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The Town That Takes All

Hey! I saw your group goal size was 4 and that you've reached that, but I figured I'd chance it and submit a character sheet just in case you were accepting one more!

My Hider

Name:
Jane Wilder

Age:
24

Profession:
Software Developer

Top 2 personality traits:
Jane is very quick to call the shots in any given situation, never one to simply idle around and wait for someone else to make the decisions. However, she is also very quick to anger, especially if she's without a drink.

Biggest Fear:
Loss of control - be that through bondage, tight spaces, authority, it doesn't matter; any loss of control is terrifying to her.

Three items you have with you:
A swiss army knife that she keeps on her at all times. Flask filled with what she jokingly refers to as her medicine; one quick sniff would reveal that 'medicine' to be vodka. A stained, badly kept photo of her as a child on her fathers laugh, smiling wide - interestingly, her father's face has been scratched beyond recognition, although Jane would swear she never caused the damage.

Bonds:
Her father, Ben Wilder - although Jane doesn't remember much about her father, as he died when she was young, she remembers loving him deeply. He was the reason she became a software developer, and if she can't help but taste bile every time she thinks too much of him, or feel her chest tighten any time someone mentions his name, well, that was nothing vodka couldn't soften the edges of.
Her mother, Laura Byrne. Although overprotective to the point of suffocation, Jane always knew her mother loved her, even when that love became stifling after leaving her husband. Once Jane moved out, they continued to speak every day, although she can't help but to feel her mother had been hiding something from her her entire life.

Character Flaws:
Jane would not perceive her relationship with alcohol as any sort of character flaw. If anything, she prided herself on being the life of the party, always willing to have a good time. Her dependence cannot be denied, however, and this comes with its own set of problems. Beyond this, she is quick to anger and very guarded, letting very few people get close. She has many friends, has had many lovers, but not one of them knows her truly.

How and why did your character get to Silent Hill:
Jane has had a connection to Silent Hill since her conception - it was there that her parents had met and fallen in love, a month of reckless ghost hunting that ended in a pregnancy and a shotgun marriage. She grew up hearing stories of this town from both her father and her mother, and it was there that her father had disappeared after her parents divorce. The police had found his body floating on the lake weeks after his disappearance, an image that Jane had seen plastered in the papers, on the TV, on her mothers phone as a news advertisement. It's this image that she couldn't get out of her head, even as years mellowed out the pain and replaced it with anger, even still as that anger got tempered and dulled by parties and affairs, careers and failures. It should have been no surprise, then, that after a night of celebrating her new promotion, she found herself driving to Silent Hill - life could temper the pain, dull the anger, blur the image with a painters hand, but she always knew she would end up here. The gates of the Town that Takes All, here to demand answers as to why it took her father.

Bio:
If anyone was to ask Jane about her childhood, she would shrug and say it was normal, happy - the years before her tenth birthday were still her fondest memories, colored by childhood innocence and the love of her parents. Even once her parents divorced, her mother had made sure she wanted for nothing, acting the role as both mother and father. One thing Jane could never quite puzzle out, however, is the slightly plastic quality these memories took when she looked back on them. For her, looking back on her childhood felt like watching a movie, or a recreation - sure, it all seemed real enough, right up until you squinted at the cracks in the façade. She could never remember her father's face in these memories, or any time where they had truly bonded or had any experiences together. If she thought too hard about her father, she would find herself faced with a sense of dread, or disgust, and these emotions would again bleed to anger at her lack of understanding of why she felt the way she did.

Beyond her childhood, her teenage years were troubled. Living up to her surname, Jane was certainly wild - she had turned to drink by age 14, dabbled with drugs before deciding she hated the loss of control by 16, had more notches on her bedpost by 18 than most people would hit in their lifetime. It was a miracle she made it through high school at all, so consumed in the party scene that she neglected nearly every other aspect of her life. It was only through one of her countless interrogations of her mother about what her father was like that she finally found a passion for something other than drink - computers. Her father had been a skilled software engineer, working on numerous life-changing technologies and innovations, and it was through her desire to feel closer to him that she fell into the same path. Although it began as something to remind her of her father, it became more than that. A genuine and real passion for development made her truly skilled at what she did, and it was no wonder that it led to her being the youngest in her company to be promoted to Senior Software Engineer merely one year out of college. It was almost enough to even make her feel happy.

Almost.

Physical description:

Although Jane looked like her mother in nearly every other way, it was her fiery red hair that she took from her father. Her hazel eyes are wide and doe-like, although the deep bags under them took away any child-like quality they may have once held. Her skin is the sort of pale that betrays her nearly nocturnal lifestyle, although no amount of late-night partying and sleeping the days away would ever truly get rid of the freckles that covered her face. She is unathletic and lanky in stature, - although tall at 6ft, she is all awkward angles and pointy limbs, her diet of cornflakes and vodka not quite enough to allow her to fill out or gain any sort of muscle.

Insanity Score:
TBA

@scaredydork

Looking forward to having you in! Character accepted and good to go :)

@cloaked @dragonfly 9 Will you all be posting IC this week?

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Kaitlyn Finch

Name: Kaitlyn Finch
Age: 19
Profession: None, for now.
Top 2 personality traits: A normally hotblooded and adventurous soul, who claims not to fear anything.
Biggest Fear: Fear of Fire
Three items you have with you (Other than clothing-either profession based or related to your reason for being in Silent Hill): Uncle Tony's Letter, a lumberjack axe, and some trail mix
Bonds: Uncle Tony(Kaitlyn's uncle who, despite grieving his wife's death, always put on a brave face for Kaitlyn and encouraged her to keep trying, no matter what); Abigail and Tony Finch(Dead.)
Character Flaws (may be self-percieved): Reckless, Cocky, and Short Tempered. Deeply loyal to her uncle, and would be absolutely devastated if something happened to him.
How and why did your character get to Silent Hill: One evening, Kaitlyn came into her and Uncle Tony's home after a long day of chopping wood, and her uncle was nowhere to be found. All she could find was a letter, telling Kaitlyn that he was going over to Silent Hill in order to find his wife. Many alarms bells rang in Kaitlyn's head when she read this, and an hour later, she ran into Silent Hill herself in order to find Uncle Tony, not knowing the horrors that lied within the ghost town.
Bio: Kaitlyn used to live a normal childhood with her parents, and would've continued living a normal childhood if a fire hadn't burned her house down and killed both of her parents. The cause of the fire was unknown, and little Kaitlyn thankfully got out alive, but the fire had also deeply scarred her both physically and emotionally, and Kaitlyn was never the same after that.

It was Uncle Tony who took her in, and, after driving Kaitlyn to his lakeside home that was somewhat close to Silent Hill, Uncle Tony started teaching his niece all about living out in the wilderness, first aid, and generally survival. The two of them grew very close, but the loss of his wife still took its toll on Uncle Tony regardless, and sometimes, he sat on his patio and stared in the direction of Silent Hill, seeming to be contemplating something...

Physical description (Can be a picture if you wish): Blond hair, blue eyes, and a tall and muscular stature. Kaitlyn is still shorter than older adults, but is still taller than other 19 year olds. Usually wears corduroy and plaid, and jeans and boots. Has mostly healed burn scars over her arms and face.
Insanity Score (leave blank until you start gaining insanity points in game):

@Dragonfly 9

Awesome, character accepted!

@Searat

I see what you did there in your post and I LOVE the reference! It made me smile :D

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Map of Silent Hill (updated as we explore):

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"Through this fog they came along...dark creatures, singing a terrible song..."

Darren Linus stared at the rusted wooden sign in front of him, the paint starting to peel off, wood worn down and rotting. Turning his gaze up at the sky, he frowned, eyebrows furrowing and jaw clenched. The night was clear, but the sun had dipped low behind the mountains in the distance. Early evening, the darkness was fast approaching. But he couldn't leave her out here. Reaching down, he took the leather dog collar from his belt, looking at it, concern etched in his slightly wrinkled face. Kali, his German Shephard, was somewhere out there. He sighed, took a step forward.

The rest of the bar had laughed at the him, but I felt my hope grow dim. They found him dead, the very next day. "No more stories from him", I'd heard them say.

Daren Linus thought back to the bar where he sat, alone, drinking down a bottle of whisky. He'd overheard the conversation from those talking about the story on the news, a story apparently involving a regular patron.

They had blamed bad luck on his fate...but I felt terror...so great.

The man had disappeared around this town. The abandoned, derelict ghost town that Darren now stood before, his eyes glancing the sign up and down. "WELCOME TO SILENT HILL." A town where people go missing. A town locals call haunted. A town that has been cordoned off, and it is considered trespassing to enter. And this town is where poor Kali had taken off when she slipped her collar.

"Goddamn it," he muttered under his breath. Fastening the collar back to his belt, Darren sighed again and took a step forward. Then another. And another. Walking down the main road leading into the eerie town of Silent Hill. He just wanted to find Kali, and get back home, preferably before it got any darker. It wasn't that he was afraid of the dark or anything silly like that. Hell, he didn't really even know why he felt horrified watching that news story in the bar, overhearing the locals talking of the man that was found dead nearby. He just wanted to get home and go to bed, he'd been hiking all day. He was beat, tired. Worn.

And so Darren strode down the main road, seeing the decaying and worn buildings up ahead, the town casting it's silhouette against the darkening evening sky. Not wanting to spend hours searching for the dog, he yelled as loud as he could: "KALI!!! KALI, COME!!!" His voice echoed, trailing off into the distance. He listened. No familiar paw-steps could be heard rapidly approaching. The furry little bullet he loved was not dashing towards him at full speed like she always did when he called for her. He would be lying to himself if he were to say he wasn't concerned, worried for her. After all, she could get herself into trouble, rummaging around these old buildings--some of which were on the verge of collapse, as old as they were without anyone to maintain them.

And so he moved on, walking down the road, the sound of his footsteps on worn concrete the only audible noise breaking the stillness of the evening, as the man began the search for his trusted, furry friend.

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Silent Hill // Austin

Name: Austin Adams

Age: 21

Profession: College Student, Cashier, Small-Town Actor

Top 2 personality traits: Always one to persevere, no matter the circumstances ; Fails to plan ahead, which can often lead him to trouble.

Biggest Fear: Thalassophobia (Fear of water, primarily deep or murky water)

Three items you have with you: Smartphone, digital camera (alongside a strap), metal hip flask full of clean water

Bonds: Jonathan Clarke (Classmate, friends since elementary school), Lizzie Loomis (Classmate, friends since elementary school), Amanda Adams (Mother)

Character Flaws (may be self-perceived): Austin is quite stubborn, and while this can be a valuable trait to have, it also comes with its fair share of drawbacks. It isn't uncommon for Austin to fail, only to throw himself at the problem once more at the first opportunity. he fails to learn his lesson, at least without someone to persuade him to move on. Austin does these things because he feels the need to surmount his problems, to prove to himself and others that he can overcome anything, even if he's way out of his depth.

How and why did your character get to Silent Hill: Austin is a film student, taking photography classes on the side. For this class, he needs to take photos for various projects. When an assignment calls for photos of a local landmark, most students merely found an old statue or sign to take a photo of. However, pressured by the others in his group, and not believing in the horrors of the town, Austin marches down to Silent Hill, slipping past the fence. The town wasn't far from his own, and his group offered to drive him to the town. Due to the circumstances, they dropped him off a mile away, promising to be back for him... in the morning. Despite his protests, they drove away, laughing. With a sigh, Austin began his walk to Silent Hill.

Bio: Austin had a relatively bland childhood. He was raised by his single mother, his father having left before he was born. Though she had to work quite a bit, his mother had a great deal of financial aid, meaning that life was fairly smooth. Austin was never a social butterfly, only having a small group of close-knit friends, though was content with what he had. During high school, Austin joined the drama club, falling in love with theatre along the way.

As a budding actor, Austin got quite a few major parts in his high school productions. He was charismatic, at least on stage, and enjoyed the entire process. Auditions, rehearsals, and finally, the show... like clockwork, and he loved it. Eventually, he left his high school days behind, going on to pursue a college education, with local acting gigs on the side. Though he hasn't been in anything bigger than shows at his local community center, he enjoys this line of work.

College is going well for Austin. He does above average in his classes, those being general studies and photography, and actually quite enjoys them. His photography group, while enjoyable most of the time, often use him for their own gain, something that lead to Austin's arrival in Silent Hill. While Austin notices their treatment of him, he never tries to speak up, hoping to gain their respect.

Physical Description:

Insanity Score: TBA

@Cloaked

Accepted!

Okay everyone, I'll post the introduction post at some point tomorrow and we can get ready to have some fun!

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I'll have my CS in later today!

@Cloaked

HYYYYPPPE!!!

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Silent Hill

[Name]: Franklin Stoney

[Age]: 30

[Profession]: Veterinarian

[Top 2 personality traits]: A mild mannered and soft-spoken individual; generally quite shy.

[Biggest Fear]: Severely Claustrophobic

[Three items you have with you (Other than clothing-either profession based or related to your reason for being in Silent Hill)]: His wallet with a worn and faded family picture within, Smart Phone, First Aid Kit

[Bonds]: Eris C. Stoney (A woman with Mediterranean heritage that was his Highschool sweetheart and later on his wife), Randall W. Dash (An extroverted Asian-American man that has been best friends with Franklin since he adopted him to his friend group back in Middle School.) Uncle Tom Stoney (The one responsible for saving Franklin. A tall but rotund man that worked overseas as a civil engineer.)

[Character Flaws (may be self-perceived)]: Low self-confidence causes him to doubt his decisions and regularly berate himself for mistakes; even insignificant ones. He has terminal insomnia and usually wakes up earlier than needed but is incapable of going back to sleep.

[How and why did your character get to Silent Hill]: Franklin, after having a discussion turn into a heated argument with Eris, drives off in an unusual anger from their suburban home in Brahms. A couple hours into the drive, he arrives to an observation deck overlooking Toluca Lake and it's towns. Despite having no business in the area, an unknown force drew him closer and closer to the town of Silent Hill.

[Bio]: Most folk would pass by Franklin and consider him to be one of the dime a dozen nobodies they've seen countless times in their life. But he's had one helluva fiasco of an excuse of a childhood. How could they? To them he was just another random nobody they'll likely never see again.

Franklin was born as the only child of Marcus Stoney, a renowned and skilled doctor, and Alexis Stoney, a frail but adventurous and nature loving woman. For a good majority of his childhood it was relatively normal, but when he was 8 years old his mother got sick with an incurable disease. It became his father's obsession to try save his wife at any cost. In this dark time, Franklin's only solace was his pets. No matter how good a doctor his father was, he was still human and failed to save his wife, leading him to alcohol abuse and to resent young Franklin.

Franklin didn't understand why it was his fault. Just that it was. His father yelled at him daily, berated him for every little mistake the boy made. If he spoke up against his father or tried to fight back, he'd be beaten and locked into a musty closet for the rest of the day. Killing his pets, and sometimes making the boy kill them himself whenever his father 'felt' like he deserved more punishment after being locked in the closet. Swearing that if Franklin ever tried to tell the police or his other relatives, he'd lock him in the closet and throw away the key. This happened for two more years until his father made a mistake.

His uncle Tom recently came back from working abroad and made an impromptu visit to his brother and nephew. His father had passed out from the night's drinking and uncle Tom, being family and all, let himself in. Uncle Tom found Franklin in the closet and called the cops on his brother...no...whatever monster that was pretending to be his brother. Ten minutes later, his father was arrested and the nightmare was over. Uncle Tom adopted him and moved far away from his old home. To Brahms where he could begin again.

But the suffering never stopped. His shy and meek personality caused him to become the prime target for bullying. But another righteous soul saved him. Randall W. Dash. School life became unbelievably bearable with Randy around. He was Franklin's rock in school. Even helped him get together with Eris in the later years. Got a degree and everything for him to have a normal adult life. Things were going well.

Then his father died and Eris and him got into an argument weather or not they should attend the funeral service and if he was allowed to be buried alongside his wife.

[Physical description (Can be a picture if you wish)]:

Standing at a slightly above average 5'8, Franklin is not an individual that stands out in a crowd. Not that he wants to anyway. He wears a simple green windbreaker over his usual sleeping attire; a simple white t-shirt with grey jogging pants and a pair of slippers that resemble bass.

[Insanity Score (leave blank until you start gaining insanity points in game)]:

@Searat

ooh very nice! Character accepted :D

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Which faceclaims would you prefer, drawn or realistic?

@Cloaked

Either is fine, whatever you prefer :)

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Current Status: Closed

Insanity Scores

Darren Linus:0
Kaitlyn Finch:0
Franklin Stoney:0
Austin Adams:0
Jane Wilder:0
Denise Ryan:0

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Name: Darren Linus

Age: 42

Profession: Retired 1st Sgt, US Army

Top 2 personality traits: Hates crowds, and will do what he can to stay away from them. Does not trust people easily, and is often short with people; he doesn't let people get too close

Biggest Fear: Absolutely terrified of explosions and loud noises.

Three items you have with you (Other than clothing-either profession based or related to your reason for being in Silent Hill): A dog collar that he wears around his belt (dog tags on the collar have the name 'Kali' etched in them). KA-BAR knife sheathed on his right side. Bear spray.

Bonds: Kali, his German Shephard who has a limp not unlike Darren.

Character Flaws (may be self-percieved): Swears--a LOT. Because of his distant nature, he seems uncaring and cold--and often treats people badly in order to drive them away and not let them get close.

How and why did your character get to Silent Hill: He was hiking with Kali on a trail not too far away from Silent Hill, when his dog Kali started dashing away towards the town. Darren almost caught her, but she slipped her collar. Following her trail, he ended up in the Town that Takes All.

Bio: Darren Linus isn't quite broken, but he is about as close as you can get. A military veteran, Darren lost his friends to the Iraq War. His first tour, his dog Kali was injured--saving Darren's life, almost dying herself. Because of a grievous injury to her leg, she forever walks with a limp. Darren couldn't let her be adopted by just anyone after that. He adopted her himself and brought her home. But he was deployed again barely a year later, so off he went while she stayed behind with a colleague.

It was in that second and final deployment that Darren's life shifted drastically. It was a dark night, when the ambush happened. His patrol was hit by a roadside bomb. Several died in the blast, but not Darren. He was badly injured, having taken quite a lot of shrapnel to his leg. Bleeding, his leg broken from the impact, he joined his unit in making for the nearby hills--gunshots and the enemy hot on their heels. His entire squad, including his best friend, Kyle Ward, was killed that day with Darren the sole survivor. He dragged himself, injured and bleeding, back to the FOB and was subsequently treated for his injuries.

Darren suffered permanent damage to his right leg and was med-boarded with full honors and given one final promotion from Sergeant First Class to First Sergeant. However, the scars of war left him a changed man. Suffering an injury not unlike Kali's, he grew closer with the dog, and leaned on the German Shephard for support. But he was afraid now. Loud sounds. Bangs. Fireworks. Large crowds. They all terrified him, threw him into panic attacks. Then there's the matter of his fuzzy memory of the time. The days he spent in the hills making his way back to the FOB were a blur in his mind. He has suffered no memory issues since, but he constantly picks at himself for being the only survivor. He should have done more, could have done more--and he blames himself for the loss of his friends. So he spends his days in a little shack of his own, on the cities edge, and spends a lot of time with nature--the only place he can find peace.

When he's not sitting by himself going about a dull and boring day, he is hiking with Kali, exploring the forests and trails, losing himself in the wilds before returning home to suffer more nightmares and memories.

Physical description (Can be a picture if you wish): A somewhat tall man at 5'11, he has short hair and a clean shaven, rough face. He has scars across his right cheek and next to his eye--parting gifts from the attack on his patrol that left lasting injuries to his leg. He typically wears blue jeans and nondescript black sweater, with a dark jean jacket. He still wears his dog tags around his neck-and the dog tags of each of the 7 men of his squad he lost in the war. He carries a carved dark oak walking stick, the head in the shape of an owl; his unit's symbol, and walks with a very noticeable and somewhat heavy limp.

Insanity Score (leave blank until you start gaining insanity points in game):