Multiple Settings The Echoes of Yesterday

[The Cloak]

Welcome to The Echoes of Yesterday – A City Where Reality is Unraveling


In the quiet, unassuming city of Fallen Rock, life moves at a steady pace. With a population of around 15,000, it’s big enough to get lost in but small enough that the strange happenings are starting to feel... unavoidable.


There’s something wrong here. Something beneath the surface, something no one quite understands. It started subtly—glitches in memory, strange déjà vu, people feeling detached from reality. But now, the cracks are widening.


Unknown to most, a powerful research company operates behind closed doors, disguised as just another business in town. This corporation has been at the forefront of experimental technology. It tries to function within the confines of reality, but their experiments sometimes alter or fracture what we preceive to be the truth. One experiment, unbeknownst to the company, has fractured reality in a way they would have never expected, Now, while the government continues to deny any problems, the town has strange shifts and phenomena that call to question the ability for the town to continue to sustain life.


Some people are just starting to notice. Others are already too far gone.


Who will you be?


A resident who starts seeing the cracks?

A company employee piecing together the truth?

Someone already slipping away?

Or something else entirely?


This RP is a modern setting with slice-of-life elements mixed with slow-burning psychological and sci-fi horror. Expect both subtle and jarring moments as reality shifts around you. The deeper you dig, the harder it will be to escape.


Are you ready to step into the unknown?


Multiple characters are acceptable. Let me know if you're interested.

 

[CHUUYAS_HAT]

Interested.
Time for off-key singing;
Lalalalalalalal~

 

[The Cloak]

For context, here are some of the Company's departments:

Executive team: CEO, CCO, CFO, Etc. They pretend to run the Company's day to day operations. They answer to members of the US Government.

Research and Development: Scientists and researchers that use their knowledge and intelligence to create systems to protect people, advance medical systems, and create new technologies to better society as we know it.

Special Projects: An investigative/Operations unit, which investigates ongoing projects and researchers to protect the company, and contain any security breaches and leaks.

Security: A highly trained team of operators that protect the building and assist special projects with ongoing operations.

Shipping, Receiving and Containment: The team tasked with transporting and securing dangerous objects, technology and containing mishaps.

Medical Division: Responsible for the health, stability, and, when necessary, the containment of company personnel.

 

[BuggaBoo]

Hi!!

Interested!

 

[Lost Martian]

The Cloak
I’m interested in this, though I don’t have a character in mind currently. Though I’m wondering if this is set in any specific year, like modern day, near past, or near future?

 

[The Cloak]

The Cloak
I’m interested in this, though I don’t have a character in mind currently. Though I’m wondering if this is set in any specific year, like modern day, near past, or near future?

It’s primarily modern with some futuristic vibes. The research they conduct advances science, technology and weapons.

The town itself is moderate, and a lot of people know each other. However, the town is still big enough for drifters and potentially homeless.

The local town government answers to the company so they control everything. Most of their Special Projects and Security team work directly with or are town law enforcement as it makes it easier for the company to keep incidents under wraps.

Which, of course, also gives an opening for freelancers looking for corruption in a small town PD that is paid more than the nearest 12 major cities.

 

[BuggaBoo]

For context, here are some of the Company's departments:

Executive team: CEO, CCO, CFO, Etc. They pretend to run the Company's day to day operations. They answer to members of the US Government.

Research and Development: Scientists and researchers that use their knowledge and intelligence to create systems to protect people, advance medical systems, and create new technologies to better society as we know it.

Special Projects: An investigative/Operations unit, which investigates ongoing projects and researchers to protect the company, and contain any security breaches and leaks.

Security: A highly trained team of operators that protect the building and assist special projects with ongoing operations.

Shipping, Receiving and Containment: The team tasked with transporting and securing dangerous objects, technology and containing mishaps.

Medical Division: Responsible for the health, stability, and, when necessary, the containment of company personnel.

Wait soooo like we can either be citizens or corp cogs?

 

[The Cloak]

Correct. While the corporation affects the daily life of people, I’m not gonna force them to be part of the corporation. If people want to be normal citizens then that’s fine, I think it’ll even add character to the story.

People that are on the outside that don’t understand what the company is doing and see the negative and positive effects of how the company operates.

Anyone outside of the company will just assume that they’re very secretive.


While I have some idea of how my characters should go I’m very willing to adjust it so that everyone enjoys their story on their characters.


I’m trying to have fun and disconnect from the tragedy that is my existence. Whether this RP last 10 days or 10 years, as long as we have fun, that’s all I want.


The two characters I’m creating are both gonna work for the company. One will work in special projects and the other one will be in research and development.

 

[EnviousWorm]

I'm interested!

Is there anything else of note in this city besides the corp? A small college of some kind, even just any other notable points of interest?

 

[The Cloak]

The town will have most of the standard items of a moderately sized town. Schools, a local community college, a lumber mill and an Airfield. The airfield is on the smaller side but has reinforced runways to allow moderate transport planes to land.

The corporation itself is on the outskirts of town. It has one primary entry point and razor wire on the perimeter. There are roaming guards but no guard towers. There are lots of cameras.

The corporation bought 3 pieces of land, one containing an old industrial park with a large warehouse, an old CDC building which was formerly used for disease research and an office building. The property is roughly 30-40 acres.

Otherwise the town has a prison on the opposite side of town. It has a moderately sized police station with the same vehicles the corporation uses, just with different logos. It is centrally located in town with the Town Hall close by. It has a large park and lots of community programs to help people. The college is free, secretly paid for by the Corporation.

There’s also an army base, some 10 miles away. There are three public libraries with a large amount of books. There’s also an old dive bar at the south end of town where a lot of the high schoolers like to hang out and eat.

There’s also some moderately sized department buildings in town that keep people safe with affordable rent.

Pretty much everything in town is reasonably priced because the Corporation controls most of the local economy.

The corporation also runs and controls two homeless shelters that feed the homeless.

The Corporation does everything it can to seem like the good guys.

 

[BuggaBoo]

K prolly do up a corp special projects and a normie who starts seeing the cracks

 

[Lost Martian]

I’m thinking I too will probably make both a corporation employee and regular citizen. I just need to figure out character 1’s role at the company and what character 2 is.

 

[SeekingPolaris]

Sounds like fun! I have an idea for a woman who moves to town trying to reconnect with a family member who’s gone missing or is working for the Corporation and is behaving strangely (if the latter I can make this a second character or if someone else wants to play the family member that would be great as well)

 

[The Cloak]

Awesome! My computer died this week so once I have the ability I’ll start building the RP. Sometime within the next day or so I’ll at least get the character area and pic set up so we can communicate till it’s completely set up

 

[The Cloak]

Sorry about the delay everyone. I’m working on setting up all the pages, should be set up in the next few days then I’ll link the main post here.


Please let me know if you all have any more questions.