You are locked in a room in a castle. Creepy stuff is happening, and you fear your sanity will not last much longer. You must get out.

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So, the characters start out locked in a room. You have to use items around you to get out. As you traverse through the puzzles of the castle, you learn more and more about the oddities of the castle. Will you make it out alive?

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Gameplay
Whenever you enter a new room or location, I will provide you a description or an image of the area. You can choose to investigated any one area or object looking for clues that will help you get out of the castle.

There are often multiple ways to solve a puzzle; If you come up with a senario plausible enough, I'll allow it. For a gameplay example:

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Player: Jerome begins to search the desk for clues, hoping for something to help him open the locked door
Me: You notice something shiney behind the desk. Upon further investigation, it seems to be an axe of some sort.
Player:"I've found an axe!" Jerome exclaims, "Perhaps we can simply chop down this door!" He runs back to the door and attempts to hack through it.
Me: "The wooden door is hacked to pieces! It seems to lead to a long hallway of sorts. There are four doors, two on each side. The paintings on the walls seem to sneer at you as you pass by them. Wait, did that one just blink?!"
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Character's
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Guidelines
>You have no idea how you got in this castle. Don't say you have some prior connection to it.
>You can not start with any items other than the clothes on your back
>Human characters please, i don't want to add complications to the story. You can be any age or occupation you'd like though
>Denote OOC by [[ ]] or (( )) or something that obviously lets us know that it's OOC
>Must be literate! If English is not your first language, please let us know, and try your best and we'll correct any accidental mistakes ^.^
>You don't have to be a ridiculously amazing writer, just use correct punctuation and grammar please.

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Username:
Character Name:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance: (images in links please, and a good description will do just as well)
Occupation:
Personality:
Short Bio:

Post Forms in Thread, and wait for me to give you an OK before starting to RP. If you start of later in the RP, I'll introduce you into the story somehow (being found in a room, closet, etc etc)

Accepted

Heart_Beats_For_Love's Thorn

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Originally Posted by
Heart_Beats_For_Love

Username: Heart_Beats_For_Love
Character Name:Thorn
((thanks, bear with me, I am new to this site))
Gender:Female
Age:21
Appearance:Tattered Maroon Dress
Occupation: oracle
Personality:quiet, intelligent, brave, loving
Short Bio:Thorn grew up in a small village, Winter's Edge, with her mom, dad and a sister, Amina, and a brother, John. When she was 16 years old she knew she had a way with nature, and the uncanny ability to read and understand the future. She knew this would get her and maybe even her family killed, so to spare them she had run away. Finally, after 4 years of being a vagrant, she found a house that needed a caretaker, and an occupant who was curiously infatuated with knowing his future. The combination of her known abilities, and her being raised as a girl in a small village, she knew how to fill both occupations. A year later she went missing.

Andraus's Andraus

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Originally Posted by Andraus

Character Name: Andraus
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Appearance: Knee length Brown shorts, and a blue vest.
Occupation: Gunnery Sargent.
Personality: Strange, yet nice.
Short Bio: Andraus is just a Normal guy, He worked in the military as a gunnery sargent for 2 years now. He didnt have a Good start though, for he wasent always so nice. He used to be in a Gang, one of the leading gangs in Chicago, until his best friend was Killed. He sought a Reprieve from his pasts cold chanting, so therefor he joined the military. He was planning to be Shipped out in 4 days, but then woke up here.

Derago's Dero Hamara

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Originally Posted by Derago

Username: Derago
Character Name: Dero Hamara
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Appearance: About 6'4, relatively tan, though you can't really tell. Heavily tattooed with sleeves containing various, multi-coloured art, mostly scars and bone tattoos on his chest and back (He never wears shirts) and a dragon wrapping around his neck. He always wears baggy, black cargo pants and boots. His dark brown hair goes about halfway down his back and he keeps a hair-tie on his wrist. Also smokes excessively (With matches, he refuses to use lighters) and keeps a black and white parrot named Fortundar (Whether or not the parrot sticks around is up to you )
Occupation: Tattoo artist.
Personality: Ornery when he doesn't get his caffeine, but usually too tired to do anything when he doesn't. Likes to take charge, hates to be controlled. Also enjoys joking, women, smoking, women, drawing, women, and... You get the picture. Dero likes to fight, as well, he takes it as a game and keeps himself fit and ready for it. Will KILL for his hair.
Short Bio: Dero was the typical rebel. He grew up listening to as much metal as he possibly could, grew his hair out, got into fights, screwed authority, screwed women, screwed himself over for the most part. An old friend got him a job at the tattoo parlor and he picked up art as a way to get himself out of the "Fuck you" mindset. A lot of good that did for him. When his friend's father died, he entrusted the parlor to the two boys who had the greatest times of their lives. Dero got the parrot and named him after his lost friend after a fire burned his own legs and forced him to get a new parlor. What he's doing here? He has no fucking idea. But he doesn't intend to stay.

AdamWalker's Adam Walker

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Originally Posted by AdamWalker

Username: AdamWalker
Character Name: Adam Walker
Gender:Male
Age: 24
Appearance: Pretentious Man, 6'0, Lean/Average, Short Dark Brown Hair, White.
Occupation: Criminal Justice
Personality: Not afraid of anything.
Short Bio: Police Officer in training. No wife, no kids. Workaholic.

Ana_M's Isabell Danica Rose

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Originally Posted by Ana_M

Username: Ana_M
Character Name: Isabell Danica Rose
Gender: Female
Age: Fifteen
Appearance: Saoirse Ronan is her "play-by." :) Then her clothing is going to be black skinnies, sneaks, and red 'grafitti' shirt. She has a jagged scar on her neck and a birthmark on her right thigh.
Occupation: Sophomore student
Personality: In a nut-shell she's a total chatter-box, even though she's kinda socially inept. Despite that she's a playful girl who's forever teasing and is quite oblivious to many, many things. She can't stand skin contact however, and is very prideful. But she can be a quiet girl who calmly watches the world from a distance, showing that she's a true gemini.
Short Bio: She grew up with her mom and dad, and when her mom got pregnant a second time, her parents fought. She didn't understand what sleeping with another man meant at the time. So she was very confused until she got to around fifth grade. Her mother then turned to be very cold towards, blaming her for losing her husband. Her mother died half-way through her freshman year, and since she went to a boarding school she never went home. She didn't want to face the father who rejected her.

pixy's Callie

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Originally Posted by pixy

Username: pixy
Character Name: Callie
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Appearance: Light shoulder length brown hair, blue eyes, wears a grey hoodie.
Occupation: Student
Personality: She mostly keeps to herself but she is not shy.
Short Bio: Callie lives a typical normal life of a university student and she has a older brother called Damian. One day she was taking a few photos with her camera around her university for a project when she suddenly collapsed, blacked out, and woke up here.

Thorn wakes up in a mysterious room, unsure of what to do she begins by holding her knees to her chest. She calms down and decides to gather information on her surroundings.

((hooray! a person! ^.^ . If you don't mind, could you click the spoiler and fill out the form? Just gives a quick overview of the character))
There are some sheets on the floor, rumpled from where you had been placed to sleep, as well as a plain white pillow nearby. A window with an arch is on the west side of the room, with heavy metal bars across the front. There are a couple of picture frames on the walls, dark wood, ornately carved, perhaps all the more creepy because they had no paintings or pictures in them.

On the far side (South) of the room is a plain-looking wooden door, and a bookshelf with various oddities. The East side has a creepy looking wardrobe that seems to loom over the whole room.

Username: Heart_Beats_For_Love
Character Name:Thorn
((thanks, bear with me, I am new to this site))
Gender:Female
Age:21
Appearance:Tattered Maroon Dress
Occupation:Oracle
Personality:quiet, intelligent, brave, loving
Short Bio:Thorn grew up in a small village, Winter's Edge, with her mom, dad and a sister, Amina, and a brother, John. When she was 16 years old she knew she had a way with nature, and the uncanny ability to read and understand the future. She knew this would get her and maybe even her family killed, so to spare them she had run away. Finally, after 4 years of being a vagrant, she found a house that needed a caretaker, and a ocupant who was curiously infatuated with knowing his future. The combination of her known abilities, and her being raised as a girl in a small village, she knew how to fill both occupations. A year later she went missing.

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Thorn, with her curious nature and her intelligence is drawn to the bookshelf. She combs through it to see if she can figure anything out. Where she is? What happened to her?

Username:
[This looks cool, if you dont mind, I would like to join to.]

Character Name: Andraus
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Appearance: Knee length Brown shorts, and a blue vest.
Occupation: Gunnery Sargent.
Personality: Strange, yet nice.
Short Bio: Andraus is just a Normal guy, He worked in the military as a gunnery sargent for 2 years now. He didnt have a Good start though, for he wasent always so nice. He used to be in a Gang, one of the leading gangs in Chicago, until his best friend was Killed. He sought a Reprieve from his pasts cold chanting, so therefor he joined the military. He was planning to be Shipped out in 4 days, but then woke up here.

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Andraus Stood up, groaning, then looked around. he then went over to the wardrobe and opened it.

[sorry if its short, but I cant think of anything else.]

Thorn senses the pressence of another and cries out, "Hello? Who is there?"

((no prob! ^.^ ))

Most of the books appear archaic and illegible, smeared with dust and the aging that comes with time. A photograph falls out of a book: 'Father's House' is scrawled on the back in script. An old Gothic-style (the architectural movement) castle looms from the photograph on top of a high mountain. Despite the blue sky and healthy surroundings in the photograph, something about the castle seems eerily off.

A box of matches lies on one shelf of the bookcase, next to a candle that looks like it had been well-used, with wax drippings encompassing most of the silver candle holder. An ornate leather box with gold embellishing lies on the shelf above that, alongside some scraps of paper.

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The Wardrobe refuses to yeild, remaining firmly shut. Perhaps the hinges have rusted from time?

((welcome! ^.^))

Thorn holds onto the photograph knowing it will be important later, and sees if she can open the leather box. I has drawn her attention like honey does a bee.

"Im over here!" He shouted back. He then looked under and on-top of the wardrobe.

The box opens slowly, and starts playing a simple melody. A figurine of a girl stands in the center smiling and dancing as she spins around on the music box. A small key and a note lie on the bottom of the box.

A spider scurries away as Andraus peeks over the top. The wardrobe is covered in dust from head to toe. However, underneath the wardrobe a small scrap of paper lies, with a message.

((-shamelessly steals cowboybebop music XD - ))

Andraus picked up the Paper and read it.

"Hey, where are you? What's your name?"

Thorn is creeped out a little by the spinning figure, and even more so by the music coming out of the box, but decides to investigate the key and the note.

The note Andraus picks up seems to be written hastily in pencil:
"Day 3. Food appears in the room when I wake and disapears by noon everyday, and reappears at sundown. It always happens when my back is turned. I've had enough of this room and this creepy place. Should anyone else fall victim to this castle, i'll try to leave you hints as I might, hopefully we shall both escape this place.
~D.M "

The paper in Thorn's hand is some kind of exquisite stationary, the kind ladies like to send letters with. It reads in flowing handwriting:
"My dearest,
Please keep this box to remember me as you go to your father's. I know you said the rumors are false, but should you be in a bind, please keep this key with you always, it should unlock most things. I'll always love you, and I hope one day I might see you again.
~Love,
Your Rosa "

The key is made of bronze, engraved with a Victorian pattern, with teeth that push in and out. Perhaps it is some sort of skeleton key?

Thorn, being the Oracle she is, is fascinated by the impliactions of the key, opening doors, opening the future. She decides to keep the letter and key and heads towards the door.

The simple wooden door seems to be a normal, albeit old, wooden door. The door appears to be locked, with a keyhole beneath the simple metal doorknob.

Thorn decides to check the wardrobe herself. It seems that her aquaintance is no longer there.

"Found somthing " he held out th paper.

"Oh there you are," Thorn cries cheerily. "I was worried you had dissapeared, what did you find?"

"Seems like we are not the only ones who were here, I found a note that looks like it was part of a journel." he told her. "Im going to look behind the wardrobe " he attempted to push it to the side.

"Not alone? Let me look at that note!" She is so flustered, the door is locked, she is in a strange place, she has weird notes, hears strange music, and is generally creeped out. Her Oracle senses flash as Andraus begins to push the wardrobe.
"Don't! Stop! You must not move the wardrobe. It would be unwise, and unsafe."

Andraus stopped ." Alright, have it your way." he said, then he went over to the door, and looked threw the keyhole. [if there is one]

"Thank you for listening to me! I never introduced myself, my name is Thorn. I am an Oracle, and I forsaw bad things happening if you messed with the wardrobe just then."
She holds out her hand to shake.

"Gunnery Sargent Andraus." he told her, shaking her hand.

"A Sergent?" she blushes a bit while shaking his hand, "I feel a little safer now that there is someone who knows their stuff here. Do you know how you got here?"

"I was on my way to be shipped out to Iraq, then I took a nap in the car. Figured it be the last time I got a good sleep. but when I woke up, I was here."he told her. "By the way, your blushing."