OOC casting call for Bloodstone

[Firesprite]

Bloodstone is based in a haunted house set on a small isolated island. The entire island is the property and grounds of the house.

Players are humans trapped by a storm that has washed out the road. It has also uprooted an old oak tree on the grounds. Under the roots of the tree are revealed human remains, the only clue as to the owners identity is a bloodstone ring. At that time strange things begin to happen in the house and the surrounding grounds.
The place is riddled with hidden doors, cellars, rooms, attics etc. The aim would be that the players have to find who/what/why/where/how the person died, and the ghost of the dead person is trying to help them so that their spirit can be avenged.

I'm the Ghost/s and another player is the murderer, but the murderer will act just like another player pretending to be trying to solve the mystery.

It is late 1800's so power and telephone have only just been invented, and unavailable in this area, so cant call for help, and forensic analysis is pretty difficult to say the least..

You are a human guest in a newly purchased and not fully rennovated mansion home turned hotel/inn. Use your detective skills, try to unveil the murderer, and figure out the story.

This is a bit of a cross between Cludo and early computer adventure games.

If you wish you can team up with other players to try and solve the mystery. Occasionally I may have to draw your attention to something in your vicinity.

This ISN'T going to be "invitation only" - it will be open to all, but PLEASE let me know who you are here before posting in the main thread. No were, vampires, zombies, magic allowed.

 

[Zircon]

Firesprite,

Non violent thread I hope, except for the killing of braincells trying to decipher the clues...I in, will post a character soon...

Z

 

[Firesprite]

Yup non-violence is it.. about time we had a change of pace around here.. looking forward to your character

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'm in!

Non-violent, non-magical human characters. Mind-blasting concept! I'll post first thing tomorrow morning (it's 6AM already so that should be pretty fast)

 

[Lauren Hynde]

edited not to make a fool out of myself

 

[PmTick]

I'd like to give it a shot.

 

[The GrandMage]

Ohhh. Ahhhh.

It was--Colonel Mustard, in the conservatory, with the candlestick! Wait, no,.....Hmmm. This might be a tad more difficult. The late 1800's? Good lord, that means research! Why must you torment my last remaining greycell so!?!

I wanna be Professor Plum! Because, in the great words of Professor Plum, in the movie Clue,..."Then who did I kill?"

 

[Firesprite]

Awesome looking forward to you lot posting characters.. For obvious reasons I cant really post much information about myself but for what its worth at the moment..

Name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Sex: Unknown

Characteristics: A poltergeist who is trying to convey important information to everyone.

 

[Lady Talia]

Me wanna join!

I'll be joining but I'll be one who just pops up every now and then...keeps to her self mostly.

Name: Lady Talia Jazel
Age: 28
Looks: Tall, slim build, rather frail looking, really pale. Large midnight blue eyes that are really the focal point of her face. Long black hair..down past her hips..worn free always. She wears a long white gown mostly and doe skin slippers.
Personality: A bit timid and frail but has the quality of buried inner strengh and loyality., is curious and perceptive if comfortable enough to come out of her shell.
History: Wife of a late nobel. Nothing more..was one of the high society washed ashore here.
Hobbies: Reading and poetry, plays the lyre.

How's that?

 

[Firesprite]

Thats awesome Talia! Thanks for joining - And welcome to Lit too!

 

[Lady Talia]

Thank you

Thank you very much and thanks for letting me join..this is a brlliant idear i love a good myster Och is me!

 

[chewbacca71]

Ok, I am in too. Just give me a day or so to post a character if you dont mind. RL is kind of busy right now.

Chewey

 

[Lauren Hynde]

OK. I want to be able to bitch in foreign languages, so I'm going to be a hotheaded know-it-all french teenager. Here's my carte d'identité:

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Name: Zoé Lépine
Age: 18
Height: 5'10
Build: Slim
Hair: Long, Blond
Eyes: Green
Bio: Zoé is the only daughter of newly appointed Prefét (chief commissioner) of the Paris police, Louis Lépine. He is a brilliant criminologist and Zoé has grown up immersed in the world of investigation. When a mysterious crime wave sweeps France on the year of her 18th birthday, she offers herself to help her father with his job at the Préfecture, but he is shocked by the prospect of a woman, a child really, having such a dangerous occupation. She is immediately sent away from France, to a place were she could have the chance to cool off, a place where surely nothing would ever happen. After only two days of manifesting her desire of pursuing a career in police, she is in Calais, boarding a ferryboat that will take her to the decadent island retreat off the coast of England.

 

[Firesprite]

Awesome character Lauren!

Will start up the thread when I have a couple more bio's here

 

[Lady_J]

OMG! Lauren posted a character who is not an assasin and not named Lauren! OMG! Write this on your date book!

I'll give it a go if you need more folks.

 

[hybirdx]

a haunted house forum.can i join?

 

[Shaq]

I'm definetly down....I'll use tonight to think of a character and post tomorrow....1800s....nice twist....

 

[Firesprite]

yes, yes and yes.. would love to have you all.... its a nice huge mansion house

 

[Khadgar]

Alexander Grey

Height: 6'0
Weight: 173 pounds
Desc: brown eyes, ear length brown hair. cherrful guy, or he tries to be, he is a lawer, and the job gets him down, so he takes pleasure in all of his life. he keeps himself happy, so that he doesn't become cynical and sneer all the time. doing things he likes alot, it helps when you make the money a lawer makes. but he spends it, so he's not a very wealthy guy. he heard about the murder and is ehre to look around himself

 

[Shaq]

Good idea by the way Firesprite...

 

[Firesprite]

Re: Alexander Grey

Height: 6'0
Weight: 173 pounds
Desc: brown eyes, ear length brown hair. cherrful guy, or he tries to be, he is a lawer, and the job gets him down, so he takes pleasure in all of his life. he keeps himself happy, so that he doesn't become cynical and sneer all the time. doing things he likes alot, it helps when you make the money a lawer makes. but he spends it, so he's not a very wealthy guy. he heard about the murder and is ehre to look around himself

A lawyer.. very cool... but... he couldn't have heard of the murder since everyone was already in the mansion when the storm hit, knocking down the tree and isolated the island from the mainland. Perhaps you're on holiday?

 

[Khadgar]

done and done, i'm on holiday, and came to the masion before or after the murder... maybe i'm a guest at the place?

 

[Zircon]

Name : Belmont Guthrie III
Age : 29
Hair : Brown
Eyes : Black

Bio : Belmont Guthrie III was born to a rubber plantation owner in British-owned territory of Malaya. Queen Victoria was on the throne, the British Rajs ruled India, with the East India Trading Company ruling three fifths of the known world. His father, Belmont Guthrie Junior, was rich enough to send his son back to England for school. In boarding school, Belly, Belmont’s nickname for his slight paunch, learnt much about the glory of the British Empire and little else except spending his father’s money in carousing and debauchery. His skills in bar room brawls soon brought him into the attention of a fisticuffs teacher and the Bobbies, of course. His father, upon learning of his prodigal son, promptly cut off all financing. Much sobered by his father’s actions, Belly survived matriculation by doing odd jobs and a generous aunt. Upon graduation, Belly returned to Malaya to help his father run the family plantation, and actually became respectable much to his father’s delight. Now in his late twenties, Belly was beginning to feel quiet discontent with the life of a plantation manager. The only women in his life right now were the occasional local girls. But nothing serious ever materialized. So begging his father for a short sabbatical from the quiet and peace of the plantation, Belly took a passage with a trading steamer. Not knowing how long it will take him, Belly was eager to explore like his great grandfather did. Little did he know that he was about to embark on an adventure.

Circumstance : The steamer trailed long wisps of smoke over the rolling seas, as the wind took hold of the sails. Belly, after the normal bout of seasickness, has now taken to the open decks at every opportunity. The coast line of Portugal quickly disappeared in the horizon, as the steamer made good time for the Port of Calais. Belly had decided to disembark at Calais and take a ferry to a decadent island off the Isle of Man. He had heard about it from the steamer captain. On the ferry ride across the Channel, Belly met a beautiful young French woman by the name of Zoé Lépine. Zoé and Belly got on fabulously, and they decided to make the best out of the trip together. Soon the shrill whistle of the steam ferry announced that the island was in view.

 

[hybirdx]

Name:jade kalie
age:19
hair:auburn
eyes:azure

i cant think of a description rite now

 

[Firesprite]

Name:jade kalie
age:19
hair:auburn
eyes:azure

looks:somewhat wild hair (sticking up like anime...almost)kind of scrawny but quick on his feat

Bio:every bodie he knew he fought,jade is an san francisco street punk with no home,and he's always looking for trouble he finnaly found it.

Hybird.. thats not going to work. It is the 1800's Horses and carriages and steam ships. Electricity and telephone had only just been invented. People were pretty well groomed, and in this case, to stay at the mansion you'd have to have a fair bit of money, its not a free boarding house. There is no-one to fight here. Music was waltzes and foxtrots. Punk doesn't exist for another hundred years.

This is a historical MYSTERY, not a thriller.

Its also in England. See Zircons post above.