Hedgehawk

How The Leaves Fall

damn. that bad, huh? oh well, have fun everyone.

@Zoey Boey

Oh no! No! I knew I got you and Sassy mixed up on my spreadsheet when I was working out the character slots. I am so sorry. I do want you onboard!

How The Leaves Fall

After alot of reading a plotting, I have created the following roster.

DeWinter Heiress: Violet DeWinter - @bumbles guthrie
New Resident in town: - Denise Covington - @Asesina
Tragic Backstory 1: Elijah 'Eli' Redgrave = @Kassarock
Tragic Backstory 2: Lowell West - @rareaamerican
Standard Character 1: Benjamín "Ben" Ruiz - @sassy1085
Standard Character 2: Emily Dawson - @Zoey Boey

Right. Perfect. Also Kassrock - You know too much I will get back to everyone on a starting date. In the mean time, keep and eye on your PMs.

How The Leaves Fall

Right. Thank you everyone for your submissions. Over the course of today, I am going to be going through them and will get back to everyone shortly

Hedge

Hello!I

Welcome! I am sure you will find a Roleplay here to help you get into the swing of things. The interest check sections are the best place to see what's going on and to join something :)

How The Leaves Fall

Deadline for Submissions is today people. I will start reviewing the sheets tomorrow!

Hello there! It's ya boi

Welcome to the site! You won't be a stranger at all. The best thing to do is just dive right in and start browsing the Interest checks sections and find something that appeals to you. Everyone here is really friendly to newcomers, so you won't feel out of place. If you have any issues just feel free to drop me a message.

How The Leaves Fall

...on a COMPLETELY unrelated note, if one submission doesn't work out, could someone apply for another one? Or will it be too late by the deadline?

@Zoey Boey

My advice would be if you really want to take part and your primary character might not work out, you can easily apply for a second, third slot and hedge your bets. As long as I can fill 5 slots with different people, I am happy.

How The Leaves Fall

If I were to apply for one of the tragic backstory characters, would you like said tragedy to tie into the series of unconnected murders somehow? Or would you prefer them to be unrelated?

@Kassarock

They can be connected. Sell it however you like and then when I get all the applications I will see what comes together.

How The Leaves Fall - A 18+ Murder Mystery RP

Right OOC is up - roleplayerguild.com/topics/184524-how…

How The Leaves Fall

Welcome to Westcliffe, A small town nestled neatly away between the peaks of Colorado, USA. Isolated from the rest of the world, Westcliffe is like an ecosystem all of its own. Few people visit, no one leaves. The result of the isolation of this small town had created a tight-knit community with distrust to outsiders. While the town does have formal leadership, the town is actually controlled by the DeWinter family, which if you believe all of the tales, is actually a witch coven, hiding away from the world. A tale, however, that everyone in the town believes.

The biggest event on the Westcliffe calendar is the fabled Halloween festival. The town goes all out and launches a massive festival, decorating the entire town with creepies and ghoulies. However the past 7 years or so, a dark secret has hung over the heads of the town. Something everyone acknowledges, but no one wants to talk about. Every year, on the night of the festival, or a day later, there has been a murder. Not to mention that people's behaviours seem to change during the build-up to the festival. What could be causing it? The murders don't seem related and each time the suspect has been caught, well, nearly most of the time. Nothing connects the murderers, nothing connects the victims, only that they all believe the DeWinters are responsible in some way.

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So, This is not your typical murder mystery RP. Things are not quite as they seem and everything you think you know is about to get thrown out of the window. This RP focuses mostly on the interactions of a bunch of seniors during their final year at school, across roughly a two week period.

Westcliffe Town
Westcliffe is a small mountain town located up in the flat plains between the Colorado mountains. With a population of just under 2,000 people, the community is relatively sealed off from the rest of the world. This doesn’t mean the town doesn’t have luxuries, it receives deliveries all the time, just hardly anyone moves in and no one moves out. Ever. Given the towns small nature, everyone seems to known everyone and their business. Nothing stays a secret for long, unless it pertains to the DeWinter family, then suddenly everything seems to be shrouded in mystery.

The local school is also extremely small given its size. Grades are largely bunched together into a single classroom order to save money on hiring lots of teachers. This is the case currently, where the Seniors, Juniors, Sophomore and Freshman years are all bunched together into a single class equaling 23 students.

The mainstay for the town is the Halloween festival, rather than go around and trick or treat, the whole town gathers on the local town square and high street to have a parade and festival, full of stalls and ceremonies. The festival is mired in tradition, which culminates in the final procession where the Heiress of the DeWinter Family walks down the street to the town square and lights 5 candles at the bottom of the base of the statue of the towns found; Lamorna Dewinter.

Characters
In terms of characters, the biggest group I would be willing to take for this is Six. The more I add, the more complex the system gets. Six feels like a comfortable number of players to achieve a nice balance. I probably should mention that all the characters are in high school, roughly 17/18. So these are the roles I currently have in mind:

DeWinter Heiress:
New Resident in town:
Tragic Backstory 1:
Tragic Backstory 2:
Standard Character 1:
Standard Character 2:

In terms of a character sheet, this one requires no special information. As such you are free to use any template you like to help you mold your character. I know some people like to create aesthetically pleasing ones to get into character or to give them long backstories. Obviously, we need the basics such as Name, Age, Appearance, Personality, but asides from that, write to your hearts content. For this RP don't worry about relationships etc, you will all be in the same class and that will be our reason for meeting up. Since I can only take 6 characters, I won't use length as a decider for being accepted, but more so I will how you make your character come to life

For those who struggle to come up with a character sheet of their own, I have this base you can you:

Template CS

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[h1][b][color=000000]Full Name Here[/color][/b][/h1]
Character Image Here - RL FC not Anime.
[/hr][i][color=000000]Character Quote[/color][/i][/hr]
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[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Gender[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Sexual Orientation:[/b]
[b]Position Applying For:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History/Bio:[/b]

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Rules and Information
So rules time:

• Standard Guild Rules apply, being courteous in OOC etc.
• Standard RP Rules apply also, so no godmodding and meta-gaming etc, that last one is very important in this game.
• For this RP, given the fact there will murders etc, it is going to be a strict, please be 18 or overrule. This RP is going to be dark at times.
• Post length will be a minimum of one decently written paragraph. I don't expect you to write an awful lot more, but I know some people find it easier than others.
• Post Cycle is once a week. I know that might seem rapid, but given the pace of the RP, and the smaller posts, I am hoping we can speed it up.
• If you can't post in a cycle do not worry, just let me know beforehand. I can use some magic to help you out.
• When your character dies, please do stay around, I can't spoil it, but I would love for you to stay as we might need you for some scenes.
• Don't reveal any private information sent to you by me to others. The whole point of this RP is you are trying to work out what everyone else is doing without giving yourself away in the process.
• Real Life FCs only please, just to keep things consistent.
• Character Submission Deadline is Sunday 10th January 12.00pm GMT. Successful applicants will be in PMed their instructions later in the day. Multiple people can submit characters for the same role. Please do not get offended if you do not get accepted.