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I'm once again pondering a journal game.
Once again, it's a freeform horror game centering around a haunted house. I do blame Dionaea House for getting my poltergeist juices flowing again, but it's an idea that I've been playing around with in various forms for a long time. Essentially, it would be short term journal-game with a definitive run time (probably about six months), and a clear ending. Possibly resulting in the death or 'disappearance' of all the characters. Small group of characters, probably no more than six. Premise:
A group of semi-impoverished twenty-somethings who are acquaintances (not necessarily friends) chip in together to rent a large old house and estate on the outside of town. The rent is quite cheap for a house and grounds in semi-decent shape, although some repairs really are needed. It's old enough that it even has things like an old springhouse and conservatory.
Yeah, the house is haunted. And by the really nasty sorts of spirits, too. The way I see it, there would be some ground rules about what level of haunting could be posed about in each 'phase' (say three two month phases of escalation), as well as some pieces of information dropped to various characters to put the thing together, if they want. But aside from the phase limits and some absolute no-nos (like no defining the ghosts and exorcising them away easily, no burning down the house before phase 3, no gaining supernatural powers that allow you to be immune to or control the haunting, etc.) the supernatural occurances would be largely defined by the characters, and reacted to as each character finds appropriate.
Of course, aside from the haunting, it /would/ be fairly relationshipish-soap-opera elements, since you've got five or six people who may not be related slumming around in a big house.
What I'd need, though, are five other horror buffs, with the interest in playing out such a thing, who could be /very/ regularly active for a six-month span of time, and who wouldn't mind the fact that probably everyone's gonna die/be mysteriously spirited away by the end, and could even get into happy character torture.
And, of course, I'd have to write out some more information on the house and stuff.
Once again, it's a freeform horror game centering around a haunted house. I do blame Dionaea House for getting my poltergeist juices flowing again, but it's an idea that I've been playing around with in various forms for a long time. Essentially, it would be short term journal-game with a definitive run time (probably about six months), and a clear ending. Possibly resulting in the death or 'disappearance' of all the characters. Small group of characters, probably no more than six. Premise:
A group of semi-impoverished twenty-somethings who are acquaintances (not necessarily friends) chip in together to rent a large old house and estate on the outside of town. The rent is quite cheap for a house and grounds in semi-decent shape, although some repairs really are needed. It's old enough that it even has things like an old springhouse and conservatory.
Yeah, the house is haunted. And by the really nasty sorts of spirits, too. The way I see it, there would be some ground rules about what level of haunting could be posed about in each 'phase' (say three two month phases of escalation), as well as some pieces of information dropped to various characters to put the thing together, if they want. But aside from the phase limits and some absolute no-nos (like no defining the ghosts and exorcising them away easily, no burning down the house before phase 3, no gaining supernatural powers that allow you to be immune to or control the haunting, etc.) the supernatural occurances would be largely defined by the characters, and reacted to as each character finds appropriate.
Of course, aside from the haunting, it /would/ be fairly relationshipish-soap-opera elements, since you've got five or six people who may not be related slumming around in a big house.
What I'd need, though, are five other horror buffs, with the interest in playing out such a thing, who could be /very/ regularly active for a six-month span of time, and who wouldn't mind the fact that probably everyone's gonna die/be mysteriously spirited away by the end, and could even get into happy character torture.
And, of course, I'd have to write out some more information on the house and stuff.
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Horror: [glittersparkle]
Harle: "Oooh?"
Horror: [glittersparkleshiiiiiiiiine]
Harle: [pounces!]
Horror: [eats Harle's brain alive and spits out the parts that allow one to be a nervous wreck]
Harle: [gibbers for a year]
Horror: [snickersnickersnicker] >_> <_< [...glittersparkle] Harle: "...oooh?"
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