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Everyplace feels familiar. An old bakery gapes hollow. The post office is shrouded in vines. Inside the arcade, a small forest is quietly illuminated by consoles. Paperbacks litter the street: Peter and Wendy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Someone moves in the corner of your eye: you couldn't make out a face, but you could swear those were antlers. In a dusty electronics store window, a box television clicks, brightens, and hisses static. A tiger crosses your path.

A stout splintered sign sits battered and faded in the weeds: Welcome to Duskwick.


A Rumor

Duskwick is a little lakeside town that -- according to reddit, expert bloggers, and several reputable youtube channels -- has recently had an unprecedented number of paranormal reports. Sightings of strange lights, moving objects and electrical anomalies has skyrocketed. Errant cackles of unidentified animals echo in the night, and the dragonflies only come out after sunset. Residents claim to have stumbled sometimes into an alternate reality like a replica of the town from 1980, abandoned and overgrown and inhabited by tigers and deer-people.

Since the first tiger-sighting four months ago, the telephone poles and diner corkboards have been papered in MISSING posters.

A Concept

Your character has arrived in Duskwick to investigate the paranormal phenomena (ghosts? aliens? fairies? chemicals in the water?) and/or the alarming number of persons who've recently gone missing; or maybe they're here visiting family; or maybe they're just passing through; or maybe they've lived here all their lives.

This is an exploration RP with a deep-rooted plot. Characters are encouraged to look around, but also to touch things and break things and stir up old stories -- the setting is fragile and precarious, and will change depending on the characters' actions. Something Very Wrong is happening here. Maybe only you can set things right ... or hurtle the town of Duskwick into oblivion.

A Small Town

Duskwick is nestled in the northeast United States, along the shore of Fog Lake. It lies midway between two larger cities and boasts not one but two railway tracks through town: one for people, another for the freight lines that echo deep in the night. Most residents take the train each morning to their city jobs while the rest open restaurants and antique shops and art galleries along Brightwell Avenue, or read magazines and tarot guides at the old brick library, or push out onto the lake in their canoes and fishing boats, or sit outside Charlie's Deli with soda and ice cream to watch the world pass by.

This was the perfect picture of Duskwick before the troubles began -- before the blinds were drawn and the locks clicked and signs in the windows turned CLOSED. Except along the busy and illuminated Brightwell, no one goes outside after dark.


Gameplay

Characters may be whomever you wish, whether a resident, a visitor from the city or an investigator, professional or otherwise. PCs don't have to stick together -- in fact everyone may eventually become separated -- but we will open with everyone in the same diner. The game will be mostly exploratory, with a focus on the characters themselves. The character sheet will prompt players to create characters with simple and concrete goals and drives; what you get out of this RP will be equal to the character's curiosity and motivation to take action, so keep this in mind when deciding on personality traits. The setting will change and develop as the characters' decisions affect it -- so make decisions often.

This RP probably will not maintain a somber mood; there will be jokes, there will be crazy outlandish weird stuff, there will be ridiculous tropes and nonsensical randomness -- but there will also be a bit of horror, gray-moral conflicts, and imagery for imagery's sake.

In the end, it all revolves around the PCs, their desires, their desperation, their fears and sadness. I'm a reactive GM: I'd rather tailor the setting to your character, not force your character to fit into the setting. Therefore once again I ask for characters who are ready and willing to shape the world around them -- you never know what they'll create.

Set the Mood

  • Twin Peaks and Stranger Things
  • Amateur YouTube paranormal videos
  • The music of Sia and Of Monsters And Men and every LoFi Hip Hop playlist
  • The art of Cassandra Jean and PainDude_

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All character apps, questions, ideas, hopes, dreams, squeeing and flailing may be posted herebelow!
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As Lady Squee....

COMMENCE THE SQUEEING!
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Weary sheriff, or young adult that never could just leave town...

Or rich novelist in town for his dead aunts will reading that inherits him the spooky house on murderdeath lane.
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@Lady Squee A CHORUS OF SQUEE!

@ShwiggityShwah So many good options .... can't choose .... !!!!!

There shall be a Murderdeath Lane, though. There can't not be, now.
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So, I know I got here a little too late to be part of the pre-OOC crowd, but is there still room for newbies? Also, do the characters have to be out of towners coming to investigate, or is there room for a guy who's lived in the town for at least a good half of his life?
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@Rabidporcupine sure come on dooowwwnnnn! :D Citizens of Duskwick are totally welcome. Go nuts!
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Alright, neat! Here's my character sheet! I'll put up a picture when I find it, but I can't guarantee it won't be a horrible weeby one unless you outright say you don't want anime around these parts. Also, I kind of ended up doing it semi-in character completely by accident, so yeah, enjoy that mess.

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@Rabidporcupine Haha Jeremy is awesome! Love the voice going on here. xD He's totally a winner, go ahead and post him up to the characters tab!

(care to give a name to the restaurant he works at?) ;)
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he really wants to find out what happened to Adrian, because OOPS OH NO SPOILERS he totally disappeared. Funny enough, thats actually also what he really needs, so hey, at least his priorities line up properly!


I laughed way too hard at this! I love Jerry (>.>) already.

The idea floating around in my head for a character is a girl who grew up in town but moved away (be it college or other life things). Now she is back because she simply couldn't stay away from the town and while out with her sister, her sister suddenly disappeared.

I just now woke up, so I'm not sure if my thoughts are 100% coherent yet, but they will be when I start work on the sheet. ;)

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Wow, thanks guys! I wasn't sure how well a jackass like Jeremy would be received! I should mention right now though that he's basically still a kid. Probably twenty or twenty one, at best. I mean, he won't be younger than twenty, but yeah... Probably twenty one because Americas alcohol laws are weird.

WHOA WHAT NEW EDIT?!
I'm wanna make the name of the restaurant a Stephen King pun. Right now I'm thinking of The Fed Zone, but I know there's something way better out there!
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I'm going with the city slicker writer.

He was picked on by homicidal bullies as a child cause he was a nerd.

He moved to Maine.

He made up books about having psychic powers. Becoming successful.

He moves to this new town following some death threats by an excessively fanatic fan.

He umm... looks at tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Drinki…... befriends an elderly fellow that may also have psychic powers.

No seriously, I'll be a writer.
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You should be a writer from Derry, Shwigg.
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Derry Sucks. No wonder I moved.
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@Lady Squee Darcy is definitely full of potential! The half-quote style here works really well -- I totally imagined a scene in a movie, Darcy sitting at a diner table talking with unseen company, and her statements followed by a voiceover narrator as she paused to drink coffee. xD Totally approved, please do copy her to the characters tab!
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Thank you!! I'm glad that what I was going for was achieved! It's been far too long since I've written anything, so it's good to know I'm not too rusty. Hahaha!
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I am indecisive over what to play. The first option does not seem too terribly appealing since currently, the only two (2) PCs are born & raised in Duskwick. But, Idk. Any could be fun. Pretty peasoup w/no salt help Briza pickuh card:

Local YA Looking for a Missing Friend/Family/Lover ( Like React )
Touring YT Vlogger ( Laugh React )
Professional Paranormal Investigator ( Thank You React )
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@Briza Actually if you wanted to go either the YouTube vlogger or paranormal investigator, I was thinking I wanted to make a younger detective who's got friends in the force that went missing after they went on holiday to Duskwick. You think these two misfits would team up before actually entering the town?
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@Mokley, thank you for allowing me to slip in and pitch a character, too! I'm tossing a few ideas around, but will try to have something for you tonight or tomorrow. :) Also, hello, everyone!
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@Mokley mindblocked rn, my CS will take a while.
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