First, before you all go and join, let me make one thing clear. This is not going to be like regular RPGs. It is going to be very in-depth, complex, and difficult, and you will not be given options, but instead given a scenario in literal story form. You will then choose your actions and write them in story form(it could possibly be compared to the Way of Moderation, but that comparison is rather ungainly, seeing as to how I decide exactly what happens to you, you just write what you do), but be careful. Those who play the Mystery Game must be cautious. If you die, you're dead and you can't comment on the thread anymore. I recommend that everyone who decides to participate has a fair modicum of intelligence; otherwise you would likely be lost and confused, thus not having any fun in the Mystery Game. A wealthy politician named Chad Forbes has disappeared mysteriously. But that's not news; he's been missing for a decade without a trace. Long ago, the police declared him dead and gave up on the search. So it comes to a shock to you all when you're told to go to a mysterious mansion in the middle of nowhere, with the explanation that this will be a memorial for Mr. Forbes. But when the people arrive, they realize that everyone there had some sort of connection to Forbes; whether it is that they were friends, family, rivals, or even detectives who worked on the case. The next thing you know, locks and bars are secured on every possible exit out of the house by some sort of mechanism...or an unseen malicious observer. An intercom message (possibly prerecorded, but perhaps live as well) then blares throughout the house. "Welcome to the Mystery Game, ladies and gentlemen. As you may have noticed, you are all locked into the house and may not leave. That is, until one of you win the Mystery Game. The winner will not only allow his or her fellow gamers trapped in the house to retain their lives and go free, they will win all the belongings of our gracious host; Mr. Chad Forbes. The goal of the Mystery Game is to solve the mystery surrounding the late Mr. Forbes' death using clues concealed both within this very house and in your opponents. But beware; nothing is what it may seem! With that said, I bid you good night and good luck." Then the speaker stops abruptly. Now it's your turn. I urge you to make your character sheet as in-depth as possible, as it will make things much easier for me.
Name: Anything Age: Anything reasonable. Gender: Male or female. Simple. Occupation: Anything you can think of. Personality: Here is where the in-depthness really comes in handy for me. And please try to stay loyal to this throughout the game. Just about anything you think fits under the tagline Personality, you put here. Background: Again, very important. This must also include, in vivid detail, your relation to Mr. Forbes, whatever it may be. Let your imagination abound. Skills: Whatever you are good at. Please, PLEASE, no Mary Sues. Weaknesses: Whatever your character is bad at. Again, hear my plea that you do not make a Mary Sue. I will not accept your character if you do. Items: None
Note that there is no health, energy, thirst, hunger, etc. listing. These will be described to you in the story I write for you; so pay rapt attention to your tale, or you may end up fainting! Note that I will scrutinize your entry before allowing you to join, so please follow my instructions and make a descriptive and realistic character. If you completely understood this entire OP, then you have successfully passed my first test for you! You did not need to pass it to join, but if you did not understand it, then you will likely not survive for long in the Mystery Game. I will be accepting 6 characters. Rest assured that no player character will be the murderer. So let it begin.
Name: Olivia Age: 83 Gender: Female Occupation: Nuclear Physicist Personality: Considerate of others unless she wants something from them. Then she can be ruthless. Very smart but doesn't always understand that intelligence isn't everything. Background: Elder sister of Mr. Forbes. She thinks she was cheated out of her inheritance when her brother got the family mansion. Even so she still remained on fairly good terms with him throughout her life. She has spent many years in Europe and has only now returned to her home. Skills: Finding out what motivates other people and using it to her advatage. Weaknesses: Underestimates her rivals and sees them as inferior. Items: Scones
I rub 2 of the pipes together until one of them catches fire. Then I pocket some scones.
To: Balerion Name: Olivia Age: 83 Gender: Female Occupation: Nuclear Physicist Personality: Considerate of others unless she wants something from them. Then she can be ruthless. Very smart but doesn't always understand that intelligence isn't everything. Background: Elder sister of Mr. Forbes. She thinks she was cheated out of her inheritance when her brother got the family mansion. Even so she still remained on fairly good terms with him throughout her life. She has spent many years in Europe and has only now returned to her home. Skills: Finding out what motivates other people and using it to her advatage. Weaknesses: Underestimates her rivals and sees them as inferior. Items: Pipe, Scone
Please do not edit your character sheet or items. You attempt, but you fail to make the pipes catch on fire(seriously. It's about impossible to do that with just your hands, let alone with no kindling and with two hardwood pipes). What will you do now? I'll give you a hint. I want this to be a blackout for now. You're not going to get any kind of light for a while, so don't try too hard.
Balerion Name: Olivia Age: 83 Gender: Female Occupation: Nuclear Physicist Personality: Considerate of others unless she wants something from them. Then she can be ruthless. Very smart but doesn't always understand that intelligence isn't everything. Background: Elder sister of Mr. Forbes. She thinks she was cheated out of her inheritance when her brother got the family mansion. Even so she still remained on fairly good terms with him throughout her life. She has spent many years in Europe and has only now returned to her home. Skills: Finding out what motivates other people and using it to her advatage. Weaknesses: Underestimates her rivals and sees them as inferior. Items: Pipe, Scone
As a nuclear physicist, I get out my nuclear powered flashlight FTW!!!
Name: Gerard Spencer Occupation: Police consultant Age: 27 Personality: Not particularly diligent, and generally enjoys vacation more than work. He can be very sly when trying to drag out information and is an inquisitive man. He is fairly intelligent. He likes to get every detail possible about any given case before acting upon it and doesn't allow any loose ends. Can be a jokester, but is very serious when it comes to serious matters; does not stand for disrespect for the dead. Background: He has worked for his local police department for just under 5 years. His father worked on the original Forbes case, but found no evidence and never found his killer. Other than that, he had no direct connections with Forbes. Skills: Fairly observant, able to piece together relatively unconnected pieces of evidence with ease, good at dragging information out of people. Weaknesses: Kryptonite. Just kidding, he isn't that focused and doesn't like to work on cases that aren't of any direct interest to him. Items: None.
Reasoning that the first step to doing anything is being able to see what you're doing, Gerard gropes around for a door or a window.
Name: Age: Gender: Male Occupation: Guitarist Personality: Having been an only child he didn't play outside much,therefore not being very strong or fit.He was always tortured at school for being a bookworm, making him very hot-headed. Background: After beating a kid up in middle school for talking about his mom, he decided to try the guitar to put his emotions into the wah's and chords of the electric guitar.Since then he hasn't looked back.After performing for Mr.Forbes, he had a fling with Forbes' wife.He thought no one saw but he was never sure. Skills: Reasoning from all the years of figuring out notes on sheets of music, and Stealing (if needed) from the nimble fingers he got from playing guitar. Weaknesses: Taking insults, from his childhood torture,Claustrophobia, and Married Women.(lol) Items: None
Name:Justin Cole Age:25 Gender: Male Occupation: Guitarist Personality: Having been an only child he didn't play outside much,therefore not being very strong or fit.He was always tortured at school for being a bookworm, making him very hot-headed. Background: After beating a kid up in middle school for talking about his mom, he decided to try the guitar to put his emotions into the wah's and chords of the electric guitar.Since then he hasn't looked back.After performing for Mr.Forbes, he had a fling with Forbes' wife.He thought no one saw but he was never sure. Skills: Reasoning from all the years of figuring out notes on sheets of music, and Stealing (if needed) from the nimble fingers he got from playing guitar. Weaknesses: Taking insults, from his childhood torture,Claustrophobia, and Married Women.(lol) Items: None
Nameerhum Sanfort Age: 29 Gender: Male Occupation:trapper/hunter Personality:He was raised by his uncle because his parents died in a house fire he also lost his sister in the fire the fire was because arsonist he has been looking for them ever sense and because his life in the wild with his uncle his uncle was a hunter has made him not the greatest talker but he looks good. Skills:from the years of life in the wild and as a hunter he has learned to sneak build things and improves items and jeryrig Weaknesses:fear of large fires from house fire,short tempered ,doesn't like to be bossed Items:Swiss army knife
Nope sorry guys. You can't join now that the game has begun.
To: the_manta and Pacora
Name: Aaron Pacora A.K.A "Mouse" Age: 26 Gender: Male Occupation: Sneak, thief Personality: Now he tends not to talk to people because of his depression and he really doesn't trust anyone because he has been screwed over to many times. Also if he does talk he stutters a lot sometimes people cant understand him. Background: When he was born he was left at an orphanages door. With no family he knew and loved, at the age of thirteen he ran away to make a name for himself. Three years on the streets does things to people. One night he decided to stop going for peaty theft and robbery and went for the big man. Mr. Forbes office it contained a priceless vase that was worth a lot on the market. Well things didn't turn out as planed. He was caught by a security guard and put in prison. He was looking at 20 years in jail. The next day Mr. Forbes disappears and "Mouse" is brought in for questioning. After a long trial he is, oddly enough, sent free. He was still on the streets after that. Between the ten years bad things happened to him. One night he got stabbed while trying to steal a wallet from a drugy. He went into the hospital with a nasty gash in the side and came out with a redheaded nurse named Jessica. The both lived together for about a week. Everything was going good for "Mouse" then the call hit them both. She was being employed to a wealthy politician in France. It devastated him so much that that night he left without saying goodbye to her the only woman he loved, the only relationship he had (Because he had no mother he did not know how to treat a woman, and most of the time he yells at them when on his nerve). After she left he became so depressed that he decided to kill the "ain" with drugs. The only reason he went cold turkey was he didn't have enough money to keep up with his addiction. A few years later he gets a card, it tells him to go to a mansion. In his mind he though "well it looks like my job isn't done yet". Skills: Sneaking, Relative good knowledge of fine art, Lock-picking and deceiving. Weaknesses: Mainly afraid of heights but is dirty and smells bad so people stay away from him. Items: None
Name: Gerard Spencer Occupation: Police consultant Age: 27 Personality: Not particularly diligent, and generally enjoys vacation more than work. He can be very sly when trying to drag out information and is an inquisitive man. He is fairly intelligent. He likes to get every detail possible about any given case before acting upon it and doesn't allow any loose ends. Can be a jokester, but is very serious when it comes to serious matters; does not stand for disrespect for the dead. Background: He has worked for his local police department for just under 5 years. His father worked on the original Forbes case, but found no evidence and never found his killer. Other than that, he had no direct connections with Forbes. Skills: Fairly observant, able to piece together relatively unconnected pieces of evidence with ease, good at dragging information out of people. Weaknesses: Kryptonite. Just kidding, he isn't that focused and doesn't like to work on cases that aren't of any direct interest to him. Items: None.
After a lot of stumbling and some bruises, you find a few doors; a large redwood one is the front door, leading outside(unfortunately this one is securely locked), a fancily gilt one underneath the stairs seems to be openable, but you aren't sure where it leads, and there is a small black door on the side wall, with a coffee table jammed against it. You're not sure where that one leads either, and it doesn't even appear to have a doorknob. Finally, there is a large one at the top and center of the stairs; this one is already cracked open slightly, you have no idea where it leads.
Name: Gerard Spencer Occupation: Police consultant Age: 27 Personality: Not particularly diligent, and generally enjoys vacation more than work. He can be very sly when trying to drag out information and is an inquisitive man. He is fairly intelligent. He likes to get every detail possible about any given case before acting upon it and doesn't allow any loose ends. Can be a jokester, but is very serious when it comes to serious matters; does not stand for disrespect for the dead. Background: He has worked for his local police department for just under 5 years. His father worked on the original Forbes case, but found no evidence and never found his killer. Other than that, he had no direct connections with Forbes. Skills: Fairly observant, able to piece together relatively unconnected pieces of evidence with ease, good at dragging information out of people. Weaknesses: Kryptonite. Just kidding, he isn't that focused and doesn't like to work on cases that aren't of any direct interest to him. Items: None.
The one under the staircase is most likely a closet of some sort, easily a place where one could hide something in a rushjob. Even though this clearly isn't a rushjob, Gerard checks the one under the stairs just in case.
Name: Gerard Spencer Occupation: Police consultant Age: 27 Personality: Not particularly diligent, and generally enjoys vacation more than work. He can be very sly when trying to drag out information and is an inquisitive man. He is fairly intelligent. He likes to get every detail possible about any given case before acting upon it and doesn't allow any loose ends. Can be a jokester, but is very serious when it comes to serious matters; does not stand for disrespect for the dead. Background: He has worked for his local police department for just under 5 years. His father worked on the original Forbes case, but found no evidence and never found his killer. Other than that, he had no direct connections with Forbes. Skills: Fairly observant, able to piece together relatively unconnected pieces of evidence with ease, good at dragging information out of people. Weaknesses: Kryptonite. Just kidding, he isn't that focused and doesn't like to work on cases that aren't of any direct interest to him. Items: Wrench, Bucket,
You open the small door and find you were correct in your prediction of it being a closet. You examine it for anything interesting, but it seems like a janitor's closet to you. There's items like a mop, a broom, or a bucket. You gather the things you think might be useful(gained a Bucket,and a Wrench!). But best of all, there is a tiny lamp dangling from the ceiling of the closet and after you find the switch, you decide to give it a try and flip the switch. To your surprise,the lightbulb turns on! It's dim and flickers, but now you can slightly see.
