again, you don't have to understand that yourself, as you can just go "eww, monster wtf" instead of going "omg it's my deceased mother as a monster!!" the moment you see it. :P

Writing a simple summary of the brief history of the ghost town in case in a while... Also, do remember to think up a valid reason for showing up in a remote ghost town on your own! It could be something supernatural or mysterious that takes you there, of course, like, amnesia (/groan...) or some old friend of yours taking you there, one who you thought had died (and then he vanishes and leaves you there at a trail leading to an abandoned town! OMG! THAT BASTARD!).