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[quote=Opening spiel explaining everything][indent][indent][sup][color=black][b]GENRE:[/b][/color] Magic Realism/Urban Fantasy, Mystery, Modern, Slice of Life, Horror, Pretentious-Symbolism, Character Driven.[/sup]
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[sup]Welcome to Vivid Recollections, a story influenced by series such as Life is Strange, Stranger Things, It, Until Dawn, and Dead by Daylight. Though, it takes elements from Life is Strange and Dead by Daylight above all else.

Vivid Recollections will be a small town-type story set in Farmer Hill, Montana, a town built by the mountainside. To the average person, there's nothing notable about it other than its picturesque appearance. It's just a small farmer community that exports crops, people go to work, kids go to school, and so on. But, the town holds several dark secrets that nobody would expect. Farmer Hill, mysteriously enough, has a high number of people that just suddenly go missing, or get found dead. The people of Farmer Hill, strangely enough, ignore it, never speak of it and just go about their dead. But, that's just the tip of the iceberg. 

Farmer Hill is connected to another world entirely beyond the understanding of this one. A world where what can be roughly described as "magic" exists. An abstract force flows through the small town, and causes various strange effects. Strange weather patterns, and unexplainable disappearances and deaths are just the beginning. Spirits, monsters, and what can be described as magic exist.

The story will follow a group of students that attend Grand Ridge Academy that are just living their lives when they're involved in a situation that was straight out of a horror movie. As days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, they start to realize something strange is occurring. They have developed magical powers known as [b]Abstractions[/b], as they come into contact with the supernatural (Or "Extra-Normal") elements of their small town. Soon enough, they will come into conflict with something much bigger than all of them, and they must investigate the death of John Reid in order to solve it. 

This story will be a magic realism type story that casts a certain view on the idea of "magic." I want to make it ambiguous whether or not the supernatural events in the story are in rooted in magic, scifi, or something beyond even that. I want to weave a story with similar aesthetic to Life is Strange, while building up something else entirely. The theme of Vivid Recollections will be [b]Memory[/b], [b]Emotion[/b], [b]Connection[/b], and [b]Repression[/b]. A big part of the story will be the characters having a repressed memory, or emotion, that sabotages them in some way. How they'll get over that repression, and help them connect with other people. I also want the story to be dark, and very symbolic in nature. I won't be providing clear answers for everything.[/sup]

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Now, my roleplay, [URL=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/170587-vivid-recollections-into-the-world-unknown-urban-fantasy-with-hints-of/ooc]Vivid Recollections: Into the World Unknown[/url] has lost quite a few players to inactivity or other issues, and I wish to keep a very active playerbase. Especially given that we're very close to the start of the story (past the prologue). I know the RP is eighty-five posts deep, but there wasn't that much that had transpired so far.

If you want a general gist of what happened, look no further. 

[hider=Chapter 0: Apathy][indent]The story begins with the cast attending a simple summer-camp. Many were bunched around a fireplace, while others were helping each other in the infirmity. However, it was made clear that there was something very wrong going on at this summer-camp - there was something messing with the minds of the students. Which nearly caused a brawl when weed was passed around, and an hallucination was mistaken for the drug being spiked. After being taken away, said student (Claire) was accosted by Scott Reese, son of Sheriff Reese and general pain in the ass for the students. He demanded that he sleep with her, and when he was refused, he got violent. However, another force spoke to him, and guided him deep into the woods - offering him the power to get revenge on them. After accepting the power, Scott underwent a supernatural transformation, and became a hulking brute wielding an axe. After making his presence known by killing one of the teachers and a foolish student, he went on a rampage through the camp - attacking whoever he came across. The students were trapped because the bridge was destroyed, but the only way they could escape was via boat. One small group got the boats ready, while another alerted everyone to the escape plan. After everything was ready, everyone met by the docks, and Scott pursued them. The students were saved by another Awakening, and stopping time to give another time to bind him. 

The students escaped, and while trying to row back to shore, a large orange being appeared high up in the sky and attacked them. They were knocked unconscious by the being, and appeared on the shore... having Awakened.[/indent][/hider]