Mitheral
"Growf!"
It was supposed to be a Halloween party unlike any other - and it was. The students of the fraternities and sororities at the university had chosen a real haunted school, Ratchford University, at which to hold their party.
Ratchford University had been an elite boarding college that closed back in the early 20th century. It was built during the Victorian Era and had the perfect gothic look and feel for what the party’s organizers were looking for. They planned on a professional band, haut cuisine theatrical catering. (The food was supposed to look like something out of horror or sci fi movies. There was to be a costume contest with real scholarships as the prizes awarded by category with scoring based on both technical and artistic meric. Originality was required.
Costumes were to be required and appraised upon arrival. Any costume not meeting the “dress code” was to be turned away. All attendance was required to be stag. Dates were to be assigned upon arrival - by LOTTERY. Masks were NOT allowed to be removed. The haunted school would be opened to the partiers two hours before dark and the gates shut promptly at sunset - not to be reopened until sunrise.
Oh the students had been duly informed that Ratchford was a hellmouth that opened every year on All Hallow’s Eve. But did they listen? Of course not. They were college students. The gates of hell were sealed promptly at sunset with great celebration and the party cranked itself up to a dull roar. Nowhere was off limits save for the kitchen where the catering.
As the witching hour approached they counted down as if it were New Year’s. This was done to a ritual “sacrifice” of 12 ‘virgins’ - the only ones not in a costume - brides for the Dark One. They were the entertainment - and the participants of the wet T shirt contest. They did their dancing on top of alters, loosely lashed with ‘vines’.
Then things got freaky.
The grounds began to shake. The altars practically came alive as the vines came alive. Monster roars echoed through the halls. Demonic laughter bellowed. Twelve demons appeared to take their brides / sacrifices. These demons stood at 7 to 8 feet in height each.
A horde of ‘hellhounds’ (about two dozen) began flooding into the main room and ripping the closest students to shreds. The smaller breeds were the size of a large wild boar. The larger ones were the size of small bulls, though more squat.
Our RP opens shortly after the stroke of midnight and the escape of several of the students who have fled the carnage in the Great Hall.
Ratchford University
A map would be meaningless. The university is no longer three dimensional. rather it is far larger on the inside than the outside. It has grown rooms from the nightmares of its former student and residents. (It wasn’t always a school.) The outside of the building as as shown in the picture. However, the estate grounds cover some 50 acres, surrounded by a stone wall some 12 feet high. The wall is now covered with demon vines and topped with razor sharp barbed wire similar to that used by concentration camps or prisons. This is run through with 6 foot spikes that appear to be made of bone.
On the estate grounds there is a tool shed, small cemetery (about the size of a football field), a stable, kennels. (They used to have fox hunts and teach equestrian arts.) There is a maze, gardens, and small lake. (If you think the water is safe, you deserve to die.)
The school’s interior includes a Great Hall, kitchen, dorms, mess hall, basketball court, olympic pool, Library and classrooms. The classrooms may have teachers in them - which sure as hell probably won’t be much fun. (The teachers are going to be some named NPC’s.) There will be a boiler room, basement sections, torture chambers, Detention and so many other “fun” places.
There IS no outside the Wall. If you manage to somehow ‘escape’ via this route, you will arrive on the grounds in some other section - typically not a good place.
There IS a Day and Night, although the Day is more of a fog filled gloom with dark clouds, occasional thunder and lightning.
About the RP
The university the students came from is in northeastern America. Students should be either American or exchange students. This will be an RP about survival. Each player will control a main character, plus have a few NPC’s to be used as “red shirts” or extras. The extras get used as victims for the monsters while the main characters escape.
Joining the RP
Once your character is Approved you may pick a location and join in. PLEASE do not just jump into a scene without getting the blessing of the others present in that scene. I will DELETE such posts at the request of those members. However, I DO want to get members involved in roleplay with one another. So please make room for new members. I simply don’t want the flow of a scene to be interrupted by people that want to just jump in.
I will also NOT tolerate generating a scene to gather a bunch of bad critters and leading them to others. This is a Banish offense - unless the other members involved approve in advance. By my way of thinking this borders on bunnying.
This does NOT apply to the RP’s author. However, in general I have no plans to do this. Where I WILL do so is at specific locations - most notably classrooms, pool, the lake, the Great Hall .. Once you learn which locations are almost always inhabited, you may avoid them.
Character Design
Please Note: I WILL delete characters that don’t adhere to design rules, so read carefully. I’ll PM you with clean up requirements, then allow a few days to fix at most. So have them saved somewhere off site in case you get pulled away by RL before you can make fixes.
Main characters should have a complete bio. PLEASE keep images sized so that they don’t fill half a page, but with enough detail they give a good idea what you look like. I will NOT approve a character with an oversized pic. Sorry guys. As an alternative you can hide the pic with a spoiler tag.
NPC’s should be added in the SAME POST as your Main. You do NOT need as much detail for these. Basically a physical description, their stereotype and Fraternity / Sorority. Then maybe a brief personality. Note whether the NPC is Open or Closed. Open is available for others to use. You may want your NPC’s to be fellow fraternity / sorority members.
The Band, Sacrifices, and Catering staff are NOT available as NPC’s. Only other students.
Main NPC’s are a special case. These would be your Dates. One goal would be to try to keep your date alive - even if you don’t like him or her. But feel free to dangle them out there where they can get you into so much trouble.
Fraternities and Sororities
I am NOT looking for real ones. I prefer fictional ones like: Add a brief description of your character’s sorority or fraternity with your CS.
Tri Alpha - your basic Jocks
Monsters
I will leave the naming of monsters up to you. I figure the students would do that - come up with their own nicknames for the creatures. Each species will have specific abilities, habits, diets. Some will have weaknesses. There will be places that some creatures simply will not or cannot go. For example an aquatic creature won’t go on land. Some may be afraid of or harmed by light. Some may be blind and hunt by other senses. Most will not work together without either a demon or teacher controlling them.
Demons and Teachers
Demons are the male instructors. There are also female instructors. As one might guess they tend to spend more time where teachers would do so.
General Rules
Writing Rules
Each Post should begin with a preface of:
Title (if possible)
Location
Time:
Characters present: (include character and member name with a tag)
Ratchford University had been an elite boarding college that closed back in the early 20th century. It was built during the Victorian Era and had the perfect gothic look and feel for what the party’s organizers were looking for. They planned on a professional band, haut cuisine theatrical catering. (The food was supposed to look like something out of horror or sci fi movies. There was to be a costume contest with real scholarships as the prizes awarded by category with scoring based on both technical and artistic meric. Originality was required.
Costumes were to be required and appraised upon arrival. Any costume not meeting the “dress code” was to be turned away. All attendance was required to be stag. Dates were to be assigned upon arrival - by LOTTERY. Masks were NOT allowed to be removed. The haunted school would be opened to the partiers two hours before dark and the gates shut promptly at sunset - not to be reopened until sunrise.
Oh the students had been duly informed that Ratchford was a hellmouth that opened every year on All Hallow’s Eve. But did they listen? Of course not. They were college students. The gates of hell were sealed promptly at sunset with great celebration and the party cranked itself up to a dull roar. Nowhere was off limits save for the kitchen where the catering.
As the witching hour approached they counted down as if it were New Year’s. This was done to a ritual “sacrifice” of 12 ‘virgins’ - the only ones not in a costume - brides for the Dark One. They were the entertainment - and the participants of the wet T shirt contest. They did their dancing on top of alters, loosely lashed with ‘vines’.
Then things got freaky.
The grounds began to shake. The altars practically came alive as the vines came alive. Monster roars echoed through the halls. Demonic laughter bellowed. Twelve demons appeared to take their brides / sacrifices. These demons stood at 7 to 8 feet in height each.
A horde of ‘hellhounds’ (about two dozen) began flooding into the main room and ripping the closest students to shreds. The smaller breeds were the size of a large wild boar. The larger ones were the size of small bulls, though more squat.
Our RP opens shortly after the stroke of midnight and the escape of several of the students who have fled the carnage in the Great Hall.
Ratchford University
A map would be meaningless. The university is no longer three dimensional. rather it is far larger on the inside than the outside. It has grown rooms from the nightmares of its former student and residents. (It wasn’t always a school.) The outside of the building as as shown in the picture. However, the estate grounds cover some 50 acres, surrounded by a stone wall some 12 feet high. The wall is now covered with demon vines and topped with razor sharp barbed wire similar to that used by concentration camps or prisons. This is run through with 6 foot spikes that appear to be made of bone.
On the estate grounds there is a tool shed, small cemetery (about the size of a football field), a stable, kennels. (They used to have fox hunts and teach equestrian arts.) There is a maze, gardens, and small lake. (If you think the water is safe, you deserve to die.)
The school’s interior includes a Great Hall, kitchen, dorms, mess hall, basketball court, olympic pool, Library and classrooms. The classrooms may have teachers in them - which sure as hell probably won’t be much fun. (The teachers are going to be some named NPC’s.) There will be a boiler room, basement sections, torture chambers, Detention and so many other “fun” places.
There IS no outside the Wall. If you manage to somehow ‘escape’ via this route, you will arrive on the grounds in some other section - typically not a good place.
There IS a Day and Night, although the Day is more of a fog filled gloom with dark clouds, occasional thunder and lightning.
About the RP
The university the students came from is in northeastern America. Students should be either American or exchange students. This will be an RP about survival. Each player will control a main character, plus have a few NPC’s to be used as “red shirts” or extras. The extras get used as victims for the monsters while the main characters escape.
Joining the RP
Once your character is Approved you may pick a location and join in. PLEASE do not just jump into a scene without getting the blessing of the others present in that scene. I will DELETE such posts at the request of those members. However, I DO want to get members involved in roleplay with one another. So please make room for new members. I simply don’t want the flow of a scene to be interrupted by people that want to just jump in.
I will also NOT tolerate generating a scene to gather a bunch of bad critters and leading them to others. This is a Banish offense - unless the other members involved approve in advance. By my way of thinking this borders on bunnying.
This does NOT apply to the RP’s author. However, in general I have no plans to do this. Where I WILL do so is at specific locations - most notably classrooms, pool, the lake, the Great Hall .. Once you learn which locations are almost always inhabited, you may avoid them.
Character Design
Please Note: I WILL delete characters that don’t adhere to design rules, so read carefully. I’ll PM you with clean up requirements, then allow a few days to fix at most. So have them saved somewhere off site in case you get pulled away by RL before you can make fixes.
Main characters should have a complete bio. PLEASE keep images sized so that they don’t fill half a page, but with enough detail they give a good idea what you look like. I will NOT approve a character with an oversized pic. Sorry guys. As an alternative you can hide the pic with a spoiler tag.
NPC’s should be added in the SAME POST as your Main. You do NOT need as much detail for these. Basically a physical description, their stereotype and Fraternity / Sorority. Then maybe a brief personality. Note whether the NPC is Open or Closed. Open is available for others to use. You may want your NPC’s to be fellow fraternity / sorority members.
The Band, Sacrifices, and Catering staff are NOT available as NPC’s. Only other students.
Main NPC’s are a special case. These would be your Dates. One goal would be to try to keep your date alive - even if you don’t like him or her. But feel free to dangle them out there where they can get you into so much trouble.
Fraternities and Sororities
I am NOT looking for real ones. I prefer fictional ones like: Add a brief description of your character’s sorority or fraternity with your CS.
Tri Alpha - your basic Jocks
Monsters
I will leave the naming of monsters up to you. I figure the students would do that - come up with their own nicknames for the creatures. Each species will have specific abilities, habits, diets. Some will have weaknesses. There will be places that some creatures simply will not or cannot go. For example an aquatic creature won’t go on land. Some may be afraid of or harmed by light. Some may be blind and hunt by other senses. Most will not work together without either a demon or teacher controlling them.
Demons and Teachers
Demons are the male instructors. There are also female instructors. As one might guess they tend to spend more time where teachers would do so.
General Rules
- All site rules apply
- No God Modding, Bunnying, Metagaming, etc.
- Romance is fine, but fade-to-black for those mature scenes (18+ stuff)
Writing Rules
- Posts must be of good writing skills, and generally a minimum of three paragraphs. Really I am looking for better than that. I want paragraphs that aren’t two sentences long. Good content. Use third person, past tense.
- Characters need to interact. While I realize that dialogue is challenging for some, it will be a requirement. Watch for examples of how to make speech more noticeable. (Most usually use boldface. Some add color.)
- Try to stick to one or two posts a day, giving others a chance to post. What I do NOT want is to have two characters bouncing back and forth with short one paragraph posts. If you want to do that, build up a Joint Post in PM's, then have one of you copy and paste it, cleaned up for spelling and grammar, what clarity as to what character is doing / saying what.
- As a minimum members are expected to post at least every other day - unless most of the RP is on hold for a scene between a couple characters. Then those characters need to wrap their scene up. The idea here is to not keep other members waiting.
Each Post should begin with a preface of:
Title (if possible)
Location
Time:
Characters present: (include character and member name with a tag)
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