Misty Gray
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Realistic or Modern A Family Affair: The Irish Mob - OOC (Ended)
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Ah yeah that's probably it. I'll just have to be patient!
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
Damn. I miss the hearts and the pencil and the picture frame already.
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Same. Feels wrong to be reading all the posts without giving out little signs of approval. I'll have to go over them again tomorrow 
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Presuming they'll have it sorted by then...
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
*like* ^
Haha.
Haha.
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Celebratory hearts all round!
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
Yayyy. Everything looks cute again.
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
I'll do my replies in a few hours, when I get home from work.
I'll give Ryan a chance for response before I post Arlene.
I'll give Ryan a chance for response before I post Arlene.
Shireling
A Servant of King and Country
So I'm gonna be working on an RP involving a murder mystery on an island in Louisiana in 1919, does that sound interesting to anyone?
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
Aye, just let us know and I'll take a look.
Any replies coming up. I've been a bit slow the last couple of days. I went back to work and it had me drained.
Any replies coming up. I've been a bit slow the last couple of days. I went back to work and it had me drained.
Shireling
A Servant of King and Country
Alright coolio. I took the liberty of writing up a summary and a list of needed characters and points of interest yesterday. Still not done but worth a look:
Point St. Nasaire, Louisiana. 1919.
The small island of Point St. Nasaire thirty miles south of New Orleans has been a popular summer retreat for wealthy city-dwellers since the 1850's, but following the end of the Great War and the outbreak of Spanish Flu in 1918 only a few of the regular inhabitants took the ferry back to the sequestered island. Among these were the Verlaines, an ancient Creole dynasty that had made their money in fur trading when the land was just opening up to European trade and had maintained their wealth by shrewd investment, and the Penshursts, an Anglo-American family with heavy investments in manufacturing warships that had made their fortune in the Spanish-American War twenty years prior.
While both families had a distaste for one another because of deep-seated racial and cultural animosities between the family patriarchs, they were both regarded as well-meaning and respectable by the island's local Cajun population, among whom the Delacroix family was the most prominent due to their owning the island's fishery and canning facility which provided it with a major export. They were regarded with more hostility by the Lawrences, a family of Native Americans founded by the prominent Colonel John Lawrence (given name Paquakenye) who had led a battalion of Cherokee in the Confederate Army.
As the Penshursts and Verlaines stepped off the ferry to reclaim their summer estates in May of 1919, however, they soon found themselves put upon by the Cajun hired help who talked in animated terms and with palpable dread about a string of murders that had occurred only a few weeks prior, all gruesome slashing murders. Because the ferry ran so seldom, it was reasonable to believe the killer was still on the island. What more, the islanders seemed more and more convinced that the killings could be blamed on the supernatural. For the Cajun islanders, it was the work of the fantastical loup'garou. To the island's Carib and Creek natives, it was the dreaded "skinwalker." To the Anglo-Americans, however, it was a man cloaked in the pseudoreligious bunk of the natives.
By the end of May, the ferry had arrived again bearing two detectives from New Orleans to investigate the murders. While several of the islanders and the vacationers attempted to flee aboard the ferry, the Louisiana State Police had issued an order barring all movement to or from the island. The hunt was on for a murderer, be he spirit or flesh and blood.
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Required Characters:
Monsieur Verlaine: a middle-aged or older Creole gentleman
Madame Verlaine: his wife (can be of any background)
Verlaine Child: of any age
Mr. Penshurst: a severe Northern aristocrat with a disdain for the Verlaines due to their Catholicism (cultural or practiced) and their mulatto heritage
Mrs. Penshurst: his wife
Penshurst Child: of any age
Monsieur Delacroix: a middle-aged French Cajun and veteran fisherman
Madame Delacroix: his second wife, married four years ago after the death of his first wife
Delacroix Child: of any age
Mr. Lawrence: a young or middle-aged Cherokee man with both a native and Anglicized name, can be pro-European or resentful towards Europeans
Mrs. Lawrence: his wife
Lawrence Child: of any age
Detective: a young detective from New Orleans who has never worked a murder, has scientific proclivities
State Police Inspector: an older (by some degree) policeman from the Louisiana State Police, is less skeptical about a supernatural explanation for the murders
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Additional and Minor Characters:
Ferryman: a mulatto or Cajun ferryman who pilots the only ship that goes from New Orleans to St. Nasaire
Town Policemen/Volunteers: a town constable or volunteers from the town assisting the investigation
Shaman: a shaman or medicine woman who lives in the southern swamps of the island and is assumed by the Cajun majority to be a witch
Additional Children (for any of the families)
Maids, Butlers, or Servants and Staff
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Locations and Points of Interest:
Briarheart Manor: a creaking antebellum plantation house once owned by a slavedriver who farmed the island for spice, the summer home of the Penshursts
The Verlainage: the colloquial name for Verlaine House, the summer retreat of the Verlaines. It is a more modern house with a low brick wall surrounding a vineyard and retains a small staff of mulatto groundskeepers
Delacroix House: a smaller manor on stilts that overlooks the eastern shore near the cannery
Lawrence House: a large white house built after the Civil War by Colonel Lawrence as the permanent home for his family, largely unremarkable save for a uniquely high turret on the eastern side and a Presbyterian chapel
St. Nasaire: the only municipality on Point St. Nasaire, a small fishing village of around a thousand people. The town contains a general store, a small restaurant, Catholic and Episcopal churches, and the fishery and cannery off to the eastern shore
North Point: a cape that juts out towards the mainland, contains an abandoned lighthouse
Southmarsh: an area of swampy ground covering the southern part of the island
The small island of Point St. Nasaire thirty miles south of New Orleans has been a popular summer retreat for wealthy city-dwellers since the 1850's, but following the end of the Great War and the outbreak of Spanish Flu in 1918 only a few of the regular inhabitants took the ferry back to the sequestered island. Among these were the Verlaines, an ancient Creole dynasty that had made their money in fur trading when the land was just opening up to European trade and had maintained their wealth by shrewd investment, and the Penshursts, an Anglo-American family with heavy investments in manufacturing warships that had made their fortune in the Spanish-American War twenty years prior.
While both families had a distaste for one another because of deep-seated racial and cultural animosities between the family patriarchs, they were both regarded as well-meaning and respectable by the island's local Cajun population, among whom the Delacroix family was the most prominent due to their owning the island's fishery and canning facility which provided it with a major export. They were regarded with more hostility by the Lawrences, a family of Native Americans founded by the prominent Colonel John Lawrence (given name Paquakenye) who had led a battalion of Cherokee in the Confederate Army.
As the Penshursts and Verlaines stepped off the ferry to reclaim their summer estates in May of 1919, however, they soon found themselves put upon by the Cajun hired help who talked in animated terms and with palpable dread about a string of murders that had occurred only a few weeks prior, all gruesome slashing murders. Because the ferry ran so seldom, it was reasonable to believe the killer was still on the island. What more, the islanders seemed more and more convinced that the killings could be blamed on the supernatural. For the Cajun islanders, it was the work of the fantastical loup'garou. To the island's Carib and Creek natives, it was the dreaded "skinwalker." To the Anglo-Americans, however, it was a man cloaked in the pseudoreligious bunk of the natives.
By the end of May, the ferry had arrived again bearing two detectives from New Orleans to investigate the murders. While several of the islanders and the vacationers attempted to flee aboard the ferry, the Louisiana State Police had issued an order barring all movement to or from the island. The hunt was on for a murderer, be he spirit or flesh and blood.
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Required Characters:
Monsieur Verlaine: a middle-aged or older Creole gentleman
Madame Verlaine: his wife (can be of any background)
Verlaine Child: of any age
Mr. Penshurst: a severe Northern aristocrat with a disdain for the Verlaines due to their Catholicism (cultural or practiced) and their mulatto heritage
Mrs. Penshurst: his wife
Penshurst Child: of any age
Monsieur Delacroix: a middle-aged French Cajun and veteran fisherman
Madame Delacroix: his second wife, married four years ago after the death of his first wife
Delacroix Child: of any age
Mr. Lawrence: a young or middle-aged Cherokee man with both a native and Anglicized name, can be pro-European or resentful towards Europeans
Mrs. Lawrence: his wife
Lawrence Child: of any age
Detective: a young detective from New Orleans who has never worked a murder, has scientific proclivities
State Police Inspector: an older (by some degree) policeman from the Louisiana State Police, is less skeptical about a supernatural explanation for the murders
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Additional and Minor Characters:
Ferryman: a mulatto or Cajun ferryman who pilots the only ship that goes from New Orleans to St. Nasaire
Town Policemen/Volunteers: a town constable or volunteers from the town assisting the investigation
Shaman: a shaman or medicine woman who lives in the southern swamps of the island and is assumed by the Cajun majority to be a witch
Additional Children (for any of the families)
Maids, Butlers, or Servants and Staff
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Locations and Points of Interest:
Briarheart Manor: a creaking antebellum plantation house once owned by a slavedriver who farmed the island for spice, the summer home of the Penshursts
The Verlainage: the colloquial name for Verlaine House, the summer retreat of the Verlaines. It is a more modern house with a low brick wall surrounding a vineyard and retains a small staff of mulatto groundskeepers
Delacroix House: a smaller manor on stilts that overlooks the eastern shore near the cannery
Lawrence House: a large white house built after the Civil War by Colonel Lawrence as the permanent home for his family, largely unremarkable save for a uniquely high turret on the eastern side and a Presbyterian chapel
St. Nasaire: the only municipality on Point St. Nasaire, a small fishing village of around a thousand people. The town contains a general store, a small restaurant, Catholic and Episcopal churches, and the fishery and cannery off to the eastern shore
North Point: a cape that juts out towards the mainland, contains an abandoned lighthouse
Southmarsh: an area of swampy ground covering the southern part of the island
Bellz
What's your favorite scary movie?
Hey guys, I'm currently in the hospital and will be for the next 4 days though. So I love you all and will hopefully be on more when I return.
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Oh no I hope you're alright and that the next few days go well
Your presence is missed here !
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
Hey everyone. Just a heads up that I am working towards moving to the IC afternoon. It might be 12 hours from now but I want to give players chance to reply to existing interactions first, so if not, it'll be around this time tomorrow. 
Fletchawk
Shireling
I was thinking of volunteering Ryan and Rudy to attend the parade with James. Sound good?
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I don't think we need to rush the Skye/Syd stuff - that can continue through into the IC afternoon.
Fletchawk
Shireling
I was thinking of volunteering Ryan and Rudy to attend the parade with James. Sound good?
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I don't think we need to rush the Skye/Syd stuff - that can continue through into the IC afternoon.
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Cool with me Replies might be a bit sporadic Thursday through Monday but I'll probably get the odd chance to post!
Replies might be a bit sporadic Thursday through Monday but I'll probably get the odd chance to post!
Shireling
A Servant of King and Country
Sounds fine.
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
FYI... I've added a big chunk to the latest James post. Needed to get him home!
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
Hey. I'm working the time-jump post now.
ElectricDandellion
Three Thousand Club
HI guys!!! It’s been a while but I’m back and hopefully will be getting up a reply tonight, ahhh!!
Thank you all so much for being so patient and kind regarding my disappearance but exams are over and I have until September for free time!!
Thank you all so much for being so patient and kind regarding my disappearance but exams are over and I have until September for free time!!
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
I'm so glad you're back and figured you'd be away until late June, so it's all good.
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ElectricDandellion
Yay!!! Congrats on finishing all your exams, can't wait to read your posts again
ElectricDandellion
Three Thousand Club
Can’t wait to read all yours too!! I’ll look through the next 11 pages haha.
Am so excited to jump back in!(:
Am so excited to jump back in!(:
Misty Gray
Pessimisty
Damn. Good luck. It's been rough for the family. 
