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Post by silentshadow on Aug 26, 2013 21:31:05 GMT -5
OOC: Hi Everyone! This is going to be a murder mystery RP and I need to have at least 5 people not including me to be involved in the writing of this story. If you want to get in on this, please send me a private message. In reply, I will send you a riddle that you will use as your invitation to come to the glade. The riddle will be different for each person, and each riddle will lead the group to a different section of the glade and surrounding forest to find a clue that will help to lead to the answer for the ultimate riddle: Who killed the host (Gasp! Bet it wasn't the Butler...). Each riddle will go in the order that I give out (i.e. if you are first to message me then your riddle is first, etc). The final order will be posted OOC Thursday, August 29, 2013, so please have your names in for the invite. On Friday afternoon, all the riddles will be given out and the mystery will start. In the meantime, this will give me some time to find some suitable riddles and write the setting for the story. Thanks in advance, and hope to hear from you soon! SilentShadow.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Aug 26, 2013 22:45:04 GMT -5
OOC: Pohatu, you take Renard, and you get his mustachioed keister in this topic RIGHT NOW. I'm going to talk with Clicker and see if she's game (I bet you dollars to donuts that she is.) Another friend is interested as well, so she should be PMing you some time soon. I myself am interested, but am debating over which cast member of mine to include. If everybody I rounded up/nudged jumps in on this one, there's room for one more person. Hurry up and join in!
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Post by silentshadow on Aug 27, 2013 3:23:07 GMT -5
OOC: these are the only ones so far. Keep joining people 1: Molebolge 2: Cendra 3: Yoshimitsu 4: Clicker 5: Lee Okay, for the sake of the RP ( and to suck up a little bit ) I am going to change up the order a bit. Here is the final order. 1: Lee 2: Molebolge 3: Cendra 4: Yoshimitsu 5: Clicker Keep an eye out for the riddles and keep your eye on the RP. An explanation as well as an overview of the Glade and surrounding area are going to be posted soon. Then it's all fair game. Thanks for being patient! SilentShadow
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Clicker
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Post by Clicker on Aug 27, 2013 17:15:38 GMT -5
I'm in especially if lee is giving me dollars and donuts! (You can leave them on the table ok) what kind of characters should we use? Like assassins or normal or super heros?
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Post by silentshadow on Aug 27, 2013 17:20:04 GMT -5
OOC: normal characters people. No powers, just bring me your brains. No powers no magic just normal people.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Aug 28, 2013 14:29:34 GMT -5
OOC: come on come on come on i need some RIDDLES i'm JONESIN' let's GOGOGO
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Post by silentshadow on Aug 28, 2013 15:38:30 GMT -5
OOC: I need one more person. Once I get one more confirmation I will give out the riddles. But I need one more person to sign up. Hound people, folks. Threaten, Cajole, Harass, Bother, and otherwise make for uncomfortable and/or embarrassing situations until I get one more person.
Mr. Lee, are you in? As you can see people are starting to get impatient.
Also, for those who are already in (i.e. MoleBolge, Cendra, Yoshimitsu, and Clicker) and for those who are interested in joining, I need character names before we start.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Aug 28, 2013 15:44:23 GMT -5
OOC:_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ S _ A _ _ _ D _ _ _ _ _ _ F _ S M A _ _ _ D _ M _ _ _ U F U S M A Y _ _ D _ M _ R O U F U S M A Y O R D O M O
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Clicker
Joyeuse Insurgency
Trunk Monkey Thief Retriever
They're more fun airborne.
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Post by Clicker on Aug 28, 2013 19:39:30 GMT -5
Molly McGuinness 42 police officer
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Post by Cendra on Aug 28, 2013 21:39:37 GMT -5
Kit Batterin 43 Librarian
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Aug 29, 2013 0:49:42 GMT -5
OOC - Sara Dierdre
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Post by Tout-Perd on Aug 29, 2013 1:57:40 GMT -5
OOC: DANGIT ELLIOT. If there's more room I'm in, if not, no worries. I've got a pretty full load of RPs as is. I've got a character, but I've yet to come up with a good name for him.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Aug 29, 2013 3:43:26 GMT -5
OOC- What did I do?
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Post by Tout-Perd on Aug 29, 2013 14:27:54 GMT -5
OOC: Oh, I was just carping about you beating me to the last slot. But Silentshadow made room for me. Cevahir Kujtime 55 Mentallist (Con Artist, Was Proven to Be a Hack)
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Post by Beelzebibble on Aug 29, 2013 16:47:59 GMT -5
It must have been pretty easy for him to make room for you, since Elliot was already down for slot #3...
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Post by Tout-Perd on Aug 29, 2013 22:58:59 GMT -5
OOC: Ah, I see. I hadn't seen Elliot post in here at all, so I had merely assumed he wasn't on board for this until that post (and since Silent had said one slot left, I thought that left me pre-empted.)
BTW, Silent Shadow, what's the short name we should use for you? There's already a Shadow who hangs around here from time to time, so what would be the best nickname besides that?
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Post by silentshadow on Aug 30, 2013 17:40:27 GMT -5
OOC: Okay folks, so here's a few rules of the "game." I am going to be the "narrator" and my job will be to point out whether the answer that people give for the riddle is correct or if they have to go back to the previous area and re-try the riddle. About the riddles, each character is going to be getting a riddle that none of the other characters can see. You should not try to solve it yourself. I know this is hard but this is the only way I could think of to get this to work. When the character's turn comes up he/she will share their riddle with the ground and look for answers and then the group should choose the best one and place it in a post. I will then write a post that says (the group moves toward 'an object' and 'thisperson' finds an envelope with their name on it / doesn't find an envelope so the group consults again). Feel free during the RP to talk about who one thinks might have done the "dirty deed," for what motive, maybe what might happen if the person gets/doesn't get caught, etc. After each riddle is solved, the person who the riddle was meant for is going to be given a short, personal riddle that hints at what they are going to get at the end of the RP. This is personal and should only be shared with everyone after the RP is finished. Sorry about the choppiness of the RP itself and that it might not be put together as well as it could, I just wanted to see how this would turn out and see how people liked it. After the RP any ideas of how to do it better can be messaged to me. Also, for those who are just watching the RP please give me your input as well. Thanks for participating, and thank you for understanding if this is a complete failure The next post will be a description of the Glade and Surrounding area.
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Post by silentshadow on Aug 31, 2013 4:58:00 GMT -5
OOC: mr lee I don't know what nickname you should use for me. I thought about just using my initials but "SS" might be a bit too...well...Nazi-ish. Since I am very definitely NOT a Nazi or White supremesist, why don't we just call me Silent. I think that's probably the best. Unless any of the fine people here can think of another.
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Clicker
Joyeuse Insurgency
Trunk Monkey Thief Retriever
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Post by Clicker on Sept 1, 2013 21:55:20 GMT -5
Ooc be silence dogood
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Post by silentshadow on Sept 2, 2013 10:30:31 GMT -5
OOC: We'll see. I'll let it go up to you folks. Also, I would like to add something about the plot background that I have neglected.
All the characters know who the victim is, in a loose sense of the word. They have all interacted with the character but never enough to have been mentioned. This is why the victim has never shown up in other posts. I shall now provide a description of the victim.
BIC:
Name: Walter McPhearson Age: 67 Height: 6'8 Weight: 280lbs Hair color: Orangey/redish/possibly-mistaken-for-fire-if-he-was-hiding-in-a-bush Most intriguing feature: Bullet hole in the chest. Companion: A female dog, name and age unknown, breed unknown. May be a new species specifically bred by McPhearson himself.
Walter is the owner of a majestic toy making company that makes the most ridiculously cool toys for dogs. His toy making style rivals that of Santa's Elves. Dogs go crazy for his squeaky toys and fluffy little fox-tail "Fetching Balls." Recently, failing health has diminished his enthusiasm for making the toys, and he intends to pass the secrets and the business on to someone else. Rumors among the social mills say that Mr. McPhearson was seen coming out of his lawyers office, and his personal secretary Bulinda believes that he may have concluded his will and named a successor to his business. Stocks in the company have soared in recent years as the company began to mass-produce many of their items and with the opening of many "Dog's Day Out" amusement parks, designed by a partner company to give dogs a place where they can be themselves.
Business savvy and cunning, he is well known for his prowess in crossword puzzles and his devout love of riddles.
-Excerpt taken from "Dog's Life" Magazine's article "The Best Woofing Inventor of all Time."
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Post by Beelzebibble on Sept 5, 2013 11:34:54 GMT -5
Just so everyone knows, I extracted Silent's one in-character post so far and moved it into a new topic in ORP, while shuttling the rest of this topic into the RP overboard as a discussion thread. There's obviously a ton of setup for this and it makes more sense to keep the story and the discussion separate -- I hope Silent agrees? If not, the posts can be merged again.
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