Everyone has something that they can never tell anyone. Everyone has something they want to protect. The question is, how badly? To what lengths will you go to protect your secret?

Would you be willing to lie to someone you respected? How about lying to a friend? Would you destroy evidence? Threaten a person to silence them? Hurt them?

Would you be willing to kill someone?



Synchronicity will be a writing/roleplaying murder mystery designed for up to 8 people. It will be at the very least PG-13, and most likely NC-17, so if you get uncomfortable thinking about blood or scare easily, this isn't going to be for you. See Chapter 00 - if you don't like that, you really won't like what comes later.

If you choose to participate, you will be controlling one of the students at Swiftwater Academy (modern, normal earth setting - scroll down to get a blurb about the Academy). Specifically, you will be playing as a students of the school, who is somehow involved with the Swiftwater Enigma Club. The purpose of the club is, officially, to research and investigate myths, urban legends, ghost stories, alien sightings and the like, but in reality it basically functions as a social club for kids interested in mysteries.

It will be the job of the Enigma Club to SOLVE THE MYSTERY! Also, NOT GET KILLED BY THE BAD GUYS! And ALSO NOT GET KILLED BY EACH OTHER!



In order to join Synchonicity, you will need to make a character. Characters should be between 13 and 17 years of age, though younger or older characters are welcome, as long as some kind of explanation is provided. This IS a private highschool for the gifted and talented, after all, so backgrounds can be all over the place. They will be students at Swiftwater Academy, and must be involved with the Swiftwater Enigma Club in some way.

Each character will have a secret. It could be a crush on another character, a medical or psychological condition that they don't want to tell anyone about, an abusive childhood, or even a body buried somewhere, but the only people who will know about it will be the player, the character (or maybe not! lol amnesia!), and myself. It will NOT be known to the other characters/writers, and it will not be included in the public character sheet.

Once I have a bunch of characters submitted, I will select the most compatible eight and spend some time crafting the secrets into a whole and changing them so they interact with each other for maximum complication. I will then integrate all of these secrets into the larger plot that I have planned. (Yes, this means that I may ask you to re-write some of your character to participate, but I'm not going to be a dictator about it. It will be a joint creative process.)

Because I want these characters highly developed, I will be asking everyone to use the Cross-Genre Character Profile, though of course with only the human section. You can take out the non-human biology part.

The deadline for character submissions will be Saturday, November 21st, which is slightly more than two weeks from now (now being 1:10 PM on Thurs. Nov. 5th). Note me your characters, and remember, WHEN YOU POST THEM ON DA, DO NOT INCLUDE THE SECRETS SECTION!

and because we all love this kind of thing, I set up #enigmaclub as the chat HQ for this project. it will be all dolled up with ranks and titles and stuff soon



We will be doing most of the writing/roleplaying for this adventure on my personal RP forum, Verdant Whispers, which means that you will need to register. I'm not really happy about taking any of this off DA, but the built-in DevArt forums don't offer the versatility and features that we'll be needing (read: they suck dick). You can click the link above of the stamp below to get to the forums.



I will be selecting which characters I want based on quality of writing, originality, and most importantly: how their secret will meld with the rest for maximum mayhem.