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p o p p e t ♥
a whisper in the wind
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10-03-2013, 12:52 AM
Our story begins in a little town just outside of Salem, Massachusetts called Farefield. Our town is often overlooked and mostly avoided. People don't vacation to Farefield, they tell campfire stories about Farefield. There are many places here said to be haunted, occupied by creatures of the night, portals into the sixth dimension, etc. Our town is a gathering spot for all the things that go bump in the night, though by unwritten law of creatures of the night, they're supposed to keep themselves as secret as possible. Hah. Good luck in Farefield.
The weather here is always gloomy. Our trees are always bare or losing crunchy brown leaves. It's strange how that happens even in Spring, but we're used to it here. We get storms in summer, snow in winter, fog the rest of the time. You could say it's the perfect setting for some Hollywood Halloween movie. Black cats roam free, crows stalk us as we walk the sidewalks, strange things happen, and people die. It isn't that they're dying that's strange. It's how they're dying, or that they're just, disappearing. Sometimes they're seen again, but they're different. Very different.
The houses are old, with lots of character and large yards. The schools are small, where most people at least know of each other. And the nights always seem long. Longer than normal. The town is surrounded by the Whispering Woods, almost as if to keep it somehow secluded.
We have a few main locations here:
Town Square: It's made up of, you guessed it, a large square in the center of the town. It's a fairly decent sized park with trees, a gazebo and such. It's surrounded by our town's only shops and restaurants, including single the grocer.
Main street: It's adjacent to Town Square. Town hall is located on Main Street, as well as the local high school, and the single town church and single gas station.
Old Mill Cemetery: Yep, a cemetery. It's large, being the only cemetery this ancient town has ever had. It's got a new section that's kept up with, but it's mostly made of a lot of old headstones with tall grass, overgrown shrubs and trees and walk-in tombs. The tombs are said to lead underground to various places where things live. There is in fact an old mill on the premises as well. A lot of the town's rebels like to hang out in the cemetery and cause trouble.
Whispering Woods: These woods have their name for a reason, that's right, they whisper. Not everyone believes it of course, but it's true. They're said to be haunted, and a place you don't want to be alone when they're the only entrance and exit in town for, well, whatever the town attracts anyway. It surrounds the entire town.
Skull Creek Crossing: It's an old faded-red wooden bridge over a small creek. No one knows why they call it a creek since it's more like a small river. It's at least three car lengths wide and always rushing. Not something safe to swim in by any means.
Bloodlake Camp: The lake gets its name from the color the water appears to be. No one knows why it looks so red, or why it appears just like blood on a full moon, but no one really talks about it either. The camp is old and a little run down, but its got a creepy sleep-with-one-eye-open kind of charm that some ghouls people love.
Fearstreet Fair: The Fair, like the diner, was created to bring tourists. It was made to be a thrilling, scary point to visit in the town, with less colorful and happy fun things, and more creepy and bloodied-looking terrible things. It's like some kind of Halloween Haunted House made year-long fair. It's rarely busy, except on Friday and Saturday nights, and while it is an attraction for tourists, they don't stick around long, if they survive.
Deadman's Diner: Yeah, they actually named the diner, Deadman's Diner. It was a tourist ploy. But it didn't really work. They scared more people away than they attracted, but that's okay, we like it that way. Tourists always come here thinking we're all witches or vampires or something. They have no idea.
Typical homes: These can be used as your character's home if you want! Just make sure no one else is using it first.
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Last edited by p o p p e t ♥; 12-01-2013 at 06:01 AM..
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