The Hanging Tree [O/A LIMITED SPACE]

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[xLady Blakeneyx]

The Hanging Tree

Disclaimer - I understand this song belongs to the Hunger Games, I am not doing a Hunger Games RP. I do not pretend to own it or the original story.

This song is a legend. Listen closely.

[xLady Blakeneyx]

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the Hanging Tree...

Deep in the desert, far in the south, lays a small town with a legend. Far in the past, when the rope was the law, and trees were the silent executioners, they say that a man of unusual strength was hung. This man was no angel, and had been on the run for years. He was caught, much to his dismay, on his wedding day.

The Sheriff paraded the man and his wife around the town, gloating about catching the famous outlaw. Townsfolk all jeered and cheered, and scorned the woman's pleas of innocence. The Sheriff and town set the execution for the next day, and left the two lovers in separate cells, to spend the night alone.

When morning came, they found the woman dead. Suicide. The man sat in the corner of his cell, eyes as dark and empty as a dead man. As the town shoved him up to the hanging tree he turned and shouted out a curse, a curse that his beloved and his very own soul would make the town miserable. They would never find peace until the wrong was turned right.

They didn't believe in curses, and the Sheriff kicked the lever, watching as the outlaw did the deadman's dance.

Oh, but if only they had listened....

Are you are you
Coming to the tree
Where a dead man called out
For his love to flee
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

[xLady Blakeneyx]

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run
So we could both be free
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree...

Fast forward a hundred years or so.

The Hanging Tree is sheltered in a large, empty and forboding building. The town is empty. Doors swing and creak in a ghost breeze. Bones are half buried in the hot soil, some recent, some old enough to be cracked and bleached white. Nothing lives in the town except for the occasional snake or spider. The town is offlimits, but for a reason that no one is really certain about.

Whispers of the town curse were passed down through generations. After the man was killed, a mysterious illness swept the town. Many fled, but a few stuck around to spite the curse. Their stories slowly faded out of existance, like lettering on an old sign that spends too much time in the sun. But to make things even worse... people kept disappearing. First it was a few drunks who slept too close to the Hanging Tree, then curious children, then the scientists who were trying to figure out what was happening.

Around the tree is a strange fluctuation. A psychic or shaman would tell you that the spirits of the man and his wife surge around the tree; scientists brush it off as superstition and write it down as odd fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field.

They couldn't, and still can't, figure out why people are disappearing. So, like the government does, they put up a building around the tree and a fence around the town. They lock everyone out and mark the territory as dangerous, deathly so. Most people listen to the signs and pass by without a second thought. Others pause and muse over the signs, then whisper the story of the curse to their friends and children and go on their way.

Others... others are curious, fatally so. Because, once you go in the building with the Hanging Tree...

You never come out.

Are you, are you
Coming to tree
Where a necklace of hope
Side by side with me
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

[xLady Blakeneyx]

Setting

There are two settings. The first setting is in the desert town, where people who are too curious for their own good sneak in to get a peek at this fabled tree. They're just going for fun, but it will prove to be more than that.

Once inside the building with the Hanging Tree, people can't help but go up to it and touch it. It seems to draw them, to pull them in with no remorse, like a noose tightening around their necks, they are given no choice.

And as soon as their hand touches the tree...

They disappear.




However, that isn't the end of the curious people. You see, instead of being killed, they are pulled back through the vortex of history, through the twists of time, and hurled out into the village that had taken the man and his beloved. They have to learn to survive in the town with things and people they have never met.

They have to find a way to turn right the tragedy that happened.

The only problem is... the man and his love are already dead. They've been dead for months.

So how can one make right something that has already happened?



NOTE: There will be some instances that the spirits of these two will be around! There will be chances for the people to right some sort of terrible wrong, there will be chances to stop something awful from happening again. There is no way back, but there are many ways forward.

[xLady Blakeneyx]

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the Hanging Tree...

[xLady Blakeneyx]

Characters
[Please use my characters as an example post, though you don't need a .gif, I just happened to have them handy. Real pictures. Real looking people. I want this to be a real-life sort of deal.]

[b]Character Name:[/b]
[b]Picture:[/b] [either a 500x150 gif, or a 300x300 picture, links to pictures are fine]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Bio:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Quote:[/b]

Character Name: Emily Locke

Age: 18
Bio: Emily was born into a relatively normal household. She grew well and happy with them until she was about five. It was then that her father died in a tragic car accident. She didn't understand much about what was going on, and when her mother fell into near suicidal depression because of it she grew to hate her. When Emily was 13, her mother succeeded in committing suicide, leaving Emily with her little brother and sister to live with their grandparents. Emily was bitter by that point and ran away when she turned 16. She's been on her own since, getting odd jobs here and there and making her way through life. It was during this rough time that she came across a young man named Rhett. He caught her stealing from his father's store, but instead of turning her in, he let her keep what she had taken. It took some time, but they became friends. Now, they are traveling together just to see what the world has to offer.
Personality: Daring, and a bit overconfident, Emily takes risks without thinking twice about them. She's got a bit of an addictive personality and has had to force herself to stay away from drugs and alcohol. Every once in a while she'll pick up a cigarette out of nervousness, but she only plays with it. She doesn't like being told what to do and she rarely trusts anyone. She's pretty sure that she's going to die in some sort of horrible accident, so she's very careless with her life. A bit snarky, and a bit more sarcastic, she isn't really good at making friends. She does, however, feel deeply and hates that part of herself. So much so that she hides it behind spite and haughty behavior.
Quote: "Get out of the way, I'm jumping this cliff! Oh, don't be daft, I've got a rope."

Character Name: Rhett Williams

Age: 19
Bio: Rhett grew up with his father and older brother in a small apartment somewhere in Luisiana. He's got a good solid upbringing and cares very much for everyone in his family as well as those outside of it. He's fiercely loyal to his friends, though his intelligence can leave some people thinking he's arrogant, so making friends can sometimes be difficult. He helps out at his father's store since his older brother went off to be a lawyer, and he loves it. He's got a good relationship with just about everyone who shows up, and works hard to maintain it. Though he's certainly smart enough for a bigger and more glamorous job, Rhett likes to stay home. Like his namesake, he's got quite a bit of confidence and is pretty good with the ladies, but with the tremendous loyalty streak he has, hasn't found anyone worth settling down with.
He met Emily through the unfortunate circumstance of her stealing food from his father's store, but since she looked half-starved and as feral as a stray cat, he just let her go and paid the store back through his own check. He spotted her around town several times after that and slowly worked on befriending her. He doesn't know anything of her story, but is glad that she trusts someone, even if it's just a little. As soon as he finished up school they agreed to travel and he left his father with a salute and hungry eyes turned to the horizon. Even if he likes his home, Rhett has always wanted to travel at least a little before he settled down for good.
Personality: Down to earth, a little bit arrogant when it comes to his intelligence, but not too cocky. He plays it safe and doesn't like doing anything that might break any bones--although, he's not afraid to break bones, he just doesn't like waiting for them to heal. He likes games and physical activities, finding real pleasure in seeing his work unfolding before him. He likes to joke around and stay laid back, and being serious really isn't his thing. In fact, he gets uncomfortable in serious situations, so much so that he tries to lighten them up with jokes. He's had such a good life he doesn't know how to handle situations that fall outside his knowledge.
Quote: "Life's like a big field of flowers. You've got big bright ones that light up the area and take up all this space, just begging for attention, then you've got the ones about mid-way down that help keep all the bigger flowers standing straight. I like to think of them as the workers, y'know? And then, way down at the bottom, you've got the small shy flowers, the ones that just take up a little bit of space and long for the sun. If you know which one you're lookin' at, you can figure out how to make things go your way without crushing their petals."

[xLady Blakeneyx]

Rules

NO GODMODING
You'll be going back in time, so you shouldn't be perfect and know everything unless you're a history professor.
Characters should have flaws, please see to it that they have a few.
Literacy, please. I like decent writing--however, I'll allow one paragraph posts as long as they don't last forever. Why? Because sometimes less is better. I enjoy reading, but if you write a book every time, it's going to get tiring.
Some cussing allowed, but nothing excessive
NO CYBERING - just, no.
Stick to the Gaia ToS.

To Apply!

Send me your profile with a witty title.
You can either be
a) a person going back in time
b) a person who has been back in time and has been living there a while
c) a person who lives in that era and is wondering who in the heck these people are.

[xLady Blakeneyx]

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[xLady Blakeneyx]

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[xLady Blakeneyx]

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Oh, such wisdom!

[xLady Blakeneyx]

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Oh, such wisdom!

[xLady Blakeneyx]

The Baronessa Speaks

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Oh, such wisdom!

[xLady Blakeneyx]

The Baronessa Speaks

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❦❛Reserved!❜

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Oh, such wisdom!

[xLady Blakeneyx]

The Baronessa Speaks

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❦❛Reserved~!❜

•·.·´¯`·.·❀ ❈ ❀·.·´¯`·.·•

┛

Oh, such wisdom!