Free Tulsa
24-07-2006, 06:08
This thread is here so I can determine how much interest there would be for an RP based on the horror/mystery game 5 Days A Stranger, so I can know if there is enough interest to justify starting one. Here's the backstory:
Charles DeFoe (I think - I'll have to look again to find out if that's the right name), the last heir to the noble DeFoe line, and his wife have just recently been found dead in the massive DeFoe manor, which has been passed down through the family since 1814. The police ruled that it was murder/suicide - DeFoe stabbed his wife to death and then killed himself with the same knife, although why he would kill his wife is unknown. Much publicity was generated around the event, especially concerning the fate of the literally millions of pounds (euros, whatever the currency in the UK is now) worth of valuable family heirlooms that filled the mansion. It was this publicity that drew several people to the mansion - an up-and coming BBC field reporter named Simone, looking to do a documentary on the mansion, self-proclaimed "treasue hunter" Philip Harty, who came in search of the underground DeFoe family tomb and, more specifically, the valuables he thinks are stored there, a 16-year old boarding-school student named Jim who entered the house on a dare, the expert professional burglar known only as Trilby, who came with the intention of stealing everything that isn't nailed down, and the mysterious A.J., who has been there since before any of the others arrived and refuses to tell them any information about himself - not even his real name. After each person arrived, they found that they were sealed in - none of the doors or windows to the outside would open, except those going to the back yard, which had no exit other than through the house and was surrounded by unscalable walls. After each has arrived (along with any other characters people add), they must work together to find out who has trapped them here, why, and how, while a mysterious killer stalks them through the house, people start disappearing, paranoia runs rampant, and time runs out.....
Charles DeFoe (I think - I'll have to look again to find out if that's the right name), the last heir to the noble DeFoe line, and his wife have just recently been found dead in the massive DeFoe manor, which has been passed down through the family since 1814. The police ruled that it was murder/suicide - DeFoe stabbed his wife to death and then killed himself with the same knife, although why he would kill his wife is unknown. Much publicity was generated around the event, especially concerning the fate of the literally millions of pounds (euros, whatever the currency in the UK is now) worth of valuable family heirlooms that filled the mansion. It was this publicity that drew several people to the mansion - an up-and coming BBC field reporter named Simone, looking to do a documentary on the mansion, self-proclaimed "treasue hunter" Philip Harty, who came in search of the underground DeFoe family tomb and, more specifically, the valuables he thinks are stored there, a 16-year old boarding-school student named Jim who entered the house on a dare, the expert professional burglar known only as Trilby, who came with the intention of stealing everything that isn't nailed down, and the mysterious A.J., who has been there since before any of the others arrived and refuses to tell them any information about himself - not even his real name. After each person arrived, they found that they were sealed in - none of the doors or windows to the outside would open, except those going to the back yard, which had no exit other than through the house and was surrounded by unscalable walls. After each has arrived (along with any other characters people add), they must work together to find out who has trapped them here, why, and how, while a mysterious killer stalks them through the house, people start disappearing, paranoia runs rampant, and time runs out.....