Edit 3: OK! The holidays are over, which means (strangely) that I have more time to devote to Sync. There will be lots of stuff happening tomorrow (Tuesday 1/5). Your characters have all been talking long enough - Noriko will begin to move the meeting along. Also, I will be sending Private Messages (PMs for those of you new to boards) to a bunch of people about things related to thier own personal subplots, so remember to check your forum account inboxes. I won't be using DA for these messages because they aren't coming from me, ProfessorM; they are coming from what ever teacher or student is talking to you.
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I have contacted everyone about the secrets, and as such, we can begin. The curtain rises on Tuesday, September 8th, which is one week after the first day of Fall semester classes - you've all been at the school for at least a week. The Enigma Club is holding elections for officer positions, and all members (and prospective members) are required to attend. It is 4:00 PM and classes are over for the day.
Please visit the topic here:
verdantwhispers.com/phpBB3/vie…You can begin to roleplay as soon as you like, but please do not post more than twice before everyone else has had a chance to reply.
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I SAID I'D HAVE THE FORUMS UP BY MONDAY, AND BY GOD IT IS SO! ...even if I managed to completely kill them once in the process.
I took the admin liberty of putting a link to your Sync profile in each of your forum signatures. Transferring the profiles over to the forum involves converting all the markup from HTML to BBCode, so I figured it was just easier to keep them on DA. The staff, however, all have their own forum profiles and accounts now.
Also, y'all should go check out the Masque OCT that is being hosted by
terriblenerd. Now THAT is a premise that I with I'd thought of first.
I hear tell there are artists looking for writers to help disguise their storytelling style, so even if you aren't so good with ye olde Wacom, you can still get in on this.
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
Monday, November 30th. 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 soonWe 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.
Welcome to the Swiftwater Academy for the Gifted and Talented, where children can truly unlock their full potential. Located in the rugged Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Swiftwater is a private school where children of unusual intelligence and ability can develop their knowledge and skills. The school emphasizes providing a focused environment, a fact aided by the dormitory-style living quarters and beautiful, natural surroundings. Cascading mountain streams and untouched forest surround the Academy, offering opportunities for unique environmental education and physical exploration while serving as an impediment to all the distractions that plague city-based and public schools. The campus itself is a spacious multi-building complex, recently upgraded from coal power to environmentally friendly solar and wind power.
Staff at Swiftwater Academy are professionals carefully selected for alternative teaching styles and long-term educational experience. Some of our staff were even students in the past who enjoyed the school so much that they, after obtaining their masters degrees, came back to teach! Every subject from English to Organic Chemistry can be accessed at Swiftwater, and classes are tailored to the needs and strengths of the students. Please contact Headmaster Montronst if you are interested in having your child attend.
Please note that contact with your child may be limited, in order to preserve the focused study environment of the school and also due to the remoteness of the campus.
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