Mitheral

Haunted Sorority House

@FrozenEcstasy Only works if we have at least a few others. By herself, a complete waste of time for the RP. Not trying to be mean, but think about it for a second. They went after Alex and Eric, because of Eric's reputation.

Now I did have a completely different estate setting where your character would fit, but the NPC's I had there wouldn't have cared for her much. There was one gay female, but she would have been utterly irritated by anyone childish.

Haunted Sorority House

LOL, I hate horror. If you recall Nexus Crawlers from the White Wolf rpg systems, that is the sort of things all around the house in the Umbra. Really nasty things to turn loose on a bunch of college kids. Not to worry though. I invented some less hazardous stuff to wet people's appetites if they get stupid and ignore the rules. Notice that I didn't actually click on Horror for the Tags.

Haunted Sorority House

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So maybe the party DID get a little too wild. It was sort of a Girls Gone Wild event. Your sorority house has been burned to the ground. Animal House had nothing on you. Now what were you going to do? You needed a place to sleep. You needed a place to study. Most of all you still needed a place to party. Right?

Okay, that wasn’t REALLY how it happened. Yes, there was a party. Yes things got a little wild. But the truth was the house had been ready to be condemned when they rented the place. The wiring hadn’t been up to code. The plumbing had leaked all the time. The HVAC barely worked. The floor was sinking in placed. It was practically a Section 8 building in need to of being torn down. But three were allegations that they had overloaded the wiring.

Okay, so three of them had been washing clothes (washing and drying). Two had been taking hot showers. The dishwasher was running. So were both microwaves, the blender, several TV’s, stereos, computers. Maybe they overdid it a little.

Well as it turned out, more than one of them knew a hunky part time student named Eric Blackwell. The guy was one of those hot guys no father wants his daughter bringing home. You know the type: always in trouble, rides a motorcycle, had a black book with the names and statistics of every girl in the school, often had more than one trying to hang off his arms. Only Erik wasn’t exactly like that. He worked as a handyman, chauffeur, cook, mechanic etc for one of the professors, Dr Alex Tanis.

Dr Alex Tanis was a young prodigy in linguistics and computer programming. His specialties were dead languages and decryption. Erik was in his early 20’s. Alex was all of 19 years old. (He got his PhD’s at age 16.) Alex had an ancestral estate a little north of Boston along with a couple thousand acres. His place was a haunted mansion. At least that’s what it looked like. He never even pulled the sheets off the furniture when he inherited the place at age 16. (He grew up in boarding schools and hardly ever saw his parents. He barely remembers them.) Cobwebs still hang off curtains even after 3 years of living there.

The place is absolutely creepy. Every mirror in the house is kept covered. The place is wired with white christmas lights along every walkway or lanterns. (Maybe this wasn’t such a great idea.

Rules of the Estate
Mirrors stay covered at night.

Use the night lights. There are flashlights in every room.

Noone enters the Off Limits area of the Library. It is filled with rare and irreplaceable literatures dating back centuries.

No unauthorized use of the classic cars. (He has a huge collection going all the way back to the Model T up a 1970 Electra Glide.)

Do NOT disturb any webs for any reason. Do not harm any arachnids. That means spiders if you didn’t know. If one is bothering you, call Eric - not Alex. You MAY however, throw crickets, flies and such in the webs. In fact, that’s a pretty good idea. A fed spider is a happy spider.

Noone goes to the basement without an escort from Alex or Eric.

Alex: “Eric, I’m not so sure this was such a great idea. What if she EATS one of them?”

Posting
I listed Advanced and Casual both. Really I am looking for a mix. For interaction I am happy enough with Casual. I tend to do advanced regardless. But I do not want to intimidate folks. Those of you accustomed to Advanced, please make some allowances. Part of this is to give people who aren’t quite up to advanced levels of writing a chance to work on those skills.

I am looking for members to post at least every day or two.

Try to post in a way that others can respond to. Don’t just react to someone else’s post. Try to do so, but come back with something that prokes a response. Don’t copy people’s posts back to them.

Character Sheets
Yes, you will all need one. No animated gifs please. (Bad eyesight here. If you do use one, place it in a hider.) I normally prefer photos, but higher quality (realistic, not cutesy toon) anime works.

As these are college characters, you should note your majors, how far along you are. Interests, hobbies, habits, family issues,

Plots
Well, there are the obvious romance plots possible. Yes, the place is really haunted. There is a demon living there. But that demon protects the house. The estate is also surrounded by Nephanic creatures in the Umbra (hence that silly rule about mirrors). So there is a HORROR element to this story.

The basement has a portal that is the passageway to a mantle, a sort of pocket dimension in what another version of the estate exists. Alex is a very powerful mage in that mantle. Outside, in the mundane world, not so much.

Guys Like Us Don't Get the Girl

“Tent? Oh. I was just going to say, I have plenty of room in my tent. In fact, your tent would fit in one of the rooms with extra space to spare. It would be like camping indoors.” He laughed, then stopped. “Okay, I am being mean. I should not make fun of your tent. But I bet it seems a lot smaller than the last time you used it. I would guess about 11-12 years since you set it up last.”

Duncan winced. He probably shouldn’t have been that specific. But he had figured her current age, then backtracked to mid teen years. She was close to her father. Odds were he had taken her camping a lot. But once she had hit the mid teens, her dad had taken a second place to other things in her life.

He decided to change the subject fast. “I’ll go ahead and get a fire started.” He adjusted his Ray Bans. “Marshmallows are one of the major food groups on camping trips. Though I have never been a Smores fan. I like the marshmallows by themselves - trying to see how browned I can get one without burning it.” Another fish started hopping out of the water and yanking on his pole. Duncan winced. “And you might be right about dinner. That’s pretty much enough for both of us with baked potatoes.”

Once Duncan got distracted with making dinner he became distant, almost distracted, as if his mind was a million miles away…

Duncan viewed the scene below him - or rather his drone suit. Hundreds of acres of land was ablaze. It was a wildfire in southern California. He mapped out the fire, projected its spread based on prevailing winds. Then he mapped out a strategy for extinguishing it. The first thing he needed was a heat sink though - somewhere to transfer the heat to. He located several swimming pools and sent out drones to receive the heat transfers. Finally he ordered his suit to swoop in…

Universal Remote (M X F multi genre)

The premise for this one is simple. It is inspired by several movies. But here are the most prominent.

Click
Last Action Hero
Stay Tuned
Pleasantville

It begins when a guy and girl argue over a universal remote and end up zapping themselves into TV Land. The remote goes with them, so they do have some control over where they go - so long as they aren’t fighting over it. With each attempt to control the program change each of us will need to make a choice. If they are different, there is a conflict of interest. If it is wildly different, it is a hostile conflict. Ultimately I will determine the results. Partly I will try to use both ideas and blend them. It will be funny to try and mix a chick flick and a man cave action movie.

Whatever they do, they can’t lose the remote. Even if they do, it will eventually cross their paths again.

There will be no toon settings or B&W. Everything is in color and lifelike. However, Hollywood physics will apply based on the setting. They may find themselves taking on the roles of characters in movies - but as themselves. Unfortunately, the one thing they can’t alter is their own knowledge. So while they might become Iron Man, they won’t have his brilliant mind. But hey, flying around in a suit of armor is pretty cool. Don’t forget, along with the cool suit come some pretty nasty enemies and frienemies.

Westerns, Sci Fi, Action Drama, Comedy, “chick flicks”, disaster movies, fantasy, educational TV. They are all possible. Oh … and they will bet mood music. You know how the scary music starts when bad things are about to happen? Yep! Same will happen here when appropriate. In a Comedy, they may get a cue for laughter. And there will be cool sound effects.

But I should warn you, you can die in this RP. Say, if you enter an Aliens movie and one of those egg layer critters gets its tentacles on you. If the egg hatches, you die. You will need to leave the movie fast.

You may get teleported from time to time. You know how in a comedy scene some guy might argue about his rights to a cop and how they can’t do this? The scene may suddenly cut to standing in front of a height chart having your picture taken - and you with a black eye, then again to a jail scene before you can say boo. Never mind exactly how it happened.

TBD (ie we need to decide this before the RP starts)
- How the pair know each other.
- Their relationship to begin with (love / hate / annoyance)
- How they ended up arguing over the Remote to begin with.
- PM's or Forum based RP?

***One thought I had was having them at some friend’s house at a party, or group study session. Or maybe in a coed college dorm day room.

CS - I will be looking for a basic CS. A pic would be good. (PLEASE, no animated gifs - or hide them from the text. Bad eyes on my part.) I like to have some idea what my character is looking at.

Posting - I am looking for someone who can post on a steady basis. They must be able to contribute to the plot. While I prefer Advanced, this RP is going to be tougher to write like that - especially at first.

When the scary music starts playing, run like Hell

I am looking for a steady paced, long term, 1x1 MxF RP.
Note that I didn't pick any particular tags.

What I am NOT looking for:
Fandoms
Dark themes
Combat oriented or PvP
Anything I need to go out and read a 1000 pages book to get the gist. (I work 70 hours a week with bad eyesight.)
Psychos

What I AM looking for:
Steady writing pace
A Setting and initial situation
Well conceived characters, not 2D cutouts.
Something more detailed in its conception than School's Smart Guy meets Cheerleader and gets stuck with her as lab partner. (Okay, maybe this one mirror's real life too much. Hey, I didn't mind. But it isn't much to base an RP on.)

Bleh subjects:
Fantasy
Done to death cliche stuff (sparkly Twilight vamps, lycans ... zombies ...)
Woe is me, the world has gone to hell and a handbasket. (I have never understood how people can simply give up after a disaster. Get over it already and move on. Mourning about it doesn't keep you alive.
Steampunk
Horror

I may edit this a bit as I go, but this will do for now.

Not If You Were the Last (MxF)

Well, I may have accelerated her departure in terms of posts. At this point you could just about post her leaving and return in a single post.

I won't really have much to write for Duncan. For him it will be back to business as usual, though now he may make up his mind to leave.

Not If You Were the Last (MxF)

Duncan looked at Darlene with a hardened look, almost pained. But he slowly nodded his acceptance. He kept his voice even. “Alright.” He slowly smiled and held up the 4D Skeleton Key. “Pick locks …. Right. So … you didn’t need …” He grunted a laugh at himself. “Well, thanks for humoring me. And I was so proud of this thing.”

He sighed. “Well, I hope you will take some advice about what to take.

“A. A 10 speed bike. Just toss one in the back so you have something to get around once the car breaks down. I give it about 50 miles if you try to do everything on your own and don’t accept any help.” Duncan tried not to sound sullen.

“B. Water. We are surrounded by scrub desert. South follow the Rio Grande. You came from the North, so unless you plan to backtrack, south is it for water being a short distance away. Avoid the river or be really careful, especially near any areas where there were zoos. People let all the Zoo animals go rather than leaving them to starve. Watering holes are a favorite for predators.

“C. As much of these fresh fruits and veggies as you think you can use before they go bad. I can barely eat all this stuff myself as it is. Take, don’t. I don’t care. Just good advice.

“D. One of my Go Bags. Plenty of ammo. You seem to like a pistol. I favor a rifle myself. Again take or don’t. I don’t care.

“I am sure you can figure the rest out for yourself. If you come across isolated groups who have never been exposed to the Plague - avoid them. You are resistant. Odds are they won’t be and you will kill them all just by saying hello. I probably know more about the Plague than anyone you are likely to meet. For example, noone is immune But you and I are Resistant. We probably both got sick. Then we got better and everyone chocked it up to Flu or Common Cold and we thought we were Immunes. Only about 1 in a million will be ‘Immunes.’ Most will be in North America and Europe. That’s about 70,000 people. And some of those have died of starvation, violence, and even failed experimentation. Too many of us just don’t know how to take care of ourselves.

“There is a prayer you should remember:

God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change.
The Courage to change the things I can.
And the Wisdom to know the difference.

“You will be welcome back if you choose to do so. But I won’t be here much longer. I don’t know what your problems are. But if you decide to come back, leave your problems in the desert. If you want to talk about them with a living person, I am right here.”

After that he was silent and went back to harvesting the garden.

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I remember. But ... like I said ... memory like a sieve. If I waited for that, I would end up staring at the field blankly and just think ... "There was something I wanted to say ..." So far though, this site is better than the old one I was on.

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