Paranormal Happenings

ODSTDRAGON

ODSTDRAGON
Something strange is happening in the town. Nobody knows why. Time to find out.

You can make a character sheet short and simple or detailed.

I'll drop a spoiler right now that your characters can't know.

The period is set from the 30's to present day. Allowing a character to be from any of those times. As it is a small town there isn't to many weapons out side of an axe or Knife. The inspired style is whatever the characters feel. Meaning if one wants to be a noir they can. It won't really matter as the atomosphere is flat and unchanging. Other than as it progresses it gets more and more thin.

Figures are sometimes seen about the place, awful noises sometimes resound about the town, and occasional hulking objects appears as if from thin air.

The strange happenings are entire houses and groups of people vanishing without a trace and for no reason, at least no logically explainable reason. Have fun conspirators.

Character sheets:
Name:
Age:
Date of birth:
Date of crossing into the town:
Time period:
Resident/Visitor?
Ethnicity:
Short little story / about char:
Description or pic:
Instresting facts or qualifications: ( Retired soldier, former lawyer etc.)
Personality:
When and how they died: ( They shouldn't realize this)
Important object /place/bones/person/event:
 
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That's the entire point. It's set up to reflect the true nature of the rp.
It's a mystery so best to make it mysterious!
 
We need more than this to get interested, man. As littlemankitted said, there's nothing here to get anyone interested. Our characters coming in have to know something, have to have some background. There needs to be at least a little bit explaining the setting, at the very least.

So, you mentioned in tags its modern, and supernatural. SO I'm going to go off the assumption that this is a paranormal story, ghosts or vampires or demons or whatever, something spooky and occult is going down.

Now, is this set in the present day, 2017? Is it in the 90's? 80'? Are you going for a bit of a grungy, noir type deal and its set in the 40's, with trenchcaor fedora private detecitves, smoking cigarettes, and chasing down vampires with six shooters? At the absolute base, we can get a time period. It helps with making characters so much.

Now, what about this town? Is it some random, small farming town in the midwest of a couple hundred? It is a secluded, but decently sized town in the heavily wooded areas of the northwest? Or is it a suburban town on the outskirts of a metropolis? Can we at least get the name of it? Or do we randomly and mysteriously wake up in it?

How about the activities themselves? We have to know a bit more than 'unusual.' Is it just some ghost town with mildly disturbing happenings, like weird drafts, reports of levitating objects and strange noises? Is it darker than that, with animals being found missing or mutilated, and strange things being found, like dead swaths of land, burned objects, or weird totems? Or is it really dark, with occult symbols written in blood, missing people, and what not? There has to be some reason that our characters would show up, beyond 'unusual.' We need at least a little something to go on. Or are our characters all supposed to be residents or visitors of this town, who witness everything unfold from the very beginning?

Just some ideas on what to say to give people a little more to go on. Right now, I don't think anyone is going to join, simply because of lack of details. A character sheet template would also be nice.
 
It is much better now, to be honest. It could use more, but ultimately, it's up to you to balance mysteriousness and detail and intrigue.
 
It is much better now, to be honest. It could use more, but ultimately, it's up to you to balance mysteriousness and detail and intrigue.
It's my first real roleplay I'm gming so I'm really nervous and not to use to how to properly detail this. As well as trying not to give away the twist for this.
 
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